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All the Macedonian converts to Muhammedan faith speak Serb language, and have preserved many of the Serb customs

MACEDONIA AND THE MACEDONIAN POPULATION.

The Serb element in the Central and Western Macedonia is mixed with other non-Slav nations — Albanians, Turks, Greeks and Arumuns.

There are also many, and distributed throughout all the countrj-, the so-called Muhadjirs (the emigrants) from Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Hertsegovina and Montenegro. Amongst the Serbs in Macedonia live also former Christians converted to Islam. Those of Kichevo call themselves Apovtsi, and those of Tikvesh call themselves Turks.
All the Macedonian converts to Muhammedan faith speak Serb language, and have preserved many of the Serb customs.

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