From: lb@cs.man.ac.uk (Luben Boyanov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: Re: The truth about Macedonia. Was: cekpemHu, mayHu u gpysu c^yjbu...
Date: 13 Nov 92 09:52:14 GMT
Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.

In article <1992Nov10.205401.26618@rockyd.rockefeller.edu.rockefeller.edu> penev@venezia.rockefeller.ed writes:
>Luben Boyanov (lb@cs.man.ac.uk) wrote:
>: and why WE ALL have to know the TRUTH and not let an inch away from this
>: truth. But right now, I will tell you something else.
>
>Yes, I agree with You. The problem with our education is that we were
>deprived of information on this (as well as many others) topic.

100% right. For the last few months, I'd tried to change this picture - at
least for me and I can say with confidence nowadays that there was no
Macedonian problem whatsoever 120 years ago - everybody acknoledged that
the Slavs in Macedonia are Bulgarians - even the Serbs. Also - it turned
out that a lot of French, German and English travelers made trips in this
part of the world (i.e. the Balkans) and their books well describe the
Bulgarian character of Macedonia. One can only smile when see/hear the
thousand year claim by some netters. I'd be happy to share all I
saw/learned/read with all of those interested. I had also prepared
something which will go to everybody, ready to copy it and send it to
others interested. Get in touch with me for more details.

Let me also say that when mentioning "the truth", there was really a
"truth" as there was only 1 observation on the ethnicy/nationality of the
majority of the Slavs in Macedonia ...

> In the
>pursuit of information it may be good to compile and maintain a list
>of publications about Macedonia, along with a brief reference on the
>material covered.

I have collected about 100 English titles on the matter, about 20 German,
as much French, 2 Italian, 2 Russian and several others ... In fact I have
more than 100 titles from non-Balkan authors (in case somebody can accuse
Balkan authors serving their states, which for so many cases has been
true...) 

> If nobody more knowledgeable on the subject than I am
>volunteers to maintain it, I may do.

It will be great if more people with interest on the subject help expand
the list of books describing the Balkans (Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria,
MAcedonia, Thrace, Serbia) from the last century and the start of this one.
As a matter of fact, the name Bulgaria applied (in the past) only to the
lands north to the Balkan and south to Danube.

> This may be considered as request
>for posting/mailing references. This is the first drop in the see:

>Title: Stroitelite na savremenna Bulgaria. v1,v2
>Author: Simeon Radev
>Publishing info: N/A
>Description: A good book on the political and economical processes in
>	Bulgaria from 1878 to 191(3?). Useful for acquaintance with
>	the overall climate on the Balkans in the period.

That's a great book but the author is ... Macedonian. Yes - Simeon Radev is
one of the most prominent Macedonians (of course, as Macedonians were 100
years ago - not the newly emerged ethnic creation since 1945). He was born
in Resna and he used to be something like representative of VMRO abroad -
he wrote a lot of article in Geneva on that matter (my g-g-father has been
studying with him there at the same time and they were good friends). I've
seen documents describing how the VMRO leadership ( Goce Delchev, Dame Gruev,
etc.) sent him money for books and other related to the Macedonian cause
matters. 

The book mentioned above is the best description not only of Bulgaria from
that time, but also about the short reign of Al. Batemberg and the start of
the political career of one of the greatest Bulgarian politicians - Stephan
Stambolov.


Best regards

Luben


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