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The number of people speaking Slavic dialects has been estimated at somewhere between 10,000 and 250,000. [f] Most of these people however do not have an ethnic Macedonian national consciousness, with most choosing to identify as ethnic Greeks [259] or rejecting both ethnic designations and preferring terms such as "natives" instead. [260]
The majority of these people are descended from World War II and Greek Civil War refugees who fled to the then Bulgarian-occupied Yugoslav Macedonia and People's Republic of Macedonia. The years following the conflict saw the repatriation of many refugees mainly from Eastern Bloc countries. The refugees were primarily settled in deserted ...
The introduction of Slavic liturgy paralleled Boris I's continued development of churches and monasteries throughout his realm. In the early 9th century, most of the region of Macedonia (excluding the area of Thessaloniki), as well as large parts of the Balkan peninsula, were incorporated into the First Bulgarian Empire.
For many centuries, Slavic people who settled on the Balkans spoke their own dialects and used other dialects or languages to communicate with other people. [5] The "canonical" Old Church Slavonic period of the development of Macedonian started in the 9th century and lasted until the first half of the 11th century.
Macedonians (ethnic group), a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North Macedonia; Macedonians (Greeks), the Greek people inhabiting or originating from Macedonia, a geographic and administrative region of Greece; Macedonian Bulgarians, the Bulgarian people from the region of Macedonia
Statue of Georgi Pulevski, a major figure who endorsed the concept of an ethnic Macedonian identity, resulting in the foundation of Macedonian nationalism [37]. In the 19th century, the region of Macedonia became the object of competition by rival nationalisms, initially Greek nationalists, Serbian nationalists and Bulgarian nationalists that each made claims about the Slavic-speaking ...
It is the second country after North Macedonia with the largest number of native speakers. Macedonian has had a long history in Australia, from the pečalbari/seasonal workers to the mass migrations of ethnic Macedonians from Greece and the Republic of North Macedonia. The 1976 census reported that 16,691 people spoke Macedonian at home.
Slavic-speakers inhabiting the Ottoman-ruled region of Macedonia had settled in the area since the Slavic migrations during the Middle Ages and formed a distinct ethnolinguistic group. While Greek was spoken in the urban centers and in a coastal zone in the south of the region, Slav-speakers were abundant in its rural hinterland and were ...