ONE EXAMPLE OF ORAL HISTORY FROM KOSTYR AREA

Abstract

The oral history had a big tradition and roots at the Macedonian people in the Aegean part of Macedonia. The text maries of Manusha Sarova Kenkova are literate testimony about that how the Macedonian people in the Kostyr area were seeing the Macedonian revolutionaries and their struggle for liberation o f Macedonia from Turkish authority:
The writer collected a great number of memories o f the Macedonians from Kostyr area about the famous revolutionaries from the southwest part of Aegean Macedonia: Lazar Pop Trajkov, Lazar Moskov, Mitre
Vlaot, Pando Kljashev, Atanas Karshakov, but also, Macedonian folk songs with patriotic contents. This historian testimony is proof for the strong Macedonian national identity o f Macedonians in Aegean Macedonia at the end of XIX and the beginning o f XX century