How contemporary Australian and other foreign newspapers saw the Bulgarian uprising of llinden in 1903… Accounts of the llinden Uprising in Australian newspapers of the time, invariably echo the way ihe event was perceived by the general world media. The reader will discover thai according to the reports in the newspapers, (as indeed in those of any other contemporary source), […]

Οι Θεσσαλονικείς αδελφοί Ισαπόστολοι Κύριλλος και Μεθόδιος Η Ελληνικότητα των Θεσσαλονικέων Αδερφών, Κυρίλλου και Μεθοδίου μέσα από την Διεθνή Βιβλιογραφία. 1. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05: (Cyril and Methodius, Saints) 869 and 884, respectively, GREEK missionaries, brothers, called Apostles to the Slavs and fathers of Slavonic literature. 2. Encyclopedia Britannica, a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information: […]

May 11, 2009. “Forum” magazine publishes online an open letter to the then Prime Minister of Greece, Mr. Costas Karamanlis, authored by Mr. Milan Adzievski. The next day, an english translation is provided by “MINA” news agency. Hello Black Manlis, This is how your last name in the Macedonian language translates. Let me ask You, even though I know my […]

THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL: 1903 *” Salonica. Aug 6. -A special messenger from Monastir reports that the Bulgarian insurgents have dynamited the Governor’s palace in the town of Krushevo, 23 miles north of Monastir. “ *” Vienna, Aug. 7.- Salonica despatch to the Neue Freie Presse says that 1,000 young Bulgarians have taken the filed in the neighborhood of […]

Robert de Dreux was a Theologist and Monk. He was a member of the French embassy in Constantinoupolis when the French ambassador was Haye Vantelet. Robert de Dreux, as a member of a large delegation, accompanied the French ambassador at his trip from Constantinoupolis to Larissa (1668 -1669). The mission remained 1 1/2 day in thessalonike where Robert de Dreux found the opportunity to […]

ΨΑΧΝΕΤΕ ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΕΙΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΒΟΥΛΓΑΡΙΚΗ ΚΑΤΑΓΩΓΗ ΤΩΝ ΣΚΟΠΙΑΝΩΝ? ΜΗΝ ΚΟΥΡΑΖΕΣΤΕ! ΤΑ ΨΑΞΑΜΕ ΚΑΙ ΤΑ ΣΥΓΚΕΝΤΡΩΣΑΜΕ ΕΜΕΙΣ ΓΙΑ ΕΣΑΣ! 100 ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΙΣ, ΑΝΑΜΕΣΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΟΙ, ΓΛΩΣΣΟΛΟΓΟΙ, ΔΙΠΛΩΜΑΤΕΣ, ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΟΙ, ΑΥΤΟΠΤΕΣ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΛΟΙ ΑΛΛΟΙ… 15Ο ΒΙΒΛΙΑ ΓΕΜΑΤΑ ΠΑΡΑΘΕΣΕΙΣ ΠΙΣΤΟΠΟΙΟΥΝ ΑΥΤΟ ΠΟΥ ΟΛΟΙ ΓΝΩΡΙΖΟΥΜΕ… ΟΙ ΠΡΟΓΟΝΟΙ ΤΩΝ ΣΗΜΕΡΙΝΩΝ ΣΚΟΠΙΑΝΩΝ ΘΕΩΡΟΥΣΑΝ ΤΟΥΣ ΕΑΥΤΟΥΣ ΤΟΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΥΣ ΘΕΩΡΟΥΣΑΝ ΟΛΟΙ ΟΙ ΑΛΛΟΙ ΚΥΡΙΩΣ ΩΣ ΒΟΥΛΓΑΡΟΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΤΕ […]

The following list comprises two categories of people. In the first place it includes all individuals who are specifically designated as “Archon” in the available documents pertaining to Thessalonike (altogether 37 people). As a second category, it includes a select group of fifteed infividuals who are not explicitely called Archon but have been chosen on the basis of their offical titles […]

The Bilingual Greeks of Macedonia do not consider themselves as a minority. They are Greek and they understand and speak a second language other than Greek. It is a Slavic Idiom based on Bulgarian and contains Greek, Turkish and Albanian words. It is not the “Makedonski language” of Skopje which was formed by Yugoslav Serbs in 1944 by removing many Greek, […]

Count Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatieff: The man responsible for the beginning of the ‘Macedonian Question’ that we are seeing today. The following is from pg. 27 of the book ‘ ‘Macedonian Things’ and ‘Irredentist Things’ ‘ by Chysostomos Papastavros, published in 2008 by the Local Community of Mavrochorio, Kastoria. It is a table of the 4 Irredentist Pan-Slavic Plans for Greece. Throughout history, […]

COMMENTARY: With the attention of Euro-Atlantic diplomats understandably focused on cooling the conflict in the Caucasus, the United States must not forget that much work remains to be done to address tensions elsewhere in the mountains of Southeastern Europe. Enhancing and preserving the hard-won stability of the Balkans requires that Washington not become complacent about remaining irredentist agendas in this […]