Andrew Rossos is Canadian Macedonian

Macedonian Canadians

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 historian, Professor at the University of Toronto

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Biography

Rosos was born Diko Roshovski in Vambel

Vambel

Vǎmbel ; ; was a small village in Greece, Krystallopigi, community. Dring the Ilinden uprising Vambel was burned from the Ottomans. Its population in the beginning of the 20th century was Bulgarian, but after the Balkan Wars and the First World War most of it took refuge in Bulgaria. During the...

 village, Kastoria prefecture

Kastoria Prefecture

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, Greece

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 in 1941. During the civil war in Greece

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 in 1948 he was evacuated in Czechoslovakia

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 as a refugee child

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. Rossos studied at primary school in Sobotin

Sobotín

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 and Technical School in Prague

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. In 1958 he moved with the rest of his family in Canada. He graduated at high school in Toronto

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. Rossos earned a bachelor's degree in history at Michigan State University

Michigan State University

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 in 1963. Rossos graduated postacademic degree and was awarded by the University of Stanford with Ph.D.

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 in 1971. Since them he has worked at the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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, and in 1982 became Professor

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 there. Rossos is author of a monograph on Russian foreign policy on the Balkans

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 ("Russia and the Balkans: Inter-Balkan Rivalries and Russian Foreign Policy, 1908-1914"). At the end of 2008 was issued his book "Macedonia and the Macedonians: A History". Rosos is adherent of the views espoused by the national historiography of the Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

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Selected publications

• "The Disintegration of Yugoslavia, Macedonia's Independence, and Stability in the Balkans." In War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict, and Cooperation, edited by Brad K. Blitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• "Great Britain and Macedonian Statehood and Unification, 1940-49," East European Politics and Societies 14.1 (Winter 2000): 119-142.
• "Incompatible Allies: Greek Communism and Macedonian Nationalism in the Civil War in Greece, 1943-1949," Journal of Modern History 69.1 (March 1997): 42-76.
• "The British Foreign Office and Macedonian National Identity, 1918-1941." In National Character and National Ideology in Interwar Eastern Europe, edited by Ivo Banac and Katherine Verdey. New Haven: Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 1995.
• "The Macedonians of Aegean Macedonia: A British Officer's Report, 1944," Slavonic and East European Review 69.2 (1991): 282-309.

External links

• Canadian Macedonian Historical Society