Bulgaria has repeatedly accused the Republic of North Macedonia of appropriating Bulgarian national heroes and symbols and of editing works of literature and historical documents so as to prove the existence of a Macedonian Slav consciousness before the 1940s.
保加利亚多次指责马其顿共和国挪用保加利亚民族英雄和符号、篡改文学作品和历史文献，以便证明马其顿斯拉夫人的民族意识在1940年之前便已存在。