“...They want to remain Macedonians without any other epithet, guarding for themselves their beautiful Macedonia...”
Paul Argyriades (1896): “Present day Macedonia is one of the European provinces of the Turkish Empire. It borders on the south with Epirus, Thessaly and the Mediterranean, on the east with Thrace and the Mediterranean, on the north with Mount Hemus, Bulgaria and Serbia and with Albania on the west...Macedonia...the homeland of the two greatest personalities of the Ancient World – Aristotle and Alexander the Great, who conquered the world...The small states – the Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian ones – argue for the acquisition of Macedonia, using all kinds of proofs – chauvinist and historical – invented in support of their interests, while no one seems to realize that if the historical truth were to be respected, Macedonia should rather have the right to possess all those countries, which would like to devour it, since once it governed and ruled them itself...The Macedonians do not want the kind of caresses which may strangle them. They want to remain Macedonians without any other epithet, guarding for themselves their beautiful Macedonia...
Almanach de la Question Sociale. Illustre’. (Paris), Pour 1896.
Excerpt from Manifesto of the Provisional Government of Macedonia, March 23, 1881: “our dear Macedonia, our dear homeland is calling upon you: you who are my faithful children, you who are descendants of Aristotle and Alexander the Great, you in whose veins Macedonian blood flows..” http://www.makedonika.org/
Paul Argyriades (1896): “Present day Macedonia is one of the European provinces of the Turkish Empire. It borders on the south with Epirus, Thessaly and the Mediterranean, on the east with Thrace and the Mediterranean, on the north with Mount Hemus, Bulgaria and Serbia and with Albania on the west...Macedonia...the homeland of the two greatest personalities of the Ancient World – Aristotle and Alexander the Great, who conquered the world...The small states – the Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian ones – argue for the acquisition of Macedonia, using all kinds of proofs – chauvinist and historical – invented in support of their interests, while no one seems to realize that if the historical truth were to be respected, Macedonia should rather have the right to possess all those countries, which would like to devour it, since once it governed and ruled them itself...The Macedonians do not want the kind of caresses which may strangle them. They want to remain Macedonians without any other epithet, guarding for themselves their beautiful Macedonia...
Almanach de la Question Sociale. Illustre’. (Paris), Pour 1896.
Excerpt from Manifesto of the Provisional Government of Macedonia, March 23, 1881: “our dear Macedonia, our dear homeland is calling upon you: you who are my faithful children, you who are descendants of Aristotle and Alexander the Great, you in whose veins Macedonian blood flows..” http://www.makedonika.org/
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