Hronoloski Red Na Nastani
Hronoloski Red Na Nastani
Hronoloski Red Na Nastani
One of the greatest diplomatic concerns facing the Great Powers in the 19 th c.
The Question was Who are the Macedonians ethnically? and Who has the
strongest claim to the territory?
Bulgarians claimed that Macedonians were ethnically Bulgarian and the land should
be theirs since it was the site of the first independent Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Serbians claimed that Skopje was the capital of Stefan Dusans medieval empire and
therefore the heartland of their ethnic territory
Greeks made the claim that Macedonians were Slavic-speaking Greeks and that
Philip II and Alexander the Great were Greeks
Josip Tito, attracted many Macedonians with promises of reuniting the three
areas of Macedonia after the war; never accomplished but Communists
continue to fight to regain Aegean and Perin Macedonia until defeated in 1950
Yugoslavia Tito failed to unite regions of Macedonia, but
1944-1990
Created a Macedonian republic in the Vardar
Macedonia region
Pirin
Vardar
Aegean