Why we are only Macedonians and nothing else?
Why we are only Macedonians and nothing else?

Author(s): Dejan Azeski
Subject(s): Ethnohistory, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Nationalism Studies, Politics and Identity
Published by: Mednarodni inštitut za bližnjevzhodne in balkanske študije IFIMES
Keywords: Bulgaria; Macedonia; identity; political history; nationalism;
Summary/Abstract: Bulgarian historiography is decisive that before 1944 there was no Macedonian national feeling and that 99% of the Orthodox population on the territory of geographical Macedonia felt like Bulgarian. Given that Bulgaria has much more state experience than Macedonia and given that I highly value their science, I would like to believe in this. But every time I follow this logic, I come across the fact that my great-grandmother was called Makedonka or Donka, and she was born and baptized around 1910. So, the question arises: if there were no Macedonians and a sense of belonging, why would some of my great-grandparents baptize their daughter- Makedonka in the period of Turkish slavery?

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