The Balkan Federation / Confederation – a project for creating a Macedonian state and the Balkan Federation / Confederation that presented in Europe and popularized Paul Argirades (1869-1894). The Macedonian intellectual Spiro Gu-header of the SP. “Balkanovik”, Prilep Blapchev (from Lerin) published (1887) his own project for the Eastern Federation of the Balkans from eight voters: Macedonia (in its geographical and ethnic borders), EUParality, European Turkey, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece . Macedonian Socialists have advocated creating an independent Macedonian republic in the Federation of the Balkan Republics. At the beginning of ⅹⅹ c. Macedonian intellectuals grouped in Serbia around c. “Balkan messenger” (Belgrade, edited by Stefan Jakimov Dedov) and in Russia, organized in the Macedonian scientific-literary comrade, represented to create an independent Macedonian national state, Piedmont for the unification of Slavic and Orthodox peoples in the Balkans, “The Balkan Slovenine and Orthodoxy “. Immediately after the Ilinden Uprising (January 1904), representatives of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Boris Sarafov and Mikhail Gerdjikov traveled to Rome to interest Italy together with France and England to engage in creating a Macedonian state, the core formation of the Balkan Confederation. Macedonian club in Belgrade and its body, c. “Autonomous Macedonia” (1905), published by gr. Hadzitachovic and F. Gjergikovic, represented also for the Balkan Federation / Confederation. The National Federal Party of Jane Sandanski (1908) decided to create an Eastern Federation with Macedonia as a separate federal unit. For the creation of the Balkan Federation, that is, the Confederation, the Social Democratic Organizations were represented 1908-1913, Macedonian intellectuals in Russia (1913-1914 and 1917-1924), and Macedonian companies in Switzerland (1919) demanded the creation of a Macedonian state and Balkan, that is, South Slavic Federation. After the war VMRO (OB.) Decided for the Macedonian Republic in the Balkan Federation. The Macedonian communists in the Vardar part of Macedonia (1941- 1944) realized the project for Macedonian national state in the Yugoslav federation. In 1991 The Republic of Macedonia declared state independence. Lit.: M. Minoski, the federal idea in the Macedonian political thought (1887 & 1919), Skopje, 1985; A. Hristov – M. Minoski, the idea of a federation in the Macedonian national liberation movement and its program foundations (1893 & 1935), a collection of documents, Skopje, Serbian artillery at the position in the Kumanovo battle (1912) MANU, 1994; M. Pandevski, political parties and organizations in Macedonia (1908 & 1912), Skopje, 1965; B. Ristovski, Macedonian people and the Macedonian nation, ⅱ, Skopje, 1983, 75 & 144; The same, the program of the Macedonian Revolutionary Committee in Petrograd of 1917 for the Balkan Federal Democratic Republic (Attachment to the study of the idea of the Balkan Federation in the Macedonian Revolutionary Movement), “History”, 1, 1977. M. Min. The “Balkan Federation”, the body of national minorities and the peoples of the Balkans
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