Aegean part of Macedonia – part of Macedonia under the government of Greece. After the Bucharest Peace Accord (10. 1913) Greece received 34,356 km² or 51% of the Macedonian territory. According to the language spoken in the family, the Macedonian people and national minorities (Turks, Jews, Greeks, Vlachs and Roma) live in the Aegean part of Macedonia. For providing its permanent rule, Greek governments strive to change the ethnic character by expelling the Macedonian (Christian and Muslim) and the Turkish population, as well as colonizing an inorotic population. After the strength of Nevski (1919) and the Lasan Peace Accord (1923), 436,000 Macedonians and Turks were expelled from the Aegean part of Macedonia and the place of the emigrant Macedonian population colonized 618,000 settlers. The Macedonian name and the Macedonian language were forbidden. Macedonian names and surnames were grassy. The Macedonian folk consciousness, Cyrillic alphabet and language were being persecuted. Macedonian resistance passed through two phases – passive and organized, active resistance against the Greek denationalization and assimilation policy. With the founding of VMRO (OB), in the request allies oriented towards the Greek Left (CPG), which was the only political force that recognized the Macedonian ethnic identity. In World War II Macedonians from the Aegean part of Macedonia actively and massively participated in the anti-fascist struggle, organized in a Macedonian national movement, with a fashion Macedonian National Liberation Front (SNOF) and Macedonian army (Snov). At that time, Macedonian national values (edivar, newspapers and schools in Macedonian, cultural and artistic societies) were affirmed. After the Warkise Treaty, the Macedonian name and the Macedonian language were again banned and the Greek state began to implement a white terror policy against the Macedonian population. At the beginning of the Civil War (1946-1949), the CPG was concluded a joint struggle agreement for taking power and dismissing the Macedonian national issue by recognizing the right to self-determination. In conditions of national political organization and development of national cultural activity, it was a period of new affirmation of Macedonian national values (Macedonian schools with 10,000 students), newspapers of Macedonian literary language, the service in Macedonian language, etc. After 30,000 Macedonians were expelled after Greece, who left eastern European countries. After 1990 The first legal national Macedonian political party “Rainbow” was established in the Aegean part of Macedonia, which acts for recognition of the Macedonian national minority in Greece and national rights (education, literature, newspapers, emissions in Macedonian language, as well as representation of the Macedonian in the administration ). Lit.: S. Acidenovski, Aegean part of Macedonia (1913-1989), Skopje, 1990; The same, ethnic changes in Macedonia (1913-1995), Skopje, 2000. St. KIS.
Original article in Macedonian language Cyrillic alphabet
Кириличен напис ЕГЕЈСКИ ДЕЛ НА МАКЕДОНИЈА