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Κατ αρχάς, οι πηγές που παρέθεσα είναι προφανώς αυθεντικές και μπορείς να τις αναζητήσεις. Κατα δεύτερον, ο Safarik ήταν Σλοβάκος.
Τρίτον, μίλησα για "σλαβόφωνους", και όχι για "Έλληνες" ή "Βούλγαρους", μιας και ήταν δύσκολο , λόγω των ρευστών συνειδήσεων των κατοίκων και των προβληματικών απογραφών, να βγάλουμε ακριβές συμπέρασμα για τον καταμερισμό των "εθνοτήτων" των ανθρώπων αυτής της περιοχής σε αυτήν την περίοδο.
At the time of World War I two seemingly new statistics dominated the diplomatic scene representing the Greek and the Slav historical and political approaches respectively. The former was drawn by Vassilios Colokotronis, a high ranking official in the Greek Foreign Ministry, who argued, on the basis of data of the Italian Amadori-Virgilj published in 1908,that, on the eve of the Balkan Wars, 488,484 "Greeks" lived in Greek Macedonia compared to just 115,909 "Slavs". The latter was done by Jordan Ivanoff,geographer, historian and philologist, professor at the University of Sofia, who argued mainly on the basis of Kancov's statistic, that at that time 329,371 "Bulgarians" and just 236,755 "Greeks" lived in Greek Macedonia.
At first sight the gap between the two statistics seems impossible to bridge. A more careful study, however, reveals that it is nothing but a trick of the eye, a deliberate distortion of numbers through the use of different terms in order to support specific national causes. Cololotronis used the inhabitants' "national consciousness" as the most appropriate criterion for classifying populations. He considered as "Slavs" only the former Exarchist Slav-speakers, i.e. those who had been converted to the Bulgarian Exarchate in the early years of the 20th century, and thus were regarded as alien to the Greek nation. In the same manner, Patriarchist Slav-speakers, i.e. those who had remained firmly attached to the Ecumenical Patriarchate, were believed to have purely Greek sentiments and were accordingly classified as "Greeks". Ivanoff, on the other hand, like Kancov before him, preferred
THE MOTHER TONGUE AS A CRITERION. Based on this he considered every inhabitant of the Balkans speaking any Bulgarian dialect as "Bulgarian".
Despite such odds it is still possible to have a more accurate estimate of the Slavspeaking population of the region identified today as Greek Macedonia on the eve of the Balkan Wars without completely disregarding the above views. Colocotronis is the only writer who gives a specific number for Slav-speaking Exarchists in Macedonia: 115,909 in all. D. Michef, Secretary of the Bulgarian Exarchate, better known as D.M.Brancoff, on the other hand, provides us with a figure for Slav-speaking Patriarchists: 145,936.23 Since both writers had good reasons to present their opponents' demographic strength as limited as possible, it is reasonable to argue that Slav-speakers, Exarchists and Patriarchists together, in Macedonia around 1905
must have been at least 260,000. This figure is also supported by an 1912 unofficial and unpublished census found in the papers of the first Greek Governor-General of Macedonia, Stefanos Dragoumis.
http://www.macedonian-heritage.gr/Virtu ... idis98.pdf
Οι πιθανές εκτιμήσεις είναι ότι υπήρξαν το λιγότερο 260.000 σλαβόφωνοι στην ελληνική Μακεδονία, δηλαδή ένα νούμερο κοντά στις εκτιμήσεις του Ιβάνοφ και Καντσόφ(που τους κατατάσσουν εσφαλμένα όλους ως "Βούλγαρους"). Σε έναν χριστιανικό πληθυσμό γύρω στα 700.000 , έχουμε τουλάχιστον ένα 50% σλάβόφωνων δηλαδή(εαν αφαιρεθούν οι αρβανιτόφωνοι, βλαχόφωνοι, Ρομά).