Ako je ova tema u sferi nauke evo 20 citata. Vecina je iz razdoblja izmedju dva svetska rata, mada ima par sa kraja 19. veka i samog pocetka 20. veka. 'Najstariji' je cini mi se iz 1886. gde se navodi: It is true that a Macedonian rarely speaks of himself as a Serb. Citati Srba su boldovani.
1) Hermann Wendel, 1920:
"The Slavs call themselves Makedonci as everywhere else standing between the Serbs and the Bulgarians."
2) Rudolf A. Reiss, 1918:
"But I repeat that the big mass of the population remained Macedonian."
3) Jovan Petrovic, Serb from Skopje, May 1938:
"The local Macedonians...view us as usurpers, invaders, and exploiters, they are always hostile toward us and work in unity and systematically to drive us out on every issue."
4) Douglas Walsh, With the Serbs in Macedonia, 1920, Page 188:
"Language difficulties never daunt a British Tommy, not even modern Greek or Macedonski."
5) A Foreign Consul in Skopje, 1915, in My Balkan Log, by J. Abraham, 1922, Pages 137 and 138:
"The average Macedonian is neither Serb, nor Greek, nor Bulgar."
6) Andra Gavrilovic, Brankovo Kolo X 17, 1904, Page 516:
"This winter a Macedonian theater group, under the direction of Crnodrimski, gave guest performances in Belgrade and certain other cities of the Kingdom of Serbia. It presented original Macedonian dramas in the Macedonian language. In one word, we had attempts at a new spiritual-cultural literature and art - Macedonian. Let us not fool ourselves. What Crnodrimski presented was not a jargon but a tryout of a foreign culture in another milieu."
7) Captain P.H. Evans, 1944:
"Macedonian patriotism is not artificial; it is natural, a spontaneous and deep-rooted feeling which begins in childhood."
8) James G. Minchin, The Growth of Freedom in the Balkan Peninsula, 1886, Page 95:
"It is true that a Macedonian rarely speaks of himself as a Serb, and this has misled even M. de Laveleye into speaking of all Macedonians as Bulgarians."
9) Georgy Young, Nationalism and War in the Near East, 1915, Page 89:
"These Macedonians have a character and a dialect of their own, such as would justify their being considered one of the many distinct Yugo-Slav types."
10) Aleksandar Andrijevic, Strumica: Land and People, 1923:
"'You are certainly a Serb?' I asked one of the litigants in court. 'Well, that's how it is now. When the Bulgarians were here I was a 'Bulgarian'. The Serbs arrived, I am now 'Serb', but I am a Christian. 'You want to be closer to the Greeks.' 'No, Greek is something else, I'm a Macedonian.'
11) Oliver C. Harvey, 1926:
"The Slavophone population of Serbian Macedonia definitely regard themselves as distinct from the Serbs. If asked their nationality they say that they are Macedonians, and they speak the Macedonian dialect."
12) Karl Hron, 1899:
"Through my own studies...I came to the conclusion that Macedonians are a separate nation by its history as well as by its own language."
13) Isaiah Bowman, Constantinople and the Balkans, What Really Happened at Paris, 1921, Page 170:
"It is therefore improbable that the Macedonian question will be revived except through the possible cruelties of Greeks and Serbs in their treatment of the Macedonians."
14) Rudolf A. Reiss, Sur la situation des Macedoniens et des musulmans dans les Nouvelles provinces Grecques, 1918, Page 6-7: "But the fact is that Macedonian is not spoken either in Sofia or in Belgrade. It is a separate Slavic language."
15) Edmond Bouchie de Belle, La Macedoine et les Macedoniens, Paris, 1922, 80, IV, 303:
"In the district of Ostrovo/Bitola, nine times out of ten these people, despite being the subject of dispute by three adjoining countries - Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece - would reply in response to the question as to their nationality that they were Macedonians."
16) House of Commons Papers, Volume 12, 1929, Page 368:
"Since then Greece and Bulgaria have recognized Macedonian minorities, and Yugoslavia has protested that there are no Macedonians. No attempt was made to settle the Balkan States in accordance with race."
17) Herbert Vivian, The Servian Tragedy, 1904, Page 278:
"If crime were ever justifiable, ample excuse could be found for Servian committees, Servian bands of brigands and the terrorism of all Macedonian Slavs who refused to confess themselves Servian."
18) Gerhard Christoph, 1931:
"'What language do you speak?' I asked the peasant... ' I am a Macedonian,' he replies, 'you know, the Serbs maintain that our language is a Serbian dialect, the Bulgarians say that we speak Bulgarian. What can you do about it?'"
19) Mihailo Markovic, Moje Uspomene, 1906, Page 316:
"I asked him if he was a Bulgarian? 'I'm not.' I asked him if he was a Serb, Greek, or perhaps even a Tsintsar. 'No, I am not. I am a Macedonian from Veles.'"
20) R.A. Gallop, Conditions in Macedonia, 19 April 1926:
"The Macedonian Slavs considered and called themselves 'Makedonci'."
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