Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration and Names

Abbreviations

Maps

Chapters

1. Introduction

Terminology

The peoples of Macedonia

Natural and unnatural demographic change

Nationalism

2. The Soil for Nationalists

The beginnings

Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great

The Romans

The Vlachs

The Albanians

The Slavs

The Jews

The Roma (Gypsies)

Seeds of controversy

3. Group Identity in the Ottoman Empire: From Millet to Nation

Islam

The Sufi tarikats

The millet system and the Muslims

The Christian millets

The Tanzimat reform movement

The Jews

4. From Berlin to Versailles: The Apple of Discord¿Propaganda, Violence and War

Local uprisings

The struggle for church control and the Bulgarian advance

VMRO

The Ilinden uprising

The Greeks organise

The Great Power reform porgrammes

The Vlachs and the Romanian efforts

The Serbs

The rise of Albanian nationalism

The Turks and the CUP

The Jews

The Balkan wars

The First World War

5. The Inter-War Years: Repressiona dn Violence

Albania

Bulgaria

Greece

Yugoslavia

¿Albanians

¿VMRO

¿Vlachs

The Comintern

6. War and Civil War

From uneasy neutrality to war

Vardar and Pirin Macedonia

¿Tito and the Partisans

¿The Stalin-Tito split

Aegean Macedonia

¿The war

¿The Vlach 'Principality'

Genocide against the Jews

The Greek civil war

7. Macedonians as the Majority

Ethnogenesis

¿Language and education

¿Religion

¿Emigres

Relations with other ethnic groups

¿The Torbeshi

¿The Albanians of Macedonia

¿Education and culture

¿The growth of Albanian nationalism and the authorities' reaction

¿Religion

¿Communities apart

¿Events in 1990 and 1991

¿The Vlachs

¿The Turks

¿The Roma and assimilation

¿'Egyptians'

¿Bulgarians

8. Macedonians as Minorities

Albania

¿Communist-isolationism

¿Post-Communism

Bulgaria

¿Oppression and the rise of the 'one-nation' state

¿UMO Linden

¿The socio-economic situation

¿Other Bulgarian-Macedonian organisations

Greece

¿Continued denial

¿Refugees and relations between Greece, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria

¿Worsening relations and the rise of Greek nationalism

9. Independent Macedonia

Political relaxation and nationalist expression in 1989 and 1990

Peaceful JNA withdrawal and gaining independence

The name issue

The threat from the north?

The church issue

The Albanian question

The Roma and 'Romanistan'

Other minority groups

The economy

External relations

Politics¿democracy or 'neo-Communism'?

VMRO-DPMNE and the 'defence committees'

10. Conculsion¿Whither Macedonia?

Index