Please ignore the grekoman above me!! Because He really thinks that MACEDONIA is Greek!!! LOL!!! He preaches nothing but Greek propaganda!! MACEDONIA was divided after the Balkan Wars in 1912-1913!! Todays country MACEDONIA went under Yugoslavia, in Bulgaria it is call Pirin MACEDONIA, In Greece it is called Aegean MACEDONIA and in Albania it is called Mala Prespa!! Here are some websites on MACEDONIA and what when on in these territories after the Balkan Wars!!!
2007-01-25 12:06:53
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answered by SOLUN macedonia 3
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1912-13 Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria join forces, and with the help of 100,000 Macedonians defeat the Turkish army in Macedonia. Macedonia is denied independence and the Treaty of Bucharest (August 1913) partitions the country between Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria. Greece takes the biggest, southern half of Macedonia (Aegean Macedonia) and renames it to "Northern Greece”. The Greek army burns to the ground the town Kukush, the birthplace of the Macedonian leader Georgi (Goce) Delcev. Bulgaria annexed the Pirin region and abolished the Macedonian name, and Serbia took over the Vardar region and renamed it to "Southern Serbia".
2013-12-16 15:01:21
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answered by Anonymous
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There was never a country called "Macedonia” and it was never divided!
There was an ottoman province that included a large area in the Balkans.
During the Balkan wars Greece liberated the famous authentic(Greek) Macedonia while Bulgaria incorporated the areas with the majority of Bulgarian population.
Serbia liberated the areas of Skopia and Monastery. Albania did not exist as a state then! (I have a feeling that a known user has something to do with this question!!)
The entire historical region of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia was returned to Greece and the authentic(Greek)Macedonians finally reached to a victory after a long strangle against the Turks and the Bulgarians.
There were Greek cities such as Monastery that weren’t liberated but in general it was a success.
Note that the majority of the population at the Ottoman province of Macedonia was Greek and the second largest was Muslim and the third Bulgarian.
(There wasn’t of course a non Greek Macedonian nation since that idea was an invention of the communist military rule of Tito!)
The region was further identified as predominantly Greek by French F. Bianconi in 1877 and by Englishman Edward Stanford in 1877. French scholars Ami Boué in 1840 and Guillaume Lejean in 1861, Germans August Heinrich Rudolf Griesebach in 1841, J. Hahn in 1858 and 1863, August Heinrich Petermann in 1869 and Heinrich Kiepert in 1876, Slovak Pavel Jozef Safarik in 1842 and the Czechs J. Erben in 1868 and F. Brodaska in 1869, Englishmen James Wyld in 1877 and Georgina Muir Mackenzie and Adeline Paulina Irby in 1863, Serbians Davidovitch in 1848, Constant Desjardins in 1853 and Stefan I. VerkoviÄ in 1860, Russians Viktor I. GrigoroviÄ in 1848, Vinkenty Makushev and M.F. Mirkovitch in 1867, as well as Austrian Karl Sax in 1878 published ethnography or linguistic books, or travel notes, which defined the Slavic population of Macedonia as Bulgarian. Independent sources in Europe between 1878 and 1918 generally tended to view the Slavic population of Macedonia in two ways: as Bulgarians and as Macedonian Slavs.
German scholar Gustav Weigand was one of the most prominent representatives of the first trend with the books Ethnography of Macedonia (1924, written 1919) and partially with The Aromanians (1905). The author described all ethnic groups living in Macedonia, showed empirically the close connection between the western Bulgarian dialects and the Macedonian dialects and defined the latter as Bulgarian. The International Commission constituted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1913 to inquire into causes and conduct of the Balkan Wars also talked about the Slavs of Macedonia as about Bulgarians in its report published in 1914. The Commission had eight members from Great Britain, France, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia and the United States.
The Ottoman census of Hilmi Pasha (1904) gave the following results:
Vilaeti of Thessaloniki Greeks: 373,227 Bulgarians: 207,317
Vilaeti of Monastiri Greeks: 261,283 Bulgarians: 178,412
Santzaki of Scopje Greeks: 13,452 Bulgarians: 172,735
No non Greek Macedonian nation!
As you can see there wasn’t any country then that used the Greek name “Macedonia”.
For the last 3000 years it was used only by the Greeks in order to describe the historical area of authentic(Greek) Macedonia.
The small modern state that appeared after the collapse of Yugoslavia was never called “Macedonia”.
Before 1912 it was the areas of “Vilaeti of Monastiri” and “Santzaki of Scopje” by the official Ottoman administration and after 1912 it was called Južna Srbija ("Southern Serbia") or Stara Srbija ("Old Serbia"). In 1929, the territory of the modern Republic of (Slavic/Albanian) Macedonia became a part of the Vardar Banovina with capital in Skopje.
Furthermore the government of Slavic/Albanian-Macedonia has clearly stated that they have no relation with Greek Macedonia and Alexander the Great.
This is clearly visible at the following statements:
“the first President of FYROM (Slavic/Albania- Macedonia), Kiro Gligorov said: “We are Slavs who came to this area in the sixth century ... we are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians" (Foreign Information Service Daily Report, Eastern Europe, February 26, 1992, p. 35). Also, Mr Gligorov clearly stated: "We are Macedonians but we are Slav Macedonians. That's who we are! We have no connection to Alexander the Greek and his Macedonia… Our ancestors came here in the 5th and 6th century" (Toronto Star, March 15, 1992).
On 22 January 1999, Ambassador of the FYROM to USA, Ljubica Achevska gave a speech on the present situation in the Balkans. In answering questions at the end of her speech Mrs. Acevshka said: "We do not claim to be descendants of Alexander the Great In reply to another question about the ethnic origin of the people of FYROM, Ambassador Achevska stated that "we are Slavs and we speak a Slav language”.
On 24 February 1999, in an interview with the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, Gyordan Veselinov, FYROM'S Ambassador to Canada, admitted, "We are not related to the northern Greeks who produced leaders like Philip and Alexander the Great. We are a Slav people and our language is closely related to Bulgarian." He also commented, “There is some confusion about the identity of the people of my country".
Moreover, the Foreign Minister of the FYROM, Slobodan Casule, in an interview to Utrinski Vesnik of Skopje on December 29, 2001, said that he mentioned to the Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, Solomon Pasi, that they "belong to the same Slav people.”
I hope I’ve helped you !
2007-01-25 16:47:08
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answer #5
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answered by ragzeus 6
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