Ike
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So, it seems to me that Albanians (correct me if I am wrong), Greeks and Bulgarians see Macedonian Slavs as former Bulgarians, but Serbs do not. While none of them consider them to be related to Ancient Macedonians.
Coincidentally, it was the Serbs in the previous century who claimed Macedonian Slavs where not Bulgarians.
Well, Bulgarian army conquered territory of FYR Macedonia couple of times. On the other hand , in Skopje (capitol of today's FYR Macedonia) Serbian Emperor lived, was crowned, proclaimed constitution... Just from the attitude towards the territory, one can assume what people lived in there. Read the first three paragraphs, and you'll get the picture about what was happening there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dušan's_Code
I don't even know why Bulgarians had pretensions on that territory in 19-20 century. It was always more logical for them to try to take control of the Thrace and Constantinopole. Having control of Bosphorus and Dardanelles, having no one behind your back, having territorial integrity supported by physical geography would be numerous times better than controlling strategically unimportant and poor territory as is FYR of Macedonia. My opinion is that allied with Greece they could have easily done that, but some other international factors gave them a clue that it was never going to happen.