Планови o политици Србије према Старој Србији и Македонији (1878-1885)
Plans on Serbia’s Policy Towards Old Serbia and Macedonia (1878-1885)

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with plans on Serbia’s policy towards Old Serbia and Macedonia during the period between the Congress of Berlin 1878 and outbreak of Serbian-Bulgarian war in 1885. Due to the wars against Ottoman Empire 1876-1878, Serbia’s activities among Serb population in Kosovo, Bitolj and Thessaloniki vilayets came to a halt. Several plans on their reactivation were made and presented to Government’s officials during the period 1878- 1885. These plans were mostly written by prominent participants in previous cross border activities, like Despot Badžović, Sava Dečanac, Miloš Milojević and others. Following measures were mainly proposed: 1) obtaining some sort of ecclesiastical autonomy for Serbs in the Ottoman Empire; 2) signing a consular convention between Serbia and Ottoman Empire and appointing Serbia’s consuls in Prizren, Priština, Mitrovica, Skoplje, Bitolj and Thessaloniki; 3) providing material aid to Serb ecclesiastical communities, schools, churches and monasteries in Turkey; 4) funding education of Serb youth from Old Serbia and Macedonia in Serbia. However, only archimandrite Sava Dečanac in 1882 and Milutin Garašanin in 1885 expressed an opinion that it was Serbian Government who should conduct these measures. This feature was an important novelty, since policy towards Old Serbia and Macedonia had been previously attended by informal committees. Significance of ideas stated in these plans lies in fact that they were mostly implemented in period between 1886 and 1912.

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