What is a 'MACEDONIAN-BULGARIAN'?

In today's episode, we will discuss what actually made up a typical "Macedonian-Bulgarian" from the early 1800s, and how that identity compares to modern #Macedonians and #Bulgarians. It's not a case of black and white!

Once we breakdown what a "Macedono-Bulgarian" actually believed about their identity, the term becomes almost MEANINGLESS



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Panov, Mitko "Blinded State: Historiographic Debates about Samuel Cometopoulos and His State (10th-11th Century)"

Rajko Zinzifov "Dimitri I Konstantin Miladinovi". V. "Den" Moskva, 1862.

Reference to "Ние македончината," and "макед[онски] песни", Konsantin Miladinov Letter to G.C Raskovski, 8 January 1859

Reference to "Pelasgo-Slavic nation": Dimitar Miladinov Letter to Naum and Nikolai Robi, 20 August 1857

Reference to "Slavo-Pelasgic language". Dimitar Miladinov Letter to Residents of Kukush, 24 October 1857

Reference to Jordan Konstantinov Dzinot referring to Macedonians as Serbs: "Граѓа за историјата на македонскиот народ (1856-1863)" - д-р Климент Џамбазовски, 1979, Белград.

Jordan Hadzhi-Konstantinov Dzinot referring to tribes of antiquity as "Bolgari"-Солунска Легенда", Гласник друштва српске словености, VIII, стр. 146-147)

Šapkarev's letter can be found in: П. Динеков, ''Писма на Кузман Шапкарев до проф. Марин Дринов'', сп. Македонски преглед, г. IX, кн. 2, София, 1934, pp. 54-56

Šapkarev quote about Macedonian and Bulgarian being two languages: "Pravo" newspaper article, November 1870,

Kuzman Šapkarev referencing his father singing songs about Alexander the Great: Kuzman Shapkarev: Tale No 123 "The Good Is Never Lost", cited in Donski, Alexander "The Descendants of Alexander the Great of Macedonia".

Dimitar Makedonski Textbook: "Кратка свјаштена историја за училиштата во Македонија", 1867

Friedman, Victor. ''Macedonian Language and Nationalism During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries''. Balkanistica, Vol. 2, 1975. 83-98. Reprinted in Macedonian Review, Vol. 16, No. 3, 1986. 280-292 (the passage I have posted is from page 284)

Reference to Isaija Mazhovski's uncles singing songs about Caranus and Thessalonike: qtd from "Memories" (Sofia, 1922) cited from Donski, Alexander "The Descendants of Alexander the Great of Macedonia".

Raymond Detrez, "Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria" (2015), p. 317