Bulgarian girl Vaska Zoycheva from Prilep, famous for being smacked by Serbian king Alexander I KaraÄ‘orÄ‘ević. During the Serbian occupation of Vardar Macedonia during the First Balkan War, the king met her and asked her: “What are you?”. When she said: “Bulgarian”, the ling smacked her across the face. Serbian authorities then tried to bribe her father to rescind the family’s statements.
Sources:
Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans: Nationalism and the Destruction of Tradition, Cathie Carmichael, Routledge, 2003, ISBN 1134479530, p. 138.
Contested Ethnic Identity: The Case of Macedonian Immigrants in Toronto, 1900–1996, Chris Kostov, Peter Lang, 2010, ISBN 3034301960, p. 77.
Igor Despot (2019) “The Balkan Wars: An Expected Opportunity for Ethnic Cleansing”, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 39:3, 343–355, doi:10.1080/13602004.2019.1652410.
Y. Konstantinova, (2011) “Allies and Enemies: The Balkan Peoples in the Bulgarian Political Propaganda During the Balkan Wars”, p. 130 in Études Balkaniques, issue 1, pp. 109–148.
Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans: Nationalism and the Destruction of Tradition, Cathie Carmichael, Routledge, 2003, ISBN 1134479530, p. 138.
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Bulgarian girl Vaska Zoycheva from Prilep, famous for being smacked by Serbian king Alexander I KaraÄ‘orÄ‘ević. During the Serbian occupation of Vardar Macedonia during the First Balkan War, the king met her and asked her: “What are you?”. When she said: “Bulgarian”, the ling smacked her across the face. Serbian authorities then tried to bribe her father to rescind the family’s statements.
Sources:
Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans: Nationalism and the Destruction of Tradition, Cathie Carmichael, Routledge, 2003, ISBN 1134479530, p. 138.
Contested Ethnic Identity: The Case of Macedonian Immigrants in Toronto, 1900–1996, Chris Kostov, Peter Lang, 2010, ISBN 3034301960, p. 77.
Igor Despot (2019) “The Balkan Wars: An Expected Opportunity for Ethnic Cleansing”, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 39:3, 343–355, doi:10.1080/13602004.2019.1652410.
Y. Konstantinova, (2011) “Allies and Enemies: The Balkan Peoples in the Bulgarian Political Propaganda During the Balkan Wars”, p. 130 in Études Balkaniques, issue 1, pp. 109–148.
Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans: Nationalism and the Destruction of Tradition, Cathie Carmichael, Routledge, 2003, ISBN 1134479530, p. 138.