I wonder why did you post exactly that map. It's a map of the Bulgarian Exarchy. It shows your FYROMia as a part of the Bulgarian Exarchy. Macedonia became part of the Bulgarian Exarchy after FREE ELECTIONS in 1873. Your great great...grand fathers voted for Macedonia's joining of the Bulgarian exarchy. I'm tired of explainig this facts for each Macedonian I talk to.
I'll tell you what do I think: You, the Macedonians were part of the Bulgarian nation until 1944. After that Tito applied the Komintern's idea of Macedonian nation. His men created a language (just a dialect of the Bulgarian language) and history for you. That's the bitter truth. The problem is that you have been taught at school that Bulgarians are Tatars and you are a some of kind of ressurected "антички македони"
That's a clear manipulation over you. And I'm sure that it's extremely hard to reject things who were taught to you so many years.
Now look at the first map which I've posted. What do you see in Macedonia? Bulgarians, Serbs, Greeks, even Turks and Shiptars,but антички македони нема
Let see what does wikipedia says about the demographic history of Macedonia:
The Slavs in Macedonia continued to call themselves
Bulgarians during the first four centuries of Ottoman rule.
The first literary work in
Modern Bulgarian, History of Slav-Bulgarians was written by a Macedonian-born monk,
Paisius of Hilendar in
1762.
The Slavs of Macedonia took active part in the struggle for independent
Bulgarian Patriarchate.
The predominant view of a
Bulgarian character of the Slavs in Macedonia was reflected in the borders of future autonomous
Bulgaria as drawn by the Constantinople Conference in
1876 and by the
Treaty of San Stefano in
1878. Bulgaria according to the Constantinople Conference included present-day
Vardar and
Pirin Macedonia.
Statistical data:
Ottoman census of Hilmi Pasha (1904)RegionGreeksBulgarians1. Vilaeti of Thessaloniki373,227207,3172. Vilaeti of Monastiri261,283178,4123. Santzaki of Scopje13,452172,735
[edit] Encyclopaedia Britannica
The 1911 edition of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica gave the following statistical estimates about the population of Macedonia:
- Bulgarians : ca. 1,150,000, whereof, 1,000,000 Orthodox and 150,000 Muslims (the so-called Pomaks)
- Turks: ca. 500,000 (Muslims)
- Greeks: ca. 250,000, whereof ca. 240,000 Orthodox and 14,000 Muslims
- Albanians: ca. 120,000, whereof 10,000 Orthodox and 110,000 Muslims
- Vlachs: ca. 90,000 Orthodox and 3,000 Muslims
- Jews: ca. 75,000
- Roma: ca. 50,000, whereof 35,000 Orthodox and 15,000 Muslims
Do you want more, my friend??? But don't believe so easy. That's just words, not authentic documents. If you want to see pictures of authentic documents visit
Вистината за Македониjа
There are a plenty of photos of crowds of people (антички македони, may be
) greeting the liberating Bulgarian Army in 1941.
Man, my grandfather escaped from Strumica in 1944. He is Macedonian just like you. But he did not forget that he is Bulgarian
