MACEDONIAN, THEREFORE NOT GREEK - Македонец, следователно не-Грк !

Risto Stefov

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For over two thousand years Macedonia has been overrun, ransacked, and conquered by many invaders but never with such ferocity as that of the last 150 years. The violence has not only fractured the country but it has left the Macedonian population permanently in limbo.

Looking for answers took me back to the mid-1850s to when Macedonia was nearing half a millennium of Ottoman occupation. By this time most Macedonians lost ownership of their lands and became servants to the Turkish Chiflicks (estates). The Chiflicks were owned by Turkish settlers and protected by Turkish police and by the Turkish Army based in Macedonia.

After two prior failed attempts to liberate themselves, Macedonians shielded by the Ottoman occupation, lived in isolation having little to do with the Ottomans or other outsiders. There were no schools or education for Macedonian children and (almost) all of the population was illiterate. The only awareness of the outside world came from Greek clergy, travelers or migrating workers (pechalbari). The established Greek Patriarch Church showed little to no interest in the welfare of the Macedonians.

After Bulgaria achieved independence however, people began to once again believe that it was possible to liberate Macedonia from the Ottoman grasp. The notion of a free Macedonia did not go unnoticed by the Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian expansionist governments, which began to show interest in Macedonian affairs. Greek factions were already laying claim to Macedonia through the Greek Patriarch Church. It was through the influence of the Bulgarian Exarchist Church however, that encouragement for liberation was being promoted.

"Two Nations one People" was the Bulgarian motto echoed in propaganda campaigns throughout Macedonia. The Bulgarians believed in an independent Macedonia but under Bulgarian control. They refused to recognize the Macedonian people as a separate entity. Most Macedonians did not agree with that ideology and believed in the motto "Macedonia for the Macedonians".

Some however, believed in the safety of numbers and felt it would be better if they fought alongside the Bulgarians ("Christian Brothers") than to take on the Turks alone. The arguing and infighting split the Macedonian people into two groups, the Macedonian central committee faction and the pro-Bulgarian Verhovist committee faction. They both took on the name Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) and began to arm for revolt. The IMRO-Central was formed in Solun by Macedonians. The IMRO-Verhovist was formed in Sofia Bulgaria with help from the Bulgarian Government and the Bulgarian King and took orders directly from the Bulgarian Verhovist Committee.

The Bulgarian involvement prompted Greece and later Serbia to take up similar actions and they also stepped up activities and propaganda inside Macedonia. In addition to church services all respective churches began to offer free education for Macedonian children. Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian schools were opened in most villages each offering education in its respective language. No one offered education in the Macedonian language. In fact all sides took extreme measures to avoid the Macedonian language.

All sides published their own version of statistics showing various proportions of nationalities living in Macedonia. None of them showed Macedonians living Macedonia. Competition to match statistics with student enrolment intensified as all sides were vying for the same children. As rivalry between factions escalated and agents failed to increase the numbers by propaganda alone, they began to use intimidation and scare tactics. Where intimidation failed violence took over. To meet their objectives, Greek, Bulgarian, and Serbian agents, sponsored by their respective churches, began to enlist the services of the disgruntled and criminal elements of society.

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[dukedelouben]

another FACT i repeat FACT:

-Why would the ancient Greeks place the home of their gods( Zeus Athena Poseidon etc) on MT OLYMPUS which is located in ancient Macedonia??

Does it make sense for a people to place their holy sites in a foreign land?? Doesn't anyone think logically anymore?

Today's FYROM scholars have NO TANGIBLE EVIDENCE to claim that the ancient Macedonians were not Greek just revisionistic lies!!!!

[macedonia4eva1]

Wikipedia is your source? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH­AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HAHAHHA. How about Google Earth, too? They have their heads up their ass, too, when identifying Macedonia as FYROM...how uninformed Wikipedia and Google are to not know that MACEDONIA IS MACEDONIA AND HAS BEEN FOR 3,000 YEARS!

[GemistusPletho]

@Annabanana99923

'We are not related to the northern Greeks who produced leaders like Philip and Alexander the Great. We are a Slav people and our language is closely related to Bulgarian.' - FYROM´s Ambassador to Canada Gyordan Veselinov, Ottawa Citizen Newspaper, February 24 1999

[GemistusPletho]

@Annabanana99923

Macedonia is in Greece. FYROM is located in a region called PAEONIA in antiquity. Your ancestors self-identified as BULGARIANS. You prefer to believe in nationalist myths than function in reality.

[emilpenkov969]

@Annabanana99923Join Bulgaria. Atleast we can protect you from Greece. :)

[Annabanana99923]

100% TRUE. Macedonia is Macedonia. Greeks should worry about their own country and LAY OFF MINE.

[BDMDollar]

Πανε και γαμησου παλιομουνι Kozabashia

[magazZzZ96]

HAHA FYROM MEANS:NATION WITHOUT HISTORY WHICH STEALS OUR GREAT HISTORY...IT ALSO MEANS A NATION WITHOUT ANCIENT LANGUAGE(IS FROM RUSSIA, RUSSIAN LANGUAGE ARE FROM GREEK HOLY PEOPLE,READ SOME HISTORY;)]

[ThePJcompany]

you are πουστης