From Glasgow Herald, April 4th 1881 The Varied Population of Uskub (Skopje) consists of Turks of Europe, Turks of Asia, Albanians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Jews, Gypsies and Germans. Once more the so-called “Ethnic Macedonians” are nowhere to be found. By Christos P.

By Christos P. The Pall Mall Gazette was an evening newspaper founded in London on 7 February 1865. It was owned by George Murray  Smith; its first editor was Frederick Greenwood. In 1921 The Globe merged into the Pall Mall Gazette, which itself was absorbed into the Evening Standard in 1923. In an article of 8th May, 1888 related to […]

Another historical account comes as back as 1639 from the Italian traveller Giorgio Bianchi. The Italian traveller noted that the Sancak of Uskub (renamed later to Skopje) consisted of Turks, Serbs and Albanians.   In other words, this account of 1639 reaches the same conclusion with more the entire bibliography related to the specific issue and furthermore confirms the fact that Uskub (renamed later to […]

 Source: Eurostat  Population of foreign citizens in the EU27 in 2008 Foreign citizens made up 6% of the EU27 population On 1 January 2008, 30.8 million foreign citizens1 lived in the EU27 Member States, of which 11.3 million were citizens of another EU27 Member state. The remaining 19.5 million were citizens of countries outside the EU27, of which 6.0 million […]

– Skopje was conquered by Pasha Yigit in the reign of Bayezit I (1392). As the turkish academic Mehmet Inbasi informs us “Having Strategic significance as located in the borders, the city of Skopje was subjected to a systematic settlement after the conquest[..]It is, however, obvious that Ottoman conquests were made to settle there, which were not just temporary adventurous […]

From 1839, the region around Thessaloniki was shown to be inhabited by Greeks, Turks, and Bulgarians. No sign of the Pseudo-Macedonians. By ChicagoGeorge

We have already seen generally the account of Ravenstein about Macedonia in 1877.  Here is a more analytical view from Xiotis. Of course no “ethnic Macedonians” were mentioned in the following journal article which described the different ethnic groups residing in European Turkey during the 19th century. For our friends from FYROM browsing this site: with regards to the new […]

American minister in Greece, and his report of the events in 1913. The underlined parts clearly indicate that he believes The Monastir region of Macedonia is a mixture of mainly Bulgarians and Greeks. By ChicagoGeorge

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 […]

The account of Richard Davey, originally published in 1897 contains an earnest description of the Moslem and Christian nationalities under the Ottoman Empire. As the author makes it explicitely there is nothing like “Macedonian ethnicity”  but instead Macedonia at his time, contains a mixture of ethnicities, mainly Greek and Bulgarian.  Furthemore the account of Richard Davey mentions with stats the attrocities of […]