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Македонији<br />Srbi u Severnoj Makedoniji</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia"><img alt="Serbia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1350" data-file-height="900" /></a></span></span> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/North_Macedonia" title="North Macedonia"><img alt="North Macedonia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg/23px-Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" 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/></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Flag of the Serbian minority in North Macedonia</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Total population</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">23,847 (2021)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Languages</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Serbian_language" title="Serbian language">Serbian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Macedonian_language" title="Macedonian language">Macedonian</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Religion</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Predominantly <a href="/wiki/Serbian_Orthodox_Church" title="Serbian Orthodox Church">Serbian Orthodox</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Related ethnic groups</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Other <a 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title="South Slavic languages">South Slavic</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="padding:0 0.4em 0.6em; border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em 0; border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Serbia" title="Religion in Serbia">Religion</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Serbian_Orthodox" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbian Orthodox">Serbian Orthodox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Serbia" title="Catholic Church in Serbia">Catholic Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Community_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina">Islamic Community</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="padding:0 0.4em 0.6em; border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em 0; border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/South_Slavs" title="South Slavs">Related nations</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/South_Slavs" title="South Slavs">South Slavs</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bosniaks" title="Bosniaks">Bosniaks</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians" title="Bulgarians">Bulgarians</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Croats" title="Croats">Croats</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Macedonians_(ethnic_group)" title="Macedonians (ethnic group)">Macedonians</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Montenegrins" title="Montenegrins">Montenegrins</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar" style="padding-top:0;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Serbs" title="Template:Serbs"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Serbs" title="Template talk:Serbs"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Serbs" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Serbs"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Serbs" title="Serbs">Serbs</a></b> are one of the constitutional <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic group">ethnic groups</a> of <a href="/wiki/North_Macedonia" title="North Macedonia">North Macedonia</a> (<a href="/wiki/Macedonian_language" title="Macedonian language">Macedonian</a>: <span lang="mk">Србите во Северна Македонија</span>, <a href="/wiki/Serbian_language" title="Serbian language">Serbian</a>: <span lang="sr">Срби у Северној Македонији</span>, <span title="Serbian-language text"><i lang="sr">Srbi u Severnoj Makedoniji</i></span>), numbering about 24,000 inhabitants (2021 census). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historical_overview">Historical overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serbs_in_North_Macedonia&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Historical overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Serbia became for the first time independent under <a href="/wiki/%C4%8Caslav" class="mw-redirect" title="Časlav">Časlav</a> ca. 930, only to fall ca. 960 under Byzantine, later under Bulgarian and then again under Byzantine rule.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From the end of the 11th to the end of the 13th century, the Serbian rulers made several attempts to penetrate into the region and briefly conquered its northernmost territories. In fact the whole of today North Macedonia was taken for the first time by medieval Serbia, during the 1280s.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The territory of today's North Macedonia was part of the <a href="/wiki/Serbian_Kingdom_(medieval)" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbian Kingdom (medieval)">Serbian Kingdom</a> and <a href="/wiki/Serbian_Empire" title="Serbian Empire">Empire</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kosovo" title="Battle of Kosovo">Battle of Kosovo</a> (1389) when it was conquered by the Ottomans. The South Slavic Orthodox people now lived under a foreign, Muslim power, in whose eyes all Orthodox people were regarded part of the <a href="/wiki/Rum_Millet" class="mw-redirect" title="Rum Millet">Rum Millet</a>. In tax registries, the Orthodox Christians were recorded as "infidels" (see <i><a href="/wiki/Giaour" title="Giaour">giaour</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-EHB1-44_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EHB1-44-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Atrocities, failed rebellions and tax increases prompted several mass migrations to the north. Minor revolts took place in Ottoman Macedonia, although the liberation of these lands came to fruit in the late 19th and early 20th century, with Serbian and Bulgarian effort. In the decades before the Balkan Wars, the governments of Bulgaria and Serbia competed to win over the affiliation of the Slavic Orthodox population, which had traditionally identified as Bulgarian. By 1913, Serbia had captured most of present-day North Macedonia, which subsequently was unified in the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia" title="Kingdom of Yugoslavia">Kingdom of Yugoslavia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia" title="Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia">Socialist Yugoslavia</a> with other South Slavic peoples. In 1991, with the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars" title="Yugoslav Wars">Yugoslav Wars</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Macedonia" title="Socialist Republic of Macedonia">Socialist Republic of Macedonia</a> became independent. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Medieval_heritage">Medieval heritage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serbs_in_North_Macedonia&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Medieval heritage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_Middle_Ages">Early Middle Ages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serbs_in_North_Macedonia&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Medieval_Serbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval Serbia">Medieval Serbia</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Early_Slavs" title="Early Slavs">Early Slavs</a> had pillaged the Balkans as early as the 520s. The South Slavic territories were called <i><a href="/wiki/Sclaviniae" class="mw-redirect" title="Sclaviniae">Sclaviniae</a></i> (lit. <i>Slav lands</i>), and were from times independent from the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 577, some 100,000 Slavs poured into <a href="/wiki/Thrace" title="Thrace">Thrace</a> and <a href="/wiki/Illyricum_(Roman_province)" title="Illyricum (Roman province)">Illyricum</a>, pillaging cities and settling down.<sup id="cite_ref-Bury2008_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bury2008-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (March 2014)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> By the 580s, as the Slav communities on the Danube became larger and more organised, and as the Avars exerted their influence, raids became larger and resulted in permanent settlement. By 581, many Slavic tribes had settled the land around Thessaloniki, though never taking the city itself, creating a <i>Macedonian Sclavinia</i>. In 586 AD, as many as 100,000 Slav warriors raided Thessaloniki.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/De_Administrando_Imperio" title="De Administrando Imperio">De Administrando Imperio</a></i>, the Serbs trace their origin to the migration of the <a href="/wiki/White_Serbs" class="mw-redirect" title="White Serbs">White Serbs</a> led by the <a href="/wiki/Unknown_Archont" class="mw-redirect" title="Unknown Archont">Unknown Archont</a>, who took the protection of the Byzantine Emperor <a href="/wiki/Heraclius" title="Heraclius">Heraclius</a> (610-641).<sup id="cite_ref-DAI_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DAI-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Part of the White Serbs, who settled in modern Greek Macedonia<sup id="cite_ref-Kaegi2003_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kaegi2003-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (around <a href="/wiki/Servia,_Greece" title="Servia, Greece">Servia</a>), subsequently moved to the north and settled the lands that would become the early <a href="/wiki/Serbian_Principality_(early_medieval)" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbian Principality (early medieval)">Serbian Principality</a>. <a href="/wiki/Constans_II" title="Constans II">Constans II</a> conquered <i>Sclavinia</i> in 656-657, "capturing many and subduing them",<sup id="cite_ref-Stratos1975_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stratos1975-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (March 2014)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> he also resettled Slavs from the Vardar area to <a href="/wiki/Asia_Minor" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia Minor">Asia Minor</a>, to a city named <a href="/wiki/Gordoservon" title="Gordoservon">Gordoservon</a> (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">Γορδοσερβα</span>, <i>City of Serbs</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The "Sclaviniae of Macedonia" (<i>Sclavenias penes Macedoniam</i>) were conquered in 785 by <a href="/wiki/Constantine_VI" title="Constantine VI">Constantine VI</a> (r. 776–797), meanwhile, a <a href="/wiki/Serbian_Principality_(early_medieval)" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbian Principality (early medieval)">Serbian Principality</a> was established to the northwest. </p><p>In 681, Bulgars established the <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Khanate" class="mw-redirect" title="Bulgarian Khanate">Bulgarian Khanate</a>. By <a href="/wiki/Peter_I_of_Bulgaria" title="Peter I of Bulgaria">Peter I of Bulgaria</a>'s reign, a symbiosis between the Bulgars and Slavs occurred.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine1991165_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine1991165-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They established a form of Bulgarian national identity that, despite far from modern nationalism helped them to survive as a distinct ethnicity through the centuries.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Almost the whole of Macedonia was incorporated into Bulgaria in the mid-9th century during the rule of Khan <a href="/wiki/Presian_I_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Presian I of Bulgaria">Presian</a> and his first minister <a href="/wiki/Isbul" title="Isbul">Isbul</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 924 the Bulgarian <a href="/wiki/Tsar_Simeon_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Tsar Simeon I">Tsar Simeon I</a> conquered Serbia for a short time. In 971-972, Eastern Bulgaria was conquered by <a href="/wiki/John_Tzimiskes" class="mw-redirect" title="John Tzimiskes">John Tzimiskes</a>, who burned down Bulgarian capital <a href="/wiki/Preslav" class="mw-redirect" title="Preslav">Preslav</a>, capturing <a href="/wiki/Tsar_Boris_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Tsar Boris II">Tsar Boris II</a>. The series of events are not clear due to contradicting sources, but it is sure that after 971, the <a href="/wiki/Cometopuli" class="mw-redirect" title="Cometopuli">Cometopuli</a> brothers were the de facto rulers of the Western Bulgarian lands. <a href="/wiki/Tsar_Samuel" class="mw-redirect" title="Tsar Samuel">Tsar Samuel</a> then became a general under <a href="/wiki/Roman_I_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman I of Bulgaria">Roman I of Bulgaria</a>, and co-ruled with him from 977 to 997. In 997, Roman died in captivity in Constantinople and Samuel was chosen as the new Emperor of Bulgaria. The political center of the Bulgarian realm was moved then to Macedonia, Ohrid served as capital and seat of the <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Orthodox_Church" title="Bulgarian Orthodox Church">Bulgarian Patriarchate</a>. By 997, Serbia had been conquered and made again subject to Bulgaria by Tsar Samuel. When the Byzantines finally defeated the Bulgarians in 1018, they regained control over most of the Balkans for the first time in four centuries. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="High_Middle_Ages">High Middle Ages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serbs_in_North_Macedonia&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: High Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kingdom_of_Serbia_at_the_end_of_the_XIII_century_and_early_fourteenth_A.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Kingdom_of_Serbia_at_the_end_of_the_XIII_century_and_early_fourteenth_A.svg/250px-Kingdom_of_Serbia_at_the_end_of_the_XIII_century_and_early_fourteenth_A.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Kingdom_of_Serbia_at_the_end_of_the_XIII_century_and_early_fourteenth_A.svg/375px-Kingdom_of_Serbia_at_the_end_of_the_XIII_century_and_early_fourteenth_A.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Kingdom_of_Serbia_at_the_end_of_the_XIII_century_and_early_fourteenth_A.svg/500px-Kingdom_of_Serbia_at_the_end_of_the_XIII_century_and_early_fourteenth_A.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="611" data-file-height="445" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Serbia_(medieval)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Serbia (medieval)">Kingdom of Serbia</a> at the end of the 13th and early 14th century.<br />1.<a href="/wiki/Stefan_Milutin" title="Stefan Milutin">Stefan Milutin</a>'s state; 2. <a href="/wiki/Stefan_Dragutin" title="Stefan Dragutin">Stefan Dragutin</a>'s state; 3. Milutin's acquisitions up to 1299; 4. Temporary loss of land in Hum.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1092, <a href="/wiki/Vukan_of_Rascia" class="mw-redirect" title="Vukan of Rascia">Grand Prince Vukan</a> defeated an army sent by Byzantine Emperor <a href="/wiki/Alexios_I_Komnenos" title="Alexios I Komnenos">Alexios I Komnenos</a>. Alexios I responded by sending a much larger army, but it was stopped by Serbian envoys wanting to negotiate. Peace was concluded, and Alexios returned to tackle the plundering <a href="/wiki/Cumans" title="Cumans">Cumans</a>. Vukan however, immediately violated the treaty, launching an operation in the <a href="/wiki/Vardar" title="Vardar">Vardar</a> region, conquering the cities of <a href="/wiki/Vranje" title="Vranje">Vranje</a>, <a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tetovo" title="Tetovo">Tetovo</a>, with much loot. Vukan then sent messengers to <a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a>, attempting to justify his actions as a consequence of unjust administration by the Byzantines. Alexios once again accepted peace, this time with the promise of Serbian hostages (a sign of definite peace), he returned to <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a> and tasked the local leaders to repair the damaged structures on the border. Vukan did not send the hostages as promised, prompting Alexios to send <a href="/wiki/John_Komnenos_(governor_of_Dyrrhachium)" title="John Komnenos (governor of Dyrrhachium)">John Komnenos</a>, his nephew and commander of <a href="/wiki/Dyrrhachium" class="mw-redirect" title="Dyrrhachium">Dyrrhachium</a>, towards Serbia. Vukan bought time by once again promising peace and hostages, only to simultaneously prepare an attack against them. In the night the Byzantine camp was surprise-attacked, with the majority of Byzantine soldiers being killed. Vukan went on to loot Skopje, <a href="/wiki/Polog" title="Polog">Gornji- and Donji Polog</a>, then ravaging <a href="/wiki/Vranje" title="Vranje">Vranje</a> and finally returning to Serbia. Alexios sent a last army, entering Lipljan without resistance, Vukan's messengers offered a conclusive peace and the previously promised hostages, and as Alexios had more problems in other places of the Empire, peace was agreed in 1094, and Vukan surrendered twenty hostages.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine1991226_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine1991226-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Byzantine Emperor <a href="/wiki/Constantine_Porphyrogenitos" class="mw-redirect" title="Constantine Porphyrogenitos">Constantine Porphyrogenitos</a> wrote in about 950 that the city of "Ta Serbia" situated north-west from Thessaloniki, derived its name from its Serbian founders in the early 7th century.<sup id="cite_ref-DAI_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DAI-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 12th century the city is mentioned as "Srpchishte" in the manuscript by the Byzantine author <a href="/wiki/John_Zonara" class="mw-redirect" title="John Zonara">John Zonara</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (January 2016)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1189 the regions of <a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tetovo" title="Tetovo">Tetovo</a> were conquered by <a href="/wiki/Stefan_Nemanja" title="Stefan Nemanja">Stefan Nemanja</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (March 2014)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the late 1200s, <a href="/wiki/Strez" title="Strez">Strez</a>, a Bulgarian royalty of the <a href="/wiki/Asen_dynasty" title="Asen dynasty">Asen dynasty</a>, fled to Serbia after a feud with Emperor <a href="/wiki/Boril_of_Bulgaria" title="Boril of Bulgaria">Boril</a>, who had taken the throne. Strez was for a time a Duke under <a href="/wiki/Stefan_Nemanji%C4%87" class="mw-redirect" title="Stefan Nemanjić">Stefan Nemanjić</a> and had by 1209 conquered most of Macedonia; from the <a href="/wiki/Struma_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Struma River">Struma</a> valley in the east, which bordered lands controlled by Boril, to <a href="/wiki/Bitola" title="Bitola">Bitola</a> and perhaps <a href="/wiki/Ohrid" title="Ohrid">Ohrid</a> in the west, and from <a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a> in the north to <a href="/wiki/Veria" title="Veria">Veria</a> in the south. While Strez quickly gained the support of the local population and possibly inherited the remaining administration from Boril's rule, Serbian units nevertheless remained in his domains, either to guarantee his loyalty or with the intent to oust him and annex his lands.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine199195–96_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine199195–96-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1215 the region is taken by the <a href="/wiki/Latinokratia" class="mw-redirect" title="Latinokratia">Latins</a> and <a href="/wiki/Despotate_of_Epirus" title="Despotate of Epirus">Despotate of Epirus</a>. In 1223, <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Komnenos_Doukas" title="Theodore Komnenos Doukas">Theodore Komnenos</a> ruled Macedonia as Despot of Epirus (proclaimed Emperor) with his Greek, Serb and Albanian lieutenants, who held lands to the Serbian border beyond <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Arbanon" title="Principality of Arbanon">Principality of Arbanon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Debar" title="Debar">Debar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Skoplje" class="mw-redirect" title="Skoplje">Skoplje</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191830–32_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191830–32-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%83%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%93%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%83%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%93%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8.jpg/220px-%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%83%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%93%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%83%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%93%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8.jpg/330px-%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%83%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%93%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%83%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%93%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8.jpg/440px-%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%83%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%93%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Church_of_St._George,_Staro_Nagori%C4%8Dane" title="Church of St. George, Staro Nagoričane">Church of St. George</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kumanovo" title="Kumanovo">Kumanovo</a>, founded by <a href="/wiki/Stefan_Milutin" title="Stefan Milutin">Stefan Milutin</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Serbian_monarchs" title="List of Serbian monarchs">King of Serbia</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1230, Theodore was defeated and captured by Emperor <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Asen_II_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria">Ivan Asen II</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Klokotnitsa" title="Battle of Klokotnitsa">battle of Klokotnitsa</a>, and lands west of Adrianople were once again part of Bulgaria; all the way to <a href="/wiki/Durr%C3%ABs" title="Durrës">Durrës</a>, Ivan Asen <a href="/wiki/Column_of_Ivan_Asen_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Column of Ivan Asen II">wrote in a memorial column</a> that he conquered "His [Theodore Komnenos'] whole land from Odrin (Edirne) to Drach (Durrës), also Greek, Albanian and Serb" after the victory. Between 1246 and 1265, <a href="/wiki/John_Vatatzes" class="mw-redirect" title="John Vatatzes">John Vatatzes</a> conquered Macedonia from the Adrianople to the Vardar, while the Bulgarian emperor <a href="/wiki/Michael_Asen_I_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Asen I of Bulgaria">Michael I Asen</a> had the towns west of the Vardar: Veles, Prilep and Ohrid. In 1252 John overcame Michael, and most of Macedonia towards the border of Serbia became a Nicaean province. After the 13th century, the Bulgarian empire lost Macedonia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191830–32_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191830–32-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Demetrios_Chomatenos" title="Demetrios Chomatenos">Demetrios Chomatenos</a> (<a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Ohrid" title="Archbishop of Ohrid">Archbishop of Ohrid</a> from 1216 to 1236) registered the naming culture of the <a href="/wiki/South_Slavs" title="South Slavs">South Slavs</a> in Byzantine lands. In the 11th and 12th century, family names became more common and stable in Byzantium, adapted by the majority of people in Byzantine Macedonia, <a href="/wiki/Epirus" title="Epirus">Epirus</a> and other regions (including women, sometimes even monks), not only aristocrats. The South Slavs, however, maintained the tradition of only giving a personal name, sometimes with a <a href="/wiki/Patronymic" title="Patronymic">Patronymic</a>. There are only two cases of family names used by South Slavs during this time; Bogdanopoulos and Serbopoulos, both Slavic names with the Greek suffix -opoulos (όπουλος, originating in <a href="/wiki/Peloponnese" title="Peloponnese">Peloponnese</a> in the 10th century).<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1258, King <a href="/wiki/Stefan_Uro%C5%A1_I" title="Stefan Uroš I">Stefan Uroš I</a> of Serbia took <a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prilep" title="Prilep">Prilep</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ki%C4%8Devo" title="Kičevo">Kičevo</a> from the Byzantines, but lost them shortly after in 1261. Serbia's conquest of the areas south of the Shara mountain chain, on the plains of <a href="/wiki/Polog" title="Polog">Polog</a>, and in <a href="/wiki/Byzantine" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine">Byzantine</a> dominated places like <a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a> and later <a href="/wiki/Serres" title="Serres">Serres</a> (Slavic: <i>Ser</i>) began with the expansion of Serbian <a href="/wiki/Stefan_Uro%C5%A1_II_Milutin_of_Serbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia">King Milutin</a> in 1282. With the victory over the Bulgarian army near Velbazhd (today's <a href="/wiki/Kyustendil" title="Kyustendil">Kyustendil</a>, Republic of Bulgaria) in 1331, the Morava and upper Vardar basins were secured for the Serbian state. </p><p>In a chrysobull dated 1294 of Andronicus II, the <i>kataphrylax</i> of Serres, "Jovan the Serb" was mentioned (Ἱωάννης ό Σἐρβος).<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A Byzantine Serb military family of Thessaloniki, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Deblitzenos&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Deblitzenos (page does not exist)">Deblitzenos</a>, produced several soldiers holding titles such as <i>pronoia</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Tzaousios" title="Tzaousios">tzaousios</a></i>, of which is also mentioned in documents of the <a href="/wiki/Emperor" title="Emperor">Emperor</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (March 2014)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ahrweiler-Laiou_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ahrweiler-Laiou-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Late_Middle_Ages">Late Middle Ages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serbs_in_North_Macedonia&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Late Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:348px;max-width:348px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:122px;max-width:122px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Serbian_Emperor_Stefan_Du%C5%A1an,_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Serbian_Emperor_Stefan_Du%C5%A1an%2C_cropped.jpg/120px-Serbian_Emperor_Stefan_Du%C5%A1an%2C_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Serbian_Emperor_Stefan_Du%C5%A1an%2C_cropped.jpg/180px-Serbian_Emperor_Stefan_Du%C5%A1an%2C_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Serbian_Emperor_Stefan_Du%C5%A1an%2C_cropped.jpg/240px-Serbian_Emperor_Stefan_Du%C5%A1an%2C_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="698" data-file-height="866" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:222px;max-width:222px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Skopje_Fortress_(9451263327).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Skopje_Fortress_%289451263327%29.jpg/220px-Skopje_Fortress_%289451263327%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Skopje_Fortress_%289451263327%29.jpg/330px-Skopje_Fortress_%289451263327%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Skopje_Fortress_%289451263327%29.jpg/440px-Skopje_Fortress_%289451263327%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="2000" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption"><b>Left:</b> <a href="/wiki/Stefan_Du%C5%A1an" title="Stefan Dušan">Stefan Dušan</a> used <a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a> as capital of <a href="/wiki/Serbian_Empire" title="Serbian Empire">Serbian Empire</a><br /><b>Right:</b> <a href="/wiki/Skopje_Fortress" title="Skopje Fortress">Skopje Fortress</a>, where Dušan adopted the title of Emperor at his coronation</div></div></div></div> <p>In 1330, the Bulgarians attacked Serbia to stop the Serb penetration in Macedonia but were defeated in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Velbazhd" title="Battle of Velbazhd">battle of Velbazhd</a> and while Bulgaria did not lose territory to Serbia, it could not prevent the latter from conquering Macedonia from the Byzantine Empire which had descended into a disastrous civil war. Of the event, both Dušan and his father recall that the Bulgarian emperor went against "Our country, against the lands of our fathers" and "Serbian territory" in relation to Macedonia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191841_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191841-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1345, the whole of Macedonia and parts of western <a href="/wiki/Thrace" title="Thrace">Thrace</a> were under <a href="/wiki/Stefan_Du%C5%A1an" title="Stefan Dušan">Stefan Dušan</a>'s newly established <a href="/wiki/Serbian_Empire" title="Serbian Empire">Serbian Empire</a>. After these successes Dušan proclaimed himself Emperor in 1345 at <a href="/wiki/Serres,_Greece" class="mw-redirect" title="Serres, Greece">Serres</a> and was crowned in <a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a> on April 16, 1346 as "Emperor and <a href="/wiki/Autocrator" class="mw-redirect" title="Autocrator">autocrat</a> of <a href="/wiki/Serbs" title="Serbs">Serbs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Romaioi" class="mw-redirect" title="Romaioi">Romans</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Bασιλεὺς καὶ αὐτoκράτωρ Σερβίας καὶ Pωμανίας</span></span>) by the <a href="/wiki/Serbian_Patriarch" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbian Patriarch">Serbian Patriarch</a> <a href="/wiki/Joanikije_II" title="Joanikije II">Joanikije II</a> with the help of the <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Patriarchate" class="mw-redirect" title="Bulgarian Patriarchate">Bulgarian Patriarch</a> Simeon and the <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Ohrid" title="Archbishop of Ohrid">Archbishop of Ohrid</a>, Nicholas.<sup id="cite_ref-Vazeille2009_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vazeille2009-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Settling of Serb military and upper class citizens in <a href="/wiki/Veria" title="Veria">Veria</a> is mentioned in 1350, after <a href="/wiki/Du%C5%A1an_the_Mighty" class="mw-redirect" title="Dušan the Mighty">Dušan the Mighty</a> had conquered the town in between 1343 and 1347 and driven out all the inhabitants in fear of a revolt. Kantakouzenes asserts the Veria Serbs numbered 30 nobles and 1,500 soldiers, with their families.<sup id="cite_ref-Ahrweiler-Laiou_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ahrweiler-Laiou-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ottoman_rule">Ottoman rule</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serbs_in_North_Macedonia&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Ottoman rule"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="14th–17th_century"><span id="14th.E2.80.9317th_century"></span>14th–17th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serbs_in_North_Macedonia&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 14th–17th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Markovi---Kuli.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Markovi---Kuli.JPG/220px-Markovi---Kuli.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Markovi---Kuli.JPG/330px-Markovi---Kuli.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Markovi---Kuli.JPG/440px-Markovi---Kuli.JPG 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Markovi_Kuli" title="Markovi Kuli">Marko's Towers</a> near <a href="/wiki/Prilep" title="Prilep">Prilep</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman</a> invasion of Serbia was challenged at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Maritsa" title="Battle of Maritsa">Battle of Maritsa</a> in 1371 by Serbian magnates Vukašin and Uglješa at the river <a href="/wiki/Maritsa" title="Maritsa">Maritsa</a> (in Bulgaria) which ended in Serbian defeat. This defeat, which culminated with the fall of Skoplje (Skopje) in 1392, Trnovo in 1393, in combination with the consequences of Serbian defeat at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kosovo" title="Battle of Kosovo">Battle of Kosovo</a> (1389) led to increasing presence of Ottoman Turks and Islam. The Ottomans converted population groups of Christian Slavs into Islam. In the middle of the 17th century, Grand Vizier <a href="/wiki/Mehmed_K%C3%B6pr%C3%BCl%C3%BC" class="mw-redirect" title="Mehmed Köprülü">Mehmed Köprülü</a> successfully converted peoples of the Danube region, and notably the Serbs of <a href="/wiki/Debar" title="Debar">Dibra (Debar)</a> in western Macedonia.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (March 2014)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The <a href="/wiki/Serbian_Patriarchate_of_Pe%C4%87" title="Serbian Patriarchate of Peć">Serbian Patriarchate of Peć</a> had spiritual power extending over Macedonia which continued the Serbian consciousness in a part of the South Slavic people of the region.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch1918107_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch1918107-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the second half of the 15th century, Orthodox scribe <a href="/wiki/Vladislav_the_Grammarian" title="Vladislav the Grammarian">Vladislav the Grammarian</a> considered Macedonia a "Serb land".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (January 2016)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_fresco_of_King_Marko_and_King_Volkashin_at_Marko%27s_Monastery_Skopje_Macedonia.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/A_fresco_of_King_Marko_and_King_Volkashin_at_Marko%27s_Monastery_Skopje_Macedonia.jpg/220px-A_fresco_of_King_Marko_and_King_Volkashin_at_Marko%27s_Monastery_Skopje_Macedonia.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/A_fresco_of_King_Marko_and_King_Volkashin_at_Marko%27s_Monastery_Skopje_Macedonia.jpg/330px-A_fresco_of_King_Marko_and_King_Volkashin_at_Marko%27s_Monastery_Skopje_Macedonia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/A_fresco_of_King_Marko_and_King_Volkashin_at_Marko%27s_Monastery_Skopje_Macedonia.jpg/440px-A_fresco_of_King_Marko_and_King_Volkashin_at_Marko%27s_Monastery_Skopje_Macedonia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>Fresco above entrance of the church at <a href="/wiki/Marko%27s_Monastery" title="Marko's Monastery">Marko's Monastery</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Prince_Marko" title="Prince Marko">Prince Marko</a> (left) and his father, <a href="/wiki/Vuka%C5%A1in_of_Serbia" title="Vukašin of Serbia">King Vukašin</a> (right)</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1557, <a href="/wiki/Mehmed_Sokolovi%C4%87" class="mw-redirect" title="Mehmed Sokolović">Mehmed Sokolović</a>, an Ottoman commander of Serb origin, restored the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć, appointing his still Christian relative, Makarije, as the Patriarch. <a href="/wiki/Tetovo" title="Tetovo">Tetovo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C5%A0tip" title="Štip">Štip</a> and <a href="/wiki/Radovi%C5%A1te" class="mw-redirect" title="Radovište">Radovište</a> are placed under the Serbian Church, while <a href="/wiki/Ohrid" title="Ohrid">Ohrid</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bitola" title="Bitola">Monastir</a>, <a href="/wiki/Debar" title="Debar">Debar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Prilep" title="Prilep">Prilep</a> remains under the <a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Archbishopric_of_Ohrid_(ancient)" class="mw-redirect" title="Orthodox Archbishopric of Ohrid (ancient)">Archbishopric of Ohrid</a> (Greek).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191891–92_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191891–92-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1580, Jovan the Serb of Kratovo authored a Gospel book.<sup id="cite_ref-GeorgevichMaric1977_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GeorgevichMaric1977-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All missions to Russia from Macedonia were described as "Serbian", the first of which was in 1585, by Visarion, the Metropolitan of Kratovo and his entourage of monks from other places.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191891–92_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191891–92-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1641, the Metropolitan of Skopje, Simeon, travels to Russia and signs himself as "<i>of the land of Serbia</i>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191891–92_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191891–92-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1687 a petition of Jeftimije, Metropolitan of Skoplje; "of the Serbian lands of the Church of Skoplje".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191891–92_28-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191891–92-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although, unquestionably, the preceding were all under the Serb see, similarly clergy from the southern, Ecumenical dioceses, too described themselves as Serbs.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191891–92_28-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191891–92-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1625, Sergius of Greben mentions that he had been "consecrated by Nektarije, Archbishop of Ochrida, in the land of Serbia".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191891–92_28-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191891–92-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1634, Archbishop Avram of Ohrid replies that they came from "the Serbian country, from the town of Ochrida", similarly, in 1643, German of Kremenec says he is from the Serbian country, from Kostur, In 1648, "the Serb Dimitrje Nikolajev" from Kostur.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191891–92_28-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191891–92-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1704, "Serb Bratan Jovanov came to Russia from the land of Macedonia".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191891–92_28-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch191891–92-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18th_century">18th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serbs_in_North_Macedonia&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 18th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Saints_Marina_and_Jovan_Vladimir.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Saints_Marina_and_Jovan_Vladimir.jpg/220px-Saints_Marina_and_Jovan_Vladimir.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="335" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Saints_Marina_and_Jovan_Vladimir.jpg/330px-Saints_Marina_and_Jovan_Vladimir.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Saints_Marina_and_Jovan_Vladimir.jpg 2x" data-file-width="440" data-file-height="670" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Jovan_Vladimir" title="Jovan Vladimir">Jovan Vladimir</a> from <a href="/wiki/Prespa" title="Prespa">Prespa</a> (right) with <a href="/wiki/Margaret_the_Virgin" title="Margaret the Virgin">Margaret the Virgin</a>, icon (1711) in the <a href="/wiki/Monastery_of_Saint_Naum" title="Monastery of Saint Naum">Monastery of Saint Naum</a> near <a href="/wiki/Ohrid" title="Ohrid">Ohrid</a></figcaption></figure> <p>From the beginning of the 18th century only Bulgarians were mentioned in Macedonia from foreign travallers, which means that they gradually absorbed the smaller Serbian ethnic element. According to <a href="/wiki/Jovan_Cvijic" class="mw-redirect" title="Jovan Cvijic">Jovan Cvijic</a> this mixture of Bulgarians and Serbs formed an amorphous Slavic mass, without clear ethnic consciousness. Per Cvijic these Slavs was to remain amorphous during the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century; but after the turn of the century these people, already Bulgarian in name, began to adopt a Bulgarian national identity.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1766 - 1767, the <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Archbishopric_of_Ohrid" class="mw-redirect" title="Bulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid">Bulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Serbian_Patriarchate_of_Pe%C4%87" title="Serbian Patriarchate of Peć">Serbian Patriarchate of Peć</a> were abolished, the former dioceses becoming part of the <a href="/wiki/Patriarchate_of_Constantinople" class="mw-redirect" title="Patriarchate of Constantinople">Patriarchate of Constantinople</a>, which had Greek liturgy. In 1870 the <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Exarchate" title="Bulgarian Exarchate">Bulgarian Exarchate</a>, which used Slavic liturgy and was deemed schismatic, was recognized by the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>, and subsequently two thirds of the Slavic population of Macedonia joined the Exarchate. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serbs_in_North_Macedonia&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 19th century, the ethnic Serbian areas outside (south) of the <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Serbia" title="Principality of Serbia">Principality of Serbia</a> were designated by Serbian cartographers as "Old Serbia", claiming that the inhabitants of this region (<a href="/wiki/Kratovo,_Macedonia" class="mw-redirect" title="Kratovo, Macedonia">Kratovo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ov%C4%8De_Pole" title="Ovče Pole">Ovče Pole</a>) described their native districts as "Serbian lands".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch1918165–167_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch1918165–167-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The wars of Serbia and Montenegro, and then Russia, against the Ottomans motivated liberation movements among the people in <a href="/wiki/Kosovo_and_Metohija" class="mw-redirect" title="Kosovo and Metohija">Kosovo and Metohija</a> and <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(region)" title="Macedonia (region)">Macedonia</a> (known at the time as "Old Serbia" or "southern Serbia").<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanović1937236_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanović1937236-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Serbia sought to liberate the <a href="/wiki/Kosovo_Vilayet" class="mw-redirect" title="Kosovo Vilayet">Kosovo Vilayet</a> (sanjaks of Niš, Prizren, Skopje and Novi Pazar).<sup id="cite_ref-Cirkovic2008_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cirkovic2008-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Serbian Army was joined by southern Serbs who made up special volunteer detachments, a large number being from Macedonia, who wanted to liberate their home regions and unify them with Serbia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanović1937236_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanović1937236-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch1918181–182_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch1918181–182-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These volunteers were infiltrated into the Kumanovo and Kriva Palanka districts.<sup id="cite_ref-armije1968_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-armije1968-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When peace was signed between the Serbs and Ottomans, these groups conducted independent guerrilla fighting under the Serbian flag, which they carried and flew far south of the demarcation line.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanović1937236_32-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanović1937236-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Serbian advance in Old Serbia (1877–78) was followed with uprisings for the Serbian cause in the region, including a notable one that broke out in the counties of Kumanovo, Kriva Palanka, and Kratovo,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch1918181–182_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch1918181–182-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> known as the <a href="/wiki/Kumanovo_Uprising" class="mw-redirect" title="Kumanovo Uprising">Kumanovo Uprising</a> (January—May 1878). Following the uprising, the Ottoman government most notably prohibited the use of the appellation "Serbian". Also, Serbian nationalism in Macedonia was persecuted, while Bulgarian influence in the region became more common.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch1918183_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch1918183-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mass migrations from Macedonia into Serbia followed after reprisals, with their former villages being settled by Albanians (such as in Matejche, Otlja, Kosmatec, Murgash and others).<sup id="cite_ref-Božić2014_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Božić2014-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Uro%C5%A1_Kne%C5%BEevi%C4%87,_Cincar-Janko.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Uro%C5%A1_Kne%C5%BEevi%C4%87%2C_Cincar-Janko.jpg/180px-Uro%C5%A1_Kne%C5%BEevi%C4%87%2C_Cincar-Janko.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Uro%C5%A1_Kne%C5%BEevi%C4%87%2C_Cincar-Janko.jpg/270px-Uro%C5%A1_Kne%C5%BEevi%C4%87%2C_Cincar-Janko.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Uro%C5%A1_Kne%C5%BEevi%C4%87%2C_Cincar-Janko.jpg/360px-Uro%C5%A1_Kne%C5%BEevi%C4%87%2C_Cincar-Janko.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1630" data-file-height="2059" /></a><figcaption><i>Portrait of <a href="/wiki/Cincar-Janko" title="Cincar-Janko">Cincar Janko Popović</a></i> (19th century) by <a href="/wiki/Uro%C5%A1_Kne%C5%BEevi%C4%87" title="Uroš Knežević">Uroš Knežević</a>.<br />Popović, born in <a href="/wiki/Ohrid" title="Ohrid">Ohrid</a>, was one of the most prominent leaders of the <a href="/wiki/First_Serbian_Uprising" title="First Serbian Uprising">First Serbian Uprising</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/Serbian%E2%80%93Ottoman_War_(1876%E2%80%9378)" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–78)">Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–78)</a> and the suppressed Kumanovo Uprising, the Ottomans retaliated against the Serb population in the Ottoman Empire.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanović1937237_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanović1937237-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because of the terror against the unprotected <a href="/wiki/Rayah" title="Rayah">rayah</a> (lower class, Christians), many left for the mountains, fled across the border into Serbia, from where they raided their home regions in order to revenge the atrocities carried out by the Ottomans.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJovanović1937237_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJovanović1937237-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the war, the Serbian military government sent armament and aid to rebels in Kosovo and Macedonia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević19288_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević19288-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Christian rebel bands were formed all over the region.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević19288_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević19288-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many of those bands, privately organized and aided by the government, were established in Serbia and crossed into Ottoman territory.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević19288_39-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević19288-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 15 June 1878, an assembly was held at <a href="/wiki/Zelenikovo,_Macedonia" class="mw-redirect" title="Zelenikovo, Macedonia">Zelenikovo</a>, southeast from <a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a>, where 5,000 villagers from the <a href="/wiki/Nahiye" class="mw-redirect" title="Nahiye">nahiye</a> of Veles, Skopje, and Tikveš, requested unification with Serbia from Prince Milan IV.<sup id="cite_ref-IZSI-87_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IZSI-87-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The request came with 800 municipality, church, and monastery seals, as well as 5,000 signatures, fingerprints, and crosses.<sup id="cite_ref-IZSI-87_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IZSI-87-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unfortunately, the carrier delivering the message was intercepted on 16 June on the Skopje-Kumanovo road,<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by an Ottoman <a href="/wiki/Gendarmerie" title="Gendarmerie">gendarmerie</a> that had been tipped off by a Bulgarian teacher.<sup id="cite_ref-IZSI-87_40-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IZSI-87-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There was a shootout, and when the carrier's bullets had run out, he ripped and swallowed some of the papers before being shot.<sup id="cite_ref-IZSI-87_40-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IZSI-87-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of the petition was destroyed; however, 600 signatures were identified, and 200 of the identified signatories were immediately killed, while the rest were imprisoned and died in prison. 50 such prisoners later being released from Ottoman <a href="/wiki/Casemate" title="Casemate">casemates</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-IZSI-87_40-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IZSI-87-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>As Serbs of true and pure stock, of the purest and most intrinsically Serbian country... We for the last time implore on our knees... That we may in some manner and by some means be freed from the slavery of five centuries, and united with our country, the Principality of Serbia, and that the tears of blood of the Serbian martyrs may be stanched so that they, too, may become useful members of the European community of nations and of the Christian world; we do not desire to exchange the harsh Turkish slavery for the vastly harsher and darker Bulgarian slavery, which will be worse and more intolerable than that of the Turks which we are at present enduring, and will compel us in the end either to slay all our own people, or to abandon our country, to abandon our holy places, and graves, and all that we hold dear...</p></blockquote> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Micko_Krsti%C4%87.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Micko_Krsti%C4%87.jpg/160px-Micko_Krsti%C4%87.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="252" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Micko_Krsti%C4%87.jpg/240px-Micko_Krsti%C4%87.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Micko_Krsti%C4%87.jpg/320px-Micko_Krsti%C4%87.jpg 2x" data-file-width="603" data-file-height="950" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Micko_Krsti%C4%87" title="Micko Krstić">Micko Krstić</a> participated in <a href="/wiki/Serbian%E2%80%93Ottoman_War_(1876%E2%80%9378)" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–78)">Serbian–Ottoman War</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kumanovo_Uprising" class="mw-redirect" title="Kumanovo Uprising">Kumanovo Uprising</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In the beginning of 1880, some 65 rebel leaders (<i>glavari</i>), from almost all provinces in southern <a href="/wiki/Old_Serbia" title="Old Serbia">Old Serbia</a> and Macedonia, sent an appeal to <a href="/wiki/Milo%C5%A1_Milojevi%C4%87_(lawyer)" title="Miloš Milojević (lawyer)">M. S. Milojević</a>, the former commander of volunteers in the <a href="/wiki/Serbian-Ottoman_War_(1876%E2%80%9378)" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbian-Ottoman War (1876–78)">Serbian-Ottoman War (1876–78)</a>, asking him to, with requesting from the Serbian government, prepare 1,000 rifles and ammunition for them, and that Milojević be appointed the commander of the rebels and that they be allowed to cross the border and start the rebellion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević19289_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević19289-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The leaders were among the most influential in the districts of <a href="/wiki/Kumanovo" title="Kumanovo">Kumanovo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kriva_Palanka" title="Kriva Palanka">Kriva Palanka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ko%C4%8Dani" title="Kočani">Kočani</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C5%A0tip" title="Štip">Štip</a>, <a href="/wiki/Veles_(city)" class="mw-redirect" title="Veles (city)">Veles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prilep" title="Prilep">Prilep</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bitola" title="Bitola">Bitola</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ohrid" title="Ohrid">Ohrid</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ki%C4%8Devo" title="Kičevo">Kičevo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch1918182–183_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch1918182–183-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The appeal was signed by <a href="/wiki/Spiro_Crne" title="Spiro Crne">Spiro Crne</a>, Mihajlo Čakre, Dime Ristić-Šiće, Mladen Stojanović "<a href="/wiki/%C4%8Cakr-pa%C5%A1a" title="Čakr-paša">Čakr-paša</a>", Čerkez Ilija, <a href="/wiki/Dav%C4%8De_Trajkovi%C4%87" class="mw-redirect" title="Davče Trajković">Davče Trajković</a>, and 59 other rebels and former volunteers in the Serbian army.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević19289_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević19289-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The reply from the Serbian government is unknown; it is possible that it did not reply.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević19289_42-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević19289-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From these intentions, only in the Poreče region, an ethnically uniform compact province, a larger result was achieved.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević19289_42-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević19289-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Poreče, whole villages turned on the Ottomans.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević19289–10_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević19289–10-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Viewed of as a continuation of the Kumanovo Uprising,<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Brsjak_Revolt" class="mw-redirect" title="Brsjak Revolt">Brsjak Revolt</a> began on 14 October 1880,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević192810_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević192810-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and broke out in the nahiya of Kičevo, Poreče, Bitola and Prilep.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch1918183_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgevitch1918183-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The movement was active for little more than a year,<sup id="cite_ref-HV-10-J-237_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HV-10-J-237-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> finally being suppressed by the Ottoman <i>jandarma</i> (<a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Gendarmerie" title="Ottoman Gendarmerie">gendarmerie</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević192810_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević192810-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most schools in Macedonia had disappeared by the time of the <a href="/wiki/Serbo-Turkish_War_(1876%E2%80%9378)" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbo-Turkish War (1876–78)">Serbo-Turkish War (1876–78)</a>. In the mid-1890s it was claimed that there were around 100 Serbian schools in Macedonia, though attendance was low. A school was opened in Skopje in 1892, but soon closed after Bulgarians complained that the required city quarters were lacking, the same happened in Kumanovo. Two new schools opened in 1893 and by 1896 the Serbian influence reached its peak but had declined by the start of the 20th century. On August 5, 1898, Dimitar Grdanov, a Serbian teacher in Ohrid, and pro-Serbian activist in Macedonia, was murdered by <a href="/wiki/Metody_Patchev" title="Metody Patchev">Metody Patchev</a>, after which Patchev and his fellow conspirators <a href="/wiki/Hristo_Uzunov" title="Hristo Uzunov">Hristo Uzunov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cyril_Parlichev" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyril Parlichev">Cyril Parlichev</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ivan_Grupchev&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ivan Grupchev (page does not exist)">Ivan Grupchev</a> were arrested.<sup id="cite_ref-M501-30_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-M501-30-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These were members of the pro-Bulgarian <a href="/wiki/Internal_Macedonian_Revolutionary_Organization" title="Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization">Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization</a> (IMRO). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Macedonian_Struggle_and_Balkan_Wars_(1903–13)"><span id="Macedonian_Struggle_and_Balkan_Wars_.281903.E2.80.9313.29"></span>Macedonian Struggle and Balkan Wars (1903–13)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serbs_in_North_Macedonia&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Macedonian Struggle and Balkan Wars (1903–13)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the end of the 19th century, the liberated countries started actively to process the Christian population in <a href="/wiki/Rumelia" title="Rumelia">European Turkey</a>. In the beginning, there were unarmed, propagandic, cultural and likewise activities. Later, the activities would transition into a revolt against the Ottoman Empire, and between the rebel bands. Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia claimed Macedonia as legitimate owners. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Serbia1913.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Serbia1913.png/190px-Serbia1913.png" decoding="async" width="190" height="261" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Serbia1913.png/285px-Serbia1913.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Serbia1913.png/380px-Serbia1913.png 2x" data-file-width="663" data-file-height="912" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Serbia" title="Kingdom of Serbia">Kingdom of Serbia</a> in 1913</figcaption></figure> <p>Greece pointed at its Antique and Roman/Byzantine province of Macedonia. Bulgaria pointed at its holding of Macedonia during <a href="/wiki/Simeon_I_of_Bulgaria" title="Simeon I of Bulgaria">Simeon I</a> and <a href="/wiki/Asen_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Asen II">Asen II</a>. Serbia pointed at its material heritage, endowments of the Nemanjić and Mrnjavčević eras, and the identity-preserved in many regions; traditions such as <i><a href="/wiki/Slava_(tradition)" title="Slava (tradition)">slava</a></i> (Serbian Orthodox tradition) and linguistical bonds (see <a href="/wiki/Macedonian_language" title="Macedonian language">Macedonian language</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1886, the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Saint_Sava" title="Society of Saint Sava">Society of Saint Sava</a> was formed, which aimed to aid the Serbian cause in Macedonia. Serbian consulates were opened in Skopje in 1887, Pristina in 1889, Bitola in 1889, and Prizren in 1896. </p><p>As of 1903, the Serbian <a href="/wiki/Chetniks" title="Chetniks">Chetniks</a>, men like <a href="/wiki/Jovan_Babunski" title="Jovan Babunski">Jovan Stojković Babunski</a>, <a href="/wiki/Micko_Krsti%C4%87" title="Micko Krstić">Micko Krstić</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jovan_Dolga%C4%8D" title="Jovan Dolgač">Jovan Dolgač</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gligor_Sokolovi%C4%87" title="Gligor Sokolović">Gligor Sokolović</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vasilije_Trbi%C4%87" title="Vasilije Trbić">Vasilije Trbić</a> confronted Turkish, Albanian and Bulgarian (VMRO-led) military formations together with their squads called "<a href="/wiki/%C4%8Ceta" class="mw-redirect" title="Četa">Četa</a>"-mobile volunteer units strongly armed with personal weapons.<sup id="cite_ref-Nasledje981211_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nasledje981211-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="A complete citation is needed. (December 2022)">full citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Serb_Democratic_League" title="Serb Democratic League">Serb Democratic League</a> in the Ottoman Empire (Serbian: Српска демократска лига у Отоманској царевини) was an Ottoman Serb political organization established on August 13, 1908, at the First Serb Conference (August 10–13), immediately after the Young Turk Revolution. Some 26 most distinguished Serbs in the Ottoman Empire attended and <a href="/wiki/Bogdan_Radenkovi%C4%87" title="Bogdan Radenković">Bogdan Radenković</a> was selected to head the "Temporary Central Board of the Organization of Ottoman Serbs" in July in 1908. Bishop Vicentije Krdzić of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Skopje headed the clergy and Bogdan Radenković the lay membership of the "Assembly of Ottoman Serbs in Skopje", held on <a href="/wiki/Sretenje" class="mw-redirect" title="Sretenje">Sretenje</a> in 1909. These organizations included the Serb elite of <a href="/wiki/Ra%C5%A1ka_(region)" title="Raška (region)">Old Raška</a>, <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_Province_of_Kosovo_and_Metohija" title="Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija">Kosovo and Metohija</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Vardar_Macedonia" title="Vardar Macedonia">Vardar Macedonia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aegean_Macedonia" title="Aegean Macedonia">Aegean Macedonia</a>. It included many members of the <a href="/wiki/Serbian_Chetnik_Organization" title="Serbian Chetnik Organization">Serbian Chetnik Organization</a> as well. They were: <a href="/wiki/Bogdan_Radenkovi%C4%87" title="Bogdan Radenković">Bogdan Radenković</a>; Aleksandar Bukvić; <a href="/wiki/Gligorije_Elezovi%C4%87" title="Gligorije Elezović">Gligorije Elezović</a>; <a href="/wiki/Vasa_Jovanovi%C4%87" title="Vasa Jovanović">Vasa Jovanović</a>; Milan Čemerikić; Sava Stojanović; David Dimitrijević; Đorđe Hadzi-Kostić; <a href="/wiki/Velimir_Preli%C4%87" title="Velimir Prelić">Velimir Prelić</a> and Jovan Šantrić. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Serbian_king_Petar_I_and_mayor_of_Skopie_1912_-_1915.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Serbian_king_Petar_I_and_mayor_of_Skopie_1912_-_1915.jpg/220px-Serbian_king_Petar_I_and_mayor_of_Skopie_1912_-_1915.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Serbian_king_Petar_I_and_mayor_of_Skopie_1912_-_1915.jpg/330px-Serbian_king_Petar_I_and_mayor_of_Skopie_1912_-_1915.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Serbian_king_Petar_I_and_mayor_of_Skopie_1912_-_1915.jpg/440px-Serbian_king_Petar_I_and_mayor_of_Skopie_1912_-_1915.jpg 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="321" /></a><figcaption>Spiro Hadži Ristić, <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_the_City_of_Skopje" title="Mayor of the City of Skopje">Mayor of Skopje</a> with the King <a href="/wiki/Peter_I_of_Serbia" title="Peter I of Serbia">Peter I of Serbia</a></figcaption></figure> <p>With the founding of the Serb Democratic League, it became the first political party to represent the interests of the Serbs in the Ottoman Empire. The Serbian Democratic League sent to Thessaloniki Bogdan Radenković, Jovan Šantrić, and Đorđe Hadži-Kostić to negotiate with the Central Young Turk Board. The Serbian demands were as follows: for the three non-Muslim “ethnic groups” – Serbian, Greek and Bulgarian – to get an equal number of seats in the Ottoman Parliament. But the Young Turks refused that concept and they conditioned the electoral agreement with the Serbs with having an agreement on broader bases that would not have a national background. In 1910 as a representative of the party, he was sent to Istanbul where he urged the Turkish authorities to stop using their troops (<i><a href="/wiki/Bashi-bazouk" title="Bashi-bazouk">Bashi-bazouk</a></i>) to terrorize the Serbian population in <a href="/wiki/Gjilan" title="Gjilan">Gjilan</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Sublime_Porte" title="Sublime Porte">Sublime Porte</a> denied the violence in Kosovo claiming that it was a fabrication. Yet to the Albanians are credited many of the outrages that have been committed to <a href="/wiki/Old_Serbia" title="Old Serbia">Old Serbia</a>, where Turkish troops are alleged to have massacred more than 60,000 Christians. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Young_Turks" title="Young Turks">Young Turks</a> Revolution of 1908 created slightly better conditions for the expression of Serbian cultural life in Macedonia. Serbian publishing of books, religious calendars, newspapers briefly flourished. The "Assembly of Ottoman Serbs" was held in Skoplje and Serbs had their deputies in the Ottoman parliament. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/First_Balkan_War" title="First Balkan War">First Balkan War</a>, Serbia occupied most of modern-day North Macedonia, much at the grievance of Bulgaria. The period from 1913 to 1914 is a period of turmoil, and the central government in Belgrade implemented plenty of unpopular measures. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serbs_in_North_Macedonia&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Yugoslavia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the late 19th and early 20th century the international community generally viewed the Macedonian Slavs as a regional variety of Bulgarians.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, however, the Allies approved Serbian control of Vardar Macedonia, claiming that the Macedonian Slavs were Southern Serbs.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the creation of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Serbs,_Croats_and_Slovenes" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes">Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes</a> (1918), the territory of what is today North Macedonia, Kosovo, southwestern and southeastern Serbia was administratively organized into <a href="/wiki/South_Serbia_(1919%E2%80%9322)" class="mw-redirect" title="South Serbia (1919–22)">South Serbia</a>. Although reorganized in 1922, the term continued to be used for the new administrative divisions, the <a href="/wiki/Vardar_Banovina" title="Vardar Banovina">Vardar Banovina</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zeta_Banovina" title="Zeta Banovina">Zeta Banovina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%C5%A0tip_Massacre6.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/%C5%A0tip_Massacre6.jpg/220px-%C5%A0tip_Massacre6.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/%C5%A0tip_Massacre6.jpg/330px-%C5%A0tip_Massacre6.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/%C5%A0tip_Massacre6.jpg/440px-%C5%A0tip_Massacre6.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1987" data-file-height="1401" /></a><figcaption>Exhumed remains of the <a href="/wiki/%C5%A0tip_massacre" title="Štip massacre">Štip massacre</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_occupation_of_Serbia_(World_War_I)" title="Bulgarian occupation of Serbia (World War I)">Bulgarian occupied territory</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a></figcaption></figure> <p>When Bulgaria <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_occupation_of_Serbia_(World_War_I)" title="Bulgarian occupation of Serbia (World War I)">invaded southern Serbia</a> during World War I, it regarded all who celebrated the <i><a href="/wiki/Slava_(tradition)" title="Slava (tradition)">slava</a></i> as Serbs and enemies, as Bulgarians do not have the custom. For instance, when Bulgarian commander <a href="/wiki/Aleksandar_Protogerov" title="Aleksandar Protogerov">Protogerov</a> was ordered to inflict reprisals in the east of <a href="/wiki/Kumanovo" title="Kumanovo">Kumanovo</a> for an earlier attack, and the population quickly declared as Bulgarians before the measures were taken (as to avoid punishment), his aides had the idea of asking the people who celebrated the slava; those who did were shot.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monument_Zebrnjak_near_Kumanovo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Monument_Zebrnjak_near_Kumanovo.jpg/200px-Monument_Zebrnjak_near_Kumanovo.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="316" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Monument_Zebrnjak_near_Kumanovo.jpg/300px-Monument_Zebrnjak_near_Kumanovo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Monument_Zebrnjak_near_Kumanovo.jpg/400px-Monument_Zebrnjak_near_Kumanovo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1036" data-file-height="1635" /></a><figcaption>Opening of <a href="/wiki/Zebrnjak" title="Zebrnjak">Zebrnjak Mausoleum</a>, 1937</figcaption></figure> <p>During the World War II, the IMRO deported Macedonian Serbs; The Serbian community of Veles faced massive deportations, of the 25,000 Serbs of Skopje only 2,000 remained by the beginning of 1942. The IMRO was active in the deportation and punitive expeditions against ethnic Serbs.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some 120,000 Serbs were forced to emigrate to Serbia by the Yugoslav Communists after they had opted for Serbian citizenship in 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The population of Serbs in Macedonia which did not lend itself to Tito's Macedonianization, representing compact populations in the region of <a href="/wiki/Skopska_Crna_Gora" title="Skopska Crna Gora">Skopska Crna Gora</a> and having significant presence in <a href="/wiki/Kumanovo" title="Kumanovo">Kumanovo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Skoplje" class="mw-redirect" title="Skoplje">Skoplje</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tetovo" title="Tetovo">Tetovo</a>, and surroundings, was separated from Yugoslav Serbia. Immediately after the liberation from the occupying forces, in 1945, the requests to become a part of the newly formed federal unit of Serbia came from some regions of Macedonia in spite of the terror of the new Macedonian government. The typical example was the plea of the rural population in the Vratnica municipality, Tetovo district. In a letter to the minister for Serbia in the Government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia the inhabitants of these villages stated: "We, the Serbs from the Vratnica municipality have never felt otherwise but as Serbs, the same as our ancestors, and it has been so for centuries. Because of that we suffered extremely during the occupation both in the last World War and in this one that ended recently. During the occupation in this war, 41 Serbs were executed by firing squads, some were Interned and there was not a single Serb between the age of 15 and 66 that was not beaten and molested to exhaustion." The inhabitants in the Vratnica municipality also complained about the new Macedonian officials and listed the main reasons such as: "In our district the administrative authorities are mostly constituted of the persons who were Fascist collaborators, the persons who welcomed the German army with delight, the persons who held religious service of thanksgiving when the German armada was victorious though the Germans never requested such things from the city dwellers." Even an example is given: during the occupation the village representative in the Vratnica municipality was Andra Hristov from Tetovo (in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia he was a clerk in the Tetovo district court, but then his surname was Serbian - Ristić), who is now said to be "...an official of the people's administration authorities in Skopje.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 1991, shortly after the start of the Yugoslav Wars, SR Macedonia held a referendum on independence from Yugoslavia for which there was a 72% turnout of eligible voters. 95% approved independence, but Macedonia's Albanians and Serbs boycotted the referendum.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="North_Macedonia">North Macedonia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serbs_in_North_Macedonia&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: North Macedonia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jovan,_arhiepiskop_ohridski.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Jovan%2C_arhiepiskop_ohridski.jpg/170px-Jovan%2C_arhiepiskop_ohridski.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Jovan%2C_arhiepiskop_ohridski.jpg/255px-Jovan%2C_arhiepiskop_ohridski.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Jovan%2C_arhiepiskop_ohridski.jpg 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="444" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Jovan_Vrani%C5%A1kovski" title="Jovan Vraniškovski">Jovan VI</a>, <a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Ohrid_Archbishopric" title="Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric">Archbishop of Ohrid</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1992, Serbs of Kumanovo organized themselves in associations and political parties and held demonstrations in support of the Serbian cause in <a href="/wiki/SR_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" class="mw-redirect" title="SR Bosnia and Herzegovina">SR Bosnia and Herzegovina</a> and <a href="/wiki/SR_Croatia" class="mw-redirect" title="SR Croatia">SR Croatia</a>. Serbian Radical Party sympathizers in Macedonia made an effort to establish a "Serbian Autonomous Region of Kumanovo Valley and Skopska Crna Gora". In January 1993, 500 Macedonian Serb nationalists gathered in the town of Kučevište, north of Skopje, to protest the police repression against ethnic Serbs on New Year's Eve when 13 Serbian youths were injured. Macedonian Serbs asserted they were mistreated by Macedonian authorities.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (March 2014)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The post-war years were characterized by the loss of national institutions like the proclamation of the non-recognized <a href="/wiki/Macedonian_Orthodox_Church" title="Macedonian Orthodox Church">Macedonian Orthodox Church</a> (MOC) in 1958–67, that would try to erase the Serbian Orthodox character of Macedonia.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Several Serbian Orthodox monasteries have been seized by the MOC, however in the regions with prevailing numbers of Serbs, the Serbian Orthodox Church still has jurisdiction. Further problems between the two arose when <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_Jovan_VI_of_Ohrid" class="mw-redirect" title="Archbishop Jovan VI of Ohrid">Archbishop Jovan VI of Ohrid</a>, the Serbian Orthodox Archbishop of Macedonia, was arrested and sentenced to prison, found <a href="/wiki/Prisoner_of_conscience" title="Prisoner of conscience">Prisoner of conscience</a> by Amnesty.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jovan and other Serbian Orthodox clergymen have been physically attacked and several churches and monasteries in use by the SOC in Macedonia have been destroyed.<sup id="cite_ref-freedomhouse-mk2006_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freedomhouse-mk2006-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since World War II several educational institutions in the Serbian language and common cultural centers have been closed.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serbs_in_North_Macedonia&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Makedonija_-_Udeo_Srba_po_naseljima_2002.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Makedonija_-_Udeo_Srba_po_naseljima_2002.gif/220px-Makedonija_-_Udeo_Srba_po_naseljima_2002.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Makedonija_-_Udeo_Srba_po_naseljima_2002.gif/330px-Makedonija_-_Udeo_Srba_po_naseljima_2002.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Makedonija_-_Udeo_Srba_po_naseljima_2002.gif/440px-Makedonija_-_Udeo_Srba_po_naseljima_2002.gif 2x" data-file-width="3700" data-file-height="3283" /></a><figcaption>Share of Serbs in Macedonia by settlements 2002</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Makedonija_-_Etnicki_sastav_po_naseljima_2002.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Makedonija_-_Etnicki_sastav_po_naseljima_2002.gif/220px-Makedonija_-_Etnicki_sastav_po_naseljima_2002.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Makedonija_-_Etnicki_sastav_po_naseljima_2002.gif/330px-Makedonija_-_Etnicki_sastav_po_naseljima_2002.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Makedonija_-_Etnicki_sastav_po_naseljima_2002.gif/440px-Makedonija_-_Etnicki_sastav_po_naseljima_2002.gif 2x" data-file-width="3700" data-file-height="3283" /></a><figcaption>Ethnic structure of Macedonia by settlements 2002 (Serbs in light blue)</figcaption></figure> <p>The number of Serbs in the region has fallen from the 1971 census, when they numbered 46,465 (2.85% of population). According to the 2002 census, there were 35,939 Serbs (1.78%). As of the <a href="/wiki/2021_North_Macedonia_census" title="2021 North Macedonia census">2021 census</a>, 23,847 individuals identified as Serbs and 11,252 declared their mother tongue as Serbian.<sup id="cite_ref-2021_census_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2021_census-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Census </th> <th>Serbs </th> <th>% </th></tr> <tr> <td><b>1971</b></td> <td>46,465</td> <td>2.85% </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>1981</b></td> <td>44,613</td> <td>2.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>1991</b></td> <td>42,755</td> <td>2.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>2002</b></td> <td>35,939</td> <td>1.78% </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>2021</b></td> <td>23,847</td> <td>1.3% </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The Serbs of North Macedonia are mostly concentrated along the northern border with Serbia. They form substantial populations in <a href="/wiki/Kumanovo" title="Kumanovo">Kumanovo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a>. Although there is another large concentration in south-eastern <a href="/wiki/Gevgelija" title="Gevgelija">Gevgelija</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dojran" title="Dojran">Dojran</a> regions. The population with the highest percentage of Serbs is the <a href="/wiki/%C4%8Cu%C4%8Der-Sandevo_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Čučer-Sandevo municipality">Čučer-Sandevo municipality</a> with 1,932 Serbs or roughly 21% of the population. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th><b>Municipality</b> </th> <th><b>Population</b> </th> <th><b>Percentage</b> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kumanovo_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Kumanovo municipality">Kumanovo municipality</a></td> <td>9,062</td> <td>8.6% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Aerodrom_municipality_(Skopje)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aerodrom municipality (Skopje)">Aerodrom municipality</a></td> <td>3,085</td> <td>4.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/%C4%8Cu%C4%8Der-Sandevo_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Čučer-Sandevo municipality">Čučer-Sandevo municipality</a></td> <td>1,932</td> <td>21% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Karpo%C5%A1_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Karpoš municipality">Karpoš municipality</a></td> <td>2,184</td> <td>3.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Gazi_Baba_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Gazi Baba municipality">Gazi Baba municipality</a></td> <td>2,097</td> <td>2.9% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Centar_Municipality_(Skopje)" class="mw-redirect" title="Centar Municipality (Skopje)">Centar municipality</a></td> <td>2,037</td> <td>4.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Gjor%C4%8De_Petrov_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Gjorče Petrov municipality">Gjorče Petrov municipality</a></td> <td>1,730</td> <td>4.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kisela_Voda_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Kisela Voda municipality">Kisela Voda municipality</a></td> <td>1,426</td> <td>2.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Butel_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Butel municipality">Butel municipality</a></td> <td>1,033</td> <td>2.9% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Staro_Nagori%C4%8Dane_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Staro Nagoričane municipality">Staro Nagoričane municipality</a></td> <td>926</td> <td>16.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ilinden_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Ilinden municipality">Ilinden municipality</a></td> <td>912</td> <td>5.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Valandovo_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Valandovo municipality">Valandovo municipality</a></td> <td>630</td> <td>5.4% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Negotino_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Negotino municipality">Negotino municipality</a></td> <td>627</td> <td>3.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/%C4%8Cair_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Čair municipality">Čair municipality</a></td> <td>621</td> <td>1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Rosoman_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Rosoman municipality">Rosoman municipality</a></td> <td>409</td> <td>9.9% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Dojran_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Dojran municipality">Dojran municipality</a></td> <td>277</td> <td>8% </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dt>Villages with Serb majority</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Selemli" title="Selemli">Selemli</a>, Bogdanci</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marvinci" title="Marvinci">Marvinci</a>, Valandovo</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tabanovce" title="Tabanovce">Tabanovce</a>, Kumanovo</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karabi%C4%8Dane" title="Karabičane">Karabičane</a>, Kumanovo</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Re%C4%8Dica,_Kumanovo" title="Rečica, Kumanovo">Rečica, Kumanovo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Su%C5%A1evo" title="Suševo">Suševo</a>, Kumanovo</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tromegja" title="Tromegja">Tromegja</a>, Kumanovo</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C4%8Cetirce" title="Četirce">Četirce</a>, Kumanovo</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staro_Nagori%C4%8Dane" title="Staro Nagoričane">Staro Nagoričane</a>, Staro Nagoričane</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Algunja" title="Algunja">Algunja</a>, Staro Nagoričane</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Miglence&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Miglence (page does not exist)">Miglence</a>, Staro Nagoričane</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikuljane" title="Nikuljane">Nikuljane</a>, Staro Nagoričane</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C4%8Cu%C4%8Der-Sandevo" title="Čučer-Sandevo">Čučer-Sandevo</a>, Čučer-Sandevo</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ku%C4%8Devi%C5%A1te" title="Kučevište">Kučevište</a>, Čučer-Sandevo</li></ul> <dl><dt>Villages with Serb plurality</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Banjane" title="Banjane">Banjane</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people_with_Serbian_ancestry">Notable people with Serbian ancestry</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serbs_in_North_Macedonia&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Notable people with Serbian ancestry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Serbs_of_North_Macedonia" title="List of Serbs of North Macedonia">List of Serbs of North Macedonia</a></div> <table style="border-collapse:collapse;text-align:center;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;margin:auto;width:975px"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width:75px;text-align:center;border:1px #aaa solid"><div style="display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle;width:75px;height:100px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jovan_Oliver.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Jovan_Oliver.jpg/61px-Jovan_Oliver.jpg" decoding="async" width="61" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Jovan_Oliver.jpg/92px-Jovan_Oliver.jpg 1.5x, 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href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">John Van Antwerp Fine, The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, University of Michigan Press, 1994, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0472082604" title="Special:BookSources/0472082604">0472082604</a>, p. 1282.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-EHB1-44-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-EHB1-44_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FGmJqMflYgoC&pg=PA44"><i>Entangled Histories of the Balkans: Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies</i></a>. BRILL. 13 June 2013. p. 44. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-25076-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-25076-5"><bdi>978-90-04-25076-5</bdi></a>. <q>In the Ottoman defters, Orthodox Christians are as a rule recorded as kâfir or gâvur (infidels) or (u)rum.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Entangled+Histories+of+the+Balkans%3A+Volume+One%3A+National+Ideologies+and+Language+Policies&rft.pages=44&rft.pub=BRILL&rft.date=2013-06-13&rft.isbn=978-90-04-25076-5&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DFGmJqMflYgoC%26pg%3DPA44&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASerbs+in+North+Macedonia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ив. 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Kultura. p. 32. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9788678010132" title="Special:BookSources/9788678010132"><bdi>9788678010132</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Memoari%3A+1898%E2%80%931912&rft.pages=32&rft.pub=Kultura&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=9788678010132&rft.aulast=Trbi%C4%87&rft.aufirst=Vasilije&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D6wkWAQAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASerbs+in+North+Macedonia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević192810-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević192810_46-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadži-Vasiljević192810_46-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHadži-Vasiljević1928">Hadži-Vasiljević 1928</a>, p. 10.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HV-10-J-237-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-HV-10-J-237_47-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHadži-Vasiljević1928">Hadži-Vasiljević 1928</a>, p. 10, <a href="#CITEREFJovanović1937">Jovanović 1937</a>, p. 237</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-M501-30-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-M501-30_48-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=0hhXAAAAYAAJ"><i>Makedonija</i></a> (501-512 ed.). 1995. p. 30.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Makedonija&rft.pages=30&rft.edition=501-512&rft.date=1995&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D0hhXAAAAYAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASerbs+in+North+Macedonia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120317181919/http://scindeks-clanci.nb.rs/data/pdf/0353-9008/2008/0353-90080825239S.pdf">"At the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th century"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> (in Macedonian). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://scindeks-clanci.nb.rs/data/pdf/0353-9008/2008/0353-90080825239S.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 17 March 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 June</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=At+the+end+of+19th+and+the+beginning+of+20th+century&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fscindeks-clanci.nb.rs%2Fdata%2Fpdf%2F0353-9008%2F2008%2F0353-90080825239S.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASerbs+in+North+Macedonia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Nasledje981211-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Nasledje981211_50-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFŽivković" class="citation journal cs1">Živković, Simo. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.srpsko-nasledje.rs/sr-l/1998/12/article-11.html">"Sakupi se jedna četa mala"</a>. <i>Srpsko Nasleđe</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Srpsko+Nasle%C4%91e&rft.atitle=Sakupi+se+jedna+%C4%8Deta+mala&rft.aulast=%C5%BDivkovi%C4%87&rft.aufirst=Simo&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.srpsko-nasledje.rs%2Fsr-l%2F1998%2F12%2Farticle-11.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASerbs+in+North+Macedonia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWhite2000" class="citation book cs1">White, George W. (2000). <span class="id-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/nationalismterri00whit"><i>Nationalism and Territory: Constructing Group Identity in Southeastern Europe, Geographical perspectives on the human past : Europe: Current Events</i></a></span>. Rowman & Littlefield. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/nationalismterri00whit/page/n125">236</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8476-9809-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-8476-9809-2"><bdi>0-8476-9809-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Nationalism+and+Territory%3A+Constructing+Group+Identity+in+Southeastern+Europe%2C+Geographical+perspectives+on+the+human+past+%3A+Europe%3A+Current+Events&rft.pages=236&rft.pub=Rowman+%26+Littlefield&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=0-8476-9809-2&rft.aulast=White&rft.aufirst=George+W.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fnationalismterri00whit&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASerbs+in+North+Macedonia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGeorge_W._White2000" class="citation book cs1">George W. White (2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-7TgkO8utHIC"><i>Nationalism and Territory: Constructing Group Identity in Southeastern Europe</i></a>. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 236. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8476-9809-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8476-9809-7"><bdi>978-0-8476-9809-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Nationalism+and+Territory%3A+Constructing+Group+Identity+in+Southeastern+Europe&rft.pages=236&rft.pub=Rowman+%26+Littlefield&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-0-8476-9809-7&rft.au=George+W.+White&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D-7TgkO8utHIC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASerbs+in+North+Macedonia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFČedomir_Popov2000" class="citation book cs1">Čedomir Popov (2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=1wE1AAAAMAAJ"><i>Istorija srpske državnosti: Srbija u Jugoslaviji</i></a>. Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti. p. 163. <q>Јужна Србија, која обухвата Вардарску и Зетску бановину</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Istorija+srpske+dr%C5%BEavnosti%3A+Srbija+u+Jugoslaviji&rft.pages=163&rft.pub=Srpska+akademija+nauka+i+umetnosti&rft.date=2000&rft.au=%C4%8Cedomir+Popov&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D1wE1AAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASerbs+in+North+Macedonia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFĐoko_M._Slijepčević1958" class="citation book cs1">Đoko M. Slijepčević (1958). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=K5hpAAAAMAAJ"><i>The Macedonian Question: The Struggle for Southern Serbia</i></a>. American Institute for Balkan Affairs. p. 77. <q><span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>"Then Protogerov's aides had an idea: they asked who celebrated the slava. Those who did so were shot, since the celebration of the slava is a sign that one is a Serb: it is a custom which the Bulgars do not ...</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Macedonian+Question%3A+The+Struggle+for+Southern+Serbia&rft.pages=77&rft.pub=American+Institute+for+Balkan+Affairs&rft.date=1958&rft.au=%C4%90oko+M.+Slijep%C4%8Devi%C4%87&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DK5hpAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASerbs+in+North+Macedonia" class="Z3988"></span>; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGilbert_in_der_Maur1936" class="citation book cs1">Gilbert in der Maur (1936). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=imV6bwAACAAJ"><i>Die Jugoslawen einst und jetzt: Jugoslawiens Aussenpolitik</i></a>. Günther. p. 330.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Die+Jugoslawen+einst+und+jetzt%3A+Jugoslawiens+Aussenpolitik&rft.pages=330&rft.pub=G%C3%BCnther&rft.date=1936&rft.au=Gilbert+in+der+Maur&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DimV6bwAACAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASerbs+in+North+Macedonia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDimitris_Livanios2008" class="citation book cs1">Dimitris Livanios (17 April 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=uOPUnWM8RAYC&pg=PA194"><i>The Macedonian Question : Britain and the Southern Balkans 1939-1949: Britain and the Southern Balkans 1939-1949</i></a>. OUP Oxford. pp. 194–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-152872-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-152872-9"><bdi>978-0-19-152872-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Macedonian+Question+%3A+Britain+and+the+Southern+Balkans+1939-1949%3A+Britain+and+the+Southern+Balkans+1939-1949&rft.pages=194-&rft.pub=OUP+Oxford&rft.date=2008-04-17&rft.isbn=978-0-19-152872-9&rft.au=Dimitris+Livanios&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DuOPUnWM8RAYC%26pg%3DPA194&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASerbs+in+North+Macedonia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTimothy_L._GallJeneen_M._HobbyGale_Group2007" class="citation book cs1">Timothy L. Gall; Jeneen M. Hobby; Gale Group (2007). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worldmarkencyclo03gale"><i>Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations: Europe</i></a></span>. Thomson Gale. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worldmarkencyclo03gale/page/422">422</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4144-1089-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4144-1089-0"><bdi>978-1-4144-1089-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Worldmark+Encyclopedia+of+the+Nations%3A+Europe&rft.pages=422&rft.pub=Thomson+Gale&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-1-4144-1089-0&rft.au=Timothy+L.+Gall&rft.au=Jeneen+M.+Hobby&rft.au=Gale+Group&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fworldmarkencyclo03gale&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASerbs+in+North+Macedonia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rastko.rs/istorija/srbi-balkan/sterzic-macedonian.html">[Projekat Rastko] Slavenko Terzic: The Serbs and the Macedonian Question</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100703004439/http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/cews/database/Macedonia/macedonia.pdf">"Archived copy"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/cews/database/Macedonia/macedonia.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 3 July 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">12 February</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Archived+copy&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usc.edu%2Fdept%2FLAS%2Fir%2Fcews%2Fdatabase%2FMacedonia%2Fmacedonia.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASerbs+in+North+Macedonia" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_web" title="Template:Cite web">cite web</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_archived_copy_as_title" title="Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJanusz_Bugajski1995" class="citation book cs1">Janusz Bugajski (1995). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ethnicpoliticsin0000buga"><i>Ethnic Politics in Eastern Europe: A Guide to Nationality Policies, Organizations, and Parties</i></a></span>. M.E. Sharpe. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7656-1911-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7656-1911-2"><bdi>978-0-7656-1911-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ethnic+Politics+in+Eastern+Europe%3A+A+Guide+to+Nationality+Policies%2C+Organizations%2C+and+Parties&rft.pub=M.E.+Sharpe&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=978-0-7656-1911-2&rft.au=Janusz+Bugajski&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fethnicpoliticsin0000buga&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASerbs+in+North+Macedonia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur05/001/2006/en/">Amnesty International sees Jovan Vraniskovski a prisoner of conscience</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-freedomhouse-mk2006-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-freedomhouse-mk2006_61-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110201093737/http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2006&country=7006">"Freedom House report on Macedonia, 2006"</a>. 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style="font-size:85%;">(2,003)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_North_Macedonia" title="Bulgarians in North Macedonia">Bulgarians</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1,417)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megleno-Romanians" title="Megleno-Romanians">Megleno-Romanians</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(< 1,000)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greeks_in_North_Macedonia" title="Greeks in North Macedonia">Greeks</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(422)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenians_in_North_Macedonia" title="Armenians in North Macedonia">Armenians</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(~ 300)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_North_Macedonia" title="History of the Jews in North Macedonia">Jews</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(~ 200)</span></li> <li>Portuguese <span style="font-size:85%;">(18)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_North_Macedonia" title="Demographics of North 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