`  I did not see any proves about ethnic Macedonians had been participated on the upspring, but  have reverted the article!On the contrary! ``...With the founding of the Yugoslav Macedonian republic in 1944 a sense of a Macedonian national identity gained strength and became systematised. Under Yugoslav rule, and mainly directed from Belgrade, a Macedonian language was codified, an autocephalous Macedonian Orthodox Church was established, and academics developed a “usable past” and projected Macedonian national feeling far into history, for example by converting the medieval Bulgarian Empire of Tsar Samuil into a Macedonian one and even claiming a link to Alexander the Great.’(Bell 1998:193)    `