LËVIZJET KONKURRUESE NACIONALISTE DHE PËRPJEKJET PËR HAPJEN E SHKOLLAVE SHQIPE NË MAQEDONI
COMPETING NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS AND EFFORTS TO OPEN ALBANIAN SCHOOLS IN MACEDONIA

Summary/Abstract: Since the society continued to be divided based on the system of millets, competing nationalist movements developed within each milet, which for Macedonia belongs within the Muslim milet between the Albanians and the Ottoman state, as well as within the orthodox system of millets from Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, but also Albanians and Vlachs. The division of the orthodox millet into smaller millets caused the competing nationalist movement for the school to develop on Macedonian Christians, who had low national consciousness and still considered religion as the first source of self-identification. At first glance, with a religious and educational character, these movements aimed at clear political goals, to possess as much territory as possible, the population of which would be declared in favor of one or the other orthodox milet. In this clash scene was involved and the Albanian nationalist movement. The decision to make the Monastery the national center of the movement for Albanian education should be seen in the context of the clash of Albanian nationalism with other nationalisms and efforts to assert the claims of Albanians on their ethnic lands in Macedonia. Albanian teachers were working to increase the national consciousness of the compatriots of those countries, who were threatened three times: by the Bulgarians, the Serbs and the Greeks. The nationalist movements and clash between Balkan nationalisms in the field of education was fierce in Macedonia and preceded other forms of conflict that culminated in the Balkan Wars of 1913.

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