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Notes on the Genocides of Christian Populations of the Ottoman Empire

Notes on the Genocides of Christian Populations of the Ottoman Empire

Smyrna burning during the Fire of Smyrna. Thousands of Greeks and Armenians were killed in the fire and accompanying massacres by the Turks. Submitted in support of a resolution recognizing the Armenian, Assyrian, and Pontic and Anatolian Greek genocides of 1914-23, presented to the membership of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), 2007.   Ottoman Genocide against Christian Minorities: […]

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Risto Stefov´s historical revisionism of the Greek War of Independence in Macedonia

Risto Stefov´s historical revisionism of the Greek War of Independence in Macedonia

  March 15, 2009   Historical revisionism is sometimes beneficial. One has to look at new evidence and in its light reinterpret events and challenge previously held beliefs. Historical falsification goes a step further, in that one falsifies original evidence or fabricates “facts” or even acts on personal belief. Though some of the arguments in FYROM, such as the arguments […]

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A Frenchman in Macedonia of 1854

A Frenchman in Macedonia of 1854

In 1854 the French Ami Boue published in Vienna his book ‘Recueil d’itineraires dans la Turquie d’Europe.Details geographiques,topographiques et statistiques sur cet empire’. http://img515.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1854gallcovlq8.png He starts from Eastern Macedonia and the Pashalik of Serres(today’s prefectures of Serres,Kavala and Drama) : . (Considering its very montainous part in the Rhodope it should not have a population beyond 100000 souls, which includes […]

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William Milligan Sloane – The Balkans : a laboratory of history – 1914
Villari, Luigi – The Balkan question; the present condition of the Balkans and of European responsibilities (1905)

Villari, Luigi – The Balkan question; the present condition of the Balkans and of European responsibilities (1905)

Another contemporary source (1905) of the events in Macedonia is given by Luigi Villari, in his book ” The Balkan question; the present condition of the Balkans and of European responsibilities” We get the same facts from witness accounts. There is No “Macedonian Race” but instead the Slavic populations in Macedonia are either Serb or Bulgarian.  

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