Association of Serbo-Macedonians
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== History == |
== History == |
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{{See also|Serbomans}} |
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[[File:Kosta Grupčević.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Kosta Grupčević]], an activist of the association.]] |
[[File:Kosta Grupčević.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Kosta Grupčević]], an activist of the association.]] |
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The founders of the association had all formerly been members of the [[Secret Macedonian Committee]] (SMC).{{cite book |author=Denis Š. Ljuljanović |date=2023 |title=Imagining Macedonia in the Age of Empire: State Policies, Networks and Violence (1878-1912) |publisher=Lit Verlag |isbn=9783643914460 |pages=189–190}} SMC was founded by Slavic Macedonian expatriate students in [[Sofia]], [[Principality of Bulgaria]], but it was quickly uncovered by the Bulgarian authorities and disbanded.{{cite book |title=Македония: История и политическа съдба |author=Петър Петров |publisher="Znanie" OOD |date=1996 |language=bg |isbn=9789546211040 |page=252}} Four of its members left Bulgaria, and went to [[Belgrade]], [[Principality of Serbia]], to support Serbian policy. The first "Gathering of Serbo-Macedonians and Old Serbs" was held in Belgrade on February 23, 1885, where the participants requested the implementation of Serbian national policy in Ottoman Macedonia to protect Serbian national interests by the Serbian prime minister [[Milutin Garašanin]].{{cite book |title=The Macedonian Historical Themes |author=Lazo Mojsov |publisher=Jugoslovenska stvarnost-Medjunarodna politika |date=1979 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Macedonian_Historical_Themes/O3q4AAAAIAAJ?hl=en |page=82}}{{cite book |title=Dynamics and Policies of Prejudice from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century |editor=Giuseppe Motta |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |date=2018 |isbn=9781527517004 |page=237}} |
The founders of the association had all formerly been members of the [[Secret Macedonian Committee]] (SMC).{{cite book |author=Denis Š. Ljuljanović |date=2023 |title=Imagining Macedonia in the Age of Empire: State Policies, Networks and Violence (1878-1912) |publisher=Lit Verlag |isbn=9783643914460 |pages=189–190}} SMC was founded by Slavic Macedonian expatriate students in [[Sofia]], [[Principality of Bulgaria]], but it was quickly uncovered by the Bulgarian authorities and disbanded.{{cite book |title=Македония: История и политическа съдба |author=Петър Петров |publisher="Znanie" OOD |date=1996 |language=bg |isbn=9789546211040 |page=252}} Four of its members left Bulgaria, and went to [[Belgrade]], [[Principality of Serbia]], to support Serbian policy. The first "Gathering of Serbo-Macedonians and Old Serbs" was held in Belgrade on February 23, 1885, where the participants requested the implementation of Serbian national policy in Ottoman Macedonia to protect Serbian national interests by the Serbian prime minister [[Milutin Garašanin]].{{cite book |title=The Macedonian Historical Themes |author=Lazo Mojsov |publisher=Jugoslovenska stvarnost-Medjunarodna politika |date=1979 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Macedonian_Historical_Themes/O3q4AAAAIAAJ?hl=en |page=82}}{{cite book |title=Dynamics and Policies of Prejudice from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century |editor=Giuseppe Motta |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |date=2018 |isbn=9781527517004 |page=237}} |
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