Tag: goce delcev
Macedonia 13.06.19 | 20:52

Zaharieva: Goce Delcev was a Bulgarian, and if no agreement is reached we will end our work with “North Macedonia”

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said on Tuesday that the country will withdraw from the committee of historians with Macedonia unless enough progress is made on the issue of Goce Delcev’s historic legacy. Zaharieva rejected the proposal to honor Goce Delcev on the day of his interment...

Macedonia 07.06.19 | 22:08

Macedonian and Bulgarian historians run into disagreements while working on a joint historic interpretation of Goce Delcev

Macedonian and Bulgarian historians had disagreements on the interpretation of the historic role of VMRO leader Goce Delcev during their latest round of talks held under the auspices of the treaty signed in 2017. Macedonia is supposed to accept Bulgarian objections over the historic interpretation and...

Macedonia 18.02.19 | 12:06

Macedonian historians will ask Bulgaria not to project its contemporary understanding of nationhood to the medieval period

Historian Dragan Georgiev, who sits in the joint expert Commission with Bulgaria which is going over historic figures and events, said that the Macedonian side has acknowledged that Goce Delcev, the legendary hero of the Macedonian national struggle, has also identified as Bulgarian and will be celebrated...

Macedonia 05.02.19 | 21:46

Bulgaria will still allow Macedonia to celebrate Goce Delcev, commission expert says

Angel Dimitrov, member of the joint expert commission which Macedonia and Bulgaria formed to go over the history books, school books and public discourse in both countries, announced that the next meeting on February 19th will be used to decide which historic events and persons will be honored jointly...