Brooklyn Eagle about Macedonian clans

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 13 October 1901, Volume LXI, Issue 284, Page 14.

HOLDING CAPTIVES FOR RANSOM A FAVORITE INDUSTRY OF THE BRIGANDS OF BULGARIA

"...Not so, however, in Albania and Macedonia, the last strongholds of the Turk in Europe. Placed nominally under the care of Christian Europe by the treaty of Berlin, the unspeakable Turk still dominates the land which has become the rallying ground of bands of cut throats belonging to all creeds and nationalities. The chiefs, however, and the back bone of these bands are Albanians. The membership is made up of Greeks, Turks and Bulgarians..."

"...The pupils who make up the student body in the Macedonian and Albanian schools are of many different nationalities, as well as clans. The major part are Bulgarians, Wallachians, Servians and Albanians, but these again are divided into the villagers of Debri, Malesia and others..."

Photos:

- Mirodites, Chief and servants. (Mirodites are ethnic Albanian inhabitants from Lezhë region in Northern Albania present-day. Their origin is from Gheg Albanian tribe)
- A Debir citizen. (Citizen of the city Debar/Diber in western part of FYROM present-day. According to costume the man is probably ethnic Albanian)
- Bulgarian Grandmother carrying the baby. (Bulgarian old-woman from Ottoman Macedonia. Probably from western part of FYROM present-day)
- A Tosk. (Ethnic Albanian man from the tribe of Tosk Albanians. He was Orthodox Christian belonged to Greek Church of Constantinople)
- A Malesian. (An inhabitant of Malesia region, present-day in southwest FYROM. Probably from ethnic Albanian origin, or maybe Slavic origin, who declared himself as Bulgarian)
- Wallachian teachers, Macedonia. Educated at the American Mission School at Monastir. (Two Aromanian teachers with Greek origin)

Discovered by M. P.