Young Macedonian Literary Society
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The Young Macedonian Literary Society was founded in 1891 in Sofia together with its magazine Loza. The purpose of the society was twofold: the official one was primarily scholarly and literary. One of the purposes of the magazine of Young Macedonian Literary Society was to defend the idea the dialects from Macedonia to be more represented in Bulgarian language
. The articles where historical, cultural and ethnographic. The authors of this magazine clearly considered them as Macedonian Bulgarians, but the Bulgarian government of the dictator Stefan Stambolov
suspected them of the lack of loyalty and some separatism and the magazine was promptly banned by the authorities together with the Society at the end of 1892. Among its founders was Kosta Shahov
as its chairman. In May 1894, after the fall of Stambolov, new step was taken in Sofia by the Macedonian Youth Society as a revival of the Young Macedonian Literary Society. The new group had a newspaper called Glas Makedonski and opened a Reading Room Club. At the end of 1894, members of the Society held two preliminary meetings to discuss plans, and then they called a meeting of Macedonian exiles living in Sofia, at which a Macedonian Committee was elected. They formed in 1895 the “Macedonian Organization”, at the head of which was elected the “Supreme Macedonian Committee”
Bulgarian language
Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...
. The articles where historical, cultural and ethnographic. The authors of this magazine clearly considered them as Macedonian Bulgarians, but the Bulgarian government of the dictator Stefan Stambolov
Stefan Stambolov
Stefan Nikolov Stambolov was a Bulgarian politician, who served as Prime Minister and regent. He is considered one of the most important and popular "Founders of Modern Bulgaria", and is sometimes referred to as "the Bulgarian Bismarck".- Early years :Stambolov was born in Veliko Tarnovo...
suspected them of the lack of loyalty and some separatism and the magazine was promptly banned by the authorities together with the Society at the end of 1892. Among its founders was Kosta Shahov
Kosta Shahov
Kosta S. Shahov was a Bulgarian public figure, journalist, activist of the Young Macedonian Literary Society and the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee....
as its chairman. In May 1894, after the fall of Stambolov, new step was taken in Sofia by the Macedonian Youth Society as a revival of the Young Macedonian Literary Society. The new group had a newspaper called Glas Makedonski and opened a Reading Room Club. At the end of 1894, members of the Society held two preliminary meetings to discuss plans, and then they called a meeting of Macedonian exiles living in Sofia, at which a Macedonian Committee was elected. They formed in 1895 the “Macedonian Organization”, at the head of which was elected the “Supreme Macedonian Committee”