Macedonia History

 Again we have a nice map relevant to Macedonia. This German map dates from 1925.  The title of the map, of course, immediately reveals what the map is supposed to represent: The peoples of Europe in linguistic structure (Die Völker Europas in sprachlicher Gliederung). The map was designed by Prof. Dr. Arthur Haberlandt. It was drawn by E. Monzert. The map was published by Strecker and Schröder in Stuttgart.  The map is part of the "Illustrierte Völkerkunde" (Illustrated Ethnology, second volume) published in 1926. Publisher was the physician, ethnologist and ethnographer Dr. Georg Buschan. On this map we see the peoples of Europe listed, as well as their languages they used to speak. The authors make a rough grouping based on the language families. See the following image, which shows the Balkans as well as the description for the languages. There we can see that Macedonia is marked in the Slavic-speaking area. And also that the area is marked with the number 67. The leg...

  In his work on the peoples of Europe by the German ethnologist Dr. Richard Karutz, published in 1926, the Macedonians were already listed as an independent people alongside Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbs. Let's take a look in his work. Richard Karutz (born November 2, 1867 in Stralsund, Germany; died February 10, 1945 in Dresden) was a German ENT doctor and ethnologist. Peter Staudenmeier classifies him as a " leading anthroposophical author on questions of races " with openly anti-Semitic writings, according to Wikipedia as an introduction. He discovered his interest in ethnology on his trips abroad as a ship's doctor, and in Lübeck he began to study ethnology. As a military doctor, Karutz experienced military service in the First World War. In 1920, after the war, he met Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy (science for understanding nature, spirit and human development). He turned to his teaching and tried to use his ethnological work anthroposophically wit...

 An overview map of the Republic of Macedonia by the American Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, from 1994 shows among other details "occupied Macedonian territories". The overview map is entitled "The former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, summary map", the United States Central Intelligence Agency is named as the contributor. The map was published in Washington, D.C. by the Agency in 1994, three years after the independence of the Republic of Macedonia. "Historical Macedonia" On the overview map we find a smaller map on the lower right side, which undoubtedly belongs to the column "Eras of Historical Control" (times of historical control). We see the borders of historical Macedonia drawn with blue markings. The marking covers areas in four countries: The Republic of Macedonia ("Vardar-Macedonia"), Greece (Aegean-Macedonia), Bulgaria (Pirin-Macedonia) and Albania (around Lake Ohrid). As a little legend we discover a remark on the map ...

 From the " Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups " a map showing the language area of the Macedonian language. The map was published in 1980 and shows the spread of the Macedonian language, which clearly extends beyond the borders of todays Republic Macedonia. You can see a large part of northern Greece marked as a Macedonian-speaking area. Officially, Greece does not recognize the existence of a Macedonian language (as well as a Macedonian minority or other ethnic minorities in general) in the country. Macedonian-speaking Greek citizens are succinctly (and for political reasons since the 1930s) referred to as "Slavophone Greeks". The Macedonian speakers in Northern Greece also have no opportunities to learn their mother tongue, or to speak it publicly. This was even prohibited earlier.  Macedonian is therefore mostly only spoken in the domestic family circle. In the youthful Macedonian population of Northern Greece, the proportion of Macedonian-speaking p...

  In the New York Times article of November 3, 1895 entitled "Unkown Macedonia", we can discover a description of the borders of Macedonia. As an introduction the autor wrote " that practically nothing is known about Macedonia ", this statement can also be transferred to the present day, some things are known about Macedonia, but a lot is not and some is presented in a distorted way by certain parties according to their own opinion. Macedonia's borders are explained in the article on the basis of geographical conditions, the three rivers Vardar, Struma and Bistrica are listed as well as the important mountains such as mount Olymp, Rhodope and Shar-Planina. Unfortunately, the author left out a list of important locations to shape the borders around, but this is obvious from the geographic information. Macedonia is called one of the " most attractive and picturesque landscapes in Europe " by the author, " with magnificent forests, wild rivers, wonde...

 After the recent political events, we had to write a topic to match.  It is no secret that a large part of the official history of Bulgaria is based on actors from Macedonian history, for centuries Bulgaria has been anxious to usurp and take over Macedonian history. Now the Macedonian prime minister Zaev seems to have been brought to the point of making concessions to the Bulgarians - this is how Macedonian history books are to be rewritten. Therefore we want to show an example of how Bulgaria is taking over Macedonian history. Here is the example of the holy Kliment (Clement) from Ohrid. To do this, we first opened the Bulgarian Wikipedia page and read right at the beginning: " Kliment is a Bulgarian scholar, the first episcope and preacher of the old Bulgarian language ". We take this as the official opinion of Bulgarian history, or better, to say, propaganda. Kliment was born around 840, the Bulgarian Empire spread over Macedonian soil from 837. It was not until 864 that ...

The Crisis in the Balkan States, a newspaper article from the "the Morning Record". published Sunday, April 23, 1899. The accompanying map will show the seat of the present trouble in the Balkans. The shaded potitions on the map show the territory that is still under Turkish rule. Bulgaria and the other Balkan states which are now making things hot for the sublime porte remain under the suzerainty of the sultan, but are anxious to throw off the Turkish yoke. Serbia is an independent kingdom and does not pay tribute, but Austria still hands over an annual stipend for the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and she has long nursed the desire to extend her territory to the Aegean sea, so that Salonica might be the southern terminus of one of her railways. Russia, however, which has interests in Montenegro, stands in the way of this scheme, and in the meantime the long opressed Macedonians are making things lively on their own account. You can see the territory of ...

The maps are published in work, with the complicated and long title: The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians, biographers and specialists: a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history . Authored by J.N Larned and published by Springfield, Mass. C.A. Nichols Publishing Company in 1922. About the author Josephus Nelson Larned (May 11, 1836 - August 15, 1913) was an American newspaper editor, author, librarian, and historian. As Superintendent of the Young Men's Association Library, he led the transformation into the current public library of Buffalo & Erie County. Larned was born in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, to Henry Sherwood Larned and Mary Ann Nelson. His family moved to Buffalo, New York when he was twelve, and he was taught there in public schools until he was sixteen. After lea...

The New World: Problems in Political Geography The new world; problems in political geography by Bowman, Isaiah, 1878-1950 Published: 1921 Topics: World politics, World War, 1914-1918 -- Territorial questions, Boundaries Raed full Book here:

A map showing the borders of Macedonia, according to authors in the period 1843 - 1927. Legend:     according Alexander Hadji Russet (1843)      dotted line according Spiridon Gopchevich (1899)      according N. Nikolaidis (1899)      according Vasil Kanchov (1900)      according anonymous greek author (1906)      dotted line according Leonhard Schultze-Jena (1927)