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140737
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This article examines the issue of overlapping national histories in the Balkan setting. It shows how this phenomenon was applied in the construction of master narratives, which was a multifaceted process of nationalizing the past. In this context, it also discusses the multiple nature of the past in order to provide a contribution to the theoretical study of nationalism and ethnic politics. Focusing on the case of the Bulgarians and Greeks in the 19th century, it aims to demonstrate how the common ecclesiastical legacy of the Orthodox community in the Ottoman Empire was perceived by two national activists, Grigor Părlichev and Margaritis Dimitsas, who, for totally different reasons, propagated the restoration of the Archbishopric of Ohrid: the former because he considered it an ecclesiastical institution that promoted Bulgarian nationality in Macedonia, and the latter because he regarded it as the stronghold of Hellenism in the same area.
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106848
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This article shows that the eventual predominance of national ideology in the Balkans and the subsequent consolidation of the national identity of its peoples was a long drawn-out process that continued even after the founding of nation-states. This is presented through the story of a man by the name of Hatzichristos, who during Ottoman rule in the Balkans, although of Serbian origins, fought on the side of the Greeks in the 1821 Greek war of independence and who then settled as a permanent resident in the newly-formed Greek state. Hatzichristos does not appear to have developed a sense of ethnic self-awareness. His perception of nationalism, if it existed at all, was embryonic. But the fact that the Greeks wrongly referred to him as Voulgaris [Bulgarian] indicates that they did not have any precise definition of what constituted the Others in terms of nationalist criteria.
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