4 000 000 Greeks in Macedonia and Thrace back in 1881

[Flipper]

According to statistics published by Brooklyns Daily Eagle on January 23 1881 the number of the Greeks in Macedonia and Thrace reaches 4 million!

Take a look:

http://www.macedoniaontheweb.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=15&stc=1&d=1154369033

[Tsontos]

depending on the extent to which foreign examinations consider Slavophone Greeks, foreign observations from that time will fluxuate. At the time it was very popular to use language as the be all and end all of ethnology. But all you had to do is go around asking slavophone Greeks what nationality they were and you could tell that this method is not always the most accurate


This report was prepared in 1885 by the Secretary-General of the Bulgarian Exarchate describing the situation in Macedonia: [the writer of the report interprets Macedonia as the "Macedonia" of the San Stefano Treaty]

It is a sad fact but we must admit that the largest part of
the Bulgarian population of Macedonia does not have a Bulgarian
national conscience... If Europe were to demand today that the
Macedonian people decide on their fate and say to which nationality
they belong, we are certain that the largest part of the
Macedonian people and of Macedonia would slip away from our hands.
If we exclude two or three regions of Northern Macedonia, the
inhabitants of the other regions are ready to declare that they are
Greeks. If the Great Powers were to intervene and demand a
plebiscite to solve the Macedonian problem the Greeks would come out
as winners.

[admin]

Thats excellent! can you please write down the exact reference, date, source. If you can get a picture of that (on the newspaper) that would be simply amazing! Great find! :)

[Flipper]

Thats excellent! can you please write down the exact reference, date, source. If you can get a picture of that (on the newspaper) that would be simply amazing! Great find! :)

I have a huge PDF...I haven't finished my research yet but I can send you all findings to upload them here.

[akritas]

Thats excellent! can you please write down the exact reference, date, source. If you can get a picture of that (on the newspaper) that would be simply amazing! Great find! :)



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@Flipper
continue the good work regarding the old newspapers:)