Serbomans

Serbomans (Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian: србомани, romanized: srbomani; Bulgarian: сърбомани, romanized: sărbomani; Romanian: sârbomani) is a Bulgarian pejorative term used by Bulgarian nationalists for inhabitants in the region of Macedonia that claimed Serbian ethnicity (declared as Serbs) and supported Serbian national ideals until the middle of the 20th century.^[1] They explained it as being imposed by Serbian propaganda promulgating a secondary identity, which resulted in a Bulgarian population that had lost its real nationality.^[2] The term first appeared during the time of the Serbian-Bulgarian rivalry for present-day North Macedonia during the second half of the 19th and the beginning of 20th century.^[3] It has been also used pejoratively by Bulgarians to refer to residents of North Macedonia with Macedonian identity.^[4]^[5]

References

^ Yugoslav communism and the Macedonian question, Stephen E. Palmer, Robert R. King, Archon Books, 1971, ISBN 0-208-00821-7, p. 12.
^ Report of the Interallied Commission on the Violation of the Hague Convention and of the Principles of the International Law committed in 1915-1918 by the Bulgarians in occupied Serbia, Imprimerie "Yugoslavia", 1919, p. 27.
^ Christina Koulouri as ed. Clio in the Balkans. The Politics of History Education. ISBN 9789608685710, 2002, p. 127.
^ Contested Ethnic Identity: The Case of Macedonian Immigrants in Toronto, 1900-1996, Chris Kostov, Peter Lang, 2010, ISBN 3-0343-0196-0, p. 226
^ Prof. Angel Dimitrov: Orban acts with Skopje like Austria-Hungary - trying to compete with Bulgaria in the region. Факти, Jul 12, 2025.

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