Macedonia History

  A report from Skopje in the Bavarian press dating from 1844. The article describes atrocities committed by Albanians in the Skopje region. Turkey - A correspondence of the Times from Constantinople on March 27 assures that the Russian envoy had in the note which he handed over in relation to the atrocities perpetrated by Albanians against Christians in the district of Skopia or Uskub (Sanjak in Vilayet Rumili) most emphatic words demanded that the same should explain what means it was inclined to use in order from now on to protect its Christian subjects from the iniquities of the Mohammedan mob. If the answer is unsatisfactory, Russia threatens armed intervention. The same Russian note is said to have made further demands "in favor of the Christian Raja", namely that the office of the ecumenical patriarch of the Greeks in Constantinople should no longer be conferred by the Porte, but made hereditary. (The English correspondent is not very satisfied with this request, as it...

Petar Bogdanov or Albanized Pjetër Bogdani (Italian Pietro Bogdano, born around 1630 in Gur i Hasit near Kukës; died December 1689 in Pristina) was a Catholic Bishop of Shkodra and Archbishop of Skopje and an important author of early Albanian literature. Pjetër Bogdani - Pietro Bogdano - Petar Bogdanov His book Cuneus Prophetarum, written in 1685, is regarded as the first significant prose work in Albanian language. The fact that generally receives no attention, on the title page of this work the author calls himself: Petro Bogdano - Macedone . According to the ' official historiography ', Pjetër Bogdani's family belonged to the "narrow elite of the Catholic Albanians", but perhaps one should consider, rather, he was simply a Catholic from Albania. The young Bogdani received his first training in the Franciscan monastery of Tschiprowzi in northwestern Bulgaria. Later he studied at the Illyrian (= Slavic) seminar in Loreto in Italy. From 1651 to 1654 he worked as ...

The Macedonian newspaper Nova Makedonija with an article about the research of Dr. Jovan Trifunoski, who conducted research in Skopje and the surrounding area in the early 1950s (described in the text as Skopsko Pole = Skopje Valley). He came to the conclusion that there is not a single Albanian family in the valley that does not have a migration background. In short, the Albanians once immigrated to Macedonia. Trifunovski researched further and came to the conclusion that most Albanians even know where they came from, who their ancestors are who immigrated to Macedonia and even the migration routes, i.e. possible intermediate stops of the family before they finally reached Macedonia, could be reproduced by themselves. Today the Albanian doctrine and propaganda tries to give the Albanians an "autochthonous" status. With abbreviation theories that fabricate a direct descent from Illyrians and Dardans without solid academic foundations in order to assert claims in Macedonia, an...

1000 MACEDONIANS KILLED. HOLY WAR SUGGESTED. LONDON, Monday. Prince Ferdinand starts immediately for Sofia from Vienna, where he has been staying on a visit. It is reported at Belgrade that a number of Turks and Albanians demolished a monastery at St. Prochov, on thn Servian frontier. Advices from Salonika report that six battalions of Turks and 3000 Macedonians met at Smilovo. The Turks killed 1000 Macedonians, and the rest fled. It is reported that fanatics in the towns of Tetovo and Kossovo urge the Moslems to institute a holy war against the Christians. SOURCE:  The Hamilton Spectator (Vic. : 1870 - 1918)  Tuesday 1 September 1903,  Page 3

Macedonia invaded by Albanians Rising Endangers the Reform Scheme of Powers. VIENNA, Jan. 11.— According to a dispatch from Sarajevo, Bosnia, to the Neue Freie Presse 4000 Albanians have crossed the road between Prizren, eighty-eight miles from Monastir, Macedonia, and Scutari, capital of the vilayet, of the same name, their Intention being to oppose the new gendarmerie organized under the Austro-Russian reform scheme. The situation in the Near East is causing increasing uneasiness. In addition to the Albanian movements in opposition to the new international gendarmerie in Macedonia, a dispatch from Cetinje says that the Government of Montenegro has decided to take steps for the immediate expulsion of all Albanians. According to an unconfirmed report from Uskub the Servian deputy, Wassijl, was shot by Albanians at the Detchani monastery. It was expected that he would succeed the late Monsignor Firmllian. Bishop of Uskub. ROME. Jan. 11.— Boris Sarafoff. the Macedonian revolut...

Vitomir Dolinski: An Interview with the Persecuted Albanian Academic Professor Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich Translated from Macedonian by Zhivko Apostolovski From the Macedonian daily newspaper Vest - 25.02.2003 VD: - You are regarded as a unique, albanian Mandela, but also as a political prisoner-record holder on the Balkan. For the insufficiently informed, at the beginning, tell us briefly about this? Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - In former Yugoslavia I was sentenced two years strict imprisonment, allegedly for propaganda against the socialism and the “brotherhood and unity”. After I served the punishment to the last day in the jail Idrizovo, wishing to escape to the Soviet Union I got stuck in Albania with which the USSR exactly those days severed its diplomatic relations. After the ten-year internment I was arrested by the albanian authorities and sentenced 43 years of a most monstrous imprisonment, again allegedly for antigovernment propaganda, in possession of some...