Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Non-Albanian Muslim minorities in Macedonia

  • Chapter
The New Macedonian Question

Part of the book series: St Antony’s Series ((STANTS))

Abstract

The ethnic minority situation in Macedonia has and remains perhaps the most complex in any region of the Balkans. Macedonia was among the last areas in the Balkans to undergo the transition from Ottoman control to incorporation into successor states. Consequently many Muslims (Turks and others) moved to these areas, escaping from the encroaching new states which saw them as an alien remnant from the Ottoman period, and joining those Muslims already living there.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 65.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Notes

  1. See Wolfgang Höpken, ‘From Religious Identity to Ethnic Mobilisation: The Turks of Bulgaria Before, During and Since Communism’, in Hugh Poulton and Suha Taji-Farouki (eds), Muslim Identity and the Balkan State ( London, C. Hurst, 1997 ).

    Google Scholar 

  2. See Boriana Panaiotova and Kalina Bozeva, ‘The Bulgarian Muslims (“Pomaks”)’, in The Committee for the Defence of Minority Rights, Minority Groups in Bulgaria in a Human Rights Context ( Sofia, October 1994 ).

    Google Scholar 

  3. For more details see H. Poulton, The Balkans: Minorities and States in Conflict (MRG Publications, London, 1991 and 1993 ), pp. 111–15.

    Google Scholar 

  4. See Yulian Konstantinov, ‘Strategies for Sustaining a Vulnerable Identity: The Case of the Bulgarian Pomaks’, in Hugh Poulton and Suha TajiFarouki (eds), Muslim Identity and the Balkan State ( London, C. Hurst, 1997 ).

    Google Scholar 

  5. See Boriana Panaiotova and Kalina Bozeva, ‘The Bulgarian Muslims (“Pomaks”)’, in The Committee for the Defence of Minority Rights, Minority Groups in Bulgaria in a Human Rights Context ( Sofia, October 1994 ).

    Google Scholar 

  6. A. Sebestyen, ‘Walking the Tightrope in the Balkans’, New Statesman and Society (London, 9 September 1994 ).

    Google Scholar 

  7. Paul Shoup, Communism and the Yugoslav National Question (New York, 1968), pp. 181–2

    Google Scholar 

  8. Stephen Palmer and Robert King, Yugoslav Communism and the Macedonian Question ( Hamden, Connecticut, Archon Books, 1971 ), p. 178.

    Google Scholar 

  9. M. Andrejevich, ‘Resurgent Nationalism in Macedonia: A Challenge to Pluralism’, RFE/Report on Eastern Europe (Munich, 17 May 1991 ).

    Google Scholar 

  10. R. Kantardziev and L. Lazaroski, ‘Schools and Education’, in M. Apostoloski and H. Plenkovich (eds), The Socialist Republic of Macedonia (Skopje, 1974 ), p. 110.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. Hugh Poulton
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece

    James Pettifer (Visiting Professor) (Visiting Professor)

Copyright information

© 1999 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Poulton, H. (1999). Non-Albanian Muslim minorities in Macedonia. In: Pettifer, J. (eds) The New Macedonian Question. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230535794_8

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation