"The Macedonian Question" by Dj. Slijepcevic,1958 [PDF]

[Vasiliye]

http://macedonian.name/DjSlijepcevic.pdf

[akritas]

Tell us more Vasilye as about this book and the writer

[Vasiliye]

The author, Dyoko Sliyepchevich was a politician in preWWII Jugoslavia and also a historian.He managed to establish himself in Western hemisphere after the communist rule was evenly established over Serbian lands in 1940-s

From that moment he was a political emigre, Serbian nationalist, expert for history, politics and especially, history of the Orthodoxy, a talent he practiced by publishing investigative works about decay of Serbian orthodox Church, the separation of "Macedonian" Orthodox Church and general history of these in pre and post communistic period.

[Vasiliye]

Here is an interesting excerpt from the aforementioned book:

The existence of Bulgar speaking Greeks in Macedonia is attested in the book by James Baker "Die Turken in Europa", Stuttgart 1878,pp19-20, quoted by Djoko Slijepcevic in "The Macedonian Question: The struggle for Southern Serbia", Chicago, The American Institute for Balkan Affairs, 1958, pp87. According to Baker:

"I asked some Bulgarian peasants in Macedonia about their na- tionality, and they immediately replied 'Rum' which, indeed, is the name peculiar to the Greek population of Asia Minor. They in- sisted that they were Greeks. 'If this is so', I told them, 'why do you speak Bulgarian at home?' 'Because our forefathers did so', they replied. although we are Greeks'."

[akritas]

Originally Posted by Vasiliye

Here is an interesting excerpt from the aforementioned book:

The existence of Bulgar speaking Greeks in Macedonia is attested in the book by James Baker "Die Turken in Europa", Stuttgart 1878,pp19-20, quoted by Djoko Slijepcevic in "The Macedonian Question: The struggle for Southern Serbia", Chicago, The American Institute for Balkan Affairs, 1958, pp87. According to Baker:

"I asked some Bulgarian peasants in Macedonia about their na- tionality, and they immediately replied 'Rum' which, indeed, is the name peculiar to the Greek population of Asia Minor. They in- sisted that they were Greeks. 'If this is so', I told them, 'why do you speak Bulgarian at home?' 'Because our forefathers did so', they replied. although we are Greeks'."

Vasilye the Rum term at the 19th cent was not only mentioned from the Greeks in Minor Asia but also and in Macedonia,Thrace and Epirus. The Millet-i Rum, or "Greek" millet in the Ottoman Empire, embracing as it did all the Orthodox Christian subjects of the sultan reflected in microcosm the ethnic heterogeneity of the empire itself. It contained Serbs, Rumanians, Bulgarians, Vlachs, Albanians, and Arabs while the strictly "Greek" element itself, although firmly in control of the millet through its stranglehold over the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Holy Synod, and the higher reaches of the Orthodox ecclesiastical hierarchy, was by no means homogeneous.Also the describing phainomenon from Baker that people felt Greek and spoken other language(Turkish) appeared in Anatolia with the Karamanlides.