British historian, philosopher of history, research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and the University of London, Arnold Toynbee discusses the evolution of the meaning of the word "Hellene" in Greek literary usage, noting that it was originally given to a very specific group of northwest Greek-speaking people who lived in [...]
On this day, 10 August, in Bucharest, Romania 1913, an act of betrayal along with one of the largest miscarriages of justice and humanity was perpetrated and then violently enforced. Delegates from Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece, the latter formerly backed by the superpowers of the time: UK (England), France, and Germany, partitioned and carved [...]
Today, as we freely move around the Republic of Macedonia, a person cannot help but have a sense that there used to be so much more than what is there today, a place more beautiful and historic than what there is now. A place that people once willingly gave their lives to defend and a [...]
To this day there are some Greeks who believe in the myth that they are an ethnically pure race. To Macedonians, it is irrelevant what Greeks believe in as long as they don’t interfere in Macedonian affairs. Unfortunately, Greece’s self-portrayal as an “ethnically homogeneous State” is not only interfering with Macedonians, it is downright hostile [...]
By D. Casement - The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (VMRO) was a Macedonian paramilitary active in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. VMRO was founded by a group of intellectuals in the Macedonian capital of Solun in 1893, with the goal of achieving autonomy for Macedonia. The establishment of the VMRO [...]
On April 17th, 1880, the Ottoman government informed the Great Powers that the anticipated reforms had been drafted and prepared for their approval. Many Macedonian intellectuals, however, were not happy because the reforms neglected their demands, including the recognition of the Macedonian language. In May 1880 about two hundred prominent Macedonians signed and submitted a [...]
Macedonian Author and Publisher Risto Stefov once said, "Dear Macedonians, one way to defend ourselves from the Greek onslaught and gain back our identity and dignity is to fight back to the level to which the Greeks have reduced us; that is to attack their identity as they have attacked ours. We need prove nothing [...]
