There are volumes of texts regarding early 20th century Balkan military uniforms, weapons, and insignia. Lets examine those of the early 20th century Serbian army.The Serbian army, circa 1900 to WWI, was well known for the head gear worn by all levels of personel rank in addition to the weapons the general infantry carried.The head ...

And, finally, to the literary man, the Balkan Peninsula, with its extraordinary medley of races and languages, affords a field of observation which is all but virgin soil. Here the Bulgarian and the Greek, the Albanian and the Serb, the Osmanli, the Spanish Jew and the Roumanian, live side by side. The Macedonian question is perhaps the ...

The Bulgarian Macedonians, together with some remaining in Macedonia who considered themselves Bulgarians, however, became the source of agitation for incorporating Macedonia into Bulgaria. Studies on Ottoman Social and Political History by  Kemal H. Karpat, page 768

Quote: Basil II of Constantinople in 1014 decided to end once and for all a war that had already lasted forty years. To break the spirit of the hated Bulgarians, he blinded all but 150 of 15,000 prisoners. The “lucky” 150 were blinded in one eye only. Every 100 blind men were guided by a one-eyed ...

Quote: The town of Monastir, capital of the vilayet of Monsastir, lies just about half way between Bulgarian and Greek territory. North, the majority of Macedonians are Bulgar, south the majority are Hellenes. The villages meet, cross, and mix in the Monastir vilayet. The reason, therefore, we hear so much about disturbances at Monastir is not ...

Alexander the Great was born in Pella, the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Macedonia in northern Greece, in 356 BC. The exact date is not known, but it was probably 20 or 26 July. " Alexander the Great" by Nigel Cawthorne, page 1

With the conquests of Alexander the Great more than the dream of Isocrates became actual fact. A Hellene was now lord over a vast tract of Asia. What attitude would the Hellene in these new circumstances take up to the barbarian? page 57 It does not, of course, follow from Alexander's desire to merge the Greeks in ...

South Australia Premier Mike Rann stressed that "Macedonia is as Greek as the Acropolis", during a meeting in Thessaloniki on the weekend with Macedonia-Thrace minister George Kalantzis, noting the "efforts we have been making for many years now, since the 1990s, so that the name 'Republic of Macedonia' (for FYROM) is not recognized, because no ...

  Macedonia, while under the rule of the Ottoman empire, was mainly inhabited by Greeks, Turks and Bulgars. There was also a significant Jewish population in the city of Thessaloniki most of whom arrived there from Spain in the late 15th century. Macedonians [the ethnic Greek population of Macedonia] expected to be liberated and join the newly ...

One of the main events that helped increase the Bulgarian influence in the part of the Ottoman empire to be called 'San-Stefano "Macedonia'' eight years later was the creation of the Bulgarian Exarchate in 1870 which took over responsibility for the orthodox Bulgars living in the Ottoman empire. The Greek War of Independence in the first ...