Category: 01A ETHNOGNESIS

Facts that confirm Macedonian national ethnogenesis.

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1871_Petar Dragasevic

Macedonians are the oldest Slavs on this Illyrian peninsula, and possibly in Europe. • 1871 • Today, the Macedonians occupy almost the whole coast of the White Sea; in the east they mix with the Bulgarians from Thrace, to the west with the Albanians of Albania and Epirus, and in the north with Serbia in the borderlands of the Shar…

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1906_Proceedings of the Second Annual Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World

Whereas, there are wage slaves of Macedonian descent in goodly numbers throughout Canada…Resolved: That the organization of the IWW takes steps as soon as possible to provide literature in the Macedonian language.

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1905_Bogirade Tatarchev – ‘Turkish Misrule in Macedonia, The Balkan Question’, Pgs. 173, 174

There are over 200,000 Macedonians in Bulgaria, who would return at once to their own country were it under a better government, and they would make Macedonia prosperous and rich.

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Boris Sarafov

•  ‘The Macedonian Agitation’ (1901) • We young people have therefore been endeavoring for some years past to separate the Macedonian cause from Bulgarian domestic politics. If the rulers of the Principality now declare that they cannot tolerate us as a State within the State, it shows that we have at least succeeded in emancipating ourselves from the pernicious influence…

Petar Draganov (1900)
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Petar Draganov (1900)

Should the Russians be happy or sad because in Macedonia the indigenous population, who call themselves Macedonians by the old name, are raising their voices? According to our personal opinion it would be just to give at least moral support to this numerous tribe that speaks a separate Slavic dialect and has its own history, not less interesting than the…

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1878.11.02_Acting Consul Barker

He declares that the insurgents, calling themselves ‘Macedonians’, demanded a large sum of money from him for his parishioners, and offered to give a receipt, saying the money will be repaid when they came into possession of their country, ‘Macedonia’.

1911_Василъ Кѫнчовъ – ‘Орохидрография на Македония’, Пловдивъ
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1911_Vasil Kanchov – ‘Orohidrography of Macedonia’, Plovdiv

Bulgarians and Kutsovlachs call themselves Macedonians and the surrounding nations call them Macedonians.

1892.04.29_Грчки весник 'Неологос', Цариград (за списание 'ЛОЗА')
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‘Loza’ (1892)

Only a strong resistance on our side can save us from other people’s upheavals. … We need to unite, to unite the forces in one power – a people’s power, if we want to preserve the future of our homeland. It should be the aspiration of every Macedonian, wherever he may be.

Dimitar Rizov (1912)
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Dimitar Rizov (1912)

Our people were only ‘Macedonian Christians,’ and then, when Greek propaganda developed they became ‘Macedonian Christian Slavs’. It was all the same to us which Christian country would help us to free ourselves from the Turks. I was born in Bitola. There were several grammar-schools in Bitola: Turkish, Greek, Serbian and Bulgarian. It was all the same to us, the…

1929_House of Commons Papers, Volume 12, Pg. 368
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1929_House of Commons Papers, Volume 12, Pg. 368

Since then Greece and Bulgaria have recognized Macedonian minorities, and Yugo-Slavia has protested that there are no Macedonians. No attempt was made to settle the Balkan States in accordance with race.

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1903.06.05_Sir N. O’Conor

This was the full extent of the proposals he had made so far, though he hoped later on to add a few more, such as that some, at least, of the Judges and administrative officials should be chosen from the Macedonians who had graduated with distinction at a Bulgarian University, and who, although residing within the Principality, were at heart…

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C. Nedelkoff – ‘An Appeal from a Macedonian, Our Day’, Vol. 22, No. 9 (1903.09)

The Macedonian Committee is not an organization of irresponsible adventurers or ex-brigands, but represents the intelligence and patriotism of Young Macedonia. It is led by educated, earnest young men who have fled from Turkish persecution into Greece, Servia, Roumania and Bulgaria to fight for liberty of the fatherland, Macedonia.

1944_Captain P.H. Evans
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1944_Captain P.H. Evans

• 1944 • It is also important to emphasize that the inhabitants, just as they are not Greeks, are also not Bulgarians or Serbs or Croats. They are Macedonians…The Greeks always call them Bulgars and damn them accordingly…If they were Bulgars, how is it that while they are spread over parts of four countries, one of which is Bulgaria, they…

Gjorche Petrov
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Gjorche Petrov

• 1905 • We should be wary of any direct or indirect attempts by any government to become involved in our affairs as much because of the danger of a bad interpretation from outside as from the point of view of our ideology. We should be deliberately careful and wary in our relations with official Bulgaria because it is a…

Dimitar Blagoev (1916)
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Dimitar Blagoev (1916)

I am not a Bulgarian, I am a Macedonian, a Macedonian Slav.