Population of Macedonia and Adjacent Areas

[Pelister]

Mark Mazower is right in that there is usually this teleology that Macedonia was always Greek, or that people were always somehow Greeks. If we consider that they were Hellenized, then we must allow for the fact they became Greeks, and he is right to point out that the process of Hellenization is never fully accounted for.

[Pelister]

What interests me also is the mention that Arab armies laid siege to balkan cities in the 9th century.

I think we'll find our modern Albanians come from this stock.

[TrueMacedonian]

Salonica; City of Ghosts by Mark Mazower

Notice page 434 where Mazower states that todays imposter hellenes should tell the truth on how Macedonians, Albanians, and Vlachs became "greeks" through the church? He should've went on further to explain the language laws that were later on passed and how people were jailed for speaking their mother tongue.
But all in all pretty informative about the refugees or rather the "Eastern Christians".

[TrueMacedonian]

Thanks T.M.

The numbers produced by Piotr's book for the number of Macedonians in 1913 for the region of Serbian occupied Macedonia I think are very accurate.

Not really if we consider the so-called "grk" numbers then. Of course religious propaganda can be taken into consideration for those numbers. Check this one out Pelister;

Is she Greek yet, in these days, Salonica? On the new maps, sure; In the colours of the houses and the street signs, yes. But anywhere else? At its heart the city is not and has never been Greek...This is an international city par excellence. Or, rather, a denationalized city. Even after its annexation to Greece, the Greeks of Salonica are but a fraction, and not even the largest, of its inhabitants.

Dalla Serbia invasa alle trincee di Salonicco pages 113-114, A. Fraccaroli (Milan, 1916)

[Pelister]

Interesting Paul. This is the link to Piotr Eberhardt's book- http://books.google.com/books?id=jLf...edonia&f=false

Unfortunately I cannot see the pages a few behind the ones I posted. However I don't know what the exact population of the entire territory of Macedonia was in 1912? In Eberhardt's book he puts up a table for "Historical Macedonia" and a seperate one for "Present Territoy". I assume(d) the latter meant Macedonia as in "Aegean, Pirin, Vardar, Prespa,etc."

Thanks T.M.

The numbers produced by Piotr's book for the number of Macedonians in 1913 for the region of Serbian occupied Macedonia I think are very accurate.