DISPUTES BETWEEN SERBIAN AND BULGARIAN PROPAGANDA FOR CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS IN THE DEBARSKI-KICHEVO METROPOLITANCE Cover Image

СПОРОВИТЕ МЕЃУ СРПСКАТА И БУГАРСКАТА ПРОПАГАНДА ЗА ЦРКВИТЕ И УЧИЛИШТАТА ВО ДЕБАРСКО-КИЧЕВСКАТА МИТРОПОЛИЈА
DISPUTES BETWEEN SERBIAN AND BULGARIAN PROPAGANDA FOR CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS IN THE DEBARSKI-KICHEVO METROPOLITANCE

Author(s): Silvana Sidorovska-Chupovska
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory, History of Education, History of Religion
Published by: Институт за национална историја
Keywords: Diocesse; Kicevo; Debar; Bulgarian propaganda; Serbian propaganda; churches; schools; Macedonian population

Summary/Abstract: Between the end of XIX century and beginning of the First Balkan War, the territory falling under the Diocesse of the Debar and Kicevo was point of the confrontation of Serbian and Bulgarian propaganda interests. Reasons for the confrontation were churches and schools in the Diocesse. When in 1897 Sultan Berth was obtained for appointing a metropolitan in the Metropolitante of Pelagonija, Bulgarian propaganda prevailed. Serbian propaganda had to use corruption method to bribe local Ottoman authorities. Macedonian population endured utmost damage by religious education activities of both propaganda. Divided and clashed by their activities population would feel consequences in the further decades.

  • Issue Year: 60/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 149-157
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Macedonian