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 nation should steal the history and symbols of another nation”.… ***READ MORE***

 

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 founded Greek… ***READ MORE***

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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 half of the nineteenth century had its repercussions among the natives of Macedonia. Many… ***READ MORE***

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). Preparations for the uprising.
4 Thessaloniki, 31 Jan. 1903 Biliotti to Whitehead… ***READ MORE***

by Pavle Popovic 1918

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, Servia, and Bulgaria. Ethnographically it is an extension of their races… ***READ MORE***

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 to save their lives. In this topic we will examine the Macedonian… ***READ MORE***

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 the word “Macedonia”, were provided to him by a Bosnian… ***READ MORE***

Greeks in Pelagonia area

 

 

Christos D. Katsetos

M.D., Ph.D., MRCPath

Drexel University College of Medicine