{{Short description|Term describing certain Slavic people}} [[File:Nikola_Pitu_Gulev.jpg|thumb|right|Nikola Gulev (born Lakia Guli), an IMRO revolutionary of Aromanian descent and son of Pitu Guli]] '''Bulgarophiles'''<ref>Bomb-throwers and Cookie-pushers: American Diplomats, the Macedonian Question and Perceptions of Violence, 1919-1941, Publication: Balkan Studies (4/2003), Frusetta, James; Subject: History, Issue: 4/2003</ref> ({{langx|bg|българофили|bălgarofili}}; Serbian and {{langx|mk|бугарофили|bugarofili}}; {{Langx|el|βουλγαρόφιλοι|boulgarófiloi}}; {{langx|ro|bulgarofilii}}) or '''Bugaraši''' (Serbian and {{langx|mk|бугараши|link=no}}),<ref>{{cite book |editor=Ulf Brunnbauer |title=Transnational Societies, Transterritorial Politics: Migrations in the (post-) Yugoslav Region, 19th-21st Century |date=2009 |publisher=Oldenbourg |isbn=9783486591637 |page=110}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Aleksandar R. Miletić |title=Journey Under Surveillance: The Overseas Emigration Policy of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in Global Context, 1918-1928 |date=2012 |publisher=Lit Verlag |isbn=9783643902238 |page=100}}</ref><ref name="Boskovska281">{{cite book|last=Boškovska|first=Nada|title=Yugoslavia and Macedonia Before Tito: Between Repression and Integration|year=2017|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9781786730732|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ICSPDwAAQBAJ&q=serbianisation&pg=PA163|pages=281}}</ref> is a pejorative term used for Slavic people from the regions of Macedonia and Pomoravlje<ref>Филип Панайотов, Иванка Николова, България 20-ти век: Алманах, TRUD Publishers, 1999, {{ISBN|9545281464}}, p. 1013.</ref><ref>Стела Дерменджиева, Димитър Димитр��в, България, българите и Европа - мит, история, съвремие, том 2 от научна конференция на Великотърновския университет Св. св. Кирил и Методий, 2007, p. 155.</ref><ref>Milić F. Petrović, Dokumenta o Raškoj oblasti: 1890-1899, Istorijski muzej Srbije, 1997, p. 277.</ref> who identify as ethnic Bulgarians. In Bulgaria, the term '''Bulgaromans'''; ({{langx|bg|българомани|bălgaromani|link=no}}; {{langx|ro|bulgaromani|link=no}}) refers to non-Slavic people such as Aromanians<ref>{{cite news|url=http://documente.bcucluj.ro/web/bibdigit/periodice/unirea/1912/BCUCLUJ_FP_PIV1902_1912_022_0113.pdf|title=Scrisoare din București|newspaper=Unirea|location=Blaj|volume=22|issue=113|year=1912|language=ro|pages=3–4}}</ref> with a Bulgarian self-awareness.<ref>Тодор Балкански, Даниела Андрей, Големите власи сред българите, Знак 94; {{ISBN|9548709082}}, 1996.</ref>
It was only after the Serbian revolution and subsequent Serbian independence when the Serbian national idea gained finally momentum in what is today Southern and Eastern Serbia.<ref>Stevan K. Pavlowitch, ''Serbia: the history behind the name'', 2002, Hurst & Company, {{ISBN|9781850654773}}, p. 68.</ref> According to different authors ca. 1850 the delineation between Serbs and Bulgarians ran north of Niš.<ref name=Light>{{cite book|last1=Light|first1=Andrew|last2=Smith|first2=Jonathan M.|title=Philosophy and Geography II: The Production of Public Space|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780847688104|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s2_Do4Hd8skC&q=Davidovic+map+1848&pg=PA240|pages=240, 241|year=1998}}</ref><ref>Mark Pinson, Ottoman Bulgaria in the First Tanzimat Period — The Revolts in Nish (1841) and Vidin (1850) (Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 11, No 2 (May, 1975), pp. 103-146.</ref> On the other hand, according to historian Apostolos Vacalopoulos, from the beginning of the 18th century, the Bulgarians in Macedonia formed the largest Slavic community and had gradually absorbed the sparse Serbs in the area. As a result, after the rise of nationalism in the Ottoman Empire, the Slavic-speakers there, already Bulgarian by name, began to acquire mainly a Bulgarian national identity.<ref>{{cite book |author=Apostolos Vakalopoulos |title=History of Macedonia, 1354-1833 |location=Salonica |publisher=Institute of Balkan Studies |date=1973 |page=266 |url=https://macedonia.kroraina.com/en/av/index.html}}</ref> During the 19th and early 20th century the Bulgarian national identification arose as a result of an educational campaign and the affiliation with the Bulgarian millet and Bulgarian Exarchate.<ref>{{cite book |title=The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics, |author=Ivo Banac |publisher=Cornell University Press |date=1984 |isbn=0801494931 |page=313}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Hans|last=Vermeulen|chapter=Greek cultural dominance among the Orthodox population of Macedonia during the last period of Ottoman rule|title=Cultural Dominance in the Mediterranean Area|editor1-first=Anton|editor1-last=Blok|editor2-first=Henk|editor2-last=Driessen|location=Nijmegen |publisher=Katholieke Universiteit |url=https://www.academia.edu/1603900|pages=225–255|year=1984}}</ref> In the 20th century, Bulgarophiles in neighboring Yugoslavia and Greece were considered enemies of the state harboring irredentist tendencies.<ref>Станислав Станев, Български уроци по история на Македония, [https://kultura.bg/web/български-уроци-по-история-на-македон/ 21.01.2019, сп. Култура.]</ref><ref>Цочо Билярски, Гръцките жестокости и варваризъм над българите (1912 - 1923г.) Анико, София, {{ISBN|9789548247207}}. 2012.</ref>
[[File:Skopje, náhrobky u kostela sv Spasa.jpg|thumb|Plaque on the grave of priest Konstantin Minovic (Konstantin Minov) in Skopje. He swiched from the Bulgarian to the Serbian side and was killed on the order of the IMRO. The plaque was placed after the area was ceded to Serbia in 1913 and states that he was killed by ''Bugaraši''. <ref>"Here lie the remains of priest Konstantin Minović, who was killed by the '''Bugaraši''' in November 1905, at the age of 37." (on the right)</ref>]]
Adherents of the view that the Macedonian nation is a 20th century phenomenon and that it has close relation with the Bulgarian nation get accused of being Bulgarophiles in North Macedonia.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Historein |page=172 |title=Serving the Nation: Historiography in the Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) After Socialism |date=2003 |volume=4 |doi=10.12681/historein.86 |author=Ulf Brunnbauer|doi-access=free }}</ref> In the context of North Macedonia, the term also means feeling a close ethnic relation with Bulgarians or being of Bulgarian origin.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Simeon Mitropolitski |title=Balkan politicians, mostly immune to the influence of EU integration |date=2014 |journal=Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review |url=https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/44587 |page=511}}</ref>
==See also== * Serbomans * Grecomans * Macedonian Bulgarians * Bulgarians in Serbia
==References== {{reflist|2}}
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