Скопље од Кумановске битке до успостављања српске власти
Skopje from the Battle of Kumanovo until the Establishment of the Serbian Authority

Summary/Abstract: The diplomatic archive of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris contains numerous documents concerning the history of Serbia and the Balkan Peninsula. For the period of the Balkan Wars, a large part of the documents are stored in the fund Correspondance politique et commerciale, Nouvelle série 1896–1918, sub-fund Turquie. The fund consists of reports of French diplomatic representatives, notes of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ministry’s officials, various maps of the Balkan battlefields, plans for diplomatic actions, etc. Among them there is a two-week journal of the French vice-consul in Skopje, Pierre-Leon Carlier. After the interruption of the telegraphic and post traffic with Paris in early October 1912, Carlier decided to write a personal journal, describing with great accuracy the situation in Skopje at the beginning of the First Balkan War and all his impressions about the war. Consul kept his diary from 14 October until 1 November. After the establishment of the Serbian authority in Skopje, Carlier sent to the Ministry in Paris all his notes, which were received on 11 November. In this paper we decided to publish a part of Carlier’s notes: those regarding three crucial days (24–26 October 1912), from the defeat of the Ottoman’s army at Kumanovo until the establishment of the Serbian authority in Skopje and northern Macedonia.

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