January 7, 1885     FROM: The Greek Community of Megarovo, Tirnovo and Nizopolis {Pelagonia, between Big Prespa and Monastiri} TO: The Patriarch of Constantinople "Your Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch, We have been aware of the memorandum submitted on December the 22nd to the Ambassador of H.M. the Queen of Britain to the Sublime Porte {the Sultan } by the Greek ...

Allen Upward, “The East Europe..” 1908, pages 25-27 Points of Interest:  It was possibly with a view to some such result that Gladstone threw out the phrase “Macedonia for the Macedonians”, a phrase which, be it said with all respect, could not have been used by any man of impartiality and intelligence who possesed a first hand knowledge ...