-They organized a large number of insurrections and often defeated the Turks, but, of course, at the end of it all, the insurrections were always suppressed in streams of Macedonian blood. They also took part in the liberation struggles of their neighbours - the Serbs, Greeks and Bulgarians - whose freedom was attained with the endeavours and help of the Macedonians, as well.
-Thus, at the time of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877/78, two thirds of the volunteers from the Balkan Slavs were Macedonians.
-The whole people, like one man, rose up and started and unequal struggle against the Turks for their liberation. This uprising lasted for more than a year and ended, of course, with the triumph of the embittered Turks, who finally devastated that unfortunate country. Many villages, and even towns, were burnt down, many people were butchered, and some of the Macedonian intellectuals were killed while others found salvation in fleeing to the free states.
-The Macedonians then left their fields, their wives and children, and went to die for the cause of the others, as if for their own. Who of the Bulgarians, Serbs and Greeks will dare deny this fact?
-But even the Emperor Justinian (527-565) with his decree (law), issued in the name of Archbisop Catelian, separated the Illyrian Archbishopric (which was located in western Macedonia, near present-day Skopje) as an autonomous unit, calling it Prima Justiniana, giving it an authority equal to the authority of the Patriarchate and subordinating the whole of the Balkan Peninsula to it.
-"You are Salonikans, and all Salonikans speak pure Slavic", said Emperor Michael, sending them to Moravia.
-The struggle of the Greeks and the Bulgarians for domination over Macedonia provoked the third side to struggle, too - the Serbs - who, noticing that nobody was advocating a case for the Macedonians anyway, procured a right from Turkey to spread their propaganda in the country also, thus creating "Serbian" people where they had never existed.
-What the Greeks could not Hellenize over the course of several centuries, what the Bulgarians could not put in their Exarchist bosom, now the Serbians started to try to grab with their Church and schools.
-All these Bulgarian, Serbian and Greek nationalities were created artificially
-Emperor Nicholas ll, permanent protectors of the oppressed, have many times drawn attention through their representatives of the governments of Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece to the abnormality of this phenomenon
- culture and the continued human rights violations that the Macedonians face in Greece, Bulgaria and Albania.
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Your Articles are all about how Great China is and whatever else is not about china is offensive to the nations that u refer to...
This article is very offensive for Turks,Greeks,Albanians,Serbs,Bulgarians,
I lived in the Balkans, and i am familiar with what is there and what is going on,....
That article is very offensive towards all of us, our culture and history,
I could have not locked it and have a nice arguement with someone that is from F.Y.R.O.M
and i am wasting too much of my valueble time right now with u.
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or you are just too bored and u miss flaming.....???
Go to the flamers forum there if u want to have somethin with me....and if u dont like me.
I am Here to help this place so we all can enjoy it and not just you,....
