Central Macedonia

Central Macedonia, which is equally remote from Greece, Bulgaria, and Servia.

The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition Jacob Gould Schurman 1898

Bulgarians have a right to claim Central Macedonia.

The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition Jacob Gould Schurman 1898

Bulgaria and Servia, but conditions had changed materially in the interval and Servia now demanded a revision of the treaty and refused to withdraw her troops from Central Macedonia, which the treaty had marked for reversion to Bulgaria.

The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition Jacob Gould Schurman 1898

Great Powers to withdraw her troops from Albania, after they had triumphantly made their way to the Adriatic, she was now requested by Bulgaria to evacuate Central Macedonia up to the Ochrida-Golema

The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition Jacob Gould Schurman 1898

Central Macedonia has its own dialects, any one of which under happy literary auspices might have developed into a separate language.

The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition Jacob Gould Schurman 1898

Descending at Veles I drove across Central Macedonia by way of

The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition Jacob Gould Schurman 1898

If Mr. Gueshoff was ready to arrange some accommodation with Mr. Pashitch, the military party in Bulgaria was all the more insistent in its demands on Servia for the evacuation of Central Macedonia.

The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition Jacob Gould Schurman 1898

It does not follow, however, that the people of Central Macedonia, even if Bulgarian churches are in the ascendant among them, are really connected by ties of blood and language with Bulgaria rather than with Servia.

The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition Jacob Gould Schurman 1898

And the Servians were now asking, in bitter irony, whether they had gone to war solely for the benefit of Bulgaria; whether besides helping her to win all Thrace and Eastern Macedonia they were now to present her with Central Macedonia, and that at a time when the European Concert had stripped them of the expected prize of

The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition Jacob Gould Schurman 1898

Why then was Bulgaria so insistent on getting beyond that base line, crossing the Vardar, and possessing herself of Central Macedonia up to Ochrida and the eastern frontier of

The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition Jacob Gould Schurman 1898