Hellas7
09-11-2006, 10:52 PM
A Fyromian on another site said this:
Spiros Melas in his 'The Epopee from 1912 to 1913' published in 1952, writes of his utter surprise at how the Greek Army was not welcomed into Macedonia upon its liberation from the Ottoman Empire. Among other things, Melas states;
"Occasionally, all of a sudden a village woman would step out and start swearing in her own difficult MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE. Then our soldiers would surround her and offering her money would demand bread, wine, brandy or oil. But what we invariably got in return was a stereotype word like the one the first Slavophone villager, his head bent down, whom we had met outside the village of Negus, had addressed to us. All THE WAY to the outskirts of Salonica and further on, to the town of Lerin, wherever we went we heard the same melancholic answer to all our demands: No, we don't have any!"
Does this quote actually exist? I have never seen is before, where is this taken from? Is there a book? I tried googling it but nothing... Anybody know?
Spiros Melas in his 'The Epopee from 1912 to 1913' published in 1952, writes of his utter surprise at how the Greek Army was not welcomed into Macedonia upon its liberation from the Ottoman Empire. Among other things, Melas states;
"Occasionally, all of a sudden a village woman would step out and start swearing in her own difficult MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE. Then our soldiers would surround her and offering her money would demand bread, wine, brandy or oil. But what we invariably got in return was a stereotype word like the one the first Slavophone villager, his head bent down, whom we had met outside the village of Negus, had addressed to us. All THE WAY to the outskirts of Salonica and further on, to the town of Lerin, wherever we went we heard the same melancholic answer to all our demands: No, we don't have any!"
Does this quote actually exist? I have never seen is before, where is this taken from? Is there a book? I tried googling it but nothing... Anybody know?