[MGSA-L] On the 'controversial' map depicting'unredeemedterritories' of Macedonia

[Tasos Kostopulos]

In fact, the name "Vardarska Banovina" was imposed not after 1913 but after the royal Coup d' Etat in 1929, when the "Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes" was renamed as "Yugoslavia" and all its nine provinces were also renamed after their rivers (i.e. Drinska Banovina, Dunavska Banovina, Moravska Banovina, etc) -so that the respective "ethnic" names were supressed in favor of a unique (and serb-controlled) "yugoslav" identity (article 83 of the 1931 Constitution).

So, the argument that there is not a (FYR of) Macedonia, because during one and sole decade (i.e. between 1931 and 1941) the area in question was officially called "Vardarska", equals to the one that there is also no Slovenia (but "Dravska Banovina"), no Croatia (but the "Savska" and "Coastal" Banovinas), no Montenegro (but "Zeta Banovina"), no Bosnia-Herzegovina (but the "Drinska" and "Vrbas" Banovinas), no "Voivodina" (but "Dunavska" Banovina) and, of course, there is no Serbia either (but "Moravska Banovina").

Not a very strong argument, I guess... (Although a little bit more serious than the leaflets I was provided in a Greek island during the summer of 1992, where the Greek identity of Alexander the Great (born in 356 B.C.) was "proved" on the basis of Herodotus' writtings, composed  some 90 years earlier!) The problem lies, however, in the fact that no one among its users took the pain to search a little bit the actual "details", before he (or she) reproduced the official or semiofficial nationalist propaganda on thw FYROM issue.
 
Greetings from Athens 
 
Tasos Kostopoulos  
 


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From: "Slavko Mangovski" <mango at gate.net>
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> 
> It's Vardarska, not Vardaska. Comes from the river Vardar, hence Vardarian 
> Banovina, a name given to the Serbian part of Macedonia after the partition 
> in 1913. As for the "lack of credence" here is the prevailing situation 
> during the same Banovina:
> 

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