Корисник:Local hero/Песок3

Primary sources

• The Macedonian Question. Slaveykov, Petko (18 January 1871). Published in newspaper "Macedonia". original Bulgarian English translation
  • "We have heard many times from the Macedonists that they are not Bulgarians but Macedonians, descendants of the Ancient Macedonians… they insist on their Macedonian origin"
  • "Some Macedonists distinguish themselves from the Bulgarians upon another basis – they are pure Slavs, while the Bulgarians are Tartars"
  • Overall, Slaveykov describes the Macedonians as having no basis for claiming to be non-Bulgarians. He believes they feel second-rate compared to “upper Bulgarians.
• Letter to the Bulgarian Exarch. Slaveykov, Petko (January 1874). original Bulgarian English translation
  • "has given birth among local patriots to the disastrous idea of working independently on the advancement of their own local dialect and what’s more, of their own, individual Macedonian hierarchy…"
  • • Slaveykov warns the Exarch of the potential of the Macedonian Bulgarians to be incorporated into the Roman Catholic church as a resurrection of the Archbishopric of Ohrid.

Secondary Sources

• South Slavs in Michigan. Cetinich, Daniel (31 July 2003). Michigan State University Press. ISBN 9780870139024. Google Books
  • "even the Ilinden Uprising in 1903 failed to free it. Macedonia thereafter became prey to infiltrating groups of Bulgarians, Serbs, and Greeks, who fought each other and the Turks in an attempt to seize Macedonia for their respective countries. Leaders from within Macedonia forged the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) with the goal of creating an independent state."
  • "Even though Macedonian Slavs saw themselves as a separate Slavic people in the nineteenth century, their idea of a nation had been subsumed by a strong attachment to their individual villages (selo)."
  • "These immigrants adopted Greek ethnicity when they opened restaurants or bakeries in order to simplify their complicated immigration history."
  • Sam Brayant created the first Coney Island hot dog in Flint.
  • "These immigrants did not always claim to be Macedonian, opting at times to be Greek, Bulgarian, or Yugoslav, depending upon the political wind."
  • "It soon became apparent, however, that [the MPO] was a Bulgarian front organization whose Bulgarian and Macedonian agents were bent on dominating the Macedonian liberation movement for the advancement of Bulgarian interests."
• The Peoples of Michigan: Ethnic organizations in Michigan. University of Michigan (1983). Ethnos Press. Google Books
• Immigrants in American History. Elliott Robert Barkan (2013). ABC-
  • "[The MPO] continued to oppose... the intentions of the Bulgarian government to include all of Historic Macedonia into Bulgaria."
  • "Some people and organizations active in the United States between 1945 and 1991 identified themselves as Macedonians but had no relations with (and may have even opposed) the existence of... Republic of Macedonia."
  • "Slavophone Macedonians... were afraid that if they joined a Bulgarian-Macedonian or Macedonian immigrant church or organization, their relatives would suffer.
  • "The Pan-Macedonian Association... used Greek as the official language... but spoke a Macedonian-Slavic language among themselves. Their ethnic traditions, songs, dances, and food were the same as those of ethnic Macedonians"
  • "The best known Macedonian American was the writer Sotyan Christowe"
  • "Another Macedonian-American politician was Tim Goeglin"
  • "Mike Ilitch (originally Iliev)"
  • "Nick Vanoff (19129-1991), a Hollywood television and film producer"
  • "Pete Maravich... born in Pennsylvania to parents of Serbian and Macedonian backgrounds"
• Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe. Eberhardt, Piotr (2003). M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 9780765618337. Google Books [1]
  • At the turn of the 20th century:
    • "The vast majority of inhabitants of this region belong to various Slavic nations (Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, Macedonians, Montenegrins, and Bulgarians)... Southern Slavs spoke Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovenian, or Serbo-Croatian."
    • "Macedonians were categorized as Bulgarians."
    • "the population of Macedonian origin that lived outside the borders of Bulgaria shaped their own nation, whereas a decisive majority of the Macedonian population living in Bulgaria eventually assimilated and became Bulgarians."
  • WWII:
    • "...the Bulgarian authorities treated Macedonians as members of the Bulgarian nation. Macedonians refused to accept this situation, instead emphasizing their separate national and cultural identity."
    • "Virtually all the native Slav inhabitants of Macedonia declared themselves of Macedonian nationality."

Miscellaneous

• Gorani being used by Bulgaria as political tokens
• 1992 CIA map shows Macedonians as a minority in Pirin

Maps

• A Pallas nagy lexikona, 1897 dupe
• Military History Museum, 1900
• 1908
• Cvijic, 1912 dupe
• Weinrab/Carnegie, 1914 dupe
• Daily Telegraph, 1916
• CS Hammond & Co, 1917
• Daily Telegraph, 1918
• Cvijic, 1918 dupe dupe
• Soteriadis, 1918 dupe
• Larned, 1922
• Sammlerstuck, 1924