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In Defense Of The Macedonian Identity
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Author :League of League of Macedonian Americans Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781981378951 Total Pages :76 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (789 download)
Book Synopsis In Defense of the Macedonian Identity by : League of League of Macedonian Americans
Download or read book In Defense of the Macedonian Identity written by League of League of Macedonian Americans and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by the League of Macedonian Americans (LOMA) is a beginner's guide to the wealth of information that exists on the Macedonian identity and Macedonian Cause before Tito came to power in the mid-1940s. While it is only a compilation of quotes, it also provides the readers with sources and resources to further read and understand. Additionally, in these words of Macedonian heroes and foreign observers, we can find the strength and courage to defend our Macedonian name and honor; with this publication, we have another weapon in our arsenal against Balkan propaganda.
Book Synopsis The Contest for Macedonian Identity 1870-1912 by : Nick Anastasovski
Download or read book The Contest for Macedonian Identity 1870-1912 written by Nick Anastasovski and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Contest For Macedonian Identity 1870-1912 is a scholarly book detailing the ongoing campaigns to divide and conquer the Macedonian people - first by the Ottoman Empire under which Macedonia was colonized by Muslims and many Macedonians converted to Islam; and then by Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria as they fought to turn Macedonians into Greeks, Serbs and Bulgarians using State-sponsored teachers, priests, bandits and terrorists. The Contest For Macedonian Identity examines in detail this fierce competition, and how it was fought at the political, religious, educational, and day-to-day village level. It analyzes Ottoman, Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian and other sources and introduces new and original research by the author from the Bitola region, western Macedonia, and many other parts of ethnic and Ottoman Macedonia. This is a definitive work on the occupation of Macedonia in the modern era and the development and defence of the Macedonian identity. With 520 pages and a large format, The Contest for Macedonian Identity 1870-1912 is a big, generous book, well researched and easy to read.
Book Synopsis The Macedonian Conflict by : Loring M. Danforth
Download or read book The Macedonian Conflict written by Loring M. Danforth and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greeks and Macedonians are presently engaged in an often heated dispute involving competing claims to a single identity. Each group asserts that they, and they alone, have the right to identify themselves as Macedonians. The Greek government denies the existence of a Macedonian nation and insists that all Macedonians are Greeks, while Macedonians vehemently assert their existence as a unique people. Here Loring Danforth examines the Macedonian conflict in light of contemporary theoretical work on ethnic nationalism, the construction of national identities and cultures, the invention of tradition, and the role of the state in the process of building a nation. The conflict is set in the broader context of Balkan history and in the more narrow context of the recent disintegration of Yugoslavia. Danforth focuses on the transnational dimension of the "global cultural war" taking place between Greeks and Macedonians both in the Balkans and in the diaspora. He analyzes two issues in particular: the struggle for human rights of the Macedonian minority in northern Greece and the campaign for international recognition of the newly independent Republic of Macedonia. The book concludes with a detailed analysis of the construction of identity at an individual level among immigrants from northern Greece who have settled in Australia, where multiculturalism is an official policy. People from the same villages, members of the same families, living in the northern suburbs of Melbourne have adopted different national identities.
Book Synopsis National Heritage and National Identity in Nineteenth-and Twentieth-century Macedonia by : Euangelos Kōphos
Download or read book National Heritage and National Identity in Nineteenth-and Twentieth-century Macedonia written by Euangelos Kōphos and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Contested Ethnic Identity by : Chris Kostov
Download or read book Contested Ethnic Identity written by Chris Kostov and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twentieth century Macedonia had a very turbulent history. Essentially, the region became the apple of discord among the Balkan states. Ethnic identity formation among immigrants from Macedonia to Canada followed the political developments in the Balkans. This book illustrates the late emergence of an ethnic Macedonian community in Toronto and the roots of the clash between the Macedonian, Greek and Bulgarian ethnic communities. The author tackles a number of important questions: When did the Macedonian ethnic identity start in Canada? What was the ethnic affiliation of the first Macedonian immigrants' cultural organizations and churches in Toronto? Why did they use the Bulgarian language? Why do their first churches continue to be called Macedono-Bulgarian churches? Did all immigrants have one monolithic ethnic identity? The author relies upon three different types of literature: national identity development and theories; Balkan history; and ethnic studies of the Bulgarian, Macedonian and Greek settlements of Toronto. Oral interviews, conducted in Toronto by the author and other researchers, enhance this volume. The book sheds light on a much contested subject which continues to fuel debate from Skopje, Athens and Sofia to Toronto and Melbourne.--Publisher's description
Book Synopsis Waiting for Macedonia by : Ilká Thiessen
Download or read book Waiting for Macedonia written by Ilká Thiessen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thiessen crafts a fine ethnography of a changing society after the fall of socialism and independent nationhood." - Anastasia Karakasidou, Wellesley College
Book Synopsis Macedonia and Identity Politics After the Prespa Agreement by : Vasiliki P. Neofotistos
Download or read book Macedonia and Identity Politics After the Prespa Agreement written by Vasiliki P. Neofotistos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores issues of national identity, history, and language in light of the 2018 Prespa Agreement. Designed to resolve a protracted and bitter dispute, the agreement signed by the Macedonian and Greek foreign ministers on the banks of the Prespa lake stipulated that the Republic of Macedonia change its name to the Republic of North Macedonia. The chapters examine the social, political, and economic conditions and events that led to the agreement and the implications and consequences for identity politics in the region. Consideration is given to the ways in which, and the reasons why, identity/identities, difference/differences, modes of belonging, and experiences of injustice and discrimination have been mobilized. By focusing on the Prespa Agreement, the collection also offers valuable insight into the processes involved in (re)making boundaries, (re)defining ethnic and national identities, (re)inventing citizenship, and (re)writing national histories. Bringing together expert contributors with intimate knowledge of, and long-term engagement with, the region, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students of anthropology, Slavic and East European studies, history, and international relations. Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Book Synopsis Defining the Macedonians by : Victor Sinadinoski
Download or read book Defining the Macedonians written by Victor Sinadinoski and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early 20th century, Macedonia's neighbors were vying to dismember Macedonia from Turkey and attach the province to their expanding empires. To accomplish this, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia instituted propaganda campaigns utilizing priests, teachers, and armed bands to convince the Macedonians that they were really Bulgarian, Greek or Serbian. When Westerners arrived, they encountered a people who had been subjected to varying degrees of propaganda and abuse. They struggled to understand why and how the Macedonians were being defined and labeled in certain ways, and they endeavored to paint an accurate picture of the Macedonian situation. Many of these visitors published books about their experiences and observations, which usually differed from the narratives espoused by Macedonia's carnivorous neighbors. Still, modern-day Balkan chauvinists use out-of-context snippets from these Westerners' works to support their claims that the Macedonian ethnic identity is a modern creation. Sinadinoski explores these Western books in their entirety to demonstrate that the vast majority of impartial and objective visitors to Macedonia indeed considered the Macedonians to be a separate people, while acknowledging that extensive propaganda had managed to group Macedonians into different political camps. These camps, however, were not attestations to racial, national or ethnic identity, but merely shifting loyalties resulting from decades of indoctrination campaigns.
Book Synopsis The Macedonian Question and the Macedonians by : Alexis Heraclides
Download or read book The Macedonian Question and the Macedonians written by Alexis Heraclides and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive and dispassionate analysis of the intriguing Macedonian Question from 1878 until 1949 and of the Macedonians (and of their neighbours) from the 1890s until today, with the two themes intertwining. The Macedonian Question was an offshoot of the wider Eastern Question – i.e., the fate of the European remnants of the Ottoman Empire once it dissolved. The initial protagonists of the Macedonian Question were Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia, and a Slav-speaking population inhabiting geographical Macedonia in search of its destiny, the largest segment of which ended up creating a new nation, comprising the Macedonians, something unacceptable to its three neighbours. Alexis Heraclides analyses the shifting sands of the Macedonian Question and of the gradual rise of Macedonian nationhood, with special emphasis on the Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian claims to Macedonia (1870s–1919); the birth and vicissitudes of the most famous Macedonian revolutionary organization, the VM(O)RO, and of other organizations (1893–1940); the appearance and gradual establishment of the Macedonian nation from the 1890s until 1945; Titos’s crucial role in Macedonian nationhood-cum-federal status; the Greek-Macedonian name dispute (1991–2018), including the ‘skeletons in the cupboard’ – the deep-seated reasons rendering the clash intractable for decades; the final Greek-Macedonian settlement (the 2018 Prespa Agreement); the Bulgarian-Macedonian dispute (1950–today) and its ephemeral settlement in 2017; the issue of the Macedonian language; and the Macedonian national historical narrative. The author also addresses questions around who the ancient Macedonians were and the fascination with Alexander the Great. This monograph will be an essential resource for scholars working on Macedonian history, Balkan politics and conflict resolution.
Author :Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (Organization : U.S.) Publisher :Human Rights Watch ISBN 13 :9781564321329 Total Pages :104 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (213 download)
Book Synopsis Denying Ethnic Identity by : Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (Organization : U.S.)
Download or read book Denying Ethnic Identity written by Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (Organization : U.S.) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear.
Book Synopsis Macedonian National Identity by : Marija Naumoski
Download or read book Macedonian National Identity written by Marija Naumoski and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the Ottoman period Balkan collective identities existed without national content. As the historian Eric Hobsbawm has observed, the 'ethnicity of any people in southeastern Europe is an eternal matter of debate'. Throughout the 19th century, European nationalist impulses did influence this region, and some national narratives were legitimated with the establishment of new Balkan states. The Macedonian narrative was a conspicuous exception. In the interwar period (1918-1941), Macedonian nation-building efforts were instead characterized in negative terms as the 'Macedonian Question', and were framed as irredentist challenges to Balkan stability. The Macedonian narrative did not receive official validation until the establishment of the Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia by Josip Broz Tito in 1944, as part of the Socialist Federalist Republic Yugoslavia (SFRY). Tito's strategy for unifying a multiethnic SFRY involved sustaining a dynamic tension among the different national communities. As part of this strategy Tito paradoxically encouraged the affirmation of a Macedonian identity as a counterweight to the influence of other ethnic groups. It was Tito's aspiration that a new Yugoslavian identity would transcend the conflicting narratives of the constituent nationalisms that the SFRY encompassed. However, with the dissolution of the SFRY in 1992, and the subsequent declarations of independence by its constituent republics (including Macedonia), the legacy of Tito's strategy ironically set the stage for a revival of competing irredentist claims. The assertions of a 'Great Serbia', 'Great Macedonia', 'Great Albania', etc. are legacies of Tito's failed attempt to forge a stable Yugoslavian identity. In the present day, Balkan national narratives confront each other in mutually - constitutive antagonism. This paper argues that the Macedonian nation-building effort is not only an unfinished project, but represents a revived, 21st century version of the older 'Macedonian Question' that brings with it the potential for substantial regional conflict."--Abstract.
Download or read book Macedonia written by Jane K. Cowan and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2000-12-20 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macedonia has been contested by its three neighbours – Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece – during and since the demise of the Ottoman Empire. But the Macedonian Question extends far beyond the contested borders of Macedonia to immigrant communities in Europe, Australia and North America. The contributors to this collection explore the contemporary repercussions of the Macedonian Question, which has long been at the heart of Balkan politics. The volume recognises Macedonia as a global issue, and focuses on the politics of identity and difference in both homeland and diaspora.The contributors argue that Macedonia as place and as concept is forged within a transnational network of diasporas, local communities, states and international institutions. They examine the increasingly important role of transnational bodies – including the European Union and human rights NGOs – in regulating relationships between states and minority groups, as well as in promoting multiculturalism and civic participation. They consider the role of scholarship and the media in defining Macedonia and its inhabitants. They also draw attention to the struggles of individuals in constructing, negotiating and even transforming their identities in the face of competing nationalisms and memories. In the process, they re-evaluate ‘ethnicity’ as a conceptual tool for understanding difference in the region, and raise questions about the implications of recognising, and not recognising, difference at the political level.
Download or read book Mapping Macedonia written by P. H. Liotta and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2004-06-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever sinces its independence in 1991, Macedonia has made remarkable progress towards building a pluralistic, multi-ethnic civil society. Yet if the international community supports the legitimacy of Macedonia as a state it has direct responsibility to anchor its future. No matter what view one subscribes to, one stubborn truth remains: Macedonia cannot achieve success on its own. This book provides observations that offer valuable lessons on this little known but remarkable part of Europe. This work provides a review of the historical basis for Macedonia's identity and its emergence as a separate nation during Socialist Yugoslavia (1944-1991). It takes a detailed look at the events and personalities that lead to the outbreak of civil war in 1991. This book contains aspects of the Ohrid Framework Agreement and perspectives on the contemporary situation following the elections of September 2002. Personal interviews with the first and second presidents of the Repulic of Macedonia are also included.
Book Synopsis The Macedonian Slavs in the Greek Civil War, 1944–1949 by : James Horncastle
Download or read book The Macedonian Slavs in the Greek Civil War, 1944–1949 written by James Horncastle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of Macedonian Slavs in the Greek Civil War, the author examines how their participation in the conflict, and the attempts by other groups to manipulate them, gave rise to modern issues that continue to affect politics in the region today. The Macedonian Question has confounded academics, politicians and the people of the Balkans since the nineteenth century. While the countries have resolved the territorial component of the Macedonian Question, the critical and confusing question surrounding the ethnic and linguistic identity of the people of the region continues to be the source of international debate. Part of the reason for this confusion is because the history of the Macedonian Question is shrouded in nationalist polemics. The role of the Macedonian Slavs involvement in the Greek Civil War is particularly contentious and embedded in nationalist polemics, which has impacted academic inquiry. This book argues that the preponderance of Macedonian Slavs within the communist forces during the Greek Civil War influenced the actions of all the major actors involved, and is a significant factor in shaping the modern Macedonian national identity.
Book Synopsis Declarations of the Macedonian Patriotic Organization in Defense of the Bulgarians by : Dragomir Bogdanov
Download or read book Declarations of the Macedonian Patriotic Organization in Defense of the Bulgarians written by Dragomir Bogdanov and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The documents in this book were photographed with 3-4 different cameras or telephones in 4-5 different visits from 2010 to 2019 in the Museum of Macedonian Tribune and archive of MPO in the town of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA and the author's personal archive. And this is why they are of different quality, moreover the light in the archive is not good enough. Some of the documents are from the archive of Ivan Ilchev, who years ago was delivered by George Lebamoff to the archive of University of Chicago.MPO documents are one of the most difficult to reach. The reasons for this are several: 1.Distance of the archive in the city. Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA, is 300 km from Chicago and 10 000 km from Bulgaria and Macedonia. 2. Many of these documents are printed and shipped to local sections of MPO and are sunk into their archives. 3. The archive is not digitized, not organized thematically and the search for documents is extremely difficult. 4. A number of members in the MPO have sold themselfs to hostal organizations as UMD or are not interested in the truth and do not want these documents to be accessible because they will show the Bulgarian character of the people founded MPO. 5. The same enemy circles in the MPO want the building of Macedonian Tribune with the museum and the archive to be sold, which will not only erase the archive and the museum, but will cut the main source of income and will lead it to end of MPO. These documents displayed and arranged chronologically do not need interpretations and explanations. I will only add, in a future reissue, quotations in English and Bulgarian, for those who do not possess one of the two languages used in the documents. They show the struggle of MPO in defending the Bulgarians from Macedonia and the Kingdom, against the Serbian and Greek oppressors in Macedonia, against Bulgarian traitor Governments , and after 1944 against the Bulgarian Communist and Yugoslav attempts to create Macedonian nation, Language and alphabet. Part of the documents are published in the newspaper Macedonian Tribune or the Macedonia newspaper . These documents are "death" for today's insolent ancient Macedonian, which continues to try to assign a part of the Bulgarian history including Tsar Samuel, the Bulgarian Ancestors from Macedonia, the IMRO komities, etc. This book will spoil the mood of the "ethnic" Macedonians in MPO, because it will show that their fathers and grandfathers were strong Bulgarians. I think this book will be interesting for both professional historians and history lovers, as well as book and document collectors. Especially important are the documents after 1944 because they show that during communism in Bulgaria, when the Communists Tried to educate internationalists, MPO was one of the few organizations that has raised a voice in defending the Bulgarians and their national feeling in both Yugoslavian Macedonia and Bulgaria.
Book Synopsis The Uncomfortable Truth about the Macedonian Political Organization by : Victor Sinadinoski
Download or read book The Uncomfortable Truth about the Macedonian Political Organization written by Victor Sinadinoski and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Macedonian Political Organization (MPO) (presently known as the Macedonian Patriotic Organization) is perhaps one of the most controversial Macedonian Diaspora organizations. On one hand, its official stance has always been the realization of a
Book Synopsis Macedonians in America by : Victor Sinadinoski
Download or read book Macedonians in America written by Victor Sinadinoski and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macedonians in America reveals the story of the Macedonian immigrants who journeyed from the war-torn and impoverished Balkans to discover freedom and fortune in the United States. From big names like Vermont's Stoyan Christowe and Michigan's Mike Ilitch, to the Protestant missionaries, coal miners, track builders and bakery owners, Sinadinoski's book not only educates and entertains, but inspires respect and admiration for the incredible sacrifices that Macedonians made to better their lives in America while remaining committed to their Macedonian identity and homeland.
