Greece imposed term Bulgarians, Bulgarian language as a synonym for Slavic and Slavic language

[MegaArgus1]

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Greece imposed term Bulgarians, Bulgarian language as a synonym for Slavic and Slavic language from the late 18th century

From 1767 yr. Ohrid Archbishopric was overturned on appeals to the Greeks and Macedonia falls under the jurisdiction of the Constantinople Patriarchate, fully controlled by the Greek and grkofilski clergy. At that time, the Patriarchate opened Greek schools in Macedonia, the Greek language. Greek teachers have imposed term Bulgarians, Bulgarian language as a synonym for Slavic and Slavic languages. Otherwise, before that, in Macedonia NEVER used the word as a synonym for the Bulgarian Slavs and there is no written over 18 centuries where someone Macedonians declared themselves Bulgarian, or their language called Bulgarian.

Serbian scholar, Peter Dragashevikj, late 19th century was in Thessaly and Greece, said: "The Greeks call me Bulgarians, although I am a Serb from Serbia ... the word Slav Bulgarian means" (Petar Dragasevic "Makedonski Sloveni", 1890 g ., Beograd). Serbian propagandist, Cvijic, fighter for srbizacija Macedonians, was among the Aegean Macedonians in Greece, so his impressions, he wrote: "grkiot peasant's called Macedonian Slavs, Bulgarians always ... in the Greeks, the name means the same as Bulgarian and Slav. Greeks called Bulgarians and Serbs, if you know you are from Serbia ... Serbian name for the Greek peasant is only political idea ... and a Bulgarian ethnographic notion ... poluheleniziranite Macedonian Slavs-Chifchii, pkmalku speak Greek, itself considered the Greeks " (Professor John Cvijiћ (1865-1927), Radha "Macedonian Slavs promatranja o etnografiji makedonskih Slavs" Bookshops Gece Kona, Belgrade 1906th year.). DR. John Cvijic known Serbian etnogeograf and academician, the Serbian government has sent in Macedonia in 1905 golemosrpski and government interests has written that the Macedonians are amorphous mass without national consciousness and literary language, which had sympathy towards the Serbs and the Bulgarians, and could easily be assimilated or Serbs or Bulgarians. But that same Cvijic later testify that when he was in Macedonia, the Macedonians had developed a Macedonian national consciousness and denies himself and says, "little people by the people, peasants, know only that they are Macedonians" (Svetozar Pribicevic: "Diktatura kralja Aleksandra" , 5. poglavlje, str.128).

[morski]

[Europa]

Oh boy....

[Novi Pazar]

His not wrong my Bulgar friends, truth must be told!

Please go to Macedonia forum and look at the topic called:

An Interesting Read This will slowly lead into my topic that l will present soon, called:

'Significance of the term BULGAR'.

[Novi Pazar]

To add onto Mega's first post:

THE BYZANTINE COMMONWEALTH, DIMITRI OBOLENSKY, PAGE 219. Cited by George Acropolites, Historia, 44, ed. A Heisenberg, i Leipzig, 1903, pages 76-7.

"According to a Byzantine writer, the words of a Bulgarian nobleman from Phillipopolis; “The emperor, he said, has long had the authority over us, since our land belongs to the Byzantine** Empire……And all of us, natives of Phillipopolis, are pure Byzantines by race. The Byzantine Emperor, however, would still truly have the right to rule over us even if we were Bulgarians."

THE BALKANS, MARK MAZOWER. Odysseus – Sir Charles Eliot, Turkey in Europe, London, 1900, Pg 347.

"It was scarcely clear what it meant to call oneself Bulgarian. “Even forty years ago”, wrote an observer in 1900, “the name Bulgarian was almost unknown and every educated person coming from that country called himself Greek as a matter of course”.

Petar Dragasevic, Makedonski Sloveni, 1890, Belgrade.

"Even the term “Bulgarian” became a synonym for “Slav” in the Greek language. Serbian academic Petar Dragasevic visited Greece towards the end of the 19th century where he was referred to by the Greeks as “Bulgarian”, even though he had explained to them that he was a Serb from Serbia, thus he concluded that the Greeks call all the Slavonic peoples as “Bulgarians”.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 19/06/1881.

"Twelve years ago the Bulgarians were the most unknown people in Western Europe…….In a word, the Bulgarians were then as little known as the Albanian Ghegs or the Kutzo-Wallachs at the present day…….Educated Bulgarians habitually spoke Greek, or at least inserted Greek phrases in their conversation, carried on their private and commercial correspondence in the Greek language, or at least in Greek characters, habitually called themselves Greeks, often put a Greek termination to their family names and considered it an insult to be called Bulgarian………"

[Crn Volk]

I think even today Greeks have a hard time telling apart Bulgarians, Macedonians and Serbs...

[Midori]

I think even today Greeks have a hard time telling apart Bulgarians, Macedonians and Serbs...

Yeah that's true. Our languages all sound the same to them

[Novi Pazar]

I think even today Greeks have a hard time telling apart Bulgarians, Macedonians and Serbs...

Bulgars in this forum have a hard time understanding this fact. Sokol, this was the main reason why travelers from yester-year called Vardar Macedonians, Bulgars, from their (Greek) mix up from the words for common man and Bulgar. As Dragasevic mentions above, the term Bulgar was used to call all Balkan Slavs!

[ioan assen]

Sure the most clever race on the Balkans that invented democracy couldnt tell the diference between Serboi and Bulgarians! Even though that very same race mainly recorded the history of both Bulgarians and Serboi, the stupid Greeks couldnt distinguish them! Again hilarious propaganda from the wanna be Serboi and the Serbomans which is believed only in the borders of Republic of Macedonia by the serbomans (because there are no other ways to excplain the Bulgarian history of Macedonia till the mid 40ties).

[Novi Pazar]

Sure the most clever race on the Balkans that invented democracy couldnt tell the diference between Serboi and Bulgarians! Even though that very same race mainly recorded the history of both Bulgarians and Serboi, the stupid Greeks couldnt distinguish them! Again hilarious propaganda from the wanna be Serboi and the Serbomans which is believed only in the borders of Republic of Macedonia by the serbomans (because there are no other ways to excplain the Bulgarian history of Macedonia till the mid 40ties).

Silly reasoning!