Thursday, December 29, 2011
From the Macedonian Knot
The German ambassador in Vienna, von Tschirschky, revealed in his report from November, 1914 an interesting suggestion of the former Turkish governor of Macedonia: „In relation on the still hesitating posture of Bulgaria which counts in any case, also without active participation after ending of the war " [ in the meantime, the 1-st world broken out] „ to find it’s profit in Macedonia, Hilmi Pasha expressed towards me, that there is a very good way out to spoil this business for the Bulgarians.One should give Bulgaria on the Peace Conference only the smallest,exclusively from Bulgarians inhabited part of Macedonia,from the actual Macedonia,however,to make an independent state. This with approx. two million inhabitants would hold the scales with Albania. Greece will not oppose this solution if it is proposed by the winners with the conclusion of the Peace Conference, especially if one leaves to them the possession of the city area of Salonika. The Greeks would thereby have also the other advantage, not to border directly with Bulgaria , but to have a buffer State between them"...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Greeks did not had any problems with the Name Macedonian back in the 80's
Greece did not have any problem with the name Macedonia in before the nineties and the independency of the Republic of Macedonia. As seen in official Greek governmental documents 1988 untill 1991. The documents are diplomatic anouncements between Greece and the then Socialist Republic of Macedonia in which is described that the general Greek consul in Macedonia has been changed.
On the documents it is clearly visible that official Athens did not have any problem with the name Macedonia.
Slaveikov on the Makedonists
Even the leader of the Bulgarian national revival in Constantinople, Petko Slavejkov, in early January 1871 publicly admitted that he had heard this ideology “as early as some ten years ago from some people in Macedonia”, which had now grown into “a thought that many would like to put into effect”. He confirmed that he had “many times” heard from “the Macedonists that they were not Bulgarians but Macedonians, descendants of ancient Macedonia.They are complete Macedonians¼ they are pure Slavs, and the Bulgarians are Tartars and who knows what”. These “Macedonists” boldly declared before him: “We broke off from the Greeks, should we now fall under others?”
Page first of Petko Slaveykov's article "The Macedonian question" published 18 January 1871, in which he mentions that some people from Macedonia declare themselves as separate people - Macedonians,different from Bulgarians. Those people he refers to as "Macedonists"
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