Proof that fyrom is bulgarian:
“call these songs Bulgarian and not Slavic, because if someone today should ask the Macedonian Slav "what are you?" he would be immediately be told: "I am Bulgarian" and would call his language "Bulgarian".
*Stefan Verkovich, Bosnian folklorist, "Folk Songs of the Macedonian Bulgarian", Vol. 1
Moreover, the Foreign Minister of the FYROM, Slobodan Casule, in an interview to Utrinski Vesnik of Skopje on December 29, 2001, said that he mentioned to the Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, Solomon Pasi, that they “belong to the same Slav people.”
The political and military leaders of the Slavs of Macedonia at the turn of the century seem not to have heard Misirkov's call for a separate Macedonian national identity; they continued to identify themselves in a national sense as Bulgarians rather than Macedonians.
* Loring Danforth, "The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World", Princeton Univ Press,(December 1995), p.64
We are not related to the northern Greeks who produced leaders like Philip and Alexander the Great. We are Slavs and our language is closely related to Bulgarian. There is some confusion about our identity.
*Gyordan Veselinov, Macedonia's Ambassador to Canada
24 February 1999: In an interview with the Ottawa Citizen, Gyordan Veselinov, FYROM’s Ambassador to Canada, admitted, "We are not related to the northern Greeks who produced leaders like Philip and Alexander the Great. We are a Slav people and our language is closely related to Bulgarian." He also commented "there is some confusion about the identity of the people of this country."
There is no doubt that they are southern Slavs; they have a language, or a group of varying dialects, that is grammatically akin to Bulgarian but phonetically in some respects akin to Serbian, and which has certain quite distinctive features of its own......In regard to their own national feelings, all that can safely be said is that during the last eighty years many more Slav Macedonians seem to have considered themselves Bulgarian, or closely linked to Bulgaria, than have considered themselves Serbian, or closely linked to Serbia (or Yugoslavia). Only the people of the Skopje region, in the north west, have ever shown much tendency to regard themselves as Serbs. The feeling of being Macedonians, and nothing but Macedonians, seems to be a sentiment of fairly recent growth, and even today is not very deep-rooted.
*Elisabeth Barker, "Macedonia, Its Place in Balkan Power Politics"
..and Uskub, the great majority of the population is Slavic,[...] the middle ages until 1913 called themselves and were called by their neighbors Bulgarians.
*George Hubbard Blakeslee, "The Journal of International Relations"
We are Bulgarians, more Bulgarians than the Bulgarians in Bulgaria themselves.
Krste Misirkov, "On Macedonian Matters", Macedonian Review Editions 1974,(Sofia 1903)
But even stranger is the name Macedonians, which was imposed on us only 10 to 15 years ago by outsiders, and not as something by our own intellectuals... Yet the people in Macedonia know nothing of that ancient name, reintroduced today with a cunning aim on the one hand and a stupid one on the other. They know the older word: "Bugari", although mispronounced: they have even adopted it as peculiarly theirs, inapplicable to other Bulgarians. You can find more about this in the introduction to the booklets I am sending you. They call their own Macedono-Bulgarian dialect the "Bugarski language", while the rest of the Bulgarian dialects they refer to as the "Shopski language".
*Kuzman Shapkarev, in a letter to Prof. Marin Drinov of May 25, 1888
also:
30 Bulgarian academics, including 3 academics from Fyrom, sent a report to UNESCO asking from the international organisation to stop the television channels in Fyrom broadcasting and abusing the Bulgarian language, the history and the culture of Bulgaria.
This report was sent to the Director General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, stating the truths concerning the Bulgarian language, which the TV in Fyrom proclaims as 'Macedonian'.
"For the past 65 years they spread lies to all the world stating that a distinct 'Macedonian' language, Macedonian history and Macedonian history exists". Vardarska, an are which is now part of Fyrom, was always a geographical single term used in respect with Bulgarian civilization and Bulgarian History.
The Bulgarian academics support the view that in Fyrom historical monuments, military tombs, churches and many other artifacts are destroyed, especially the ones related to Bulgaria. In their report they state that Fyrom stole their popular music, their celebrations, the Bulgarian kings, heroes, wars and their revolutionaries and they baptized them by giving them the epithet 'Macedonian'. They underlined that in the last census, there was a separate column on the Bulgarian citizens. But hundreds have been arrested and have been terrorized to stop claiming and advertising their Bulgarian descent.
It seems that Fyrom wishes to import into its own culture all the cultures, traditions, history and beliefs of its neighbours. Greece is not the only problem Fyrom has, it seems Bulgaria has 'joined the club'..who knows which other nation will follow.
And last but not least:
Phylogenetic аחԁ correspondence analyses ѕһοwеԁ tһаt Bulgarians аrе more closely related tο FYROMians,tһаח tο οtһеr European populations аחԁ Middle Eastern people living near tһе Mediterranean. Tһе HLA-A,-B,-DRB1 allele аחԁ haplotype diversity defined bу high-resolution DNA methods confirm tһаt tһе Bulgarian population іѕ characterized bу features οf southern slavic anthropological type wіtһ ѕοmе influence οf additional ethnic groups. Bulgarian DNA Project FAQ аbουt DNA testing аחԁ genealogy bу genetics Group Administrator: Evgueni Delev
numis18@hotmail.fr Family Tree DNA – Genealogy bу Genetics, Ltd. World Headquarters 1445 North Loop West, Suite 820 Houston, Texas 77008, USA Phone: (713) 868-1438 | Fax: (832) 201-7147 HELLAS GREECE MACEDONIA MACEDONIA MACEDONIA MAKEDONIA MACEDOINE MAKEDONIJA BULGARIA DNA FYROM SKOPJE VARDARSKA SKOPJE.
And the turks have nothing to do with neither Ouzo nor Raki(a).
