Honorary Consulate of Serbia, Bitola
Formation | April 1889 4 December 2007 |
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Type | Diplomatic office |
Purpose | Protection of Ottoman Serbs (old consulate) |
Location |
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Key people | see list |
The Serbian consulate in Bitola (
A new Serbian consulate was inaugurated in Bitola on 4 December 2007.[1]
Background
Serbian national work in
The establishment of the Bulgarian Exarchate in 1870 had led to a schism in the Patriarchate and a boost to Bulgarian national aspirations in the Balkans. The return of Bulgarian bishops to the eparchies of Skopje, Ohrid and Veles at the end of the 1880s alarmed the Serbian and Greek diplomacy. Bulgarian politicians had a goal of implementing the borders drafted in the Treaty of San Stefano (1878). Novaković met with Ottoman representatives to whom he opposed placing the Bulgarian bishops, however, two Bulgarian bishops arrived at Ohrid and Skopje in 1890, which nevertheless prompted pursuing Serbian national interests in Macedonia. When asked by an Austro-Hungarian minister on the "ethnographic situation" he described the Macedonians as a transitional link between Serbs and Bulgarians, similar to Little Russia and Provence. Novaković started negotiations over the determination of spheres of interest in Macedonia with the arrival of Greek minister Nikolaos Mavrocordatos in Constantinople (1889).[3]
History
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Consuls
- Dimitrije Bodi (1889–1895)
- Milivoje Vasiljević (1895–1896)
- Milojko Veselinović (1897–1899)
- Mihailo Ristić (1899–1903)
- Svetislav Stanojević (1903–1907)
- Živojin Balugdžić (1907)
- Ljubomir Mihailović (1907–1912)
See also
- Serbian consulate in Pristina
- Serbian consulate in Skopje
- Serbian consulate in Thessaloniki
- Serb Democratic League
References
- ^ Radenković, M. (5 December 2007). "Отворен српски конзулат у Битољу". Politika (in Serbian).
- ^ Terzić 2008, pp. 328–329.
- ^ Terzić 2008, pp. 329–330.
Sources
- Terzić, Slavenko (2008). "Конзулат Краљевине Србије у Битољу (1889-1897)" (PDF). Историјски часопис (57): 327–342.
- Биљана Вучетић (1 September 2012). Наша ствар у Османском царству: Our Issue in the Ottoman Empire. Istorijski institut. pp. 167–. ISBN 978-86-7743-095-5.