Posts Tagged “cyrillic”
 From the wonderful book of Richard West "Tito and the rise and fall of Yugoslavia" we cant but notice that there were no "Ethnic macedonians" but a mixture of Greeks, slavs, albanians and avars. The Greek monks Cyril and Methodius brought the Cyrillic script to Serbs, Bulgarians and Russians while in the major battles of ... Tags: balkans, bulgarians, cyril, cyrillic, greeks, macedonians, methodius, richard, serbs, tito, west, yugoslavia
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 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 ... Tags: alexander, balkan, bulgarians, cyrillic, descendants, empire, fyrom, greeks, imro, kumanovo, macedonia, macedonian, macedonians, makedono-odrinska, migration, politics, revolutsionna, skopje, slavic, slavs, tribes
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 Taken from the book “History Of Montenegro” by Francis Seymour Stevenson, 1914
In page 24 we can find:
Stevenson makes it explicit that the Ethnicities suffering from the extension of Serbian state were Greeks, Magyars, Shkipetars and Bulgarians since unfortunately for the usual propagandists of fYROM, these were the only Ethnicities of the region.
Its even interesting to witness the fact ... Tags: bulgarians, cyrillic, ethnicity, Francis Seymour Stevenson, fyrom, glagolithic, Greece, greeks, history of montenegro, macedonia, macedonian, magyars, propaganda, roumanians, russians, serbs, shkipetars, skoplje, stephan dusan, stevenson, uros II, vardar, wardar
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 1. Comparative history of Slavic Literatures by Dmitrij Cizevskij
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2. A History of the Greek Language: From Its Origins to the Present By Francisco Rodríguez Adrados page 265
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3. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500 By Jean W. Sedlar, page 144
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4. Central eastern Europe Crucible of World Wars edited by Joseph Slabey Rouček page 62
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5. Modern ... Tags: byzantine, cyril, cyrillic, cyrillos, greek, greeks, latin, methodios, methodius, monks, moravia, pope, salonica, slavs, thessalonica, yugoslavia
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