By ChicagoGeorge

The Slavs of Macedonia during this period continued to calltheir language Bulgarian, and at first they evisioned a literary language using their dialects or compromising among the various dialects of Bulgaria and Macedonia. By ChicagoGeorge

Quote: During medieval and modem times, Macedonia was known as a Balkan region inhabited by ethnic Greeks, Albanians, Vlachs, Serbs, Bulgarians, Jews, and Turks. Quote: The emergence of a Macedonian nationality is an offshoot of the joint Macedonian and Bulgarian struggle against Hellenization. With the establishment of an independent Bulgarian state and church in the 1870s, however, the conflict took […]