The East End of Europe: Allen Upward 1908

[chicagogeorge]

Sorry if excerpts from this book have already been posted :)

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[Foti66]

Thanks for the post Chi town George!

[prudence]

it has always been my suspicion that early on (i.e. late 1800's and early 1900's) the Greeks played a role in baptizing the slavophones "Macedonian" as opposed to Bulgarian.

The Bulgarians were a big threat back then, so anything to de-bulgarize them would be good. Plus, they thought that "Macedonian" was probably an intermediate step to these people becoming fully Hellenized.

How wrong they were.