Archive for February 17th, 2008

tfe no thumb South Australia Premier Rann: Macedonia is as Greek as the Acropolis

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 ...

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tfe no thumb The Greek War of Independence in Macedonia   1821

  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 ...

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tfe no thumb Views of the Bulgarian Exarchate about the population of Macedonia

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 ...

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tfe no thumb Foreign consuls about Macedonia in 1903

Table of Contents 1 Peran, 8 Jan. 1903 Constans to Delcasse (AMAE) The Exarchate’s attitude to the planned uprising 2 Monastir, 10 Jan. 1903 Stepski to Goluchowski (HHStA) Preparations for the uprising. The role of the Bulgarian commercial agent in Monastir. 3 Thessaloniki, 26 Jan. 1903 Biliotti to Whitehead (FO) Patriarchists are intimidated by the committees (central Macedonia). ...

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1 Greeks, Bulgarians and the Archbishoporic of Ohrid

by Pavle Popovic 1918

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tfe no thumb The Balkan Wars: 1912 1913 by Jacob Gould Schurman

The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 originally published by the Princeton University Press in 1914 Causes of the First Balkan War What was the occasion of the war between Turkey and the Balkan states in 1912 The most general answer that can be given to that question is contained in the one word Macedonia. Geographically Macedonia lies between Greece, ...

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Untitled 1 150x150 Macedonian refugees in Skopelos around 1829

After the breakdown of the Greek revolution in Macedonia, Macedonian fighters scattered and fought bravely in the rest of rebellious areas in Greece. Mainly the isles of North Sporades and especially Skiathos and Skopelos were used as shelter during the difficult years of refugees. A great number of Macedonians with their families abandoned Macedonia in order ...

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tfe no thumb When was the first time the word Macedonia was defined to include lands of the nowadays Rep. of Skopje?

After the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878 which ended with a Russian victory the two parties signed what became known as the treaty of San Stefano (1878). The chief Russian negotiator was Count Ignatiev, the Panslavist Russian Ambassador at Constantinople between 1864-1877. The statistics used by Ignatiev during these negotiations, when he gave a new definition to ...

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tfe no thumb Greeks in Pelagonia area

Greeks in Pelagonia area     Christos D. Katsetos M.D., Ph.D., MRCPath Drexel University College of Medicine St. Christopher's Hospital for Children Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - In my view, the delineation of a Greek minority Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) is integrally linked to the sense of identity of generations of descendants of Hellenic Vlachs (Kutzovlachs and Arvanitovlachs) of Pelagonia (and beyond) ...

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