Macedonia; Its Races and Their Future

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Metheun, 1906 - 340 стор.
 

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Сторінка 176 - without their aid the Greeks would cut a poor figure among the statistics of the Macedonian races. The so-called 'Greeks' of Monastir are Vlachs to a man".
Сторінка 107 - One turns from a survey of these races and their rivalries, asking what future of peace and common work there can be while the curse of this national idea still teaches men that the vital fact in their lives is the tradition, or the memory, or the habit of speech, which divides them from one another.
Сторінка 176 - Greeks would cut a poor figure among the statistics of the Macedonian races. The so-called " Greeks " of Monastir are Vlachs to a man. They form a considerable and continuous group along the Pindus range, wedged between Thessaly and Epirus. They are numerous once more between Olympus and Kara-Veria (the ancient Beroea). Elsewhere they have scattered villages, all built like Pisoderi among the rocks. Kruchevo, Neveska, and Klissoura are the most notable of these mountain-nests. They seem to be the...
Сторінка 175 - Half waking, half dreaming, there rang in my ears the baffling music of some tongue as familiar as one's schoolroom. The bread which the children put on the table was pan, the dog over which they stumbled was can. It seemed as though we had crossed centuries as well as mountains, and found a Roman camp within this fastness of the snows and mists. The morning light only increased the puzzle. It was a little village roughly built of undressed stone, as untidy, as careless of form as any Bulgarian hamlet....
Сторінка 174 - ... temporary refuge, and after a perilous voyage among the morasses and precipices round which the village seemed to be built we were installed in the headman's house, and there again, to eyes accustomed to the squalor and misery of Bulgarian hamlets, the surroundings breathed of distant civilisations. The floors were boarded, the walls were papered, and on them hung a map of Europe as though to remind the children who played around it that Macedonia belongs by right to the Western world of enlightenment...
Сторінка 187 - The Vlachs are, in a sense, the pivot of the Macedonian question. They are not numerous in comparison with the Bulgarians, or even with the Albanians. But without them the Greeks would cut a sorry figure...
Сторінка 67 - Indeed the Cross in the east has become so much a mere symbol of warfare that it is a little difficult to define Orthodox Christianity in any but negative terms. I doubt if it has any important bearing on conduct, and certainly in its traditions there is no longer a trace of that humanitarian spirit of mercy and love which the modern mind tends more and more to read into religion.
Сторінка 130 - A word from a Greek bishop would often condemn a whole Bulgarian hamlet to the flames. A Bulgarian band, descending by night upon a hostile village to murder a spy-priest and to burn his house, was not always careful to save his widow and her children from the conflagration.'1 The Serbs, too, complained of villages depopulated or destroyed.
Сторінка 102 - Is your village Greek," I asked him, " or Bulgarian ? " " Well," he replied, " it is Bulgarian now, but four years ago it was Greek." The answer seemed to him entirely natural and commonplace. " How," I asked in some bewilderment, "did that miracle come about...
Сторінка 218 - Greek organisation is clearly to prove that Macedonia is Greek by exterminating the Bulgarians. The -worst of this practical ethnography is that it leaves so many corpses to testify to the contrary thesis.

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