Great Propaganda in Macedonia (1844-1912). The Government of Principality Serbia founded a Unit for Propaganda (1844), named “secret activity”. A “committee board” (1868) for propaganda activity in the countries under the government of the Ottoman state, in charge of opening and activity of Serbian schools was formed. At the time of Serbia’s war with Turkey (1876-1878) and after it, Serbian propaganda activity in Macedonia was interrupted; The few Serbian schools were closed, and Serbian teachers were expelled. “The committee board” stopped working. After the signing of the Preliminary Santefan Peace Accord (1878), Macedonia was requested by the European major forces, represented as a Serbian country, to join the Principality of Serbia. After the Berlin Congress, Serbian propaganda was oriented towards Macedonia, but failed to position, the population did not understand the Serbian language. By tightening the internal political crisis, propaganda acting has stagnated. And at the time of the war with Bulgaria (in the autumn of 1886) propaganda activity temporarily ceased. It was founded by the company “St. Sava “(1886) in which all Golemar Expo-part of the Yakupica neated professors, scientists and other agitators. Serbian propaganda remained unaccepted and had a temporary character. The primer was printed (1888) and a reader in Constantinople, Serbian calendar “Vardar”, followed by “Golub”, using the Macedonian language, intended for propaganda activity in Macedonia. The agitators of the company “St. Sava “have taken aggressive public propaganda, so Ottoman authorities have forbidden them to act. The management of the propaganda took over the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Political Professional Department. Serbian consuls in Macedonia (1890-1892) organized the establishment of the first Serbian church municipalities. Serb (Archimandrite Firmilijan) was appointed administrator of the Skopje Metropolis (1897). Then he started an armed collision with the Bulgarian propaganda (1897). Serbia has established an armed fenu organization (called “National Defense”) for action in Macedonia (1904), which for violence and terrorizers forced the population to declare Serbian folk affiliation. After the Young Turk Revolution, after the establishment of a parliamentary system in the Ottoman state (1908), the Chetnik Organization has been transformed into a legal Serbian political organization under the name Serbian Democratic League. The organization was demanding recognition of Serbian nationality in Macedonia. Before the end of 1909 Serbia halted propaganda in Thessaloniki Vilet, propaganda institutions were withdrawn and concentrated in the Bitola and Skopje Vilet, and thus disagreed the territory of which pretended. Then the reactivated manual organization was acting. Lit.: Dr. Kliment Dzambazovski, cultural and social connections of Macedonians with Serbia during the ⅹⅰⅹ century, Skopje, 1960; Manol Pandevski, Serbian propaganda-political organization, in: political parties and organizations in Macedonia (1908-1912), Skopje, 1965. M. Min.
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