Originally Posted by
Mingle
Historically, nationality (citizenship) and ethnicity were closely pretty tied. Ethnicity was far more malleable in the past than it is today. Nationhood was often correlated to factors such as the country you were born in or what religion you followed. The same is not the case anymore. So its not outrageous to suggest that at least a few individual Macedonian families started identifying with Serbia and Serbs a while after their land got annexed by Dushan. Lowland Scots used to identify as ethnic English before they got annexed by Scotland for example. Also, once Macedonia was annexed by Serbia, some Serbs started migrating to Macedonia. Considering that Dushan made Skopia Serbia's capital, the amount of Serbs that would have migrated from Serbia to Macedonia may have been somewhat significant.
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