Skopje, Strouga, Monastir were known to self-witnesses travellers as having primarily a Bulgarian population.


Everybody knew the population of Macedonia was mixed since there were No “Macedonians” as FYROM propagandists would wish but instead Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Turks, Serbs and Vlachs.

Want more of this? See these Posts:
Cambridge Modern History of 1910 – Greeks and Bulgarians in Macedonia
A Frenchman in Macedonia of 1854
E. G. Ravenstein in 1877 – No “Macedonians” but Bulgarians
1844 – Albanien, Rumelien und die österreichischmontenegrinische Gränze
1913 – ‘The History of Nations’: The majority of Macedonian Slavs are of Bulgarian Race and Speech
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