Is there a web site with a  "Timeline" where this information has been or can be published? If so, please post the link to Alt.News.Macedonia.

In 1893, Stoyan Novakovich, "Serbian architect of Macedonianism" published his views saying that the "Macedonian slavs" were a separate ethnic group.

Five years earlier (!) Kuzman Shapkarev writes "But even stranger is the name Macedonians, which was imposed on us only 10 to 15 years ago by outsiders, and not as something by our own intellectuals"...

Therefore, in 1873, using Shapkarev as our "bible", "Macedonianism" was imposed on a "gullible Macedonian Slavic" population by "OUTSIDERS". It could not be done immediately, so it may have taken about 20 years to be "imposed" since travel by donkey was the mode of travel at that time.

Therefore, all who frequent Alt.News.Macedonia can agree on the following, again using Shapkarev as our source, that:

1. Macedonianism was "invented/originated/imposed" around 1850.
2. Tito did not invent "Macedonianism".
3. The Serb, Stoyan Novakovich did not invent "Macedonianism".
4. Since the Russo-Turkish war and the Treaty of San Stefano, occurred in 1878, five years after "OUTSIDERS" finished their dirty deed, "Macedonianism" was not the result of being left out of "greater Bulgaria".

I would like to thank that unmentionable Greek spammer for bringing Shapkarev to my attention. Now, I suppose, we can expect that all Greek politicians and journalists will stop saying that Tito invented Macedonians. Similarly we can expect all Bulgarian politicians and journalists to stop saying that Macedonianism is a Serboman plot.

All that is left is to identify the "OUTSIDERS" and what they were doing in 1850!

In a letter to Prof. Marin Drinov of May 25, 1888