Population of Macedonia and Adjacent Areas

[Carlin]

... Livy describes the settled barbarians in Macedon as 'a large population of Gauls and Illyrians, who are energetic farmers' (Liv. 45.29)

https://books.google.ca/books?id=cHx...armers&f=false

[Carlin]

- ... it was the influx (illegal) of ethnic Albanians from neighboring Albania into KosMet (and partially into Yugoslav Macedonia), both the migrant slow and steady and those termed as metanastatic movements. The first immigrant phenomenon appears slow and has effects which reveal along centuries, just like the high-rate natality effect. The second is noticeable and has profound psychological effects on the indigenous population, in this case, the Serbs and Montenegrins. It provokes massive moving out of the autochthonous inhabitants, mainly into Central Serbia.

- We should stress here that this effect hits not only Serbs but any non-Albanian ethnicity in KosMet. The latter have been moving from KosMet continuously, as well as from the western parts of North Macedonia. A typical example is the village of Janjina, very near to Priština and Gračanica, inhabited entirely by the Croats. The later have completely abandoned the village at the beginning of the Albanian (the Kosovo Liberation Army) rebellion (terrorism acts) in February 1998 and have moved to Croatia. The same applies to Roma and other “ethnic minorities”, like the so-called Egyptians, Ashkalias, Turks, and Muslim Bosniaks.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/kosovo...g-whom/5794125

[Carlin]

Božidar Vidoeski, 1998. Dijalektite na makedonskiot jazik. Vol. 1. Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite.

- "Заедно со македонско христијанско население Торбеши живеат и во селата: Могорче, Требиште, Велебрдо, Ростуше, Јанче, Долно Косоврасти (во Река), Горенци, Житинени (во Жупа), Џепиште, Себишта, Пасинки, Големо и Мало Острени, Требишта, (во Голо Брдо)"

- "Во западна Македонија исламизирано македонско население живее во неколку географски региони на македонско-албанската пограничје:... Голо Брдо (Врмница, Владимирци, Гиновци, Клење, Лешничани, Љуболези, Големо и Мало Острени, Окштун, Отишани, Пасинки, Радовиште, Себишча, Српетово, Стеблево, Тучепи, Торбач, Џепишта)"

- "Во повеќето од спомнативе села живее население - со македонски и со албански мачин јазик. Албанското население доминира во северните голобрдски села (Себишта, Пасинки, Врмница, Големо и Мало Острени). Селата: Лешничани, Требиште, Српетово, Торбач, Љуболези, Владимирица и Тучепи се населени со Македонски муслимани (Торбеши), а во Себишта, Требиште, Г. и М. Острени живее мешано население - православни и Торбеши"

[Carlin]

A scene from Skopje from 1904.

Albanians and Turks are allowed to carry weapons, but Macedonians are not.

https://twitter.com/DiMithril/status...C8maz7nLgtAAAA

[Liberator of Makedonija]

Originally Posted by Carlin

A scene from Skopje from 1904.

Albanians and Turks are allowed to carry weapons, but Macedonians are not.

https://twitter.com/DiMithril/status...C8maz7nLgtAAAA

Only muslims were permitted to carry arms.

[Risto the Great]

It's why the Albanians converted en masse and had the ability to move freely.

[Liberator of Makedonija]

In theory, Macedonian Muslims should have also been allowed to carry arms but I am not sure that was a common case? When reading about where the MRO received their arms, Albanian gunsmiths in Tetovo and Ottoman Army reservists (probably Turks) are mentioned. Also, in Dr. Nick Anastasovski's book "The Contest for Macedonian National Identity 1870-1912", he writes that Macedonian Muslims were preyed upon by Albanian armed bands just as Macedonian Christians were.