Unpublished documents from German archives prove the separate identity of the Macedonian people
(who like all other Slavic groups in south-east Europe settled in the Balkans during the
migration of nations). The neighbouring states have no right to deny the Macedonians their
legitimacy to their name language and territory. During the last Russian-Turkish War over
Bulgaria in 1877 78 Macedonia Thrace and Epirus were also freed but were returned to the
Ottoman Empire at the Congress of Berlin because of the strategic interests of Great Britain.
Later the Entente agreed to let Greece Bulgaria and Serbia annex Macedonia etc. after the
Balkan wars 1912 13. For the acquisition of these territories which violated international Law
the kingdoms (except Bulgaria) supported the Entente in the encircling of Germany and in the
First World War.
