Surviving and Erased Cyrillic Writing in Greek Occupied Macedonia

[julie]

There should be laws passed, that is the desecration of ancient artifacts and buildings which should be heritage listed. Swine.

[MacoLionHeartSun]

Isn't this just disgusting that our heritage and our culture can be erased by these invading 'Greeks'.

I can only think about the Macedonian artesans, Macedonian painters and designers, who painted such beautiful things on the walls of our Churches, and 'signatured' their masterwork with their own language - Macedonian.

The Greeks can not/will not erase our souls; we are Macedonians from Macedonia....

[Pelister]

Isn't this just disgusting that our heritage and our culture can be erased by these invading 'Greeks'.

I can only think about the Macedonian artesans, Macedonian painters and designers, who painted such beautiful things on the walls of our Churches, and 'signatured' their masterwork with their own language - Macedonian.

[Niko777]

I have a picture from the church St. George (11th century) in s. Gališča, Kostursko (where my great-grandfather was born).

Older pictures show this mural had a landscape in the background (typical for depictions of St. George slaying the dragon) with Cyrillic text. The picture I took last year shows a messy tricolor scheme without any text.

Apparently, this church was "restored" twice — once in 1950 and again in 1989. My uncle had taken pictures during the second "restoration" where one can clearly see the mural had been whitewashed yet again.

In 1872, a wall partially collapsed which exposed a vault of Old Church Slavonic parchment manuscripts. The-then metropolitan Nikiforos ordered they be burned.

Unfortunately this was toward the end of my stay in Kostur and my batteries died so I couldn't take closer shots. Because of the low resolution allowed on the forum, you won't be able to zoom far into the mural.

[Niko777]

Thank you for uploading those photos. If anyone has any other photos or comments please share them with us here.

[Daskalot]

It is impressive to see that there are traces of our written language until this very day in the 97% pure Greek nation.

[George S.]

l find that disgusting that someone has to destroy something sacred as a church.What right have they got to do this.

[Risto the Great]

I think it says "Go Collingwood". Must have been Greek.

[Bill77]

I came across these on a house in Buff. (Its a pity Jill did not comes across them and asked the locals about it)

You can see they were painted over but the covering is starting to erode which is starting to expose what once was there. I can't quite make out the writing, mabe some of you can decipher it. I can see "1945" so it would have been around that period.

These are actual photos from video. I might download the video one day that shows the writing clearer and in context as i pan across.

[Risto the Great]

Deni, most people use photobucket.com or similar for uploading pictures. There is no size limit if you do it that way.
It would be great to see better pictures of this church.

cheers

[Дени]

I have a picture from the church St. George (11th century) in s. Gališča, Kostursko (where my great-grandfather was born).

Older pictures show this mural had a landscape in the background (typical for depictions of St. George slaying the dragon) with Cyrillic text. The picture I took last year shows a messy tricolor scheme without any text.

Apparently, this church was "restored" twice — once in 1950 and again in 1989. My uncle had taken pictures during the second "restoration" where one can clearly see the mural had been whitewashed yet again.

In 1872, a wall partially collapsed which exposed a vault of Old Church Slavonic parchment manuscripts. The-then metropolitan Nikiforos ordered they be burned.

Unfortunately this was toward the end of my stay in Kostur and my batteries died so I couldn't take closer shots. Because of the low resolution allowed on the forum, you won't be able to zoom far into the mural.

[Niko777]

The NMacedonians would never do such a thing it's called desecration why is it they need to destroy & change things.

Yes you are correct, there are Byzantine Iconography in Macedonia written with Greek script and none have been erased, in fact they are proudly displayed and preserved in museums and galleries. Only those who feel paranoid and guilty would hide and destroy.

[George S.]

The NMacedonians would never do such a thing it's called desecration why is it they need to destroy & change things.

[Risto the Great]

If that was all the maggots erased, it wouldn't have been so bad.
But a century of this has driven humanity right out of the Greek identity.

[Niko777]

Zhelevo (Antartikon), Lerin Region