Original scientific paper
The Correspondence STROSSMAYER – GLADSTONE (with a special reference to the Macedonian question)
Goran Kalogjera
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka , Hrvatska
Abstract
In his correspondence with the British politician William Ewart Gladstone, mostly regarding the Eastern crisis, the Croatian Bishop Strossmayer mentions the following Slavonic peoples in the Balkans: the
Bulgarians, Serbs, Croats, Herzegovinians, Bosnians and Montenegrins, but not Macedonians. The author mentions first the Bishop’s activities as a patron of arts, among which the financing of the Proceedings of brothers Miladinov. He then proceeds with the Uniate movement in the territory of Bulgaria and Macedonia, the politics of big powers in the area of the Ottoman Empire and political attitudes in the Bishop’s close environment. The author gives the arguments why Bishop Strossmayer does not mention the Macedonians in his correspondence with W. E. Gladstone.
Keywords
Strossmayer; Gladstone; Uniates; Proceedings; Bulgarians; Macedonians; revival; Congress of Vienna; Konstantin Miladinov; Franjo Rački
Hrčak ID:
259397
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Publication date:
11.12.2016.
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