Help regarding Southern Slavs

[Elliniko DJ Nate]

Hello everyone, my name is Niko & I think this is my 1st post here, nice site by the way.

I've had a look around here and I've been unable to find what I am after, I was wondering if one of you could point me in the right direction.

What I am looking for is sourced information/maps showing the migration of Slavs to the Balkan region, namely Serbs/Bulgars, then, showing how as Serbs/Bulgars the skops broke away and achieved autonomy.

Thanks.

[akritas]

Welcome Nikola.
as about your question check first the specific forum and after the below link

http://www.macedoniaontheweb.com/mac...s_and_Origins/

You will find a lot of usefull data

[Tsontos]

Originally Posted by Elliniko DJ Nate

What I am looking for is sourced information/maps showing the migration of Slavs to the Balkan region, namely Serbs/Bulgars, then, showing how as Serbs/Bulgars the skops broke away and achieved autonomy.

Thanks.

I think its generally beleived that both the croats and serbs had already had their ethnogenosis and a distinct tribal identity before they arrived in the 7th century and mixed with the other Slavs who had arrived in the 6th century. the proto-Bulgars were a Turkic tribe who were assimilated by the Slavs who had been their previously and heavily outnumbered them, thereby disappearing the turkic tongue but at the same time imposing the name Bulgarian. Eventually, each of these Slavic peoples, Bulgarians, Serbs and Croats managed to obtain a state at different stages after their migrations in the 6-7 centuries until it was conquored and sometimes reconquored by the Byzantines, Hapsburgs or Turks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Slavs

The skopjian slavs are made up of the same ethnic stock as the Bulgarians, with Serbian influence as well. the earliest recordings of their 'ethnogenosis' occured in the 1860s with the first origins of the macedonists movement, a movement which arouse as a result of outside influence and bulgarian regional policies. The vast majority of the population of Vardar retained a Bulgarian consciousness, (as is evident in innumerable censuses and foreign records), past the turn of the century before Yugoslav policies of serbinization began with the annexation of modern FYROM by the Yugoslav kingdom in 1913. This, along with WW2 fascist bulgarian occupation, and the adoption of 'macedonism' as a concrete policy in the 1930s by balkan commiterns created reactionism to a certain degree and won support for the macedonist cause. Keeping with this policy, the Yugoslav partisans fully adopted macedonism in 1945 and because of this a macedonian consiousness was constructed for over a century.



this link should help too
http://www.macedoniaontheweb.com/sla...pjian-history/

[Elliniko DJ Nate]

Thanks, some good information there.