Our American ancestors before 1945 were Macedonian and identified as “Macedonian Bulgarians” or “Bulgarian Macedonians” to distinguish themselves from the other ethnic groups in Macedonia. Before World War 2 “Macedonian” was not an ethnographic, it was a geographical term and the majority of Macedonians before 1945 identified as Macedonian Bulgarians, reads an address to the US Congress by the Macedonian Patriotic Organizations in USA.
The address comes in response to Skopje’s attempt to pass a resolution in Congress on celebrating the “Macedonian identity”, different from the Bulgarian identity. The document is signed by the member of the Macedonian Patriotic Organizations leadership Nick Stefanov, BGNES reports.
Bulgaria's Head of State Rumen Radev has officially invited Romania's new President Nikusor Dan to visit Bulgaria , the Bulgarian President's press office announced. Rumen Radev congratulates winner of Romanian presidential election Nicusor Dan..
Lyupcho Georgievski, chairman of the cultural club "Ivan Mihaylov" in the town of Bitola, banned by the Macedonian authorities, will stand trial on May 21 at 10:30 a.m . He is accused of quoting Ivan Mihaylov's memoirs on Facebook using literary..
Today, defence industry companies from Bulgaria and Poland are meeting in Veliko Tarnovo for a conference entitled 'European defence consolidation: challenge and opportunity'. The event is being held under the patronage of Deputy Prime Minister..
Public transport in Sofia will resume as of Tuesday, May 20, Todor Kapitanov, Vice President of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria..
The government has agreed to provide an additional €7.7 million in subsidies for Sofia's public transport. This was agreed at a meeting today between..
The normal movement of buses, trolleybuses and trams in Sofia is being restored as of today, after last night the unions announced an end to the 6-day..
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