Macedonia. Its place in Balkan power politics
Elisabeth Barker
Macedonia. Its place in Balkan power politics
by
Elisabeth Barker
Greenwood Press Publishers
Westport, Connecticut 1980
Barker, Elisabeth.
Macedonia, its place in Balkan power politics.
Reprint of the 1950 ed. published by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, New York. Includes bibliographical references.
Macedonian question. I. Title.
DR701.M4B3 1980 949.7 80-16769
ISBN 0-313-22587-7 (lib.bdg.)
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CONTENTS
I. Macedonia Before the First World War 7
THE ORIGIN OF THE MACEDONIAN DISPUTE 7
MACEDONIA: THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE 9
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE DISPUTE 12
II. Macedonia Between the Two Wars 21
BULGARIAN-YUGOSLAV RELATIONS 21
BULGARIAN-GREEK RELATIONS 29
SALONIKA 34
THE INTERNAL MACEDONIAN REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATION 36
THE COMMUNISTS AND MACEDONIA 45
III. Macedonia, 1941-9 78
THE AXIS OCCUPATION OF MACEDONIA, 1941-4 78
RELATIONS BETWEEN THE YUGOSLAV AND BULGARIAN
COMMUNIST PARTIES 83
THE GREEK COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE MACEDONIAN QUESTION, 1941-9 109
Maps
MACEDONIA—GEOGRAPHICAL 8
BALKAN FRONTIER CHANGES INVOLVING MACEDONIA 13
A. On the eve of the Russo-Turkish war
B. Bulgarian frontier proposed by treaty of San Stefano, 1878
C. Treaty of Berlin, 1878
D. Line proposed for partition of Macedonia in Serbo-Bulgarian agreement of 1912
E. Treaty of Bucharest, 1913, and treaty of Neuilly, 1920
F. Boundary of Macedonian People’s Republic set up within Yugoslavia after Second World War
MACEDONIA’S POSITION IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE 22