"They call themselves Macedonians"

[maco2envy]

This one is pretty good...should be plastered on the front of this forum



from The Pall Mall Budget, January 9, 1885, Pg. 26.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Mb...0irish&f=false

Looks like this author underestimated the strength of the philhellenists...

[vicsinad]

This one is pretty good...should be plastered on the front of this forum

We wonder how many Macedonians -- real Macedonians -- attended the so-called Macedonian meeting recently held in opposition to the cause of Macedonian emancipation in Athens. Possibly one, probably none...But all the distinguished phil-Hellenists in the world, backed by all the pseudo-Macedonians in Greece, cannot get over the fact that Macedonia is in a frightful state of disorder and misgovernment, that there is as much hope of Macedonia being declared Greek as of its being declared Spanish...

from The Pall Mall Budget, January 9, 1885, Pg. 26.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Mbg_AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA26&dq=macedonians+irish&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj33NimqqXUAhXMDywKHZTQAIE4HhDoAQghMAA#v=onepage&q=macedonians%20irish&f=false

[vicsinad]

International Moulders' and Foundry Workers' Journal, Volume 49, 1913, Pg. 113:

Macedonians living in Bulgaria were compelled to serve in the Macedonian Volunteer Corps. Only those who had not reached the age of eighteen were free from compulsory mandatory service

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This quote is also important for noting that many Macedonians did not want to serve in the Bulgarian army, even though they did.

[vicsinad]

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 ..

[vicsinad]

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.

[vicsinad]

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.

[vicsinad]

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."

[vicsinad]

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

[vicsinad]

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.

[vicsinad]

Same book as above, Pg. 234:

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From:

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

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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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[vicsinad]

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.

[vicsinad]

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).

[vicsinad]

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.