21.07.2007, 15:47
Ethnic and Historical Origins of F.Y.R.O.M - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Overview
This Page is reserved to highlight the historic and ethnic origins of the Slavs of fyrom and the historical circumstances under which the first emergence of the ethnically artificial 'Macedonism' occured during the 19th century. These Macedonists were defined as a group favouring an autonomous or independent Macedonian state. As an extension of this they favoured in differing degrees, and the complete or partial seperation from the Slavo-Bulgarian consciousness in the region of a Slavic 'Macedonian ethnicity' and hence also a 'Macedonian' conciousness and language. It was an ideology which then later found its fruition when it was adopted, subsumed and exploited by Yugoslav Communists under Premier Tito and sponsered by the Soviets in the aftermath of WW2, in the 1940s. The situation exists today in the form where the Slavs of F.Y.R.O.M (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) have a 'Macedonian' nationality, a nationality having been constructed for over a century. Primary and secondary sources following will illustrate this point.
Overview of Slavic Migratory history in the Balkans and Macedonia
Slavs had arrived in the region after crossing the Danube during the 6th and 7th centuries AD. The inhabitants of Macedonia of significant numbers prior to the large Slavic migrations, were the Greeks, the Vlachs (A Romanized people), Albanians (North West). Smaller settlements of Turkish inhabitants came with the advent of Ottoman rule as well as a small percentage of Gypsy Roma who inhabited the area. Come the Slavic migrations, the bulk of the Vardar (FYROM) region's Slavs were recorded as being ethnic Bulgarians; and as well in the North around Skopje there was an encroaching Serbian influence.
Note* The fact that Slavic Migrations occured over 1000 years after the time of the ancient kingdom of Macedon in the 6th and 7th centuries, is obviously ignored by Skopjian revisionist historians who claim that a Slavonic Macedonian ethnicity has existed for 2000 years with a continuation of Ancient Macedon. Nevertheless we will not dwell on that fact as this page is specifically designed to describe the historic origins of F.Y.R.O.M and its 'Macedonian' ethnogenosis, an ethnogenosis which occured over a millenia after the first Slavic migrations to the area.
Introduction - Ethnogenesis
It is a fact that the Slavs of FYROM now have an artificial 'ethnic Macedonian' conscience and owe this to various historical and political circumstances. This political turmoil involved the forcefully competing interets of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires, Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and also the Ottoman Empire in Macedonia. The first origins of this 'Macedonism' are found in the mid to latter stage of the 19th century as an ideology with little influence on the Slavic population of Macedonia initially. The outcome of these circumstances is the Macedonian issue in the form of FYROM's historical revisionism we are opposed to here today.
These historical circumstances, under which the Slavic Macedonist ideology was constructed, climaxed in 1944. It was during this time, the aftermath of WW2, that the situation took a radical turn in terms of the completion of the construction of a seperate "Macedonian ethnicity" when Tito adopted the 'Macedonism' for his own political and expansionist reasons; notably Belgrade and Moscow's objectives were control of Greek Macedonia and the warm water port of Salonika on the Aegean. The first measures to codify a "Macedonian nation" taken by the CPY (Communist Party of Yugoslavia) following its take over of Yugoslavia (including modern FYROM) after WW2 was rename the Vardar region the 'Socialist Republic of Macedonia' and delegate a puppet Macedonian government in Skopje in 1944. An example of the first stages of ethnogenisis in 1888:
In a letter to Prof. Marin Drinov of May 25, 1888 Kuzman Shapkarev writes:
ps.
An deiner stelle wuerde Ich es SEIN LASSEN...den es folgen weitere beweise wie auch anerkannte historische politische fakten...Die euch als "Balkan Parasiten" blose stellen...
Overview
This Page is reserved to highlight the historic and ethnic origins of the Slavs of fyrom and the historical circumstances under which the first emergence of the ethnically artificial 'Macedonism' occured during the 19th century. These Macedonists were defined as a group favouring an autonomous or independent Macedonian state. As an extension of this they favoured in differing degrees, and the complete or partial seperation from the Slavo-Bulgarian consciousness in the region of a Slavic 'Macedonian ethnicity' and hence also a 'Macedonian' conciousness and language. It was an ideology which then later found its fruition when it was adopted, subsumed and exploited by Yugoslav Communists under Premier Tito and sponsered by the Soviets in the aftermath of WW2, in the 1940s. The situation exists today in the form where the Slavs of F.Y.R.O.M (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) have a 'Macedonian' nationality, a nationality having been constructed for over a century. Primary and secondary sources following will illustrate this point.
Overview of Slavic Migratory history in the Balkans and Macedonia
Slavs had arrived in the region after crossing the Danube during the 6th and 7th centuries AD. The inhabitants of Macedonia of significant numbers prior to the large Slavic migrations, were the Greeks, the Vlachs (A Romanized people), Albanians (North West). Smaller settlements of Turkish inhabitants came with the advent of Ottoman rule as well as a small percentage of Gypsy Roma who inhabited the area. Come the Slavic migrations, the bulk of the Vardar (FYROM) region's Slavs were recorded as being ethnic Bulgarians; and as well in the North around Skopje there was an encroaching Serbian influence.
Note* The fact that Slavic Migrations occured over 1000 years after the time of the ancient kingdom of Macedon in the 6th and 7th centuries, is obviously ignored by Skopjian revisionist historians who claim that a Slavonic Macedonian ethnicity has existed for 2000 years with a continuation of Ancient Macedon. Nevertheless we will not dwell on that fact as this page is specifically designed to describe the historic origins of F.Y.R.O.M and its 'Macedonian' ethnogenosis, an ethnogenosis which occured over a millenia after the first Slavic migrations to the area.
Introduction - Ethnogenesis
It is a fact that the Slavs of FYROM now have an artificial 'ethnic Macedonian' conscience and owe this to various historical and political circumstances. This political turmoil involved the forcefully competing interets of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires, Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and also the Ottoman Empire in Macedonia. The first origins of this 'Macedonism' are found in the mid to latter stage of the 19th century as an ideology with little influence on the Slavic population of Macedonia initially. The outcome of these circumstances is the Macedonian issue in the form of FYROM's historical revisionism we are opposed to here today.
These historical circumstances, under which the Slavic Macedonist ideology was constructed, climaxed in 1944. It was during this time, the aftermath of WW2, that the situation took a radical turn in terms of the completion of the construction of a seperate "Macedonian ethnicity" when Tito adopted the 'Macedonism' for his own political and expansionist reasons; notably Belgrade and Moscow's objectives were control of Greek Macedonia and the warm water port of Salonika on the Aegean. The first measures to codify a "Macedonian nation" taken by the CPY (Communist Party of Yugoslavia) following its take over of Yugoslavia (including modern FYROM) after WW2 was rename the Vardar region the 'Socialist Republic of Macedonia' and delegate a puppet Macedonian government in Skopje in 1944. An example of the first stages of ethnogenisis in 1888:
In a letter to Prof. Marin Drinov of May 25, 1888 Kuzman Shapkarev writes:
Zitat:"But even stranger is the name Macedonians, which was imposed on us only 10 to 15 years ago by outsiders, and not as something by our own intellectuals... Yet the people in Macedonia know nothing of that ancient name, reintroduced today with a cunning aim on the one hand and a stupid one on the other. They know the older word: "Bugari", although mispronounced: they have even adopted it as peculiarly theirs, inapplicable to other Bulgarians. You can find more about this in the introduction to the booklets I am sending you. They call their own Macedono-Bulgarian dialect the "Bugarski language", while the rest of the Bulgarian dialects they refer to as the "Shopski language".
(Makedonski pregled, IX, 2, 1934, p. 55; the original letter is kept in the Marin Drinov Museum in Sofia, and it is available for examination and study)
the original In Bulgarian:
"No pochudno e imeto Makedonci, koeto naskoro, edvay predi 10-15 godini, ni
natrapiha i to otvqn, a ne kakto nyakoi mislyat ot samata nasha
inteligenciya... Narodqt obache v Makedoniya ne znae nishto za tova
arhaichesko, a dnes, s lukava cel ot edna strana, s glupeshka ot druga,
podnoveno prozvishte; toy si znae postaroto: Bugari, makar i nepravilno
proiznasyano, daje osvoyava si go kato sobstveno i preimushtestveno svoe,
nejeli za drugite Bqlgari. Za tova shte vidite i v predgovora na izpratenite
mi knijici. Toy naricha Bugarski ezik svoeto Makaedono-bqlgarsko narechie,
kogato drugite bqlgarski narechiya naricha Shopski."
ps.
An deiner stelle wuerde Ich es SEIN LASSEN...den es folgen weitere beweise wie auch anerkannte historische politische fakten...Die euch als "Balkan Parasiten" blose stellen...