bulgarophiles

{{Short description|Term describing certain Slavic people}}

File:Nikola_Pitu_Gulev.jpg revolutionary of Aromanian descent and son of Pitu Guli]]

BulgarophilesBomb-throwers and Cookie-pushers: American Diplomats, the Macedonian Question and Perceptions of Violence, 1919-1941,

Publication: Balkan Studies (4/2003), Frusetta, James; Subject: History, Issue: 4/2003 ({{langx|bg|българофили|bălgarofili}}; Serbian and {{langx|mk|бугарофили or бугараши}}, {{small|romanized:}} bugarofili or bugaraši;{{cite book|last=Boškovska|first=Nada|title=Yugoslavia and Macedonia Before Tito: Between Repression and Integration|year=2017|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9781786730732|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ICSPDwAAQBAJ&q=serbianisation&pg=PA163|pages=281}} {{Langx|el|βουλγαρόφιλοι|boulgarófiloi}}; {{langx|ro|bulgarofilii}}) is a pejorative term used for Slavic people from the regions of Macedonia and PomoravljeФилип Панайотов, Иванка Николова, България 20-ти век: Алманах, TRUD Publishers, 1999, {{ISBN|9545281464}}, p. 1013.Стела Дерменджиева, Димитър Димитров, България, българите и Европа - мит, история, съвремие, том 2 от научна конференция на Великотърновския университет Св. св. Кирил и Методий, 2007, p. 155.Milić F. Petrović, Dokumenta o Raškoj oblasti: 1890-1899, Istorijski muzej Srbije, 1997, p. 277. who identify as ethnic Bulgarians. In Bulgaria, the term Bulgaromans; ({{langx|bg|българомани|bălgaromani}}; {{langx|ro|bulgaromani}}) refers to non-Slavic people such as Aromanians{{cite news|url=http://documente.bcucluj.ro/web/bibdigit/periodice/unirea/1912/BCUCLUJ_FP_PIV1902_1912_022_0113.pdf|title=Scrisoare din București|newspaper=Unirea|location=Blaj|volume=22|issue=113|year=1912|language=ro|pages=3–4}} with a Bulgarian self-awareness.Тодор Балкански, Даниела Андрей, Големите власи сред българите, Знак 94; {{ISBN|9548709082}}, 1996. During the 19th and early 20th century the Bulgarian national identification arose as a result of an intense propaganda campaign and the affiliation with the Bulgarian millet and Bulgarian Exarchate.{{cite book |title=The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics, |author=Ivo Banac |publisher=Cornell University Press |date=1984 |isbn=0801494931 |page=313}}{{cite book|first=Hans|last=Vermeulen|chapter=Greek cultural dominance among the Orthodox population of Macedonia during the last period of Ottoman rule|title=Cultural Dominance in the Mediterranean Area|editor1-first=Anton|editor1-last=Blok|editor2-first=Henk|editor2-last=Driessen|location=Nijmegen |publisher=Katholieke Universiteit |url=https://www.academia.edu/1603900|pages=225–255|year=1984}} In the 20th century, Bulgarophiles in neighboring Yugoslavia and Greece were considered enemies of the state harboring irredentist tendencies.Станислав Станев, Български уроци по история на Македония, [https://kultura.bg/web/български-уроци-по-история-на-македон/ 21.01.2019, сп. Култура.]Цочо Билярски, Гръцките жестокости и варваризъм над българите (1912 - 1923г.) Анико, София, {{ISBN|9789548247207}}. 2012. Critics of the view that the Macedonian nation has existed for a long time and that it has no relation with the Bulgarian nation get accused of being Bulgarophiles in North Macedonia.{{cite journal |journal=Historein |page=172 |title=Serving the Nation: Historiography in the Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) After Socialism |date=2003 |volume=4 |doi=10.12681/historein.86 |author=Ulf Brunnbauer|doi-access=free }} In the context of North Macedonia, the term also means feeling a close ethnic relation with Bulgarians or being of Bulgarian origin.{{cite journal |author=Simeon Mitropolitski |title=Balkan politicians, mostly immune to the influence of EU integration |date=2014 |journal=Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review |url=https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/44587 |page=511}}