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Macedonian nationalism refers to the nationalism of Macedonians and Macedonian culture.

19th century

 * "Macedonian nationalism first emerged in the 1860s as a cultural movement asserting the existence of a Macedonian nationality."
 * "Even before the period under scrutiny, certain writings attest to the existence of a Macedonian nationalism. Here, the first most illustrative case is the one of the autodidact Gjorgjija Pulevski who, in the beginning of the 1870s, published the first short dictionaries of "Slavo-Macedonian" language. Later, in other writings, he asserted the "Slavic" character of ancient Macedonians and, vice versa, the "ancient" descent of today's Macedonian Slavs. Thus in the 1870s and 1880s, began the first manifestations of a Macedonian national ideology that referred explicitly to a particular Macedonian language, descent or folk culture, distinct from those of Bulgarians, Serbs, etc."
 * "Macedonian Slavs awaited the beginning of the nineteenth century under an unstable Turkish rule characterized by fights among economically and socially backward Turkish feudal landowners. They fought against the central Turkish authorities, which resulted in the increasing exploitation of the peasants. These harsh conditions forced Macedonian agricultural peasants to move into the cities, where they started to work as artisans and shopkeepers, and many migrated to North America and some to Australia. Development of commerce and trade also facilitated the growth of the Macedonian bourgeoisie, who—due to commercial connections with central Europe—began to develop a Macedonian national consciousness and to demand self-management in matters of religion and education. In spite of some successes, the Macedonian national awakening during the first half of the nineteenth century remained limited to narrow literary and linguistic questions and did not venture into the field of politics."
 * "Even during the later decades of the nineteenth century, the Macedonian national awakening developed very slowly. One reason was the very ethnically mixed bourgeoisie and intelligentsia (the so-called Macedonists) directed all their efforts into demands for the renewal of the Patriarchy of Ohrid and use in the church of the Macedonian language, which had begun to be used in literature instead of the Old Church Slavonic language. This was a fight for the independence of the Ohrid Archdiocese."
 * "Folklore appeared in written form during the nineteenth century, when there were several significant efforts to collect and publish Macedonian folk songs. Widening knowledge of these songs played an important role in the Macedonian national awakening.
 * "[The] Macedonian national awakening began at the end of the nineteenth century, when at the end of the Balkans war [sic], historic Macedonia was divided up between Greece, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia.


 * "At the end of the nineteenth century, national sentiment existed mostly among a small social class of educated people, often described at the "intelligentsia." The Slavic rural peasantry did not participate in nationalist debates that had no meaning to their concerns. Henry Brailsford, a British journalist whose 1906 account is an indispensable source for this period of Macedonian history, even described a "wealthy peasant" in Bitola whose village changed national loyalties:


 * We are all poor men, but we want to have our own school and a priest who will look after us properly. We used to have a Greek teacher. We paid him £5 a year and his bread, while the Greek consul paid him another £5; but we had no priest of our own. ... The Bulgarians heard of this and they came and made us an offer. They said they would give us a priest who would live in the village and a teacher, and so of course we became Bulgarians (Brailsford 1906: 102, see also the commentary in Danforth 1995: 198, Gounaris 1995).


 * While these villagers apparently lacked any strong feelings about their national loyalties, they adroitly manipulated outsider concerns to promote local goals. Perhaps the French consul in Salonica did not exaggerate too grossly when he jokes that with a million francs he could the turn the Macedonians into Frenchmen: "He would preach that the Macedonians are the descendants of the French crusaders who conquered Salonica in the twelfth century, and the francs would do the rest" (Brailsford 1906: 103)."

20th century

 * "During the 1980s, nationalism grew in the Republic [of Macedonia]."
 * "[...] the 1980s had seen the emergence in Yugoslav Macedonia and in the Macedonian Diaspora (particularly in Australia and Canada) of a "Macedonism" or Macedonian nationalism that drew exactly opposite conclusions about the "ethnicity" of ancient Macedonia and Alexander the Great than did Greek nationalism."