Macedonian Identity throughout history:Church, Language, Nation

Abstract

National Identity of each society is consisted of : National wealth; Intellectual orCultural-Spiritual wealth and; Material wealth Among the reasons why Macedonia did not gain independence are: Not havingrecognized Macedonian Orthodox Church; Presence of Bulgarian, Serbian and Greekpropagandas; Not a single big power supported officially Macedonian liberation movement; Macedonian national name, officially still unrecognized as state washardly noticed in public.; Unrecognized Macedonian literature languageWith Bucharest peace agreement in 1913 territory of Macedonia was divided between, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece. In 1893 was formed "Interior Macedonian Revolutionary Organization- VMRO" that played very important role in liberation struggle of Macedonian nation. Most important Macedonian uprising, "Ilinden Uprising" started on 2nd of August 1903. For ten days revolutionists liberate small territory around Krusevo, where they established democratic commune Krusevo Republic, first republic on the Balkan. Until the beginning of World War II official position of Yugoslav state was that Slavic from Macedonia are not constituted as different ethnic and national group, but that they represent South Serbians. This denial of the Macedonian ethnicity was present as well in Greece, Bulgaria and Albania. At the end of...