"They call themselves Macedonians"

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From "A League of Nations: Volume One", 1918, Pg. 76, 77.

From Asia especially the inflow has been heavy
through the passing of the Danube valley into that of the Pruth.
Away from the lanes of travel a life of isolation would be the rule.
Communities like those of the Rumanians of the Pindus mountains
or the Macedonians thus preserved their identity to this very day.
The first of these remnants owes its existence to its mountain
homeland where a language closely akin to the Roman of the early
Christian era is still spoken by its members. The Macedonians
however living in less isolated areas are bordermen in whom neither
Serbian nor Bulgarian customs definitely asserted themselves. Only
by language does their affinity with Bulgaria present a stronger tie.
In every other phase of their life the misfortune of position is apparent
Their land is the time-old cockpit of Serbian and Bulgarian struggles.

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From the Canadian Club Yearbook by the Canadian Club of Ottawa, 1920, Pg. 163. Article is called "Some Experiences in Serbia" by Miss Florence Harvey

I went forward next day beyond Koumanova over country that was new
to me. The road was pretty bad. We crossed the border into what was "Old
Serbia" near Vranje. Up to then we had been living in a country where there
were some Serbs, Macedonians, Turks and various other peoples, but now
we had got into what was the real old Serbia, and we began to feel the differ
ence at once.

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From the "Red Cross Bulletin" Volume 3, 1918.

Macedonians, Turks, Armenians,
Greeks and Bulgarians joined hands in
mighty processions of thanks for the
deliverance of the country from the
scourge, bearing banners and sacred
religious relics.

...

In many towns throughout Serbia
there is a mixed population of
Serbians, Bulgarians, Macedonians,
Turks, Albanians, Spanish, Jews and
Greeks, but the American Red Cross
in its relief work among the poor has
known neither race, religion nor
color.

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From the "Annual Report of the American Bible Society" 1909, Pg. 58


The writer while in Indianapolis:

Two days later, when I began visiting the
homes, saloons, and coffee houses, I learned that I was not among
Hungarians, but a mixture of different nationalities, comprising Servians, Croatians, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Turks, Roumanians, Greeks,
Albanians, Germans, and Hungarians.

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From the Fortnightly Review, Volume 103. An article by Frank Fox called Bulgaria's Attitude, 1915, Pg. 486:

Never did I feel nervous in the least when making my way alone through the country in Bulgarian occupation (most of the time I was alone; for after a while I dropped my Macedonian and my Bulgarian servant).

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From the "Unity of History" by Edward A. Freeman, 1896, Pg. 206.

Yet it was something that, before Greece yielded to her Macedonian master, he had himself to become a Greek, to be adopted into the great religious brotherhood of Greece, and to be chosen, with at least the outward assent of her commonwealths, to be their common leader against the Barbarian.

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In the appendix of a book published in 1895, "Macedonian-Slavic" is listed as a language:

From the British and Foreign Bible Society Report, Volume 91, 1895, Pg. 458:

Lushai (Assam).—The Committee have furnished critical helps to
the Rev. J. H. Lorrain, of Fort Aigal, and his fellow-missionary, Mr. Savidge, to enable them to undertake the work of translation as soon
as they know the language sufficiently.

Macedonian-Slavic (Servia).—A version of the Gospel of St. John has been made by Professor Demeter Aleksijevitsch, of the Gymnasium at Sevillenatz, and the Committee are prosecuting inquiries as to the desirability of publishing such an edition.
it "

Malagasi (Marginal References)—An edition of the Bible with marginal references is now passing through the press. The references were prepared by Miss Gilpin, and are being revised by the Rev. J. Richardson, to whom the edition has been entrusted. The text of the
shilling Bible, as being the most correct, is taken as copy. This is the first edition of a marginal reference Bible ever printed for Madagascar

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From:

The New World: Problems in Political Geography - Page 260, by
Isaiah Bowman - 1921

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Same book as above, Pg. 234:

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From The Smith Alumnae Quarterly - Volumes 12-13 - Page 82
1920

Coming to our dispensary and hospital we have Turks, Bulgars, Macedonians and the true Serbs. How some of these people know what nationality to call themselves is more than I know.

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A good book published by the US State Department on the situation during the Greek Civil War. There is much talk about the Macedonians and eye witness testimony.

It's called "The United Nations and the Problem of Greece" and was published and released in September of 1947. Here is the link:

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pur1.32754081268652

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From the book, "Men in White Aprons: A study of ethnicity and occupation", in 1978, by Harry Vjekoslav Herman. Pg. 25.

He is talking to a man who goes to a Macedono-Bulgarian Church:

One of my informants, a member of this church, told me: "I am neither Bulgarian, nor Serbian, nor Greek; I am Macedonian, and I want this to be recognized."

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From "Indiana Folklore" Volumes 1-3, Published 1968. Pg. 33. By Indiana University Research Center for the Language Sciences.

The Macedonian community in Ft. Wayne contains exceptionally few people who attempt to deny that they are immigrants. Indeed, they always make it a point to state that they are Macedonians, whether first, second, or even third generation. Their own views of the weddings are that it is a practice which supplies cohesion to the very fabric of the Macedonian community, something which neither Church, nor folk customs, could accomplish alone.

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From The Reporter - Volume 20 - Page 28, by Max Ascoli - 1959

And, precisely because their patriotism is mystical rather than practical, there will be a Macedonian problem as long as there are two Macedonians alive on opposite sides of a border.

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House of Commons Papers - Volume 12 - Page 368
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1929 -

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