Yes, I was refering to 1018, and it's better to call in along the lines of Samuel's Empire/Kingdom than the Bulgarian Empire for the small fact that prior to him and his 3 brother rebelling against the Byzantines [in what is now Macedonia - FYROM], the Emperor/King of the Bulgarian Empire had been defeated and the empire dissolved. [not to mention that today there is a fierce battle between multiple countries over it lol]



About the info, I remember reading about it in a book [before 2008 when VMRO-DPMNE's government started to "antiquty-nise everything", in the 2006-2008 period they were on the road to start a "golden age" - idk what went wrong lol], I could try and track it down - but it might take a while lol.



Yeah, the population exchange was worse than You think [I don't know about other peoples sadly], about 350-500 thousand Macedonians alone were sent to either Turkey or had their homes and lands taken away [and given to Greeks from Turkey] and then chased out of Greece and forbidden a right to ever enter the country [including their descendants]. Those who were not chased away were almost 24/7 monitored on the usage of the Greek language [including in their homes] and if they were found guilty of using Macedonian - they were punished harshly [also sent on islands that made the so called "Goli Otok" seem lush and green as the Amazon]. Again, i respect the Greek people and would love for nothing else but for our two countries to get along, sadly... politics is a female dog [write "Кучка" in google translate Macedonian to English, the translation that doesn't say "female dog" is what I meant].



I also know [or this number is what the information I have at hand say] that about 450-800 thousand Greeks were chased out of Turkey and sent to Greece by the Turks. Just goes to show that the "solution" was idiotic and stupid.





*Note: a large population of the Macedonians living is the Greek province of Makedonia [Aegean Macedonia] were Muslims, not orthodox. There are still Muslim Macedonians known as "Gorani" in the "Gora" region



**Note 2: When I used "Aegean Macedonia" I was thinking of the Geographical region known as "Macedonia", not political borders.