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Contrary to the belief of many of our neighbours, Macedonian communities do exist in their borders. I have created an ethnographic map of Macedonia to basically show people which ethnic groups live where. The map covers the Republic of Macedonia, Aegean Macedonia, Gora, Golo Brdo, Mala Prespa, some of Pirin Macedonia and Prohor Pcinjski.
*Because of it's large size I have had to post it in seperate parts roughly corresponding with the maps with some overlap.
Macedonia - Македонија
Mavrovo-Debar-Ohrid
Skopje-Prilep-Bitola
Stip-Strumica-Kriva Palanka
Pirin Macedonia
Kavala-Drama
Prespa-Kozani-Grevena
Gevgelija-Voden-Ber
Solun-Salonica
(Alternatively you should be able to acess the maps through this link [http://img6.imageshack.us/i/stipstrumica.jpg/] )
If you cannot see the key (it is in the Chalcidice map) then it is Red for Macedonians, Blue for Greeks, Orange for Macedonian Muslims, Light Green for Albanians, Bright Pink for Turks, Gold/Yellow for Aromanians/Megleno-Romanians, Olive for Serbs, Mauve for Bosniaks, Cyan for Romani, Green for Bulgarians and Black is for others. An “X” just means that the village (to the best of my knowledge) has no inhabitants, and thus no ethnic group is present.
Small circles are designated for villages and overlapping circles indicate that more then one ethnic group is present in the village. Three means that three are. I have only included the ethnicity of the minority population in the village if they comprised of roughly at least 10-20% of the population there. For small towns I have included a block of 4 squares and have been reserved for towns with roughly 5,000-15,000 inhabitants (some villages are over this 5,000 mark but have been still marked with a circle as they are not yet considered to be a town on their own). Cities are denoted by 9 squares or in the case of Skopje and Solun with many squares roughly in the shape of the city. Again, minority populations have only been depicted in cities if they are above the threshold of roughly 1 in 4 (small/medium towns) or 1/9 (cities).
I was unable to attain an entire village-by-village map of Macedonia, so I have had to piece together what I could from 2 different sources. Both are old, the paler one is from the early 20th century and still has the original village names whilst the less pale one is slightly newer (1940s) and is more resemblant of the Macedonia many of us are familiar with.
I acknowledge now that the map is not 100%, I probably have made some form or error along the way especially with the colours. Also my sources have been varied so I have been forced to work with the best material I was able to access, most of which I do not agree with eg. Vasil Kanchov etc. . If you do notice something about your own home village or one which you know definately know about, which is not 100% correct, please let me know so that I can fix it up. I also noticed that I have forgotten some villages on the map due to the lack of resources in some areas, so please do let me know about the correct population to add. I have left out most of Pirin Macedonia, firstly because of the lack of village by village census data and secondly due to the lack of information to tell me which villages were pro-Macedonian (Macedonian) and which were pro-Bulgarian (Bulgarian), given that many people who see themselves as ethnically Macedonian wrote Bulgarian in the last census and people who we would see as ethnically Macedonian in fact see themselves as ethnically Bulgarian. For the Macedonian Muslims villages which were writing down “Turkish”, “Albanian”, “Bosnian” etc. in the census data I have adjusted this based on other sources telling me of a more accurate description of the local population, eg. Labunista, Struga.
What I will probably be quizzed on the most. What were my sources?
Here is a list of many of the sources from where I got my information.
- Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Macedonia, 2002
- Населените Места Во Егејска Македонија. Тодор Симовски.
- Васил Кънчов. „Македония. Етнография и статистика“
- Riki Van Boeschoten. "Usage des langues minoritaires dans les départements de Florina et d’Aridea (Macédoine) [http://strates.revues.org/document381.html]
- Κατάλογος των προσφυγικών συνοικισμών της Μακεδονίας
σύμφωνα με τα στοιχεία της Επιτροπής Αποκαταστάσεως Προσφύγων (ΕΑΠ)
έτος 1928 [http://www.freewebs.com/onoma/eap.htm]
- Σπύρος Λουκάτος, Πολιτειογραφία της νομαρχιακής περιφέρειας της Θεσσαλονίκης, Μέρος Α’ Υποδιοικήσεις Βερροίας - Θεσσαλονίκης – Κατερίνης, Αθήνα 1987.
- ETHNIC BULGARIANS IN MALA PRESPA AND GOLO BRDO Tanya Mangalakova 2004
- Local village/town websites
- And other information which is readily found on the internet and also many small extracts from books pertainting to the village in question.
Hopefully after all of this clarification the map and process behind it is clear. Feel free to ask me any questions about it. I have really tried to be scientific with the data, however I have had some problems getting access to where many Aromanians and Armenians were re-settled across Aegean Macedonia.
Hopefully everyone will be able to help improve the map.
*Because of it's large size I have had to post it in seperate parts roughly corresponding with the maps with some overlap.
Macedonia - Македонија
Mavrovo-Debar-Ohrid
Skopje-Prilep-Bitola
Stip-Strumica-Kriva Palanka
Pirin Macedonia
Kavala-Drama
Prespa-Kozani-Grevena
Gevgelija-Voden-Ber
Solun-Salonica
(Alternatively you should be able to acess the maps through this link [http://img6.imageshack.us/i/stipstrumica.jpg/] )
If you cannot see the key (it is in the Chalcidice map) then it is Red for Macedonians, Blue for Greeks, Orange for Macedonian Muslims, Light Green for Albanians, Bright Pink for Turks, Gold/Yellow for Aromanians/Megleno-Romanians, Olive for Serbs, Mauve for Bosniaks, Cyan for Romani, Green for Bulgarians and Black is for others. An “X” just means that the village (to the best of my knowledge) has no inhabitants, and thus no ethnic group is present.
Small circles are designated for villages and overlapping circles indicate that more then one ethnic group is present in the village. Three means that three are. I have only included the ethnicity of the minority population in the village if they comprised of roughly at least 10-20% of the population there. For small towns I have included a block of 4 squares and have been reserved for towns with roughly 5,000-15,000 inhabitants (some villages are over this 5,000 mark but have been still marked with a circle as they are not yet considered to be a town on their own). Cities are denoted by 9 squares or in the case of Skopje and Solun with many squares roughly in the shape of the city. Again, minority populations have only been depicted in cities if they are above the threshold of roughly 1 in 4 (small/medium towns) or 1/9 (cities).
I was unable to attain an entire village-by-village map of Macedonia, so I have had to piece together what I could from 2 different sources. Both are old, the paler one is from the early 20th century and still has the original village names whilst the less pale one is slightly newer (1940s) and is more resemblant of the Macedonia many of us are familiar with.
I acknowledge now that the map is not 100%, I probably have made some form or error along the way especially with the colours. Also my sources have been varied so I have been forced to work with the best material I was able to access, most of which I do not agree with eg. Vasil Kanchov etc. . If you do notice something about your own home village or one which you know definately know about, which is not 100% correct, please let me know so that I can fix it up. I also noticed that I have forgotten some villages on the map due to the lack of resources in some areas, so please do let me know about the correct population to add. I have left out most of Pirin Macedonia, firstly because of the lack of village by village census data and secondly due to the lack of information to tell me which villages were pro-Macedonian (Macedonian) and which were pro-Bulgarian (Bulgarian), given that many people who see themselves as ethnically Macedonian wrote Bulgarian in the last census and people who we would see as ethnically Macedonian in fact see themselves as ethnically Bulgarian. For the Macedonian Muslims villages which were writing down “Turkish”, “Albanian”, “Bosnian” etc. in the census data I have adjusted this based on other sources telling me of a more accurate description of the local population, eg. Labunista, Struga.
What I will probably be quizzed on the most. What were my sources?
Here is a list of many of the sources from where I got my information.
- Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Macedonia, 2002
- Населените Места Во Егејска Македонија. Тодор Симовски.
- Васил Кънчов. „Македония. Етнография и статистика“
- Riki Van Boeschoten. "Usage des langues minoritaires dans les départements de Florina et d’Aridea (Macédoine) [http://strates.revues.org/document381.html]
- Κατάλογος των προσφυγικών συνοικισμών της Μακεδονίας
σύμφωνα με τα στοιχεία της Επιτροπής Αποκαταστάσεως Προσφύγων (ΕΑΠ)
έτος 1928 [http://www.freewebs.com/onoma/eap.htm]
- Σπύρος Λουκάτος, Πολιτειογραφία της νομαρχιακής περιφέρειας της Θεσσαλονίκης, Μέρος Α’ Υποδιοικήσεις Βερροίας - Θεσσαλονίκης – Κατερίνης, Αθήνα 1987.
- ETHNIC BULGARIANS IN MALA PRESPA AND GOLO BRDO Tanya Mangalakova 2004
- Local village/town websites
- And other information which is readily found on the internet and also many small extracts from books pertainting to the village in question.
Hopefully after all of this clarification the map and process behind it is clear. Feel free to ask me any questions about it. I have really tried to be scientific with the data, however I have had some problems getting access to where many Aromanians and Armenians were re-settled across Aegean Macedonia.
Hopefully everyone will be able to help improve the map.
What about Pirin? The majority of Pirin is Macedonian. How can you be certain about your own accuracies in map-making Crvena Mastika? Stick to making believe you're a Macedonian. You're doing a bad job on that as it is.
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