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Chapters: History of the Jews in Monastir, Theodor Dannecker, Petur Gabrovski, Alexander Belev. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pogroms: Kristallnacht Bucharest Dorohoi Iai Kaunas Jedwabne Lviv (Lvov) On March 11 1943, the Sephardic Jewish community of Monastir, historically the largest Jewish community in Macedonia was deported. The Jews who trace their ancestry to the Macedonian city known since 1913 as Bitola continue to call the city by the name it bore during centuries of Ottoman rule: Monastir. Between 1941 and 1944, Bulgaria, in alliance with Nazi Germany, occupied the Yugoslav province of Macedonia. On March 11, 1943, in cooperation with the Germans, Bulgarian military and police officials rounded up 3,276 of Monastir's Jewish men, women, and children, deported them to German-controlled territory and turned them over to the custody of German officials. The Germans transported the Jewish population of Monastir and environs to their deaths in Treblinka as part of their plan to murder all European Jews. Although Jews had lived in Monastir from Roman times, the Sephardic Jews, who originally migrated from the Iberian Peninsula in the fifteenth century, became the predominant group in the town by the sixteenth century. They maintained a highly traditional and distinctive lifestyle characterized by residence in a Jewish quarter, attachment to the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language and Sephardic folklore, commitment to Jewish religious observance, and allegiance to Jewish communal institutions including synagogues, religious schools, religious courts, and mutual aid societies. In 1863, after a fire destroyed much of the Jewish quarter, the community turned to the Jewish world's leading philanthropist, England's Sir Moses Montefiore, for assista...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12782403 ... Read more

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Chapters: Demographic History of Macedonia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 178. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The region of Macedonia is known to have been inhabited since Paleolithic times. Early historical inhabitants of the region were the Ancient Macedonians, Phrygians, Thracians and Illyrians. Thracians in early times occupied mainly the eastern parts of Macedonia (Mygdonia, Crestonia, Bisaltia) but were also present in Eordaia and Pieria. Illyrians once occupied many parts of west Macedonia. The ancient Macedonians established their kingdom in the southern extremities of the region but would later expand into other parts of Macedonia. Paeonia was in ancient region, later kingdom, the exact boundaries of which are obscure. In the time of king Philip II of Macedon, Paeonia covered most of what is now the Republic of Macedonia, and was located immediately north of ancient Macedon and south of Dardania. The Paeonians seem to have been Thracian tribes, though they were considered to be of mixed Thraco-Illyrian origin. The name of the region of Macedonia (Greek: , Makedonia) derives from the tribal name of the ancient Macedonians (Greek: , Makedónes). According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the Makednoi (Greek: ) were a Dorian tribe that stayed behind during the great southward migration of the Dorian Greeks (Histories 1.56.1). The word "Makednos" is cognate with the Doric Greek word "" akos (Attic form - "mékos"), which is Greek for "length". The ancient Macedonians took this name either because they were physically tall, or because they settled in the mountains. The latter definition would translate "Macedonian" as "Highlander". Expansion of MacedonMost academics take the view that the ancient Macedonians probably spoke either a language that was a member of the North-We...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=483395 ... Read more

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Chapters: Demographic History of Macedonia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 59. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The region of Macedonia is known to have been inhabited since Paleolithic times. Early historical inhabitants of the region were the Ancient Macedonians, Phrygians, Thracians and Illyrians. Thracians in early times occupied mainly the eastern parts of Macedonia (Mygdonia, Crestonia, Bisaltia) but were also present in Eordaia and Pieria. Illyrians once occupied many parts of west Macedonia. The ancient Macedonians established their kingdom in the southern extremities of the region but would later expand into other parts of Macedonia. Paeonia was in ancient region, later kingdom, the exact boundaries of which are obscure. In the time of king Philip II of Macedon, Paeonia covered most of what is now the Republic of Macedonia, and was located immediately north of ancient Macedon and south of Dardania. The Paeonians seem to have been Thracian tribes, though they were considered to be of mixed Thraco-Illyrian origin. The name of the region of Macedonia (Greek: , Makedonia) derives from the tribal name of the ancient Macedonians (Greek: , Makedónes). According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the Makednoi (Greek: ) were a Dorian tribe that stayed behind during the great southward migration of the Dorian Greeks (Histories 1.56.1). The word "Makednos" is cognate with the Doric Greek word "" akos (Attic form - "mékos"), which is Greek for "length". The ancient Macedonians took this name either because they were physically tall, or because they settled in the mountains. The latter definition would translate "Macedonian" as "Highlander". Expansion of MacedonMost academics take the view that the ancient Macedonians probably spoke either a language that was a member of the North-Wes...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=483395 ... Read more

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Chapters: The Holocaust in Greek Macedonia, the Holocaust in Yugoslav Macedonia, History of the Jews in Monastir, Theodor Dannecker, Petur Gabrovski, Alexander Belev, Destruction of the Jews of Salonica. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pogroms: Kristallnacht Bucharest Dorohoi Iai Kaunas Jedwabne Lviv (Lvov) On March 11 1943, the Sephardic Jewish community of Monastir, historically the largest Jewish community in Macedonia was deported. The Jews who trace their ancestry to the Macedonian city known since 1913 as Bitola continue to call the city by the name it bore during centuries of Ottoman rule: Monastir. Between 1941 and 1944, Bulgaria, in alliance with Nazi Germany, occupied the Yugoslav province of Macedonia. On March 11, 1943, in cooperation with the Germans, Bulgarian military and police officials rounded up 3,276 of Monastir's Jewish men, women, and children, deported them to German-controlled territory and turned them over to the custody of German officials. The Germans transported the Jewish population of Monastir and environs to their deaths in Treblinka as part of their plan to murder all European Jews. Although Jews had lived in Monastir from Roman times, the Sephardic Jews, who originally migrated from the Iberian Peninsula in the fifteenth century, became the predominant group in the town by the sixteenth century. They maintained a highly traditional and distinctive lifestyle characterized by residence in a Jewish quarter, attachment to the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language and Sephardic folklore, commitment to Jewish religious observance, and allegiance to Jewish communal institutions including synagogues, religious schools, religious courts, and mutual aid societies. In 1863, after a fire destroyed much of the Jewish quarter, th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12782403 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from History Behind the Headlines, Vols. 1-6, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 7724 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Presents in-depth information on conflicts appearing in today's headlines. Users are provided with historical background and analysis to events to give a greater understanding of the politics, players, and layers of current affairs. ... Read more

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This book is part of the Our Name in History series, a collection of fascinating facts and statistics, alongside short historical commentary, created to tell the story of previous generations who have shared this name.The information in this book is a compendium of research and data pulled from census records, military records, ships' logs, immigrant and port records, as well as other reputable sources. Topics include:

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Macedonia. History of the Republic of Macedonia, South Slavs, Macedonian nationalism, Socialist Republic of Macedonia, 2001 insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia, Geography of the Republic of Macedonia, List of mountains in the Republic of Macedonia, Municipalities of the Republic of Macedonia, Politics of the Republic of Macedonia, Foreign relations of the Republic of Macedonia, Macedonia naming dispute, Military of the Republic of Macedonia, Tourism in the Republic of Macedonia, Macedonians (ethnic group), Demographics of the Republic of Macedonia, Macedonian Orthodox Church, History of the Jews in the Republic of Macedonia, Macedonian culture (Slavic), Music of the Republic of Macedonia, Public holidays in the Republic of Macedonia, Macedonia (terminology), Macedonian language, Army of Macedon, Macedonian Air Force, Outline of Macedonia ... Read more

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Chapters: Refugees of the Greek Civil War, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Macedonian Front, History of Modern Macedonia, Abecedar, Movement of National Defence, Aegean Macedonia, Vassilis Vassilikos, Incident at Petrich, Armistice With Bulgaria. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 67. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Political refugees of the Greek Civil War were members or sympathisers of the defeated communist forces who fled Greece during or in the aftermath of the Civil War of 19461949. The collapse of the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) and the evacuation of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) to Tashkent in 1949 led thousands of people to leave the country. It has been estimated that by 1949 over 100,000 people had left Greece, including tens of thousands of child refugees who had been evacuated by the KKE in an organised campaign. The war wreaked widespread devastation right across Greece and particularly in the regions of Macedonia and Epirus, causing many people to continue to leave the country even after the end of the war. Many people fled due the collapse of the DSE, it has also been claimed that many ethnic Macedonians fled to avoid possible persecution by the advancing National Army.. A term used to describe the experience of the ethnic Macedonians who left Greece as a result of the Civil War is the Exodus of Macedonians from Greece, particularly in the Republic of Macedonia and the ethnic Macedonian diaspora. The KKE claims that the total number of political refugees was 55,881, an estimated 28,000 - 32,000 children were evacuated during the Greek Civil War, A 1951 document from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia states that the total number of Slav-Macedonians that left Greece during the Civil War was 28,595 whereas some ethnic Macedonian sources put the number o...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13738206 ... Read more

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Chapters: Medieval Macedonia (Greece), Modern History of Greek Macedonia, Ottoman-Era Macedonia (Greece), Prehistory of Greek Macedonia, Roman Thessalonica, Refugees of the Greek Civil War, Gotse Delchev, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Demetrius Vikelas, Macedonian Front, Krste Misirkov, History of Modern Macedonia, Abecedar, Movement of National Defence, Ioannis Kottounios, Gazi Evrenos, Battle of Setina, Aegean Macedonia, Athanasius Parios, Achillius of Larissa, Andon Dimitrov, Toumba, Theodoros Natsinas, Presian Inscription, Vassilis Vassilikos, Incident at Petrich, Battle of Serres, Dimo Hadzhidimov, Hristo Makedonski, Aiani Archaeological Museum, Assiros, Ivan Hadzhinikolov, Panhellenion, Banitsa, Siderocausa, Armistice With Bulgaria, Stamatios Kleanthis, Dimitar Blagoev, Hristo Batandzhiev, Georgios Lassanis, Anastasios Michail, Battle of Ostrovo, Athanasios Christopoulos, Sevastos Leontiadis, Archaeological Museum of Kozani, Konstantinos Kallokratos, Kallinikos Manios, Michail Papageorgiou, Georgios Sakellarios, Damaskinos Stouditis, Dimitrios Karakasis, Konstantinos Michail, Georgios Parakeimenos, Prehistoric Antiquities Museum of Thessaloniki, Strymon, Archanthropus of Petralona. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 200. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Political refugees of the Greek Civil War were members or sympathisers of the defeated communist forces who fled Greece during or in the aftermath of the Civil War of 19461949. The collapse of the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) and the evacuation of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) to Tashkent in 1949 led thousands of people to leave the country. It has been estimated that by 1949 over 100,000 people had left Greece, including tens of thousands of child refugees who had been evacuated by the KKE in an organised campaign. The wa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13738206 ... Read more

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Chapters: Ivan Mihailov, History of the Jews in Monastir, Miladinov Brothers, Hajduk, Hristofor Zhefarovich, Kosovo Province, Ottoman Empire, Georgi Pulevski, Karposh's Rebellion, Theofylaktos Papakonstantinou, Grigor Parlichev, Michael Sionidis, Yordan Piperkata, Battle of Smilevo, Monastir Province, Ottoman Empire. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 71. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ivan Mihailov Gavrilov (Bulgarian: , (August 26, 1896, Novo Selo, present-day Republic of Macedonia September 5, 1990, Rome, Italy) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary in Ottoman and interwar Macedonia, leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) after 1924. In Republic of Macedonia he is considered a Bulgarophile. Ivan Mihailov was born on August 26, 1896, in the village of Novo Selo (now part of tip Municipality, Republic of Macedonia) in the Ottoman Empire. Mihailov studied at the Bulgarian Men's High School in Thessaloniki up until the Second Balkan War when the school was closed by the new Greek administration, he later continued his studies at a Serbian school in Skopje. He was offered a scholarship by the Serbian Ministry of Education to pursue a degree at a European university but declined, later enlisting in the Bulgarian army, which had by that time occupied a significant portion of the region. After the end of World War I, Mihailov emigrated to Bulgaria, settling in Sofia. Here he began studying law at the Sofia University, at which time he was contacted by IMRO activists and offered to work as a personal secretary for IMRO's leader at that time, Todor Aleksandrov. On August 31, 1924, Todor Aleksandrov was assassinated in unclear circumstances and IMRO soon came under the control of Mihailov, who had become a powerful figure in Bulgarian politics. IMRO's leade...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1407767 ... Read more

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Chapters: Aromanian Language, List of Aromanian Settlements, Moscopole, Aromanians in the Republic of Macedonia, History of the Aromanians, Aromanian Alphabet, Names of the Aromanians, Jireček Line, Great Wallachia, Alexandru Arşinel. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 96. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Aromanian and other languages in the areas in which they live Aromanians (Macedono-Vlachs or Arman-Macedonians or Macedono-Romanians; in Aromanian they call themselves Armãnji, Armin, Rrãmãnji, or Vlaçi) ) are a people living throughout the southern Balkans, especially in northern Greece, Albania, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria, and as an emigrant community in Romania (Dobruja). They are the second most populous group of Vlachs, after the modern-day Romanians. They speak the Aromanian language, a Romance language typically classed as distinct from Romanian proper, or Daco-Romanian, which has many slightly varying dialects of its own. Due to the common language foundations, dating from the times of Latin language, historians believe that the language link with Romanian was interrupted between the 7th and 9th centuries. The name Armãn - EN Aromanian, just as Romanian, derives directly from Latin Romanus ("Roman") through regular sound changes. The initial a- is a regular epenthetic vowel, occurring when certain consonant clusters are formed (this a- is not, as folk etymology sometimes has it, related to the negative or privative a- of Latin). In Albania, the most common form is rrãmãnji or rrãmenji. Nominated according to the geographic area, Aromanians are grouped into several "branches": "Pindians" (Aromanian "Pindenji" concentrated in and around the Pindus Mountains of Northern and Central Greece, Western region of Macedonia, and Southern Albania - a.k.a. Northern E...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=323104 ... Read more

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Insulting
Alice Ackermann assembled an excellent list of well known people in Macedonia, interviewed them on videotape and wrote this book.The videotape would be a better buy.The book, wasting one rather long chapter on other countries unrelated in order to garner academic collegial points, and maintaining throughout the jargon of conflict resolution, is valuable mostly for its quotations from her interviews.Even these are marred by the absence of questioned asked to elicit the excerpts included from the replies as the context.One star goes to the interviews

The book is marred throughout with the very irritating feature of calling Macedonians as other than they like to be called in order to divisively hold them as a foil to the people she terms "Ethnic Albanians."Recent genome studies of Albanians and other Europeans show both Albanians and Greeks to be extremely mixed peoples with remnants of the unique characteristics of many peoples as identified by the introduction of various markers from the Euro Altaic steppes to Turkey and the Middle East as well as the Balkan peninsula and most of Eastern Europe and North Africa.There are close similarities between the complex ethnic makeup of Albanians, Turks [of Turkey] and Greeks. Relatively "pure" "ethnicities", to use terms that should be irrelevant today, such as the Basques and Sardinians, have relatively simple blood profiles, with perhaps three strains.Albanians, Greeks and Turks have over seven.Macedonians have four. These "Ethnic" Albanians discussed in her book are contrasted with "Slavic" Macedonians, a term actually openly despised by Macedonians.Not only does she feel compelled to identify the two largest groups of peoples in Macedonia by such divisive terminological standards and by blood lineage, and that inaccurately, never conceiving any of Macedonia's peoples as simply Macedonians, she feels so compelled to make such distinctions that she adds the words "Slavic" and "Ethnic" in brackets to interview text, as if explaining that people as they are normally called must be corrected by errata and corrigenda.

To even divide people in such a way, between an ethnicity and a member of an overriding ethnic group from a couple thousand years ago, i.e. as a part of a late antique horde, goes beyond irritating to artificially divisive.It is also an unfair divisor, as she does not seem compelled to similarly label Slav Serbs, Slav Croats, Slav Poles, Slav Ukrainians, Slav Russians, Slav Slovenians, Slav Slovaks, Slav Bulgarians, Slav Czechs, Slav Russians, and numerous other peoples who are partly or wholly derivative of the numerous Slav hordes that invaded the Balkans between the 2d and the 6th centuries.

As to the contents of the book apart from nomenclature, she provides a survey of various IO and NGO actors on the scene in Macedonia through 1998, giving a rather more prominent role to the effects of foreign rather than domestic actors, few unavoidably stellar personalities like Violetta Petroska-Beska and President Gligorov excepted.

One gets the distinct impression that she spent the majority of her research time in Skopje and on the Kosovo and Serbian border with an occasional foray to Ohrid, venturing not terribly far into the interior of the country. ... Read more

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Ever since the discovery, in 1977, of the royal tombs of Vergina and the treasures they contained, an increasingly rich and nuanced portrait of ancient Macedonia has emerged from the ongoing archaeological excavation and historical research. The evidence testifies to the enormous cultural wealth of this ancient kingdom, which, despite its many internal and external conflicts, brought the fruits of Greek civilization to the very ends of the known world, while preserving its own distinctive cultural features. This book, intended for general readers and specialists alike, conveys the excitement of the recent discoveries by combining splendid illustrations with a synthesis of up-to-date archaeological and art historical information provided by leading French and Greek experts in both fields. Together the authors cover Macedonia from the ascendancy of Philip II to its defeat by the Romans.A kingdom located at the outskirts of the Greek city-states, Macedonia in many respects may appear to have been backward in its lifestyle. But the evidence of an original currency and the exploitation of forests and precious metals reveals that its cities had developed sophisticated economies. A flourishing of artistic activity has also been detected in the unearthing of astounding examples of funerary architecture, frescos and paintings that tell us much about Greek painting, and an extraordinary body of mosaics and metal work. Incorporating these and many more discoveries, this book is both a technical reference and a lavish work of art history.The contributors, in addition to Ren Ginouvs, are Iannis Akamatis, Manolis Andronicos, Aikatrini Despinis, Stella Drougou, Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets, Miltiade Hatzopoulos, Lilly Kahil, Georgia Karamitrou-Mendessidi, Kalliopi D. Lazaridou, Dimitris Pandermalis, Olivier Picard, and Michel Sakellariou. ... Read more

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Excellent work
This is one of the best books about ancient Macedonia , if not the best. It is probably the first time we have a book based on solid archaeological evidence. It is a fantastic reference for everyone who wishes to study the life of this ancient Greek kingdom.
Highly recommended.
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Excellent presentation
Kofos is one the few scholars with a deep knowledge of the Macedonian Question. In a question overloaded by conflicting propagandas this book is a valuable companion to separate the facts from the myths.

An EXCELLENT study regarding the troubled Balkan region!
Recent events in the Balkans have shown that due to the ethnological, geopolitical and historical complexity of the region, serious in depth analysis is of paramount importance in understanding the truth.
Apart from the thousands that have died as a result of the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990's, another victim has been the truth, as is the case in most wars, especially in the 20th century.
The fact is that the truth is based on undisputed facts (dates, events etc).Moreover, in relation to opinion, the truth always lies somewhere in the middle.Unfortunately, the previous "reviewer," instead of treating this book for what it is, i.e. a valuable primary source from the Greek point of view, he dismisses it on the grounds that is written by Greek scholars, while adding irrelevant and unsupported assumptions from an unknown origin.The "reviewer" states: "Official Greek government policy was that Macedonia did not exist". The question is how can Greece, of all countries, deny the existence of her own history?A rather childish and yet dangerous reaction coming as a result of Yugoslav communist propaganda and indoctrination aiming at conditioning the majority Bulgarian-Slavic population of South Serbia into believing they belong to a fictitious "Macedonian" nationality.What's next? Did the Vikings build the Parthenon, were the Spartans African spearmen or was Alexander the Great a Slav?
Let's be serious.In a democracy all voices should be heard instead of being immediately disregarded on the basis of their origin.One cannot and should not silence another just because they disagree with them!At the same time, however, the truth should be protected at all cost and not be left to be sacrificed inpursuit of political agendas.
This book provides a valuable insight in the study of Macedonia.It is a "must" for any serious historian or political analyst interested in the Balkan region.

Greek Denial of the MACEDONIAN Name!
The most important thing to remember about the "Macedonian conflict" is that the Greek position has changed dramatically over the past decade. Official Greek government policy was that Macedonia did not exist. When Greece took over Aegean Macedonia in 1913, they killed, tortured and ethnically cleansed hundreds of thousands of Macedonians. They changed the names of people, villages, and landmarks from Macedonian to Greek in their attempts to eradicate the Macedonian name. Two things to remember:

1. It is ironic that Greeks now "love Macedonia" when they tried to eradicate its very existence.

2. If Macedonia has always been Greek, why did the Greek government deny its existence until the 1980's? ... Read more