Originally posted by Carlin15
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The Bulgarian writer St. Salgandzhiev writes ironically about a Salonica teacher as being a "mixture of nationalities", because the teacher's father was a Vlach and his mother Macedonian.
When asked whether he was "Bulgarian" or Vlach the teacher replied: "I am neither Bulgarian, nor Greek, nor Vlach, but a pure Macedonian - same as Philip and Alexander and Aristotle the philosopher."
Elsewhere in the same book, 1871 source relates how there are such people in Macedonia who think and talk about how they are not Bulgarians, but Macedonians and these are mostly Graeco-Vlachs (= 'Greeks') and Graecophile "Bulgarians" (List Pravo, Tsarigrad, March 1871).
According to Enicherev, year 1874, the Bitola Vlachs used to sing: "The Pan-Slavist scab will not infect the Macedonians."
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