Originally Posted by
PAGANE
And what was the reason for some of your ancestors to remain patriarchs, and another part to go to the Bulgarian Exarchate?
One more question.
To all Macedonians professing the Macedonian ideology and claiming that there was a Macedonian different from the Bulgarians.
In the conditions of the Ottoman Empire, the Bulgarians managed to win their exarchate, which is an official recognition of the existence of such a people in the empire. Why did the "Macedonians" in the Ottoman Empire not win their own exarchate, given that they were all on equal terms. Why didn't they remain patriarchs or join the Serbian church, which until 1879 was in the diocese of the Constantinople Patriarchate, and then became autocephalous - you all claim that the Serbian language is close to you and you have nothing to do with the Bulgarian language and the Bulgarians. This would be a clear sign that your ancestors are not recognized as Bulgarians, but as another people.
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