Saint Sava society

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The Society of Saint Sava (Serbian Cyrillic: Друштво „Свети Сава“) was founded in 1886 in Belgrade for dissemination of the Serbian propaganda in the region of Macedonia.[1] The Society offered paid scholarships to Macedonian Slavs in the hope they could be turned against the Bulgarian idea. The society organized in Serbia specialized schools for children of Macedonia and developed a propaganda among the Macedonians working in Serbia. Only three years later, its executive body became part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia. Its propaganda was so strong that after a sequence of student riots in the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki, a group of 34 students accepted the proposal of the Serbian emissaries to go and study free of cost to Belgrade. They soon became aware of the obvious reasons behind its program, when they were forbidden to possess Bulgarian literature. Subsequently nearly the whole group left Belgrade to continue its education in Bulgaria. Among that group were Dame Gruev, Petar Pop Arsov, Krste Misirkov, Kosta Shahov, etc. As a result, one of the main reasons for the establishment of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) by Dame Gruev and Petar Pop Arsov in 1893 was to stop the spread of Serbian propaganda into Macedonia.[2] Later the society's fellows constituted the backbone of the Serbian armed propaganda in Macedonia.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ Who Are the Macedonians? Hugh Poulton, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2000, ISBN 1850655340, p. 224.
  2. ↑ Антони Гиза, Балканските държави и македонския въпрос, гл. 9, Македонски Научен Институт ­ София, 2001.
  3. ↑ The Balkan Wars in the Eyes of the Warring Parties: Perceptions and Interpretations, Igor Despot, iUniverse, 2012, ISBN 1475947038, p. 14.

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