Mt. Athos: an autonomous state in Macedonia...has always been autonomous and has enjoyed relative peace throughout the tumultuous history of the Balkans. The obvious question and it really is a simple one: If "ethnic-Macedonians" existed and were persecuted by Greeks and Bulgarians and Serbians in the non-autonomous part of Macedonia (under Ottoman rule)...WHERE ARE THEIR MONASTERIES ...

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 ...