Memoirs on the Ionian Islands,: Considered in a Commercial, Political and military point of view. In page 138 we have : “Sandgiak of Ochrida,holding the jurisdiction of Ochrida,situated to the E. of the lake of that name,and inhabited by Bulgarians.” In pages 140 and 141 there is another one prove what the inhabitants of Vardarska was: Monastiri.otherwise called Toli,or Bitolia…………..and […]

“Old Tracks and New Landmarks” By  Mary Walker, 1897 OCHRIDA, AND THE MONASTERY OF ST. NAUM. The situation of Ochrida is one of the most beautiful in this land of picturesque beauty — the lake district of Western Turkey, on the borders of Albania. The city rose into importance in the  reign of Justinian, when Lychnidus, on the eastern shore […]

By Tozer, Henry Fanshawe, describing his travels in 1861, 1863, 1865. Thessalonica consists of 60,000 inhabitants, Jews, Turks, Greeks, Wallachians. Greeks were always living in Thessalonica. Population of Monastir consists of Turks, Wallachs, Bulgarians and Greeks. Ochrida consists of mainly Albanians and Bulgarians. Bulgarians of Ochrida sent their children to Bulgarian schools. Skopje (Uskub) was in the time of Ottomans […]