Talk:Dimitar Blagoev

message: Throughout the Middle Ages and until the early 20th century, there was no clear formulation or expression of a distinct Macedonian ethnicity. The Slavic speaking majority in the Region of Macedonia had been referred to (both, by themselves and outsiders) as Bulgarians, and that is how they were predominantly seen since 10th,Who are the Macedonians? Hugh Poulton, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2000, ISBN 1850655340, p. 19-20.Средновековни градови и тврдини во Македонија, Иван Микулчиќ, Македонска академија на науките и уметностите — Скопје, 1996, стр. 72.Formation of the Bulgarian nation: its development in the Middle Ages (9th-14th c.) Academician Dimitŭr Simeonov Angelov, Summary, Sofia-Press, 1978, pp. 413-415. up until the early 20th century.Center for Documentation and Information on Minorities in Europe, Southeast Europe (CEDIME-SE) - "Macedonians of Bulgaria", p. 14. It is generally acknowledged that the ethnic Macedonian identity emerged in the late 19th century or even later.Krste Misirkov, On the Macedonian Matters (Za Makedonckite Raboti), Sofia, 1903: "And, anyway, what sort of new Macedonian nation can this be when we and our fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers have always been called Bulgarians?" However, the existence of a discernible Macedonian national consciousness prior to the 1940s is disputed.Loring M. Danforth, The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World, 1995, Princeton University Press, p.65, Stephen Palmer, Robert King, Yugoslav Communism and the Macedonian question,Hamden, Connecticut Archon Books, 1971, p.p.199-200The Macedonian Question: Britain and the Southern Balkans 1939-1949, Dimitris Livanios, edition: Oxford University Press, US, 2008, ISBN 0199237689, p. 65.The struggle for Greece, 1941-1949, Christopher Montague Woodhouse, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2002, ISBN 1850654921, p. 67.Who are the Macedonians? Hugh Poulton,Hurst & Co. Publishers, 1995, ISBN 1850652384, 9781850652380, p. 101. Anti-Serban and pro-Bulgarian feelings among the local population at this period prevailed.The struggle for Greece, 1941-1949, Christopher Montague Woodhouse,  C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2002, ISBN 1850654921, p. 67. Who are the Macedonians? Hugh Poulton,Hurst & Co. Publishers, 1995, ISBN 1850652384, 9781850652380, p. 101. According to some researchers, by the end of the war a tangible Macedonian national consciousness did not exist and bulgarophile sentiments still dominated in the area, but others consider that it hardly existed.The Macedonian conflict: ethnic nationalism in a transnational world, Loring M. Danforth, Princeton University Press, 1997, ISBN 0691043566, pp. 65-66. After 1944 Communist Bulgaria and Communist Yugoslavia began a policy of making Macedonia into the connecting link for the establishment of new Balkan Federative Republic and stimulating here a development of distinct Slav Macedonian consciousness.Europe since 1945. Encyclopedia by Bernard Anthony Cook. , pg. 808. With the proclamation of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia as part of the Yugoslav federation, the new authorities also started measures that would overcome the pro-Bulgarian feeling among parts of its population.  In 1969 also the first History of the Macedonian nation was published. The past was systematycally falsified to conceal the truth, that most of the well-known Macedonians had felt themselves to be Bulgarians and generations of students were tought the pseudo-history of the Macedonian nation.Yugoslavia: a concise history, Leslie Benson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, ISBN 0333792416, p. 89. 
Please, read also the added Academic unbiased secondary sources concerning Blagoev and describing him as Bulgarian as follows: The formation of labour movements, 1870-1914: an international perspective, The Formation of Labour Movements, 1870-1914: An International Perspective, Jürgen Rojahn, ISBN 90-04-09276-5, BRILL, 1990, p. 403.; Religion and power in Europe: conflict and convergence, Joaquim Carvalho, Edizioni Plus, 2007, ISBN 88-8492-464-2, p. 263.;  An introduction to post-communist Bulgaria: political, economic, and social transformations, Emil Giatzidis, Manchester University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-7190-6095-8, p. 18. Thank you. Jingiby (talk) 08:30, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: The substitution of the term ''Bulgarian'' in this article with the term ''Ethnic Macedonian''  is POV