Old photos from Macedonia

[Crn Volk]

http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/galleries/obrebski.htm

http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/galleries/halpern.htm

http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/galleries/obrebski/obreb229.jpg

http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/galleries/halpern/1954_032.jpg

[Crn Volk]

From a Bulgarian website;

http://www.lostbulgaria.com/index.php?page_id=889

http://www.lostbulgaria.com/pic2/3710.jpg

http://www.lostbulgaria.com/pic2/3278.jpg

http://www.lostbulgaria.com/pic/1506.jpg

http://www.lostbulgaria.com/pic2/3561.jpg

http://www.lostbulgaria.com/pic2/3478.jpg

[brunette]

Nice costumes.

[Petros Houhoulis]

I truly love the total absence of ANY inscriptions that could possible be readable... But then it does not surprise me. I have seen old pictures with shops' inscriptions... and much more...

[Vojnik]

I truly love the total absence of ANY inscriptions that could possible be readable... But then it does not surprise me. I have seen old pictures with shops' inscriptions... and much more...

Could you maybe share these photos in this thread?

[Crn Volk]

I truly love the total absence of ANY inscriptions that could possible be readable... But then it does not surprise me. I have seen old pictures with shops' inscriptions... and much more...

I have seen old pictures of icons in churches in Greece with their original Old Church Slavonic script scrubbed out by greeks. I have seen the same thing happen to tomb-stones with Slavic script rubbed out. No comment on this Petros?

[Petros Houhoulis]

I have seen old pictures of icons in churches in Greece with their original Old Church Slavonic script scrubbed out by greeks. I have seen the same thing happen to tomb-stones with Slavic script rubbed out. No comment on this Petros?

They are Bulgarian. Your language was not codified before 1945, remember?

We have a mutual history of destroying each other with the Bulgarians. We do not deny it.

You want comment? Here it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitola_inscription

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Bitolski_nadpis.jpg


A translation of only the clearly readable parts is as follows:[citation needed]

“ In the year [...] since the creation of the world, this fortress, built and made by Ivan, Bulgarian autocrat, was renewed with the help and the prayers of Our Most Holy Lady and through the intercession of her twelve supreme apostles. The fortress was built as a haven and for the salvation of the lives of the Bulgarians. The work on the fortress of Bitola commenced on the twentieth day of October and ended on the [...] was Bulgarian by birth [...] pious son of Aaron [...] they both defeated [...] where was taken [...] and this Tsar [...] 6..2 since the creation of the world [...] at the end."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitola_inscription#Controversy


The official state doctrine[citation needed] in the Republic of Macedonia denies any Bulgarian link to medieval Macedonia and especially to Tsar Samuil's state and to its rulers, as Ivan Vladislav for example. The historical and political importance of the inscription were the reason for controversy in the Republic of Macedonia in 2006. The French consulate in Bitola sponsored and prepared a tourist catalogue of the town and printed on its front cover the entire text of the inscription. News about it had spread prior to the official presentation of the catalogue and was a cause for confusion among the officials of the Bitola municipality. The French consulat was warned, the printing of the new catalogue was stopped and the photo on the cover was changed.[12]


Banana!

[Crn Volk]

They are Bulgarian. Your language was not codified before 1945, remember?

We have a mutual history of destroying each other with the Bulgarians. We do not deny it.

You want comment? Here it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitola_inscription

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Bitolski_nadpis.jpg



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitola_inscription#Controversy



Banana!


http://www.gate.net/~mango/Bulgarian_falsification.html

No comment needed.....:tongue

[Hess]

Macedonia is a beautiful place and I believe that the Macedonian People have a lot to be proud of :thumbs up
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/030/cache/macedonia_3084_600x450.jpg

[Petros Houhoulis]

http://www.gate.net/~mango/Bulgarian_falsification.html

No comment needed.....:tongue

Wrong... Stone.

The Stoidis Stone was a DIFFERENT stone found in a DIFFERENT country altogether and once the proper Bulgarian authorities saw it, they declared it a fake ON SIGHT. By the way, this is NOT the only inscription that Stoidis has forged...

On the other hand, the really Bulgarian inscription has nothing to do with either Stoidis or the Bulgarians, and it is GENUINE - that's why wikipedia and all other decent publications reference it. You see, neither Stoidis nor any other Bulgarian forgerers could have forged it, because it was found in YOUR country at a time when you were/are not exactly-fanmous for your pro-Bulgarian feelings...

In any case, the case of Czar Samuel being a self-declared Bulgarian has been SETTLED forever, by multiple sources, either you shall ever admit it or not.

Some day you must start writing about your own history (if you ever manage to generate such a feat...)

[Petros Houhoulis]

Macedonia is a beautiful place and I believe that the Macedonian People have a lot to be proud of :thumbs up
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/tm/2008/galleries/potw220808/potw220808macedoniaAP_428x299_to_468x312.jpg

Yes, Macedonia is a beautiful place, and we are a proud people.

[Vojnik]

Macedonia is a beautiful place and I believe that the Macedonian People have a lot to be proud of :thumbs up
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/030/cache/macedonia_3084_600x450.jpg

Thank you Hess, and yes, we are extremely proud people. :thumb001:

[Vojnik]

Yes, Macedonia is a beautiful place, and we are a proud people.

Nice picture of the white tower of Salonika. But one thing that ruins it is the Bavarian/British, east Indian flag on top of it. It should be the star of Kutlesh.

[Loki]

Wrong... Stone.

The Stoidis Stone was a DIFFERENT stone found in a DIFFERENT country altogether and once the proper Bulgarian authorities saw it, they declared it a fake ON SIGHT. By the way, this is NOT the only inscription that Stoidis has forged...

On the other hand, the really Bulgarian inscription has nothing to do with either Stoidis or the Bulgarians, and it is GENUINE - that's why wikipedia and all other decent publications reference it. You see, neither Stoidis nor any other Bulgarian forgerers could have forged it, because it was found in YOUR country at a time when you were/are not exactly-fanmous for your pro-Bulgarian feelings...

In any case, the case of Czar Samuel being a self-declared Bulgarian has been SETTLED forever, by multiple sources, either you shall ever admit it or not.

Some day you must start writing about your own history (if you ever manage to generate such a feat...)

Can you please stop being disrespectful to these people about beautiful pictures IN THEIR OWN THREAD?

[morski]

Bitolya and Skopie during the Constitutional period and the Young Turk revolution in 1908:

http://www.karamitsos.com/imgauction/430/04291.jpg
http://www.karamitsos.com/imgauction/430/04292.jpg
http://www.karamitsos.com/imgauction/430/04293.jpg
http://www.karamitsos.com/imgauction/430/04294.jpg
http://www.karamitsos.com/imgauction/430/04295.jpg

[Crn Volk]

Photos from the Manaki brothers;

http://bitolatourist.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=274%3A2010-05-07-11-53-05&catid=57%3A2010-04-08-23-19-42&Itemid=107&lang=en

[iNird]

http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/galleries/obrebski/OBREB229.jpg


Other than the hat on the guy, this clothing can be found from the region I'm from. I noticed that a lot of the Macedonians from Western side have almost the same exact attire and customs as Albanians. Makes sense since both people have had interactions with one another.

[Crn Volk]

Other than the hat on the guy, this clothing can be found from the region I'm from. I noticed that a lot of the Macedonians from Western side have almost the same exact attire and customs as Albanians. Makes sense since both people have had interactions with one another.

Yes, alot of the Obrebski photos are from western Macedonia;

http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/galleries/obrebski/obreb499.jpg

http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/galleries/obrebski/obreb495.jpg

http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/galleries/obrebski/obreb227.jpg

[rashka]

My favorite Macedonian song with English sub-titles

pU2_WW8kxHg


This one is beautiful too and has old pictures.

OAme0cXTWcw

[Crn Volk]

Pics from WW1 period;

Bitola
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/5415/bitoljwwiym9.jpg

Skopje
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/2583/skopje698098hm5.jpg

Dojran
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/9928/dojran5431ax9.jpg

Kumanovo
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/1705/kumanovo54135165136hi5.jpg

Prilep
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/2649/prilep09709875432sl1.jpg

Stip
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/2001/stip098541ew7.jpg

Tetovo
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/9025/tetovo5215476eb1.jpg

Veles
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/2713/veles76542wx9.jpg

[Crn Volk]

From Ohrid;

http://www.promacedonia.org/bugarash/gradove/ohrid2.jpg

[Crn Volk]

I guess no thread about old photos from Macedonia would be complete without pics of Macedonian Komiti (freedom fighters/revolutionaries);

http://www.promacedonia.org/bugarash/gradove/cheti.jpg

http://www.promacedonia.org/bugarash/gradove/tashkovoevoda.jpg

http://www.promacedonia.org/bugarash/gradove/sarafovuniforma.jpg

http://www.promacedonia.org/bugarash/gradove/gjorchevacheta.jpg

http://www.promacedonia.org/bugarash/gradove/chetachernopeev.jpg

http://www.promacedonia.org/bugarash/snimki/141d9528_69.jpg

http://www.promacedonia.org/bugarash/snimki/50989.jpg

http://www.promacedonia.org/bugarash/snimki/Untitled79_036.jpg

http://www.promacedonia.org/bugarash/snimki/piperkata.jpg

http://www.promacedonia.org/bugarash/snimki/sandanski_v_bg_armia.jpg

[Crn Volk]

Serb/pro-Serb Cetniks from Macedonia;

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Chetniks_in_the_19th_century.jpg

http://www.srpsko-nasledje.co.rs/sr-l/1998/12/images/46.jpg

http://www.srpsko-nasledje.co.rs/sr-l/1998/12/images/45.jpg

http://www.srpsko-nasledje.co.rs/sr-l/1998/12/images/47_1.jpg

http://www.srpsko-nasledje.co.rs/sr-l/1998/12/images/48.jpg

http://www.srpsko-nasledje.co.rs/sr-l/1998/12/images/50_1.jpg

http://www.srpsko-nasledje.co.rs/sr-l/1998/12/images/50_2.jpg

[Crn Volk]

Macedonian Partizans from WW2;

http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/communities/monastir/images/during/partisans/04.jpg

http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/communities/monastir/images/during/partisans/05.jpg

http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/communities/monastir/images/during/partisans/01.jpg

http://www.ushmm.org/photos/49/49886.jpg

Units of the 42. division of PLA in liberated Skopje 1944
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h15/Zlayson/skopje44.jpg

A group of Macedonian fighters on Sarplanina
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h15/Zlayson/sarplanina1943.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1369.snc4/164188_496171138669_202258228669_5696187_2084801_n .jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs001.snc6/165130_493807783669_202258228669_5666375_17749_n.j pg


http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h15/Zlayson/kicevo1943.jpg


http://www.soros.org.mk/archive/G07/images/Sg5007.jpg


http://www.soros.org.mk/archive/G07/images/Sg5403.jpg


http://www.soros.org.mk/archive/G07/images/Sg5406.jpg

http://www.soros.org.mk/archive/G07/images/Sg5408.jpg

A reception of the combatants of the Fifteenth Macedonian Corps in Skopje, after finishing the final operations for liberation of Yugoslavia (spring 1945)
http://www.soros.org.mk/archive/G07/images/Sg5409.jpg


http://www.ushmm.org/photos/05/05454.jpg

[Vojnik]

Skopje:
http://i43.tinypic.com/1hrt43.jpg

Bitola:
http://i43.tinypic.com/mj4bvr.jpg

Saint Jovan Bigorski Monastery:
http://i39.tinypic.com/2vahb1t.jpg

Macedonian children:
http://i41.tinypic.com/zoj7z7.jpg

[Vojnik]

http://i42.tinypic.com/ohqruo.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/1zvfuw6.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/20f7yfd.jpg

http://i41.tinypic.com/28kq8vo.jpg

[morski]

I guess no thread about old photos from Macedonia would be complete without pics of Macedonian Komiti (freedom fighters/revolutionaries);


http://www.promacedonia.org/bugarash/snimki/sandanski_v_bg_armia.jpg

That's Yane Sandanski in a Bulgarian military uniform from the time he was a soldier in the Principality's army, 13th Infantry Regiment in Kyustendil, 1892-1894.

[iNird]

http://galenf.com/macedonia/mas06.jpg

http://galenf.com/macedonia/mas04.jpg

http://galenf.com/macedonia/mas09.jpg

http://galenf.com/macedonia/mas11.jpg

http://galenf.com/macedonia/mas05.jpg

http://galenf.com/macedonia/mas15.jpg

[Vojnik]

Thanks for the photos Urpean. They are obviously Albanians, but from which area and when were the photos taken?

[iNird]

Thanks for the photos Urpean. They are obviously Albanians, but from which area and when were the photos taken?

Disregard my rep comment. I think it's Tetova.

http://www.tetova.gov.mk/en/f/49.html

[Vojnik]

Ye I thought it was Tetovo. If it was Skopje you would see Macedonians as well, But in the photos, all you see is Albanians.

[iNird]

If it was Skopje you would see Macedonians as well, But in the photos, all you see is Albanians.

That's not necessarily true. FYROM is segregated for the most part and ethnic groups tend to stick to their own "side." If you cross the bridge in Skopje and enter bit pazar, it will mostly be Albanian.

[Vojnik]

That's not necessarily true. Macedonia is segregated for the most part and ethnic groups tend to stick to their own "side." If you cross the bridge in Skopje and enter bit pazar, it will mostly be Albanian.

Yes I know. The Vardar river in Skopje separates the two ethnicities, (Macedonians and Albanians) but Macedonians in Skopje still like to go for walks in the Pazar, so you will still see Macedonians their. Are you suggesting that the Pazar in Skopje looks like the photos you posted?

[lepa]

http://www.lostbulgaria.com/pic/1301.jpg

http://boina-drujba.hit.bg/images/bwy1246630097r.JPG

http://store.picbg.net/pubpic/2B/40/66bbad07e2a52b40.jpg

http://store.picbg.net/pubpic/2F/49/b0aa9880afef2f49.jpg

http://store.picbg.net/pubpic/8E/63/e25fb2ce4dd38e63.jpg

http://boina-drujba.hit.bg/images/1443_09_05_09_9_04_01.jpeg

[iNird]

Yes I know. The Vardar river in Skopje separates the two ethnicities, (Macedonians and Albanians) but Macedonians in Skopje still like to go for walks in the Pazar, so you will still see Macedonians their. Are you suggesting that the Pazar in Skopje looks like the photos you posted?

The photo I posted was taken in the 50's and can't be compared to today. It's been a while since I've been to bit pazar so it's hard to say.

Here's an old picture from what I think is bit pazar in skopje. Notice they majority of them look to be wearing albanian attire

http://www.galsh.com/albums/userpics/normal_skopje64356cf%5B1%5D.jpg

[lepa]

http://www.lostbulgaria.com/pic/2336.jpg

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5187/5591747622_ea50357677.jpg

http://media.snimka.bg/images/002825291.jpg

http://www.lostbulgaria.com/pic/409.jpg

http://www.lostbulgaria.com/pic/1505.jpg

http://store.picbg.net/pubpic/FD/3D/f42b91c22137fd3d.jpg

http://store.picbg.net/pubpic/2D/40/4d4bbf823db12d40.jpg

[Crn Volk]

From the following website;

http://www.macbro.org/galmkb/index-0.html

http://www.macbro.org/galmkb/albums/userpics/10001/228328_208352889199678_207122465989387_717856_6559 762_n.jpg

http://www.macbro.org/galmkb/albums/userpics/10001/224698_208352912533009_207122465989387_717858_7568 342_n.jpg

http://www.macbro.org/galmkb/albums/userpics/10020/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%B4_ %D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA.j pg

http://www.macbro.org/galmkb/albums/userpics/10020/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%B3% D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0~0. jpg

http://www.macbro.org/galmkb/albums/wpw-20100209/Sirok_sokak1.jpg

http://www.macbro.org/galmkb/albums/wpw-20090404/025_d.jpg

http://www.macbro.org/galmkb/albums/wpw-20090328/mf380.jpg

http://www.macbro.org/galmkb/albums/wpw-20090328/mf358.jpg

http://www.macbro.org/galmkb/albums/wpw-20090404/041_b.jpg

http://www.macbro.org/galmkb/albums/wpw-20090215/6839.jpg

http://www.macbro.org/galmkb/albums/userpics/10020/sKOPJE21.jpg

http://www.macbro.org/galmkb/albums/wpw-20090328/mf319.jpg

http://www.macbro.org/galmkb/albums/wpw-20090404/galerijaSS1.jpg

[Queen B]

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5187/5591747622_ea50357677.jpg

A picture of Thessaloniki GREECE, in Fyrom's section, with Bulgarians?

:lol:

Priceless.

[poiuytrewq0987]

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/1017/teatar2ih1.jpg

http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/3628/040352lq.jpg

http://img481.imageshack.us/img481/3922/050511uk.jpg

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2417/12saatkula2ey.jpg

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1204/111934b5rw.jpg

[Crn Volk]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/425690_270968779643702_100001917472195_735877_1891 808870_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/419981_270968822977031_100001917472195_735878_1075 241829_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/394156_270968852977028_100001917472195_735879_1831 533542_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/395234_270968876310359_100001917472195_735880_1761 560972_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/422071_270968889643691_100001917472195_735881_6519 07464_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/409044_270969029643677_100001917472195_735884_2041 766907_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/423531_270969659643614_100001917472195_735899_8357 0679_n.jpg

[Crn Volk]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/422386_270970712976842_100001917472195_735924_9116 64149_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/429202_270967866310460_100001917472195_735857_2361 42477_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/404423_270968156310431_100001917472195_735862_1041 228916_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/423903_270968389643741_100001917472195_735867_7556 35931_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/418661_270968456310401_100001917472195_735868_1763 936304_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/401225_270968626310384_100001917472195_735873_4774 18288_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/422053_270968699643710_100001917472195_735875_3591 96997_n.jpg

[Crn Volk]

Some pics from the 1920s

http://documents-mk.blogspot.ro/2012/08/macedonia-kurt-hielscher-photogravures.html

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fdXlD45Hvdk/TwdfVCEvG7I/AAAAAAAAKSM/ge9J166lzy0/s400/Children%2Bin%2BCostumes%252C%2BMacedonia.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4QEbSigiVyo/TwdUgS2wuHI/AAAAAAAAKQ4/zLApvBt6SFw/s400/Street%2BOhrid%252C%2BMacedonia.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5XFQxslhjqM/TwciEmAdbRI/AAAAAAAAKMw/HZP--LcZqNs/s400/Peasants%2Bfrom%2BBradovic%252C%2BMacedonia.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C8m0-ZsgIfM/TwcdrmyuVWI/AAAAAAAAKMI/ojFJBJQBNqs/s400/Family%2Bwith%2BDonkey%252C%2BMacedonia.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tAJoAVnSzfs/TwcdrSx8x-I/AAAAAAAAKL8/qAyJ0tJYwe0/s400/Novo%2BSelo%252C%2BTown%2BView%252C%2BMacedonia.jp g





Kurt Hielscher (1881 in Striegau , Silesia - 1948 in Lichtenstein in Saxony) was a German photographer.

He traveled in the twenties and thirties, large parts of Europe and was the author of several successful books with landscape and architectural photos. Famous works by him are "The Unknown Spain", "Germany", "Denmark, Sweden, Norway", "Romania"...

[Crn Volk]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1005143_527333310658635_1989596301_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/307092_515386321853334_1482835442_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/556325_554773094581323_530016191_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1462968_595175863874379_653599516_n.jpg




https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1238845_560359347356031_1523853259_n.jpg


https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1146643_549407955117837_1916769628_n.jpg

[Crn Volk]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/521669_499181040140529_1864014148_n.png

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/12970_476891202369513_1944652306_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/534864_470747359650564_555800410_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/208962_388797867845514_1040666944_n.jpg

[Crn Volk]

http://assets.antiques.co.uk/items/2460/large/2460_644718_2.jpg

[Crn Volk]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Macedonian_Revolutionists_-_1904.jpg

[Crn Volk]

Some Partizan pics

http://www.sojuznaborcibitola.org.mk/galerija/images/D.GRUEV.jpg

http://www.sojuznaborcibitola.org.mk/galerija/images/b.stiv.jpg

http://www.sojuznaborcibitola.org.mk/galerija/images/G.DELCEV.jpg

http://www.sojuznaborcibitola.org.mk/galerija/images/Gruev.jpg

http://www.sojuznaborcibitola.org.mk/galerija/images/J.SANDANSKI.jpg

[niyeneden]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/534864_470747359650564_555800410_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/208962_388797867845514_1040666944_n.jpg

I thought only Greeks and Albanians were wearing skirts.

[Vojnik]

Milka Sandanska, the Mother of the great Macedonian revolutionary Jane Sandanski.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-9/10277152_10204090862215676_5222744089867931681_n.j pg

[ioan assen]

great photos guys

[Crn Volk]

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=47222&d=1400211992

[Vojnik]

Tane Nikolov, born in Haskovo, Bulgaria. A man who fought for the Macedonian cause.

http://www.vicmart.com/ext/items/6610bb45_macevmrotanesgndphoto.jpg
"For the freedom of the enslaved parts of the Bulgarian fatherland"


Vojvoda Maksim and Vojvoda Dimitar from Debar:

http://www.vicmart.com/ext/items/1a6a890d_macevoivodaspc.jpg

http://www.vicmart.com/ext/items/d0531439_1910macepartisans.jpg

Pictures of the three revolutionaries Stoyanov, Sugarev and Milev.
http://www.vicmart.com/ext/items/ac9d239f_1903macedebarpc.jpg

"Lost there lives in the heroic fight at the village of Gabrovo"


VMRO ID member card:

http://www.vicmart.com/ext/items/3bd5519d_bgwwiimaceorgpass.jpg


http://www.vicmart.com/ext/items/9848a756_1893maceinvitation.jpg

"Down with enslavement, long live free Macedonia"

[Archduke]

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[Crn Volk]

French and Russian forces enter Bitola on 19 November 1916
http://whereismacedonia.org/images/about_macedonia/history/ww1/bitola/01-French-russian-soldiers-in-monastir-bitola.jpg

http://whereismacedonia.org/images/about_macedonia/history/ww1/bitola/Russian-infantry-entering-Monastir-on-19-November-1916.jpg

[Archduke]

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[Crn Volk]

The story of Macedonia, same soldier in different armies....

http://www.oldprilep.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/kc01-114.jpg

Историја на едно страдање... Кике Чумовчанец како српски војник (4 години), бугарски војник (2 години) и војник во ЈНА (2 години)...

[poiuytrewq0987]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-LPXQ0crxE

[Crn Volk]

Good site here;

https://macedonia1912-1918.blogspot.com.au/

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m6s1aD8vaxc/V0CYvAQ962I/AAAAAAAAdI4/nhdIYxa5P_oVyAmxqQOgyPpRC3GTo8R0ACLcB/s640/mlad-par.jpg

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4VKIRphU-1A/WHqolYHCw9I/AAAAAAAAiHc/gx9TTbbcYiYt5lF3hAYgTMbCboGcQa9AQCLcB/s640/ww1-postcards-340%2Bbitola-stari-razglednici.jpg

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QvW-o0yj6Q4/WG1WOUlYffI/AAAAAAAAhl4/hSHDlpXlBcUg6o5JUXW8dx9DOadcey_TgCLcB/s1600/15-General%2BZlatarov%2Band%2BColonel%2BProtogerov-Bulgaria_in_WW1.jpg

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NsZPMU3K-0g/WG1TfgFk9KI/AAAAAAAAhlY/fD0tqyGZY6sAuMbHrrip_bfIhLUq63XSACLcB/s1600/20-The%2Bmembers%2Bof%2Bthe%2BBulgar%2BKomitadjis%2BO rganization-Bulgaria_in_WW1.jpg

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d9RjOAandfQ/WEmxCcfXofI/AAAAAAAAgrU/T7ojUoXByWgor8myMXLd1Iuq6JzhpQIIQCPcB/s640/balkan-wars-46.jpg

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B4H1EPor6lo/WEmxCRzyuAI/AAAAAAAAgrU/P2iNlHlTyPcFmybB8_fQlOLF36y8zaQugCPcB/s640/balkan-wars-70.jpg

[Crn Volk]

https://youtu.be/s1nFgbnn2hU

[Crn Volk]

VMRO Komiti with Bulgarian Exarchate priests

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Tano_Nikolov_cheta.jpg

VMRO Komiti with Bulgarian Army, 1916 - WWI
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/BASA-1932K-1-420-6.jpg/1280px-BASA-1932K-1-420-6.jpg

[Crn Volk]

Macedonian partizans in Ohrid, 1944

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Makedonski_partizani_u_Ohridu_1944.jpg/800px-Makedonski_partizani_u_Ohridu_1944.jpg

Sign says "Solun pravo na samoopredeljenje"

[Hrant Dink]

And.....they never even got close.

[Crn Volk]

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=78789&d=1533615832
78789

[Hrant Dink]

Interesting. Aleksandrov was a hardcore Bulgarian. Same with Ivan Mihailov and Andon Kalchev.

No wonder the other forum banned you. You're turning Bulgaroman.

[Crn Volk]

Interesting. Aleksandrov was a hardcore Bulgarian. Same with Ivan Mihailov and Andon Kalchev.

No wonder the other forum banned you. You're turning Bulgaroman.

Lol. Here, vote here;

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?253820-Slavophone-Greeks-Macedono-Bulgarians-ethnic-Macedonians

About Kalchev


He was executed on 27 August 1948 at Thessaloniki Yedi Kule prison. His last words in front of a firing squad were: "Long live Macedonia!".

[Hrant Dink]

The source of that quote, Makedonska Tribuna, was an MPO newspaper, and MPO was founded by Bulgarians primarily from Kastoria villages. MPO considered Macedonia to be Bulgarian. Kalchev was educated in Bulgaria, served in the Bulgarian military, and personally founded the Bulgarian club in Salonika during the war. His ethnic affiliation was quite clear, as was which county's interest he was working for in Greece. If your definition of Macedonia is the same as Kalchev's, then you can only be Bulgarian.

[Vojnik]

The source of that quote, Makedonska Tribuna, was an MPO newspaper, and MPO was founded by Bulgarians primarily from Kastoria villages. MPO considered Macedonia to be Bulgarian. Kalchev was educated in Bulgaria, served in the Bulgarian military, and personally founded the Bulgarian club in Salonika during the war. His ethnic affiliation was quite clear, as was which county's interest he was working for in Greece. If your definition of Macedonia is the same as Kalchev's, then you can only be Bulgarian.

Alexander the Great chapter of the Macedonian Patriotic/Political Organization in 1924:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/1924_Lorain%2C_Ohio_MPO_Alexander_the_Great.jpg

[Crn Volk]

Gunner Jimmy Patch and Trooper Ron Hill of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) with a bearded Macedonian guerrilla fighter.

https://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/171/853/mid_000000.jpg

SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE (SOE) AGENTS AND PARTISAN SPECIAL FORCES IN MACEDONIA DURING OPERATION BETHESDA, MAY - DECEMBER 1944
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205124202

Some more on the British SOE and Macedonian Partizan cooperation in WW2

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/42/a3966942.shtml

[Archduke]

From Ohrid, possibly 1920-1930?

https://scontent-sof1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/45871548_10212461366789915_811357255365558272_n.jp g?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ht=scontent-sof1-1.xx&oh=81467767c1740189ce83e9f506427d6d&oe=5C86B135

[Vojnik]

From Ohrid, possibly 1920-1930?

https://scontent-sof1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/45871548_10212461366789915_811357255365558272_n.jp g?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ht=scontent-sof1-1.xx&oh=81467767c1740189ce83e9f506427d6d&oe=5C86B135

Something about that looks fabricated.

[Archduke]

Something about that looks fabricated.

what exactly looks fabricated?

[Archduke]

This picture is not from Macedonia, but those people created one little Macedonia several hundred kms away from their homeland.

The members of the Macedonian cultural youth organisation "Pelister" in Burgas. According to statistics, until the huge economical growth of the town in the 60'-70', the population of Burgas was around 80% of Macedonian refugee stock. After that many people from the nearby inland towns settled there.

Below that picture in facebook, I saw many comments from the descendants of these people. According to them, they come from Eagean Macedonia, mainy Kostur.

Such organisations existed in every town in Bulgaria. After 1945 they were all banned from the communist regime as a product of the "greatbulgarian chauvinism".

https://scontent-sof1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/50192556_1852032911572909_2893670237847158784_n.jp g?_nc_cat=104&_nc_ht=scontent-sof1-1.xx&oh=626265e3e7daaaab885031953b52a3c1&oe=5D008E71

[Vojnik]

Pelister is a mountain range/ national park near Bitola. I wonder why Kosturchani would have named their Organisation after that.

[Archduke]

Pelister is a mountain range/ national park near Bitola. I wonder why Kosturchani would have named their Organisation after that.

Burgas is a hotspot for people coming from different places. Definitely not all of them were from Kostur.

[Crn Volk]

Kurt Waldheim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Waldheim) (middle) in Bitola (Kamen Most) during WW2

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1SGsCxX0AARZRP.png

[Hrant Dink]

Bet it took him less than five seconds to find five willing collaborators.

[RenaRyuguu]

Skoplje, Makedonija

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Skoplje1930oficirskidom.jpg

http://marh.mk/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/staro_skoplje_4.jpg

https://visiterskopje.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/14491096457_bf3b84af7d_b.jpg

[RenaRyuguu]

Lake Prespa, Macedonia

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9Z40DCzqvHM/maxresdefault.jpg

http://www.exploringmacedonia.com/content/images/Prespa/large/prespa.jpg

http://for91days.com/photos/Macedonia/Lake%20Prespa/Lake%20Prespa%2009%2020140826%20www.for91days.com% 20DSC06855.JPG

[Crn Volk]

Ohrana cheta in Dobrilishta, Kostursko (Kastoria region), 1943

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Dobrolishta_1943.jpg/1280px-Dobrolishta_1943.jpg

[Crn Volk]

Some more old pics

http://zeitreise-makedonien.blogspot.com/

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wyEY5u9NgKU/Wona0aaiefI/AAAAAAAAyLM/DO21XUWnpxkrXx4VqnO-3IiQcGYOfXANwCLcBGAs/s1600/mazedonische-trachten1918-wk1-Mazedonien.jpg

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DM728HDB8QQ/WaR69xejGTI/AAAAAAAAsko/qvguspCIdvIjiW2MfIyinN4sCwknb1yqwCLcBGAs/w660/Bitola%2BMazedonien%2BFrauen%2Bin%2BVolkstracht%2B 1.jpg

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vdZ7pzy0iUM/WR3bOve5PlI/AAAAAAAApNU/k4XjZdElPEUntETMib1upg5o8ckUnV28QCLcB/w660/kurt-waldheim-bitola-makedonien-ss-wehrmacht.png

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-liw7ikq75UA/Wjk1o0o1rgI/AAAAAAAAwzc/CFAI90r_cnwBlgAHVc90_cDrsrupEFllACLcBGAs/s1600/Deutsche-Kolonne-makedonische-stadt.jpg

[PAGANE]

Йордан Хаджиконстантинов Джинот

"Битолски села вси са старо-болгари, а самий град е смешан с цинцари и селяни болгари. Цинцарите, понеже са от природи лукави, даваят свои керки (дщерки) на наши простодушни болгари за жени и тако все Битола е поцинцарено.
Това не е благочестие от цинцарска страна, но и погрешка нихна не е, ами е у митрополиту, кой за своя корист продава нашите обители на цинцари кираджии.
Болгари битолски! Ако цинцарите от Бога се не боят, поне вий убойте ся! Премислете и разсудете! Вий от при рода есте боголюбиви, благочестиви, срамота велика е и безчест е към Бога и царя да оставите тая стара обител да буде хан и конюшница.
Днеска в Битола има най-богати болгари, они са от Велес и Охрида и цинцарите не са нищо спрема них. Не знаем защо не отвараят едно болгарско училище, низ кое можат да се уразумат, познаят, че са болгари с дарови и остроумия и че напредоват в возрождението на просветата.
Они вместо това имаят училища гречески, где предаваят класически предмети, сиреч суха елиника за болгарчиня и цинцарчиня, слепа география, блудна митология и д. п. Учат по 10-12 години, па нищо не знаят, но и отческий язик изгубуват.
Да не рече некой, ето како хули врз нас. Бог да не даде! Аз не хулим, но говорим како що е приятно и право Болгарин е должен прво свой язик да учи, за мало дете най-чесно и най-благородно е, от матер своею да сиса млеко и само негова мати да го учи на страх Божий. „Начало премудрости — страх Господен.” Наши болгарчини кога почнуват да учат гречески, тога почнуват и да са безобразни, псовачи, хулници, непокорни, лениви, вероломни, небогобоязливи."

“Описание на Кр'сточва, Охрид, Битола и Прилеп", публикувано във в-к "Цариградски вестник", год. IX, бр. 422-423, Цариград, 14-21 март 1859 година
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“...Без преувеличение, Смилевци спадат към най-хубавия физически тип и въплощават ония расови добродетели на македонската българщина, без които би бил немислим илинденския подвиг.” - Христо Силянов

Селяни от Смилево в началото на XX век, фотография от архива на Стефанос Драгумис с надпис: „От дебърския Галичник до Смилево, жените носят такава носия“
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Учители в Битолската българска класическа гимназия в надвечерието на Илинденското въстание 1903г.

Отпред: Климент Бояджиев, Емануил Лепчев, Наум Темчев, Константин Стоянов, Лазар Цунев и Стефан Зографов. Отзад: Александър Димитраков, Атанас Яранов, Кръсте Мисирков, Панче Хаджиздравев, Антон Димитров.
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[PAGANE]

Битоля, 1910.
Ottoman Imperial Archives

ПЪРВАТА АФЕРА В БИТОЛЯ – “ДОНЕВАТА”

В Битоля е бил организиран революционен кръжок през 1894/95 г., когато там бяха учители Пере Тошев, Хр. Чемков и Гьорче Петров – училищен инспектор в коколията. Започват да се набавят ками, револвери, бомби и революционна литература. За тази цел бе устроен канал от България през Виница, Кочани, Щип, Неготин, Кавадарци. Този канал беше нареден от Гоце Делчев и Даме Груев, когато са били учители в Щип. Пренасянето на бомби ставаше от кираджията Доне Щипянеца в чували с ориз. През 1897 г. есента, почти едновременно с Винишката афера, при влизането на Доне в Битоля беше заловен с 4 бомби, поставени в чувалчета с ориз. Това стана случайно, не по някакво предателство. На край града при черквата Св. Неделя колджите, които стоеха да претърсват товарите на кираджиите за тютюн, бръкват с шишове в чувалите с ориз и шишът удря в желязо. Усъмняват и заповедват да се разтворят чувалите. Доне хуква да бяга, но го хванаха. Опита се с подкуп да се освободи, но не успя. Отведоха Доне в полицейския участък заедно с 4 празни бомби. Това беше първото разкритие след 2-3 години революционна дейност и първото стълкновение с властта в Битоля.

Тогава първите ръководители на делото бяха силно изплашени да не би Доне да изкаже. Веднага се взеха мерки да му се внуши да не изказва, а ако се види, че ще изказва да се унищожи вътре в затвора. Докато отвън се вземаха тези мерки, в самия затвор Йор. Гавазов от Прилеп, затворен по-рано, влязъл във връзка с Доне. Първите дни на ареста Доне бил турен в долапа – карцер под стаята на Гавазов. Последният изкъртил дъски от пода и за да го изпита, го подканил да изкаже кои са били комитите, които са му дали бомбите. По тоговорите Гавазов се убедил, че Доне няма намерение да издава. След няколко разговора Гавазов му се открива и Доне влиза чрез него с хората от комитета. Доне бе много изтезаван, бит, горен с желязо, но остана твърд в отговорите си: “Нищо не знам, друг ги е турил, без да ме пита.” Осъдиха го на 101 години и лежа в Битоля, докато бе амнистиран. По съмнение арестуваха в града Ефрем Ризов, Петре Попов и други някои видни търговци, но с подкуп скоро ги освободиха.

Това бе първата афера в Битолския революционен окръг. Тя бе един смут в хода на делото, но от друга страна това събитие навремето си направи силно впечатление на нашето и турското общества. Твърдостта на Доне направи впечатление и окуражи дейците. Примерът на Доне изигра голяма роля. Първо, разбра се че съществува революционна организация и второ, че нейните тайни членове са твърди и верни на клетвата. Турците не се досетиха по-нашироко да изтълкуват работата, благодарение че стана малко преди Винишката афера, от която не се разкри нищо за Битолско. Доне си създаде име в Организацията като образец на твърдост при най-големи страдания. Така се създаде традиция да не се изказва нищо и при най-голям риск за живота.

След Доневата афера и особено след Винишката афера, настъпи един застой на революционната дейност в Битолския революционен окръг, защото имаше разместване на ръководните дейци – Христо Чемков беше забегнал от Битоля, Пере Тошев беше преместен в Солун, Гьорче Петров беше интерниран по-рано. Чак през ваканцията през 1898 г., когато Даме Груев беше интерниран по подозрение от Солун на местожителство в Битоля, почна на ново да се съживява Организацията в нашия окръг.

Като свърших изпита във Варош аз бях веднага извикан в Битоля от Георги Пешков и Анастас Лозанчев. Но Лозанчев се беше отказал да работи с Георги Пешков поради един конфликт с последния и то, според както ми разправи Пешков, причина е била за дето той не отишъл в затвора да погледне Лозанчев, когато бил арестуван по убийството на сърбоманина хаджи Попе от Битоля. Анастас Лозанчев и Георги Пешков бяха едни от най-първите, посветени в делото. Лозанчев се занимаваше с фотография, а Пешков беше търговец – въжар. Те влезоха в първия революционен кръжок, основан от Пере Тошев в Битоля. Двамата бяха с противополжни темпераменти. Лозанчев се отличаваше със своята нервност и сприхавост, Пешков пък със своето спокойствие и извънредно хладнокръвие. Те не можеха да се търпят и работят съвместно, ако нямаше някой по средата да ги свързва. Докато беше Пере в Битоля, те се търпяха и работеха, но после се разделиха. За известно време даже Лозанчев беше се оттеглил от революционна дейност, като се занимаваше със своята частна търговия.

Георги Попхристов - Спомени
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Учители и ученици в Битолската българска прогимназия:

Долен ред: Ахил Минджов, Антон Кецкаров, Антон Наследников, Гьорче Петров, Васил Дудев;

Среден ред: Леонид Спасов от Битоля, Евгени Попсимеонов, Илия Тошев, Стефан Тафчиев от Прилеп, Михаил Николов, Васил Къртев от Дебър, Кръстьо Йосифчев, Янаки Москов от Дъмбени, Симеон Радев, Кирил Совичанов;

Горен ред:Васил Попдимитров, Владимир Робев, Вангел Поптрайков от Добрушево, Аристид Дамянов, Васил Здравев от Прилеп, Васил Константинов от Българска Блаца, Наум Иванов от Любойно, Георги Попхристов, Михаил Солунов от Прилеп, Тодор Зландов от Постово, Битолско
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Възрожденската църква “Св.Неделя”
Битоля, 1905 г.
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Български мост на Черна, построен при Букри ( битолско ) през Първата световна война. Съглашенска пощенска картичка

Починали в Букри

Ангел Николов Бунарджиев, български военен деец, капитан, загинал през Първата световна война

Васил Христов Мичковски, български военен деец, подпоручик, загинал през Първата световна война

Иван Балев Юрданов, български военен деец, подпоручик, загинал през Първата световна война

Иван Донев Недялков, български военен деец, подпоручик, загинал през Първата световна война

Петко Георгиев Заяков, български военен деец, подпоручик, загинал през Първата световна война

Тоню Тилев Тонев, български военен деец, поручик, загинал през Първата световна война
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Иван Вазов, 7 януари 1917 г.

Битоля

Пак ще те вземем, о Битоля скъпа,
наша ти беше, и пак ще да бидеш!
Скоро пак знамето наше ще видиш,
Черна не за̀лудо кръв я окъпа.

Няма да станеш на вълци котило!
Няма духът Самуилов да плаче!
Новото иго по-мъчно се влачи:
да щем за тебе и драго, и мило.

Бурно сърце ни за тебе днес бие,
Битоля родна, и кръв го облива,
то се от мъка болезнено свива:
чакай ни, Битоля, идеме ние!
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Поглед към Австрийското консулство
Битола, ПСВ.
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Битола 1910та г.
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Св. Недела
Битола, 1911

Въпреки лошото качеството на снимката, на надписа на входа на църквата ясно се чете:

БЪЛГАРСКА ЦЪРКВА СВЕТА НЕДЕЛЯ

1860 година е знаменателна за битолските българи.

През месец август 1860 година в тоя град се откри елински революционен комитет. Участниците бяха заловени. По решение на великия везир Мехмед Кабразла паша, който обикаляйки областта, дошел в Битоля, един от съзаклятниците - Мино Биша -бил осъден за заколение и присъдата се изпълнила на бял ден сред чаршията. Това стреснало силно гъркоманите, а също накарало турците да засилят българския елемент.

През същата година българите поискали от тамошния гръцки митрополит - прочутия Венедик - да изкара ферман за нова черква, гдето да се чете по славянски. Венедик преследван от самите гърци, които го обвинявали, че предал гръцкия комитет, се съгласил и с това искал да притегли на своя страна българите. Самото правителство, разсърдено на гърците, благосклонно подпомагаше българите. Черквата се съгради и освети през 1864 година със средства и труд на българите; нито един от гъркоманите не помогна ни с едно петаче. Пръв свещеник в тая черква беше поп Георче Апостоловски, родом от Прилеп. Отначало се служеше по ред: еднаж на славянски от поп Георче, а после на гръцки от изпратения гръцки свещеник. Гъркоманите настояваха да се служи само на гръцки.

През месец февруари 1865 год., в неделен ден, гъркоманите нападат в речената църква българския свещеник поп Георче, скриват славянските книги и заемат пангаря. Понеже в Битоля пазарен де беше понеделник, по тоя случай имало мнозина прилепчани дошли в града по търговия. Като научават за нападението, всички дотичат в черквата и се нахвърлят на гъркоманите. Става формален бой. Прилепчаните Коне Илиев, Илчо Колчак, Диме Черекзерде, Ив. П[оп]стефанов, Кимо Дейков и много други си отишли в Прилеп с разбити глави, изподращено лице, счупени ребра, ала победили: успяват да изпъдят нападателите и да им внушат респект. Стария ред на служене на двата езика се запазил.

Успоредно с успеха в борбата за черква върви и оная за училище.

На 1 януари 1862 год. в квартала „Бяла Чешма" се отваря българско училище в една малка и тъмна стая - част от елинското училище в тоя квартал. Учител на българските деца бил Иван Жинзифов, баща на известния поет Райко Жинзифов. На учителя се плащало от еснафа. В това мизерно положение училището се клатушкало до 1868 година. През тази година патриаршията вдигнала от Битоля владиката Венедик и на негово място дошел някой си Партений, прост и неопитен. По внушение на гъркоманите подал до битолския мютесариф две прошения: с едното искал възвръщането на черквата „Св. Неделя", а с другото наклеветил българските водители - д-р Мишайков и Д. Робев - като оръдия на панславизма. Тия две прошения бяха скърпени с някои подписи от гъркоманите. Същевременно българските еснафи, повече от 20 подават контрапрошения, покрити с повече от 10000 подписи в защита на своите водители. Мнозина турски първенци също се застъпват в защита на българските водители и така биват последните спасени от заточение. Владиката пренася въпроса до валията в Солун. Веднага последва анкета и българските водители бяха напълно оправдани, черквата запазена за тях и не се минаха две - три месеци владиката беше вдигнат от Битоля. На самия ден Коледа 1868 година българите изгониха от "Св. Неделя" гъркоманския свещеник и псалта.

През 1869 година доведоха от Прилеп още двама свещеници, които се явиха пред новия владика Иларион, да им разреши да служат. Владиката не само не ги приел, а поискал от властта да ги върне назад и да бъде затворена черквата. По негово нареждане, гъркоманските деца са хвърляли кал и развалени яйца по българските свещеници и първенци.

В един неделен ден, в сборната черква „Св. Димитри", след архиерейска служба, владишкия дякон държал на български слово и от името на владиката произнесъл анатема (проклятие) кой стъпи в българската черква или покани български свещеник. В „Ени-махала", чисто българска, жителите изгонват гръцкия учител и затворили училището. През нощта владиката изпраща своя дякон с неколцина гъркомани, които счупили ключа и поставили друг ключ. На другия ден цялата махала, повече от 2000 души, се явява пред мютесарифа и иска да им се предаде ключа от училището, градено с техен труд и жертви. Същевременно искат наказание на владиковите хора. Сам мютесарифа се явява, предава им ключа и се обръща към махаленците: „Деспот ефенди янглъш етмиш афетин" (Дядо владика направил грешка, простете му) След такива борби между битолските българи и гъркоманите, първите заякнали числено и усилени в съзнанието на своята народност и право, повече не могли да търпят гръцките издевателства и интриги.

На 26 октомври 1869 година, ден Св. Димитрий, храмов празник на съборната битолска църква - битолските българи забраняват да се спомене на службата в църквата „Св. Неделя" името на гръцкия владика и патриарха и от тоя ден тържествено и официално се прибраха в лоното на българската самостоятелна народна черква. На другия ден се образува първата българска църковна община в гр. Битоля при състав: д-р Мишайков, Д. Робев, Д. Радев, Д. Ацев, Ап. Камбуров, Ноне Грънчаров, Ризо Димитров и Христо Шекерджията.

Така възкръсна българина в Битоля, за да играе по-после много важна роля в културното, народностното и политическото развитие на населението в Западна Македония.

„Тоя светї храмъ на прѣсветая и славна великомѫченица Недѣля се издїгнѫ отъ основание съ иждивението на Българитѣ при владикованието на Вїсокопрѣосвещенния г-нъ г-нъ Венедиктъ Византийский който и я освети Битоля 13 октомври 1863 год.”
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Кърщелно свидетелство

Битолска българска църковна община

19 новември 1870 г.
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Пансиона при Българската мъжка гимназия
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Българското училище в Лерин.

Леринската българска община е гражданско-църковно сдружение на българите екзархисти в Лерин. Нейно задължение е поддръжката на българските училища, читалище и църкви, както и заплатите на учителите в града. Действията ѝ са силно затруднени от многочисленото гъркоманско население и от факта, че Лерин е седалище на гръцката Леринска епархия.

В 1863 година Герасим Калугера отваря първото българско училище в село Търсие. Български училища са отворени и в Зелениче, Пътеле и Горно Върбени (Екши Су).

През 1870 година осем български първенци поставят въпроса за църковно пеене на български пред гръцкия владика Прокопий, но той отказва да ги допусне в църквата. На Цветница по време на службата в Лерин свещеник Константин Гулабчев чете евангелието на български, след което избухва сбиване между българи и гъркомани и почти целия град - около 400 семейства - се обявяват за български и българите овладяват градската църква. Същата година 120 български семейства от Лерин, подкрепени и от жители на селата Горно Върбени, Пътеле, Песочница, Неволяни и други, подават заявление до Високата порта, с което се отказват от Цариградската патриаршия и преминават под лоното на Българската екзархия.

При обявяването на Българската екзархия през 1872 година за схизматична владиката Прокопий Мъгленски с помощта на първенците, успява да върне почти всички жители в лоното на Патриаршията. Остават 40 български къщи, които се черкуват в къщата на българския свещеник поп Константин Гулабчев. През 1874 година в Лерин е отворено българско училище, в което преподава Димитър Тъпков, и което трудно оцелява между 1875-1878 година. В края на 1874 година в училището се учат 52 момчета и 18 момичета. През 1882 година е закупено място за построяване на българска църква, която е построена десет години по-късно.

След Руско-турската война (1877-1878) българската община в града е възстановена под ръководството на Константин Гулабчев. Тя обаче среща големи затруднения, тъй като местната власт не признава поп Константин за архиерейски наместник. Екзархията предприела редица постъпки пред Портата за признаването му. В края на 1881 година общината моли Екзархията да отпусне пари за построяване на училищна сграда и параклис и те са отпуснати, но при условие, че и общината ще събере доброволни дарения. През пролетта на 1883 година строежът на леринското училище и параклиса започва. От 1881 до 1883 година в Леринското българско училище преподава Яким Сапунджиев, подпомогнат от 1882 година и от Христо Донев и Михаил Кушев за отделенията. Леринската община сама уславя учителите си, а Екзархията отпуска единствено обща годишна сума за издръжката им.

Към 1895 година в Лерин българската църковна община поддържа училищата и катедралата „Свети Панталей“ (Пантелеймон).

През учебната 1886/1887 в околията има 13 основни училища с 14 учители и със 797 ученици. Класното училище в Лерин има един учител и 16 ученика. В 1891/1892 основните училища са 17, с 22 учители и 998 ученици, а в класното училище в Лерин преподава един учител на 7 ученици. Скоро след това основните училища са 25, с 40 учители и 1776 ученици, а класните училища са две, с двама учители и 22 ученика. През 1911/1912 година в град Лерин се обучават 175 български деца, в основните училища в селата 2353 ученици с 56 учители. Класни училища в тази година има в Лерин, Пътеле, Горно Върбени и Зелениче със 121 ученици. Общо за Леринската община 2474 български ученици. Същевременно в Лерин се издържа пансион за 26 деца от селата и библиотека със 750 книги. Български училища има в селата Търсие, Суровичево, Секулево, Сребрено, Пътеле, Прекопана, Попадия, Песочница, Петърско, Неред, Люботино, Лесковец, Лаген, Кучковени, Зелениче, Живойно, Горно Върбени, Долно Котори, Горно Неволяни, Горно Котори, Горно Каленик, Горничево, Буф, Бач, Айтос, Хасаново, Арменско и Арменово.

Църквите с български фермани са в Горно Върбени, Арменско, Петърско, Суровичево, Баница, Крушоради, Сетина, Пополжани, Каленик, Горно Неволяни, манастирът „Свети Лука“ край Неред, параклис в Сребрено, Бач и Крапешино. В 1912 година в Леринско българските църкви са 46, а манастирите четири - Айтоски, Крушорадски, Нередски и Арменски. През 1912 година в Лерин е посрещнат епископ Неофит, чиято обиколка по думите на Васил Трифонов се превръща във „връх на славата на българщината в нашия край“.

Сред по-известните дейци на общината са Константин Гулабчев, Васил Крепиев (Кържатев), Димуш Търпенов, Мице и Атанас Зафирови, Димитър Гулабчев, Трифон Иванов и Д. Прусанков

През 1913 година новите гръцки власти закриват Леринската българска община и конфикуват имотите ѝ.
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Семейство в Оптичари през ПСВ
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Детенца од Прилеп во народни носии
1916та год
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Beginning of the school day at the Bulgarian primary school in Grubovtsi. The Bulgarian school in Grubovtsi is one of the first in Enijevardarsko, opened in 1874. „Уф Грубовци беше първото бугарско школо. Куфалово имаше три ил`ади кук`и, арно ама децата от Куфалово идейа да учат уф Грубовци. Там немаше школо. Попстаматоф(поп Стамат Танчев) дава едно писмо на дедото Аргир Авков и он ода уф Куманово и оттамка го зема на Захарийа шо беша даскал уф нашто село”,спомня си през 1966 г. Стоян Филипов eachers in Grubovtsi, in addition to Zahari Gyorev (1891-1903), are Peno Avkov, Atanas Grubeshki. In the school year 1905/06, Dionys Kirikitkov with 18 students was a teacher. In 1909 the Cukush district school inspector Nikola Harlev wrote in a report: “The school is two-storeyed, with two rooms in the attic and well-lit. The classroom is 6X6X3 in size, the other is smaller and serves as an accommodation. ” In the school year 1911/12, 53 children studied at the Grubovo School before the outbreak of the Balkan War. On May 11, the Day of the Slavic Enlighteners Cyril and Methodius is traditionally celebrated and the annual exams are held. After 1913 celebrations were banned, inventory and Bulgarian supplies were destroyed by the Greek occupiers and a Greek teacher came to the village.
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History of family archives. Trayana Atanasova Boyadzhieva, together with her little brother Peter, on their wedding day in 1924 in the village of Kufalovo, Thessaloniki. She is twenty years old, Peter is only seven. They are filmed as a memorial before being forced by the Greek authorities to leave their native land forever. They arrive in Bulgaria and settle in Kableshkovo. In 1944, the boy in the picture was already a 27-year-old man. He was killed on the Srem front, between Croatia and Hungary. In the military archive, the summarized information is as follows: Petar Atanasov Dimitrov rank: Private, recruitment: 1917 Part: 24th Infantry Regiment, 5th Company: Gorno Kufalovo, districts: Enezhivardar date of death: 22 December. 1944, where he died: Grabovo village, Croatia where he was buried: Lovas village, Croatia; DVIA, f. 39, op. 3, AU 105, § 19
Ninety years later, we publish this photo on our page. We are provided by Yaroslav Baleva, Trajan's great-granddaughter. Thanks also for the stored family memory.
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To commemorate before leaving home, 1923. The Rose family from Grubevtsi village, Enijevardarsko. A year later, all residents of the village were forcibly displaced and settled in Bulgaria, mainly in the area of Asenovgrad and Plovdiv.
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Oven in the village of Grubovtsi, Enige Vardar from the mid-19th century. The photo is dated 1969. The oven is built with materials from the ruins of ancient Pela. In the early 80's was destroyed like anything else from the period when the population was entirely Bulgarian. Today in Grubovtsi are preserved only the old Bulgarian cemeteries and a bearing wall of a Bulgarian house, which the Pontiac local historian Theodoros (Mimo) Celpidis has preserved with a plaque. According to him, many of the newly built houses in Grubovtsi are on the foundations of the old Bulgarian homes
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Today is the 35th anniversary of the death of Lazar Atanasov Filipov, my grandfather. Born in the village of Grubovtsi, Enige Vardar, he remains a young orphan. My great-grandfather Atanas, mobilized in the First World War by the Greeks, refused to fight against the Bulgarian army and deserted. With my great-grandmother, Maria was killed by the influenza of that time (Spanish flu). Today they rest in the Bulgarian cemeteries of Grubovtsi. Expelled by the Greek authorities, his grandfather Lazar left his native home and arrived as a refugee in Bulgaria in 1924. During the period 1934-36 he was a cavalryman at the Sofia Cavalry School. An excellent rider, he happily remembered his military and sports training. He often gives guard at the entrance of the royal palace in Sofia, where he is greeted by the Tsar Boris the Third. During the Second World War he was in the ranks of the Bulgarian army in Skopje. For the rest of his life, his grandfather did not forget the native land, the speeches, customs and traditions of the Macedonian Bulgarians. In 1978, when I brought him a finger from his parents' grave, he burst into tears. He never lived to see Grubovtsi. Today we are inspired by my father and his firstborn son, Atanas Filipov, to write this page in his memory. I am posting my favorite photo until the end of his days, which is kept today by my uncle Nikola Filipov. Rest in peace, Grandpa!
04/25/2020 With Love, Lachezar Filipov
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Konѝkovo (in Greek: Δυτικό, Dietiko, until 1950 ,τίβα, Stevia, until 1926 Κονίκοβο, Konikovo) is 4 km from Grubovtsi and 20 km northeast of Enije Vardar, Aegean Macedonia. It is located in the northwestern end of the Pazar field. In 1848, the Russian Slavist Victor Grigorovich describes Koninono as a Bulgarian village in the Essay on Traveling in European Turkey. According to statistics by Vasil Kunchov ("Macedonia. Ethnography and Statistics") by 1900 Konikov has 170 Bulgarian residents. According to the secretary of the exarchate Dimitar Mishev ("La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne"), in 1905 there were 200 Bulgarian exarchists in Konikovo and a Bulgarian school was operating. The Cukush district school inspector Nikola Harlev wrote in his "Report on the audit of the village schools in the Eniwévardar khaza in March 1909:" Konikovo, 16 / III, 1 3/4 h. From Livaditsa. All 13 Bulgarian Exarchate Houses, Chiflik. They go with agriculture, farming and viticulture. After the Inter-Allied War of 1913, the village was occupied by Greek troops and remained in Greece. In 1926 it was named Steve (Στίβα) and in 1950 Δυτικό / Ditiko. Greek refugees are settled in the village and 15 Bulgarian families are moving to Gorni Voden, Asenovgrad and Plovdiv.
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ALBERT SONICEN IN LAKE Lake
On March 12, 1906, the American publicist Albert Soniksen lodged in the hut of Duke Luka Ivanov in Lake Enidwardar (photo is his). It was built with several others in the southwestern edge of the swamp to control movement to and from Voden. On his first night, Sonixen describes it: “In the evening we gathered in the big hut where the Chetniks were sleeping. A large fire was burning in the middle, smoke billowing through the reeds on the roof. At the bottom, there was a large rug on the thick papur flooring. Here Luka Ivanov, Todor and I established our permanent residence. No aristocratic salon was better equipped with weapons; Manlycher's carbine, bayonet and nagant hung above the head of every sleeping chetnik. " In the morning, the Apostle Petkov arrives in a boat with two troops. The American will remarkably describe his encounter with him. a dagger with a silver handle hanging on his cartridge. And if I did not know him, I would get who he is, because his portraits hung in all the pubs in Bulgaria, just in those comitic clothes. I met with the Apostle last year and he knew me. " Bai Postol invites them to breakfast in his cabin and they accept. With excitement and revolutionary thrill, the American will describe the whole world to learn about the lives and exploits of these great Bulgarian voivods....
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Polio vaccination for men, women, children in the Vardar River, Aegean Macedonia by the French Ministry of Health. Dated 1916/17
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Rugunovets (Karasule Tour, in Greek: Πολύκαστρο, Polycastro, until 1928 Καρασούλι, Karasuli) is a town in Central Macedonia, the birthplace of the prominent Bulgarian voivodes Ivancho Karasulia (1875 - 1905), Spiro Ivanov Karasulov 1929 and Hristov 2929 (? - 1905). In the nineteenth century Rugunovets was a Bulgarian village in the Gevgelian region of the Ottoman Empire. The city is located in the district of Boimia, on the left bank of Vardar, opposite Boymitsa. A village committee was established in 1895 in the village. By 1900 the village was completely under the rule of the Bulgarian Exarchate. According to statistics by Vasil Kanchov (Macedonia. Ethnography and Statistics) since 1900, Rugunovets has been populated by 340 Bulgarians, 200 Turks, 12 Circassians and 55 Gypsies. According to the secretary of the Bulgarian Exarchate Dimitar Mishev ("La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne"), in 1905, there were 312 Bulgarian exarchists and 144 Bulgarian patriarchal Greek citizens and 30 Gypsies and a Bulgarian school. After the War, the village remained in Greece and a large part of its Bulgarian population emigrated to Bulgaria. In a report from Thessaloniki in April 1914, Bulgarian diplomat Socrates Todorov wrote: "Whole caravan refugees from Kara Soule, Dabovo, Boymitsa, Kufalovo and Machukovo arrive in Thessaloniki every day." Greek refugees from Asia Minor, Pont and Eastern Thrace, as well as Karakachans from Bulgaria settled in their place and 71 new immigrants officially immigrated to Bulgaria in 1928. The town was renamed to Polycastro, with Anton Rugunovets (1904 - 1991), Minister. - Chairman of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1956 to 1962 and Atanas Kostov (1911 - 2004), Mayor of Plovdiv in the period 1959-1963.
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Goce Delcev as a child on the right with his family.

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Скопље помегју двете светски војни https://imgur.com/a/Yyuxu3o

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Folk costumes from Krushevo
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Teachers at the Krushevo Bulgarian School in the school year 1907/1908. Teachers 1st row from left to right: Spasia Popnaumova, Flora Ivanova, Achilles Mindjov, school principal, Nikola Leshnika, Iliya Vassilev (killed in the Voidan events), Georgi Popbogdanov ( committed suicide), Matei (Matelyantse)
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The Ilinden Uprising, and the Bitola Revolutionary District () and Milan Matov (chairman of the Bitola Revolutionary District since 1907) returned to free Macedonia from Sofia,
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Filipovi in ​​Debar, 1902. Photographer Georgi Kuzmanov


Filipovi or Filipovtsi are a Bulgarian Miyak carving family, originally from the Malorekan village of Osoy, Debar region. The Filipovtsi carvers are the authors of a huge number of iconostasis in Macedonia, Albania and Free Bulgaria in the style of the Debar Art School, where they occupy one of the leading places. The best of their works are considered to be the iconostasis in "Holy Annunciation" in Prilep (1838) and "St. George" in Yambol (1897).


In Macedonia


One of the first members of the family was Dicho, who was said to be a carver and passed on the art to his sons. One of his sons is Avram, born around the 1980s. According to their descendants, Avram Dichov worked with Petar Filipov Garkata in the Bigorski Monastery, and with his son-in-law Dimitar Stanishev they made the iconostasis of the Holy Mother of God in Skopje. Avram with his sons Vasil Avramov and Filip Avramov worked in 1838 on the iconostasis in the Holy Annunciation in Prilep - perhaps the most perfect creation of the family.
Filipovtsi's activity spreads over a huge territory - they make the iconostasis for a church in the Tetovo region, for the church "St. Panteleimon" in the village of Ehloets, Kichevo region, work in Melnik, Thessaloniki, Gostivar, Sersko. The iconostasis in the Assumption of the Virgin in Elbasan is also attributed to this genus. Apart from iconostasis, Filipovtsi also cut ceilings, cupboards, doors, etc. in pasture and bay mansions and other private houses. Worked in Skopje, Prizren, Pristina, Dyakovo. Their work is the richly decorated ceilings of the mansions of Ismail Sarach from Debar and Osman Bey in Ohrid, as well as the living quarters in the Bigorski Monastery.


In free Bulgaria
After the formation of the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia in 1878, Filipovtsi were often called to these two free Bulgarian state formations and around 1880 they finally moved to the Principality. Filipovi made over 90 iconostasis, scattered throughout the country in harmony with the church construction that unfolded after the Liberation. Filippovs work together - the old ones hired, did the projects, and the implementation was common, with the profits shared among all.


Filipovtsi made the iconostasis of the Cathedral Church of the Assumption in Varna. Under the leadership of Vasil and Filip Avramovi, the gang stayed in the Varna region and cut out the iconostasis in St. George in Balchik, in the Assumption of the Virgin in Kavarna, in St. Charalampius in Shabla and in Suyutchuk.
Vasil and Filip ceded the leadership to Ivan Filipov and Yosif Filipov. Joseph Filipov (1848 - 1913), supervised the construction of the iconostasis in the churches "St. Dimitar" in Stara Zagora (completed in 1888 and paid 200 gold levs), "St. John the Theologian" in Karnobat, "Assumption" in Kazanlak, " Sveta Paraskeva ”in Cherganovo,“ Sveti Dimitar ”in Maglizh,“ Sveti Dimitar ”in Gorno Botyovo. His brother Ivan Filipov supervised the construction of the iconostasis of St. George in Yambol (1897) - the most complex of the iconostasis of Filipovtsi in Bulgaria, the churches of the Nativity of the Virgin in Tsaribrod and the Holy Trinity in the village of Lukavitsa in Tsaribrod. Ivan's son Filip Ivanov made and donated to the church in Yambol a very beautiful cross with an intricate carving (45 by 85 cm), on which he left an inscription: "Made by Filip Jovanov from the village of Osoi, deba, make - 1897". A similar cross is preserved in the Church Museum in Sofia with the inscription: "Bratya Filipovi 1892".

In Sofia and Sofia region


After gaining fame around the country, the Filipovs settled in Sofia, where they opened a carving workshop. In the capital, the iconostasis, the bishop's throne and the pulpit of the church "St. George", the iconostasis of the church "St. John of Rila" at the Seminary, of the church "St. Sedmochislenitsi", of "St. Petka Samardzhiyska", "St. Petka Stara" , the three iconostasis in "Holy Ascension", burned on March 30, 1944, "St. St. Peter and Paul ”. Their work is the iconostasis in the chapels at the Palace and "St. Anastasia" at the Central Prison, in the church "St. Archangels" of the Military School. Pencho Koychev burned down in 1944. Filipovtsi also cut the ceilings in the Vrana Palace. Among the oldest carvings of Filipovtsi in Sofia is the iconostasis of the cemetery church "Assumption", which was transferred there later, and was made for the destroyed in 1891 Sofia church "Holy Mother of God".
The iconostasis for "St. Panteleimon" in Boyana (parts of the iconostasis), "Holy Trinity" in Dragalevtsi, "St. Nicholas" in Gorna Banya, the new church "Protection of the Mother of God" of the Kremikovtsi Monastery, "St. Cyril and Methodius ”in Chibaovtsi,“ St. Theodore Stratilat ”in Dolni Bogrov,“ St. George ”in Prolesha,“ St. St. Cyril and Methodius ”in Kostinbrod,“ St. Spas ”in Gradets,“ St. Nicholas ”in Kostroshevtsi,“ St. Nedelya ”in Rosoman,“ St. Elijah ”in Galabovtsi,“ St. Nicholas ”in Pozharevo,“ Assumption ”in Obelya , "St. Nicholas" in Slavovtsi, "Holy Trinity" in Kumaritsa, "St. George" in Marchaevo, "St. Elijah" in Moshino, "Resurrection of Christ" in Chelopechene, "Holy Trinity" in Butunets, the new church "St. Dimitar" in Godech, "St. Elijah" in Churek, "Assumption" in Gorna Malina, "Holy Trinity" in Karapoltsi, the new church "St. Petka" in Balsha, "St. St. Cyril and Methodius ”in Ivanyane and in the Buhovo Monastery“ St. Archangel Michael ”.

In the rest of Bulgaria
In the country of Filipov's works are the iconostasis in "Assumption" in Ladjene, "St. Dimitar" in Zvanichevo, "St. John the Forerunner" in Bratsigovo, the painter's convent "St. Tsar Boris" in Plovdiv, the work of the last carver of the family Kosta Filipov made the iconostasis and the bishop's throne in 1936 - 1937, "St. George" in Dupnitsa, "Nativity of the Mother of God" in Elena (around 1898), "St. Archangel Michael" in Veliki Preslav, "St. George" in Bebrovo, the royal throne in the palace Euxinograd, the iconostasis in "Ascension" in Botevgrad, "Holy Trinity" in Kozloduy, "Holy Mother of God" in Tlachene "St. Elisha" in Eliseina, "St. George" in Trudovets, "St. St. Cosmas and Damian ”in Skravena,“ St. Dimitar ”in Vrachesh,“ Holy Trinity ”in Krivodol,“ St. St. Cyril and Methodius ”in Lipnitsa,“ St. Archangel Michael ”in Suhatche,“ St. Paraskeva ”in Gorni Dabnik,“ St. Archangel Michael ”in Krushovitsa, the Romanian mausoleum in Grivitsa“ St. Sophrony of Vratsa ”in Cherven Bryag,“ St. Paraske in Ugyrchin, "All Saints" Mikre, the hermitage of the Troyan Monastery "St. John the Forerunner" in Zelenikovets.
Kosta Filipov, Petar Yosifov and Evtim Filipov made the iconostasis for "St. Mina" in Kyustendil, completed in 1933. In Vidin, the Filipovs carved the iconostasis and the church furniture in the interior of the cathedral church "St. Dimitar" and the metropolitan "St. Panteleimon". Other works of the Filipovs are in the churches of St. Nicholas the New in Lom, the Holy Mother of God in Negovantsi, St. George in Rasovo, St. George in Vasilovtsi, the Holy Trinity in Rakitnitsa, St. Paraskeva (St. Petka ”) in Medkovets, declared a national cultural monument,“ Ascension of the Lord ”in Gromshin,“ St. Nicholas the Wonderworker ”in Luta,“ St. St. Peter and Paul ”in Dospey,“ St. George ”in Pchelin.

Artistic abilities


According to Asen Vasiliev, Fruchkovtsi, although leading representatives of the Debar Carving School, deviate from its canons. For example, the iconostasis of Garkata in the Bigorski Monastery, in Sveti Spas in Skopje and in the Lesnovo Monastery have soft baroque lines and rounded shapes, and those of Filipovi have sharp, geometrically cut edges, the cuts are secure and deep, and the shapes are distinguished by a bold and extreme interpretation. The human form, typically inserted by other Miyash masters among plant ornaments, is completely excluded from Philip's carvings. They focus on plant motifs, which work to perfection, but do not exclude animal motifs in the compositions, trying to observe the ratio between the sizes of birds or snakes and the surrounding vegetation. This comparison between the iconostasis of Garkata and Filipovi makes Asen Vasiliev to believes that the family information that Avram Dichov studied and worked with Garkata on the Bigorski iconostasis and that of the Holy Mother of God in Skopje is not true. These iconostasis are completely different from the masterpiece of Filipovtsi in the Holy Annunciation in Prilep and as a general composition, and as a way of cutting, and as a use and stylization of the individual elements.


Later members of the Philip family adopted the development of the braid, which was faster to implement and cheaper as churches began to be unable to pay for expensive openwork.
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Bitola - The buildings of the Bulgarian National Bank (now the Bulgarian Consulate) and the high school 1941-1944
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Archimandrite Eulogius of Thessaloniki welcomes Prince Boris Tarnovski in Thessaloniki, October 1912
Evlogiy is a Bulgarian clergyman, archimandrite, activist of the Bulgarian Revival in Macedonia.
Archimandrite Evlogiy was born as Spiro Svetiev or Svetiov (also known as Tsvetiov) in the town of Bitola, Macedonia. He graduated from the 5th grade of the Thessaloniki Bulgarian Boys' High School. He studied at the Constantinople Theological Seminary, and then studied theology in Chernivtsi. Later, in 1912, he was promoted to the rank of Archimandrite and was appointed head of the Thessaloniki Diocese of the Bulgarian Exarchate.


In June 1911, he supported the initiative to create a legal political party of Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire - a project that failed due to increasing political tensions and the outbreak of the Balkan War.
During the Balkan War, he regularly wrote information to Hristofor Hasapchiev about the harassment of the Bulgarian population in Macedonia by the Greek authorities. One of the letters reads: "Commandant Milo, a former andart famous for the burning of the people of Zagorje ... is currently personally going to the villages to collect weapons and force the Bulgarian population to renounce their nationality."
Archimandrite Evlogiy's reports to the headquarters of the Bulgarian army say that the life of the Bulgarian population in the areas occupied by Serbian and Greek troops is unbearable.
"From all our places come fierce curses that our best areas are occupied by Serbs and Greeks. Everywhere they expel Bulgarian teachers and priests, arrest the best Bulgarians on the pretext that they are comites. "
After the outbreak of the Inter-Allied War, he was arrested and boarded the ship "Ekaterini", on board which Greek nationalists mocked him and beat him. He was later stabbed with bayonets and dumped in the White Sea.
On October 23, 1913, the Evening Mail published an eyewitness account of the murder:


"On the evening of July 18, Thessaloniki Archimandrite Evlogi was arrested by the Greek authorities in Thessaloniki together with his deacon Vas. n. Konstantinov and taken to the Quay. Here he was locked in a small, narrow room next to the toilet.
On the morning of the 19th, the chairman of the Greek Revolutionary Committee in Thessaloniki, Dr. Sheref, appeared before the archimandrite and summoned arch. Evlogiya, with curses and cynicism, began to beat him in the chest.
"Go and hold on now, tell King Ferdinand and his son!" Shouted the enraged Greek. That afternoon, the Archimandrite, along with several other people captured in Thessaloniki, including me, were taken on the steamer Catherine, which left for Itani the same day. We were guarded by several well-armed Greek guards. The archimandrite often came out of his cabin on deck. When the steamer passed through the great Kara-Burun, the archimandrite was again outside his cabin.
The captain of Catherine, noticing him, approached him and grabbed him too roughly and began to push him towards the sea.
The archimandrite resisted, however, tortured and tortured for two days, he was powerless to overcome the strong muscles of the captain, who grabbed him and threw him into the sea On July 20, according to the testimony of a Greek spy traveling by steamer, Nikola Iliev, a postman at the Bulgarian post office in Thessaloniki, a native of the same city, was thrown into the sea.The next day, June 21, his fate was shared by the cashier of the Bulgarian National Bank in Thessaloniki, Iliya Neboliev from Svishtov, and the bank's accountant, Yanakiev from Thessaloniki.
They were thrown into the sea between Piraeus and Volos.
Back in Thessaloniki, Neboliev was robbed of BGN 850 by the Greek authorities, which he had in his possession, as well as the keys to the BNB cash register there.
Several other Bulgarians died in the same way, but I could not find out their names. "
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Задушница
Bitola
World War I
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Прилепчани
Песен за Глигор войвода от Прилепско, станал сърбомански войвода и предател на отечеството, поткупен со сръбско злато.
Глигоре, синко Глигоре,
Глигоре, бог да те убие,
що голем срам ни донесе
откога ти се посърби:
Името си го поцърни
татка ти, ти го засрами,
майка ти си я поцърни -
ти се продаде за пари,
на месец за пет минцои -
народо да го предаваш,
на сила да го посърбиш!
Синко, како не се срамиш,
на старост ти да се сърбиш
и за маскара да бидиш,
од народо да се делиш?
Нели сме ние бугари
од две иляди години,
се бугарски зборуваме,
никой сръбски не знаиме
и сам ти сръбски не знаиш
каков сърбин ти ке бидиш?
Глигоре, синко Глигоре,
кешке да се потурчеше,
одощо ти се посърбе
толку жал не ке ми беше.
Марко Цепенков
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This is what the Macedonian Bulgarians wrote during the Revival before their Serbization. Rayko Ivanov (Ioanov) Jinzifov was born in 1839 in Veles (then in the Ottoman Empire, today in Northern Macedonia) with the name Xenophon Jindzifi. According to Kuzman Shapkarev, his father is of Tsintsar origin - a fact denied by the Jinzifs.
До Българската майка


Майко злочеста, ти, майко страдалница,
мътни са сълзи ти, как у Брегалница
мътни са студни вълни.


Рониш ти сълзи, а сърдце распаряш ми;
питам напразно я - не отговаряш ми -
сладки л' са, майче, они?


Що си застанала, майко, над сина си?
Що си наведнала очи и клепки си?
Гледаш и мрачно ти так?


Поглед На него си хвърлила жалостен,
ден ли за тебе той скърбен, нерадостен.
пълен сос тъга и с мрак?


Щеш ли да бъдеш ти нем' утешение?
Пей му ти песня за вечно търпение,
пълен сос тьга и с мрак?


Пей и за негово вечно страдание,
пей му да нема в душа си роптание,
пей ти и сълзи не лей!


Още за кротко му пей послушание,
станал като ягне той на заклание
кротък и мирен, готов.


И за душевно му пей онемение.
и за телесно му пей ослепление,
само не пей за любов!...


Райко Жинзифов


15 февруари 1839 г.
Велес, Вардарска Македония


15 февруари 1877 г. (38 г.)
Москва, Русия
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с. Тополчани
Прилепско-Битолски диалект
“...Проплакало Петре, заминало, ни на татка не се казало, та ми слегло долу во Битола на Ат-Пазар. Таму я найде негоа стара майка, кай продава два коньа бинеклии - вяти, сосе седла, сосе узди:
-Добро утро сестро.
-Дал Бог добро, брате.
-Зощо продаваш овие коньи, кой ги вявал овие коньи?
-Ех, море брате, яска си имав два синови, еднио Петре, другио Павле, многу брате бея юначища, Турци неможея пред ними да излезат, им извадоя кривина на правина, санким тие турска вера окарале, санким тие турски анки задевале, ги осудия зандана да лежат, еве има време - три’години, утре ни е брате първ Велигден, сите каури радост ке пра’ , мойте синой - на бесилка ки бесат, затоа коньи продавам, пари да соберам, белким со пари ки откупам.
-Мори майче, стара майко, яска сум ти син ти Петре, здраво-живо имаш од Павлета, слушай майче шо ке ти кажам. Утре рано ке станиш, пред сонце, ке им пойдиш кай бесилката, ке я клайш моя сабя дипленица во лева пазува, белким турци да преварам дури сабя в’раце да доватам. Така майче да куртулиме...”
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Bitola citizens - 1895
Source: Ottoman Imperial Archives
“... There is a great variety in the clothing of the citizens of Bitola. The richer of both sexes dress European. The poorer and those from the outskirts of the city wear their national clothes ... "- Vasil Kanchov (Bitola, Prespa and Ohrid. Travel notes" 1890)
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Metropolitan Boris of Nevrokop (1888 - 1948)


He was born with the secular name Vangel Simov Razumov on October 26, 1888 in the Bitola village of Gyavato, Ottoman Empire. His father Simeon Tsvetkov Razumov died in 1903 as a rebel of Georgi Sugarev. Vangel studied in Gyavato and in Constantinople, after which in 1904 he graduated from the third grade of the Edirne Bulgarian High School. From the autumn of the same year, with a scholarship granted by Exarch Joseph I of Bulgaria, he continued his education at the Bulgarian Theological Seminary in Constantinople, graduating in 1910.
On February 17, 1935, Bishop Boris was elected Metropolitan of Nevrokop and was canonically confirmed on February 24. With his good education and knowledge of 13 languages, Metropolitan Boris developed a wide educational and spiritual activity in his diocese. For easier management, move the headquarters from Nevrokop to the district center of Gorna Dzhumaya. He opened many youth Orthodox societies and in a short period of time managed to successfully build over 20 churches. Metropolitan Boris is the author of pedagogical manuals and composes an akathist of St. Ivan Rilski.
After the defeat of Yugoslavia by Germany in the spring of 1941, the Bulgarian Exarchate restored its diocese in the parts of Vardar and Aegean Macedonia annexed by Bulgaria and in Western Thrace. The Strumica and Drama dioceses were united as the Strumica-Drama diocese until 1943, when they were again divided. The temporary administration of the Drama Diocese was taken over by Metropolitan Boris Nevrokopski.
After the September 9 coup, Metropolitan Boris also waged an irreconcilable struggle against the atheistic communist ideology, for which he was called at his funeral by Metropolitan Mikhail Dorostolsky and Chervensky "the conscience of the Bulgarian Church." Due to his actions, the District Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party in Gorna Dzhumaya declared him an "enemy № 1 of the people's government." On November 8, 1948, after celebrating the Holy Liturgy for the consecration of the church "St. Dimitar" in the village of Kolarovo, Metropolitan Boris was killed by the deposed priest Iliya Stamenov from the village of Harsovo. Stamenov is a communist agent and the assassination is part of the communist regime's increased pressure on the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and is aimed at intimidating other bishops.


On March 31, 2016, the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, after considering a letter from Metropolitan Seraphim of Nevrokop, gave a blessing for the start of the procedure for the canonization of Metropolitan Boris Nevrokopski.
On June 26, 2018, the Synod of Bishops of the Bulgarian Orthodox Old-Style Church decided that Metropolitan Boris should be ecclesiastically glorified in the person of the holy martyrs. Metropolitan Boris Nevrokopski was buried again in the church "Introduction to the Mother of God" in Gorna Dzhumaya
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Старе слике Скопља

Народно позориште Краља Александра 1, Скопље.

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Апотека Вардар, Скопље

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Трг Краља Петра и Палата Владе Ристића апотекара, Скопље

https://scontent.fskp4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/17814351_1027418980692409_90216623177469017_o.jpg? _nc_cat=103&_nc_sid=e007fa&_nc_oc=AQmjiS-dPN7H6Pa538SilKnYVJnB7zYEJI5y_yhWSHrwSCJG0cTOggh-bxq3to4D9Dg&_nc_ht=scontent.fskp4-1.fna&oh=41c54e13c542576f1e1ff41fb2139e71&oe=5F1ED380

[Crn Volk]

http://www.makedoniaese.com/images/samostojna%20makedonia3.JPG


http://www.makedoniaese.com/images/2000z.JPG

[Serbian Eagle]

Народна Банка, Скопље

https://scontent.fskp4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17629943_1027427880691519_7682510214233455681_n.jp g?_nc_cat=105&_nc_sid=e007fa&_nc_ohc=Y0pJnBwXhtcAX9Tm7ZL&_nc_ht=scontent.fskp4-1.fna&oh=15e79568aacfaf0f3fc5cc9e78f441e0&oe=5F55F88E

Учитељска Школа

https://scontent.fskp4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17800191_1027423507358623_8635953322441109772_n.jp g?_nc_cat=108&_nc_sid=e007fa&_nc_ohc=4xrsCL4i1msAX-JN0W0&_nc_ht=scontent.fskp4-2.fna&oh=00a9db08b2aba83def503d58d2ad735f&oe=5F559DB4


Мушка гимназија

https://scontent.fskp4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17799049_1027423480691959_6584184879063768686_n.jp g?_nc_cat=102&_nc_sid=e007fa&_nc_ohc=eK7Ea14y6CsAX_EyUlr&_nc_ht=scontent.fskp4-1.fna&oh=e970d27391bafb2ccd7a60cb088cf5fd&oe=5F56DF97

[Serbian Eagle]

https://scontent.fskp4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17861816_1027414960692811_3172042611051385244_n.jp g?_nc_cat=102&_nc_sid=e007fa&_nc_ohc=OU7qjn-M2U8AX_UUp6F&_nc_ht=scontent.fskp4-1.fna&oh=1b2874e38146286d8f1b3c0f79c6e6c6&oe=5F577EEF

https://scontent.fskp4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17523606_1027414770692830_4170920530506019769_n.jp g?_nc_cat=103&_nc_sid=e007fa&_nc_ohc=m4ePZeDI0ewAX8Z9EiO&_nc_ht=scontent.fskp4-1.fna&oh=6d01733a536f048a956121570d1eed15&oe=5F567D78


Нова Соколана у Скопљу

https://scontent.fskp4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/17834968_1027415534026087_2715356286734343048_o.jp g?_nc_cat=109&_nc_sid=e007fa&_nc_ohc=jq5sEjDF0toAX9UmNGg&_nc_ht=scontent.fskp4-2.fna&oh=7e7a7171b0533fa01262cc92f645af2e&oe=5F563E7C

[Crn Volk]

https://ia800208.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/24/items/turkhislostprovi00curt/turkhislostprovi00curt_jp2.zip&file=turkhislostprovi00curt_jp2/turkhislostprovi00curt_0272.jp2&id=turkhislostprovi00curt&scale=2&rotate=0

[Laly]

Moving pictures! Tomorrow, I am actually going to the cinema with my husband to watch the Macedonian movie "Honeyland", which "portrays the life of Hatidže Muratova, a loner beekeeper of wild bees who lives in the remote mountain village of Bekirlija". :)

[Crn Volk]

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=107108&d=1619136676
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[Chron]

This photo was my great-grandfather's, it used to hang in his shop but it was given to me a few years ago. Not sure how old it is, but the village was destroyed in the late 1940s so it must be from at least older than that.

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