21.07.2007, 19:35
The Balkan wars - Bulgarian defeat means Vardarska cedes to Yugoslav/ Serbian Kingdom
Ottoman Empire and the Balkan wars
Ottoman rule was declining fast by that time and Austrian, Russian imperialist interests as well as Serb, Bulgarian and Greek nationalist interests, all wanting a peice of Ottoman Macedonia fuelled the turmoil from which the Macedonism first emerged.
Between the 19th century and 1913, the Greeks and the Bulgarians had their own respective struggles against Turkey and against eachother with ethnic Bulgarian uprisings occuring at Ilinden and at Krushevo; the latter (Krushevo) involved many Macedonists. In 1913 the Balkan wars over Macedonia between Greece, Serbia (or Yugoslavia) and Bulgaria with the Great Powers watching on, in Thrace and the Vardar region ended. Greece had gained the largest share of Macedonia and Thrace in the South which roughly corresponded to the areas where ethnic Greeks lived as well as corresponding to historical boundaries of anceint Greek Macedonia and the Serbs had gained the Vardar region (modern FYROM). The Bulgarians that did live in the territory won by Greece were exchanged with Greeks living in Bulgarian territory at the time. Hence whilst Greece and Bulgaria exchanged their nationals (96,000 Bulgarians and 46,000 Greeks were exchanged) the same was not done for Serbia which retained its Bulgarian nationals. This resulted in a need for Serbia to adopt an even more aggressive policy of Serbinization of the Slavs of Vardar and quite possibly a shot in the arm for the ideology of the Macedonists. The Yugoslav Kingdom referred to what is now modern F.Y.R.O.M as 'Vardarska' or Southern Serbia.
A post card from 'Vardarska', part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia as it would have been produced between 1913 and WW2
[Bild: http://www.macedoniaontheweb.com/wiki/im...stcard.jpg]
[Bild: http://www.macedoniaontheweb.com/wiki/im...slvija.JPG]
Ottoman Empire and the Balkan wars
Ottoman rule was declining fast by that time and Austrian, Russian imperialist interests as well as Serb, Bulgarian and Greek nationalist interests, all wanting a peice of Ottoman Macedonia fuelled the turmoil from which the Macedonism first emerged.
Between the 19th century and 1913, the Greeks and the Bulgarians had their own respective struggles against Turkey and against eachother with ethnic Bulgarian uprisings occuring at Ilinden and at Krushevo; the latter (Krushevo) involved many Macedonists. In 1913 the Balkan wars over Macedonia between Greece, Serbia (or Yugoslavia) and Bulgaria with the Great Powers watching on, in Thrace and the Vardar region ended. Greece had gained the largest share of Macedonia and Thrace in the South which roughly corresponded to the areas where ethnic Greeks lived as well as corresponding to historical boundaries of anceint Greek Macedonia and the Serbs had gained the Vardar region (modern FYROM). The Bulgarians that did live in the territory won by Greece were exchanged with Greeks living in Bulgarian territory at the time. Hence whilst Greece and Bulgaria exchanged their nationals (96,000 Bulgarians and 46,000 Greeks were exchanged) the same was not done for Serbia which retained its Bulgarian nationals. This resulted in a need for Serbia to adopt an even more aggressive policy of Serbinization of the Slavs of Vardar and quite possibly a shot in the arm for the ideology of the Macedonists. The Yugoslav Kingdom referred to what is now modern F.Y.R.O.M as 'Vardarska' or Southern Serbia.
A post card from 'Vardarska', part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia as it would have been produced between 1913 and WW2
[Bild: http://www.macedoniaontheweb.com/wiki/im...stcard.jpg]
[Bild: http://www.macedoniaontheweb.com/wiki/im...slvija.JPG]