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Source: http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2008/09/07/the-1878-greek-revolution-in-macedonia/

More myths created by Skopje are shattered by the following passages:

1) Again, the claim that there was not a Greek movement for liberation from Turkey is a completelie.

2) The claim that there were no Greeks in Monastiri (Bitolia) is also a complete lie.

From the book: Macedonia, The Macedonian Struggle, Greece-Macedonia 4000 Years, Copyright1992 by Aegean Publications, page 94:

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The [Greek] revolution [against the Ottoman Empire] in Macedonia had started in 1878 from[Litohoro] Olympus and spread all over West and North Macedonia. On Mt. Olympus it was sunk inblood [by the Turks] wheras in all other regions it developed, got settled, and prevailed. TheMacedonian countryside had been liberated, and in the urban centers, the Turkish army panickedand would not get out of their barracksThe war-chiefs had reached all the way up to Krousovoand Perlepe. Centers could be found in Bourino, Grammos, Mouriki, Siniatsiko, Vitsi, Prespes,Peristeri, Morihovo, Tikfes, and Demir Kapon. They threatened to disperse every authority andOttoman domination even in Monastiri. In 1878 they almost entered Kastoria. In 1881 they steppedin Florina. In the territory of Morihovothe capital city was Gradenitsa, which was later burned bythe [Bulgarian] komitatzis. In Monastiri in 1878, the first organized revolutionary group appearedwhich decided to go up into the mountainsAll these war chiefs had lain their weapons before thefeet of the Greek consulate in Monastiri [and the Greek Consul Petros Logothetis] to be registeredby, taken care of, and disposed of by Hellenism.

Below is an original letter written by Greek Consul General in Monastiri to theGreek Government in Athens. Page 102:

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The Greek Consul in Monastiri, Petros Logothetis, writes to the Greekgovernment that the local chiefs of arms had placed their arms at his disposal.This proves that the action was purely Greek.

This whole movement was started by Evangelos Korovangos and was

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secretly aided by Konstantinos Vatikiotis who was the General Consul ofGreece in Thessaloniki from 1866 - 1881.

By Christos

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