Το Μακεδονικό Ζήτημα κάτω από το πρίσμα των ρουμανικών αξιώσεων την περίοδο 1870-1905 με βάση τις προξενικές αναφορές που αφορούν την προξενική περιφέρεια Μοναστηρίου

Abstract

Of all the propaganda at work in the vilayet of Monastir, the most dangerous
was that put about by the Romanians, which sought to change the inhabitants'
consiousness using their own language. This propaganda, the success of which was
decided both at the level of Greek-Romanian diplomatic relations and in the local
people's consiousness, tried to achieve its aims in three stages.
In the first stage (1860-78) the Romanising element was subjected to a process of
acculturation and instruction. In the second stage (1878-92) Romania redoubled its
efforts to Romanise Macedonia. The third stage (1892-1905) was when the Romanian
state focused on the religious emancipation of the Romanisers and tried to obtain
'community rights' for the Romanising Vlach-speakers, whom they defined as 'Rumuni'.
The sultanic decree of 1905 and Venizelo’s compromise policy seemed
temporarily to justify the Romanian policy implemented mainly in the third stage.