Macedonia

Zeritae wrote:

And bulgarians were macedonian

Stop the cap 🤣🤣🤣

Please stop taking names of the region. You don't even care about them.

dude this is dead XD

The lies of the doctrines of Macedonism can be very easily dismantled in a few key points:
1. The ancient Macedonians spoke a Greek dialect, dressed like Greeks and worshipped Greek gods. The most striking evidence that they were GREEKS is that they participated int the OLYMPIC games!
2. "Samuil's state" is recognized by the entire world as being the continuation of the First Bulgarian Empire after the death of the Krum's dynasty. This is due to the fact, that:
a) Tsar Samuil called himself the Tsar of Bulgaria;
b) The Bitola Inscription, created by Ivan Vladislav, a ruler of the Comitopuli dynasty, the nephew of Samuil himself, VERY CLEARLY speaks of the BULGARIAN people inhabiting the entire region;
c) The last Tsar of the so-called "State of Samuil" was Tsar Presian II - he was named after the Bulgaro-Tatar Khan Presian I, which directly dismantles the false doctrines of Macedonism.
d) The fact that archaic TURKIC titles like KAVKHAN were preserved during the reign of Samuil until 1018 DIRECTLY testifies of the Bulgarian nature of this state's government, history and culture.
3. Petar Delyan, the grandson of Samuil through Tsar Gavril Radomir, let a Bulgarian uprising in the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Theme (region) of BULGARIA, and called himself GAGAN - a linguistic transformation of the MONGOLO-TATAR title KHAGAN of the First Bulgarian Empire, also used by St. Knyaz Boris I, the Ruler who baptized all Bulgaria under the true Christian faith.
4. The Archbishopristic of Ohrid is the continuation of the BULGARIAN Church after the Bulgarian capital Preslav was conquered by the Eastern Romans (Byzantines).
5. Key historical figures like St. Yoakim Kurchovski in Macedonia during the early 19th century had a clear Bulgarian ethnic consciousness. According to St. Yoakim, he wrote in "простейший язик болгарский" (the common Bulgarian language), proving that the people in Macedonia viewed themselves as Bulgarian.
6. "Macedonia" was originally a region identity, aking to people from Varna and Burgas arguing which city is better. It was artificially elevated into a national ethnic belonging in the 20th century during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and later, the socialist Yugoslav state.
7. The Communist International was the first organization to recognize a separate Macedonian ethnicity in 1934.
8. During WWII, as the Bulgarian armies marched into Skopje, the locals welcomed them dearly, as they had finally been liberated from the oppressive Yugoslav authorities.
9. New unclassified documents from Tito's Yugoslav era reveal that the Secret Police forced people to adopt a new Macedonian national belonging, or else they would be tortured or even killed for retaining their Bulgarian identity.
10. The first ever Macedonian anthem "Изгрей зора на свободата", used between 1944-1945, was literally written in the LITERARY BULGARIAN LANGUAGE!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
11. Since the collapse of Yugoslavia, over 100K MACEDONIANS HAVE ACQUIRED A BULGARIAN PASSPORT! What is needed to acquire one? Well, having at least one Bulgarian grandparent! 🤣🤣🤣

20th-century Serbian and afterwards the Yugoslav historiography used the location of Samuel's state mainly on the territory of then Yugoslavia, to reject Bulgarian claims on the region.[170] Thus, the Russian-born Yugoslavian historian George Ostrogorsky distinguished Samuel's Empire from the Bulgarian Empire, referring to it as a "Macedonian Empire", although he recognised that Samuel's state was politically and ecclesiastically a direct descendant of the empire of Simeon I of Bulgaria and Peter I of Bulgaria, and it was regarded by Samuel and the Byzantines as being the Bulgarian Empire itself.[149]

Some historians of the same school, such as the Serbian scholar Dragutin Anastasijević, even claimed that Samuel ruled a separate South Slavic, i.e. Serbian Empire in Macedonia, founded as result of an anti-Bulgarian rebellion.[148] The Serbs tried to popularize the Serbian past of that distinct state and its Serbian rulers.[171] The story continued in Communist Yugoslavia, where a separate Macedonian identity was formed and Samuel was depicted as a Macedonian Tsar.[172] After the breakup of Yugoslavia, these outdated theories have been rejected by authoritative Serbian historians from SANU as Srđan Pirivatrić and Tibor Živković.[173][174][175] Pirivatrić has stated, that incipient Bulgarian identity was available in Samuel's state, and it will rеmain in the area in the next centuries.[176]

North Macedonia's view
These fringe theories are still held mainly in North Macedonia, where the official state doctrine refers to an "Ethnic Macedonian" Empire, with Samuel being the first Tsar of the Macedonian Slavs.[151] However, this controversy is ahistorical, as it projects modern ethnic distinctions onto the past.[177] There is no historical support for that assertion.[178] Samuel and his successors were never called by their contemporaries "Macedonians",[179] but simply Bulgarians and rarely Misians. The last designation arose because then Bulgaria occupied traditionally the lands of the former Roman province of Moesia.[180]

Macedonian historians insist also that the emperor Basil II designated the enemies coming from Samuel's empire as "Scythians" in his epitaph and that the designation "Bulgaria" was used for ideological propaganda. This was a newly introduced administrative term, by which the emperor ideologically framed the newly acquired territories of the former Bulgarian empire and the former Samuel's state. In this way the term "Bulgarian" became a projected name for Samuel's state itself.[181][182] However, the term "Scythians" normally referred to the "Bulgarians";[183][184] moreover, Samuel and his successors considered their state Bulgarian.[185][186]

Nevertheless, on a meeting in Sofia in June 2017, Prime Ministers Boyko Borisov and Zoran Zaev laid flowers at the monument of Tsar Samuil together, articulating optimism that the two countries can finally resolve their open issues by signing a long-delayed agreement on good-neighborly relations.[187] The governments of Bulgaria and North Macedonia signed the friendship treaty in the same year, which was ratified by the two Parliaments in 2018. On its ground, a bilateral expert committee on historical issues was formed. In February 2019, at a meeting of the committee, involving Bulgarian and Macedonian scientists, the two sides agreed to propose to their governments that Tsar Samuel may be celebrated jointly. The Macedonian side also conceded, that he was Tsar of Bulgaria.[188][189][190][191] Nevertheless, in December 2020 North Macedonia's part from the joint committee withdrew from this decision.[192] According to its view, Tsar Samuel had to be portrayed in one way in North Macedonia's textbooks, and in another during joint commemorations.[193]

In August 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia published official recommendations of the Joint Historical Commission operating between the two countries. There, the governments in Sofia and Skopje are offered a joint commemoration of Samuel, who, according to the commission, was the ruler of a large medieval state, which the majority of modern historical scholarship considers to be the Bulgarian empire itself, centered in the territory of today's North Macedonia.[194] In this way the Macedonian members of the Commission not only agreed to identify Samuel's state as Bulgarian, but they also recognized the existence of the Bulgarian ethnicity during the Middle Ages.[195] Despite these facts, multiple examples of animosity between Bulgaria and North Macedonia have been registered, due to disputes over Samuil's ethnic affiliation and this issue is still highly sensitive.[196][197]