SLAVÉ KATIN MACEDONIANS IN THE WORLD To the Macedonians troughout the World PUBLISHING HOUSE “MAKEDONSKA ISKRA” - SKOPJE FOUNDATION “GEORGE ATANASOSKI” - PRILEP EDITION: HISTORY SLAVÉ KATIN MACEDONIANS IN THE WORLD Reviewers: Academician ANTONIO SHKOKLJEV-DONCHO, PhD GEORGE ATANASOSKI, Businessman All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without written consent from the author, except for the inclusion of brief and documented quotations in a review. 2018 SLAVÉ KATIN MACEDONIANS IN THE WORLD Contents I. THE TRUTH ABOUT MACEDONIA A PART OF ANCIENT MACEDONIA ..................................................19 LONG HISTORY OF MACEDONIA ......................................................23 ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE YEARS SINCE MACEDONIA’S PARTITION .....................................................27 MACEDONIA FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO TODAY .......................33 GREEK “DEMOCRACY” BROUGHT TO LIGHT ..............................39 II. MACEDONIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHE-OA CHRISTIANITY - THE RELIGION OF THE MACEDONIANS ......45 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF MOC-OA ...................................50 MOC-OA AND ITS RELATIONS WITH THE NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES ......................................................63 A RELIGIOUS PICTURE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA ......72 MOC-OA IN THE DIASPORA ...............................................................78 III. MACEDONIANS IN THE WORLD IMMIGRATION AS A DESTINY ...........................................................87 ETHNIC ORGANIZATIONS OF MACEDONIANS IN THE USA AND CANADA BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS .......105 ORTHODOX CHURCHES OF THE MACEDONIANS UNDER FOREIGN JURISDICTION ...................119 MACEDONIAN IMIGRANT MEDIA BEFORE WORLD WAR II .....131 MACEDONIAN VILLAGES AND REGIONAL SOCIAL AND CULTURAL REGIONAL FRATERNITIES AND SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS ............................................................136 IV. MACEDONIAN ASSOCIATIONS IN USA AMERICAN-CANADIAN-MACEDONIAN ORTHODOX EPARCHY ........................................................................143 MACEDONIAN CHURCHES AND NATIONAL CENTERS, NEWSPAPERS AND ASSOCIATIONS IN INDIANA .......................155 MACEDONIAN CHURCHES AND NATIONAL CENTERS, NEWSPAPERS AND ASSOCIATIONS IN OHIO ..............................162 MACEDONIAN CHURCHES AND NATIONAL CENTERS, NEWSPAPERS AND ASSOCIATIONS IN MICHIGAN ...................173 MACEDONIAN CHURCHES AND NATIONAL CENTERS, NEWSPAPERS AND ASSOCIATIONS IN NEW JERSEY AND NEW YORK ....................................................188 MACEDONIAN CHURCHES AND NATIONAL CENTERS, NEWSPAPERS AND ASSOCIATIONS IN ILLINOIS, CALIFORNIA, PENNSYLVANIA AND FLORIDA ............................207 V. MACEDONIAN ASSOCIATIONS IN CANADA MACEDONIANS IN MULTICULTURAL CANADA .......................219 MACEDONIAN ORGANIZATIONS, GROUPS AND ASSOCIATIONS IN CANADA .................................222 MACEDONIAN CHURCHES AND NATIONAL CENTERS, NEWSPAPERS AND ASSOCIATIONS IN ONTARIO ......................240 MACEDONIAN MEDIA IN CANADA FROM 1957 TO 1987 ........263 MACEDONIAN MEDIA IN CANADA FROM 1987 TO THE PRESENT ...........................................................273 MACEDONIAN IMMIGRANTS IN CANADA AND THE CREOLISATION OF THEIR SPEECH .............................288 VI. MACEDONIAN PRESS IN AUSTRALIA AND EUROPE MACEDONIAN PRESS IN AUSTRALIA 1946-1977 .........................299 MACEDONIAN PRESS IN AUSTRALIA 1977-1988 .........................316 MACEDONIAN PRESS IN AUSTRALIA ............................................330 FROM 1988 TO THE PRESENT ...........................................................344 MACEDONIAN PRESS IN EUROPE ...................................................361 THE NEWSPAPER “VOICE OF THE AEGEANS” ............................370 VII. MACEDONIANS IN THE NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES AEGEAN MACEDONIA ........................................................................383 MACEDONIANS IN GREECE ..............................................................389 THE FIRST WORLD GATHERING OF REGUGEE CHILDREN IN 1988 ...........................................................394 MACEDONIANS IN BULGARIA .........................................................398 MACEDONIANS IN ALBANIA ............................................................404 MACEDONIANS IN SERBIA ................................................................411 APPENDIX LITERATURE ...........................................................................................419 BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR .........................................................420 BIBLIOGRAPHY .....................................................................................424 INTRODUCTION hroughout history, numerous authors have Tserved countless lies and caused much controversy regarding the actual arguments, facts, and documents about Macedonia. These authors have inflicted immense pain to the Macedonian people. Despite such lies and fabrications, in the book “Macedonians in the World” the author outlines known historical facts and presents an accurate picture of the past and present of Macedonia and the Macedonian people all over the world. According to the records of different interview every citizen of ethnic Macedonia knows that he or she is a direct descendant of the Macedonian people who have existed since the time of Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander III the Great of Macedon, up until today. It is also known that in the past two hundred years Macedonians migrated to different countries such as: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South America, European countries, (European Union) Russia, Turkey, Israel, South Africa and other countries. But if one believed the stories, it should be always managed to preserve blood relations with scattered communities. Their uniqueness always remained preserved. • 7 • Slavé Katin • Macedonians in the World In this book, we will especially stress the direct reason for the publication of “Macedonians in the World”. Even if the Macedonian issue, a conspiring concept of history, has not completely left the daily political scene for nearly 2,500 years, it has once again emerged and thus shaken the international relations in this highly sensitive part of Europe - the Balkans. The destiny of the Macedonian world has been observed under the rule of Rome and Byzantium during different periods with the role of the Macedonian dynasty and Alexander’s “Koine” language. The migration of the Slavs and the establishment of Samuil’s empire, the Slavic language and literacy, as well as the cultural contribution of the Macedonian Slavs to the world heritage is also especially interesting, as is the Ottoman occupation of Macedonia, up until the renaissance period of Macedonia and afterwards. How can modern Greeks be unfoundedly attached to the name Macedonia? Their predecessors, in fact, came to the Balkans in the 11th century B.C. as Doric (Herodotus, I, 56) without any reference to the name; not even 800 years later in Homer’s “Illiad” in the 7th century B.C. They came as Achaians, Aegeans or Danaians, and later as Hellenians, Grekis or Romeians (Mpampiniotis, 1998, 596). How is one to understand why the name of Macedonia is not immediately connected with what some modern historians wrongly referred to as “Hellenism”? The Hellenians for the first time in their centuries-old history administratively conquered the southern part of Macedonia as late as after the First Balkan War in 1912, i.e. 1913 (Bucharest Agreement, 13 August 1913). Furthermore, how can modern-day Macedonians, who also did not “colonize” the Balkans with their own name in the 6th century B.C., accept that in their autonomous process of development the geographical • 8 • Introduction term Macedonia was gradually accepted as a sign of national belonging and creation of a Macedonian national awareness? What about the natives of Macedonia, and the descendants of the biggest world empire of Alexander of Macedon, (the Great) etc.? It is of importance to stress that in order to see the problem better and to understand the inheritor of the traditional Macedonian culture and heritage in general, a number of researches and analyses firstly cover the period of the most ancient history of the southern Balkans. They cover the immense role of the natives and the Paleo-Balkan, i.e. “Aegean culture” in this region, the movement of the Hellenians – Achaians with the development of the Michanos state and the migration of the Doric. This is followed by the history of Ancient Macedonia, the Macedonian occupation of Hellas and the creation of a Macedonian world empire and its contribution to the world civilization. It additionally includes the role of the Paleo-Balkan language in the formation of the Ancient Greek language, and the Macedonian or Alexander’s “Koine”, which is presently the basis of the official language in Greece, etc. Otherwise, the primary sources for studying the ancient history of Macedonia are mostly of Greek, followed by Roman origin, even though recently many historians have shown increasing interest in this matter. Thanks to the advantages that the Hellenic civilization inherited from previous cultures the use of the letters and the bringing of Macedonia to the head of the European cultural world, numerous moments of prehistory have shed light upon not only through works and remains of the material culture, but also through written information, which