Bulgaria’s Minister without Portfolio for Bulgarians abroad, Bozhidar Dimitrov, said Tuesday he was not at all surprised the French daily “Le Figaro” defined the Macedonian Slavs as Bulgarians. “French journalists have this “strange habit” to ask experts when they write about history. And French historians are some of the best in the world. There is an Institute for Byzantine Studies […]

The statue of the Greek king Ptolemy being removed from the harbour, PHOTO @ pbs.org «Alexander the Great was Greek. It’s over», stated in the Greek newspaper “Ta Nea”, the Director of the French Center for Alexandrian Studies in Alexandria, Egypt, Jean Yves Empereur. The famous French archaeologist was honoured yesterday with the Onasis Award. “Alexandria was a huge city. Alexandria’s streets […]

Ολοκληρώνοντας ένα πλήρες πρόγραμμα επισκέψεων στην Βόρεια Ελλάδα, ο Γάλλος πρόξενος Κριστιάν Τιμονιέρ βρέθηκε χθες στο Λιτόχωρο και είχε μια «θερμή» συνάντηση με τον δήμαρχο Θανάση Τσιφοδήμο. Ο Γάλλος πρόξενος και ο Λιτοχωρινός δήμαρχος συζήτησαν για θέματα εκπαιδευτικής, πολιτιστικής και τουριστικής συνεργασίας μεταξύ Ελλάδας και Γαλλίας. Ο δήμαρχος Λιτοχώρου έκανε ιδιαίτερη αναφορά στην ανάγκη ολοκλήρωσης του οδικού Άξονα 10, που […]

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 […]

1. Modern writers about the Bulgarian origin of FYROMs Slavs – John Foster Fraser 2. Modern writers about the Bulgarian origin of FYROM slavs – Keith Brown 3. Modern writers about the Bulgarian origin of FYROMs Slavs – Francis Seymour Stevenson 4. Modern writers about the Bulgarian origin of FYROMs Slavs – William Miller 5. Modern writers about the Bulgarian […]

Account from a Frencman self-witness who found himself in Macedonia and specifically “to Demir-Hissar, to Barakli-Djoumai’a, to Serres, to Nevrocop, to Razlog, to Djumal-Bala, to Melnik, to Petritch, to Drama, to Cavalla, to Niaousta, to Vodena, to Sorovitch, to Clissoura, to Kastoria, to Monastir, to Megarovo, to Tirnovo, to Fiorina, and to a hundred villages. “Everywhere I found men who, […]