Političke prilike i srpski narod u Vardarskoj Makedoniji (1903-1912)
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Antić, DejanMentor
Nedeljković, SlavišaCommittee members
Mladenović, BožicaJagodić, Miloš
Vučetić, Biljana
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Vardar Macedonia (South Old Serbia and Macedonia)
represented one of the most sensitive points of the Balkan Peninsula
for centuries. Located at the crossroads of civilizations, in places
which guarantee the control of important communication lines in
Southeast Europe, it was a testing ground for the implementation of
various state-administrative systems and the reason for the
confrontation of many nations from ancient times to the modern
period. The subject of this study is the political condition on the
territory of South Old Serbia and Macedonia from 1903 to 1912,
during the last years of Ottoman rule in the Central and Southern
Balkans.
The primary aim of the thesis was an attempt to use published
and unpublished archival material, as well as relevant literature, in
order to analyze all social factors whose effects conditioned and
dictated political and security situation in the territory of southeastern
part of Kosovo, north-eastern parts of the Bitola Vilayet and
...northern part of the Salonica Vilayet. Another important task was to
show a more detailed sequence of events that led to the collapse of the
Ottoman occupation order on the Balkan Peninsula. The engagement
of Serbian and Bulgarian national movement in Macedonia, with the
consideration of all aspects of their operations, was specially
emphasized.
We analyzed ecclesiastical and educational struggle embodied
in the functioning of exarchate and Serbian ecclesiastical school
municipalities, the formation and operation of the first revolutionary
committees, current outbreak of the Ilinden Uprising, awakening of
Serbian Chetnik action, attitude of most influential European states
towards Macedonia and reform action of the great powers, division
and ideological divisions in the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary
Organization, dismantling of the old Turkish order and the arrival of
the Young Turks to power, transformation of illegal armed actions in
the legal political struggle of Christians in the Ottoman empire, as
well as the conditions that led to the outbreak of the First Balkan War.
Attention was paid to the reaction of the Turkish authorities and the
Albanian factor regarding legal and illegal political actions of the
Orthodox element aimed at the liberation of the Old South Serbia and
Macedonia.
The research has shown that, in reports of domestic and
foreign diplomats, the mentioned area was the territory of a high
security risk during the first decade of the XX century. A number of
armed incidents caused by the policy of Bulgarianization of the proexarchate
committees, Albanian depredations, unsuccessful reform
processes of the great powers, violent Islamization, after the
revolution of the Young Turks, and Ottomanization of Christian
subjects in the empire, contributed to the definitive collapse of the
Turkish state system. Chronic unrest and political crisis, as well as the
danger of biological disappearance of the remaining Serbs and
Orthodox elements in the Ottoman Empire were the catalyst for the
beginning of the last phase of the liberation embodied in the creation
of a military-political alliance of the Balkan countries and their direct
war against Turkey.
In accordance with standard research methods and principles
of historical science, the solution of the set tasks was reached by the
analysis, selection and processing of previously collected archival
documents, a large number of published collections of historical
sources, memoirs, literature and scientific papers published in
numerous national and international journals and conference
proceedings. The dissertation is designed to contain, apart from the
introduction and conclusion, four thematic units chronologically
divided into several subsections. The last pages contain annexes and
the list of sources used and literature.