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From the Publisher: Throughout history, every power that aspired to dominate the Balkans-from the ancient Romans to Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia in the age of imperialism and nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-has sought to control Macedonia. But although Macedonia figured prominently in history, it remained a little-known land until the nineteenth century. This detailed volume surveys the history of Macedonia from 600 B.C. to the present day, with an emphasis on the past two centuries. It reveals how the so-called Macedonian question has long dominated Balkan politics, and how for well over a century and a half, it was the central issue dividing Balkan peoples, as neighboring nations struggled for possession of Macedonia and denied any distinct Macedonian identity-territorial, political, ethnic, or national. The author concludes that Balkan acceptance of a Macedonian identity, nation, and state has become a necessity for stability in the Balkans and in a united Europe.

Table of Contents:

• Abbreviations
• List of maps
• Preface
• 1: Land and people at the crossroads
• Land
• People
• Part 1: From Argead Kingdom To Ottoman Vilayets (c 600 BC-c AD 1800)
• 2: From Argeads to Huns (c 600 BC-c AD 600)
• Early kingdom (c 600-359 BC)
• Expansion and empire (359-323 BC)
• Division and decline (323-168 BC)
• Roman and Byzantine rule, Goths, and Huns (168 BC-c AD 600)
• 3: Medieval, Slavic Macedonia (c 600-c 1400)
• Byzantine Commonwealth
• Slavic invasions
• Macedonia (c 600-c 850)
• Bulgarian rule (864-971)
• Tsar Samuil's Macedonian empire (971-1018)
• Macedonia: cradle of Slav Orthodox culture
• Byzantine rule and chaos (1018-c 1400)

• 4: Ottoman rule (c 1400-c 1800)
• Ottoman administration and the Orthodox Millet
• Ottoman expansion and decline
• Ottoman decline and the Balkans (c 1600-c 1800)
• Macedonia: ethnic transformation, resistance, anarchy, and cultural stagnation
• Part 2: National Awakening (c 1800-1913)
• 5: Ottoman reform and decline (c 1800-1908)
• Macedonian growth and decline (1800-1870)
• Propaganda war for Macedonia (1870-1900)
• 6: National awakening and national identity (1814-1913)
• Historiography
• Early Macedonian nationalism (to 1870)
• Paths to nationhood (1870-1913)
• 7: VMRO and Ilinden (1893-1903)
• VMRO (1893-1903)
• Ilinden
• Part 3: Strangers In Their Homeland (1913-1940)
• 8: Decline and partition (1903-1919)
• VMRO's decline and split (1903-1908)
• Intervention, wars, and partition (1903-1913)
• Sequel: the great war and the peace settlement
• 9: Macedonia in three parts (1920s and 1930s)
• Partition and assimilation
• Yugoslav (Vardar) Macedonia
• Greek (Aegan) Macedonia
• Bulgarian (Pirin) Macedonia
• Macedonianism survives
• 10: Macedonian nationalism: from right to left (1920s and 1930s)
• Unification aborted (1924)
• VMRO and Macedonian nationalism on the right
• VMRO (ob): Macedonian nationalism on the left
• Part 4: Statehood And Independence (During And After The Second World War)
• 11: War and revolution (1940-1949)
• New partition (1941-1944)
• Hostile neutrality and beyond (1941-1944)
• Toward a Yugoslav Republic (1941-1944)
• Greek and Bulgarian Macedonia (1941-1944)
• Macedonians in a new Balkans (1944-1949)
• 12: Yugoslav Macedonia: politics and government (1944-1991)
• Yugoslavia's new dispensation (1944-1948)
• Macedonia: putting dreams on ice (1945-1948)
• Yugoslav Communism (1948-1991)
• Macedonia: a junior partner (1943-1991)
• 13: Economics, culture, minorities (1944-1991)
• Economy: agriculture and industry
• Culture: language, education, and the arts
• National minorities
• 14: Independent republic (1991-2004)
• Setting up an independent republic
• Seeking foreign recognition (1991-1995)
• Politics in the 1990s: from left to right
• Economic problems
• Macedonian-Albanian relations
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

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Author/Creator:

Rossos, Andrew, 1941-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Macedonia and the Macedonians: a history [by Rossos, A.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Macedonia and the Macedonians [by Rossos, A.] (Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, ©2008 — ISBN 9780817948818; LCCN 2007033666; OCLC Number 165083241)

Related Series:

Studies of nationalities

Subjects:

Macedonia — History

Europe — Macedonia

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-347) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 367 pages) : maps.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DR2185 .R34 2008beb

ISBNs:

9780817948832 (electronic bk.)
081794883X (electronic bk.)
9780817948887 (electronic bk.)
0817948880 (electronic bk.)
9780817948825 [Invalid]
0817948821 [Invalid]
9780817948818 (alk. paper) [Invalid]
0817948813 (alk. paper) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

535519681