Serbomans(Serbo-CroatianandMacedonian:србомани,romanized:srbomani;Bulgarian:сърбомани,romanized:sărbomani;Romanian:sârbomani) is aBulgarianpejorativeterm used by Bulgarian nationalists for inhabitants in theregion of Macedoniathat claimed Serbian ethnicity (declared asSerbs) and supported Serbian national ideals until the middle of the 20th century.[1]They explained it as being imposed bySerbian propagandapromulgating a secondary identity, which resulted in a Bulgarian population that had lost its real nationality.[2]It is also still usedpejorativelyby Bulgarians to refer to residents ofNorth Macedoniawho proclaimed a separateMacedonian identityand act to subdueBulgarian nationalismin Macedonia.[3]The term first appeared during the time of the Serbian-Bulgarian rivalry for present-dayNorth Macedoniaduring the second half of the 19th century.[4]
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edit- ^Yugoslav communism and the Macedonian question, Stephen E. Palmer, Robert R. King, Archon Books, 1971,ISBN0-208-00821-7,p. 12
- ^Report of the Interallied Commission on the Violation of the Hague Convention and of the Principles of the International Law committed in 1915-1918 by the Bulgarians in occupied Serbia, Imprimerie "Yugoslavia", 1919, p. 27.
- ^Contested Ethnic Identity: The Case of Macedonian Immigrants in Toronto, 1900-1996, Chris Kostov, Peter Lang, 2010,ISBN3-0343-0196-0,p. 226
- ^Historical dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia, Dimitar Bechev, Scarecrow Pres 2009ISBN0-8108-5565-8.
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