Museum of the Macedonian Struggle
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The Museum of the Macedonian Struggle is a museum in Thessaloniki, Greece, documenting the Greek Struggle for Macedonia of 1904 to 1908, in which Greek guerrillas, later supported by the Greek government, fought both the Ottoman Empire and Bulgarian guerrillas for control of Macedonia.
The museum was founded in 1982, and is housed in a building that previously served as the Greek Consulate in Thessaloniki, from which much of the Greek guerrilla activity was coordinated; the street in front of the museum is named for the Consul at the time, Lambros Koromilas. The museum has public exhibits on the conflict, and in addition produces both educational and scholarly publications. Its main scholarly contribution is to collect first-hand accounts from the now elderly participants in and observers of the conflict, in order to preserve their oral histories as primary sources for future scholarship.
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- Anastasia Karakasidou (2004). "Affections of a Greek Hero: Pavlos Melas and Heroic Representations in Greece", in Maria Todorova: Balkan Identities: Nation and Memory. NYU Press, pp. 197–232 (p. 212). ISBN 0814782795.
