Quote: In the beginning of 20th century, Greece and Bulgaria colided for the region of Macedonia. Today, in the threshold 21th century the axis of competition was shifted with the constitution of FYROM in independent government owned entity, which includes Slavs, Albanians, Muslim Turks and Rom (Introduction, page 59) Quote: However the polemics round Macedonia acquired new critical dimensions ...

Page 29-30 Quote: ...the actual blow of final separation between the Churches did not take place till Io054, they were already practically divided when the Serbs and Bulgars were converted to Christianity by the Greek missionaries from Salonika Page 34 Quote: When Byzantium was attacked by the Latins, Michael Angelo Comnenus, vaguely related to the imperial family, put himself at ...

"The Balkan Peninsula", by E. de Laveleye was published in N. York and London in 1887Page 289 Quote: Greeks are ready to sacrifice everything rather than give up Macedonia, where they believe themselves to be the most numerous, and where, certainly, they have been the civilizing element. This province is indispensable to the realization of "the great ...

Quote: The three peoples in Macedonia with the longest claim to continuity are the Greeks, the Vlachs (possibly descendants of Romanized elements of the original Thracians) and the Albanians who claim descent from the ancient Illyrians. The Slavs, an Indo-European people originating in east-central Europe, had begun to cross the Danube into the Balkans by the 6th ...

Quote: Today's "Dialect" is Tommorow's "Language" Not only has one of many hitherto unranked dialects often been anointed the standard, but we even see dialects actively dismissed as "quaint vernaculars" at point A only to be enshrined as inherently noble vehicles of humans' loftiest thoughts at point B, with nothing but a decisive geographical shift at the ...

Quote: Meanwhile, in Salonica itself, a militant new organization was incubating: in November 1893 the 'Bulgarian MacedoAdrianopolitan Revolutionary Committee' was founded by a group of men reared on the ideas of Russian anarchism, and proclaimed open to any who wished to fight for liberation from the Turks and autonomy for Macedonia. Sofia-based activists regarded it with suspicion ...

Some really interesting quotes on FYROM, Makedonia, Alexander...etc from Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007 edition. Quote: The people Ethnicity and language Macedonia has inherited a complex ethnic structure. The largest group, calling themselves Macedonians (about two-thirds of the population), are descendants of Slavic tribes that moved into the region between the 6th and 8th centuries AD. Their language is very closely ...