Дена Дебељковић о отварању грчке школе у Липљану 1907. године
Dena Debeljkovic on Opening of Greek School in Lipljan 1907

Summary/Abstract: The educational issue among the Christians in Turkey was of the extreme importance. The education of the Christians in Turkey was important prerequisite for their political engagement. As there was no possibility for any Balkan state to act openly in the Ottoman Empire on the political level, the cultural and educational activities were of the utmost importance for their propaganda activities in Turkey. Thus, the cultural and educational activities were part of all propaganda and political plans, created firstly in Serbia and Greece, and later Bulgaria, from the mid -19. century until the Balkan wars. As the Greek population on the territory of the Old Serbia was not numerous, the Greek propaganda turned toward the Aromanias (Cincari), who accepted the offered help and put them selves in the service of the Greek national idea. The Aromanians in Kosovo and Metohia came for the region of Yanina, and beside their native language, they spoke both Serbia and Greek. They founded couple of small towns in Kosovo and Metohia, and the Greek school were planned to be the centers for spreading the Greek influence in this part of the Old Serbia. Although the Greek schools were not the threat to the Serbian cultural and educational activities in Old Serbia, they made, in certain surroundings, some troubles, thus indirectly making worse the position of the Serbian people in those regions.

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