Kuzman Shapkarev

[David Edenden]

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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
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... Yet the people in Macedonia know nothing of that ancient name, reintroduced today with a cunning aim on the one hand and a stupid one on the other. They know the older word: "Bugari", although mispronounced: they have even adopted it as peculiarly theirs, inapplicable to other Bulgarians. You can find more about this in the introduction to the booklets I am sending you. They call their own Macedono-Bulgarian dialect the "Bugarski language", while the rest of the Bulgarian dialects they refer to as the "Shopski language". (Makedonski pregled, IX, 2, 1934, p. 55; the original letter is kept in the Marin Drinov Museum in Sofia, and it is available for examination and study)

[June R Harton]

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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 "gullible Macedonian Slavic"

You really have trouble reading, don't you, Bulgar! The quote was 10-15years
obviously enforced in 1978 by the situation!

And NO he mentioned no Macedonian Slav...he said it was on the *Bulgarian*
people of the area.

from: Spirit of Truth

(using June's e-mail to communicate to you)!