240:. The work of the Exarchate was first focused on taking over Serbian churches and expelling their priests, and then ordering parishioners to change their names to Bulgarian. Serbian priests, teachers and cultural workers were intimidated or harassed. The Serbian Church had the right to operate only within the confines of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which was totally under Greek
300:"In the Turkish Empire, all nationalities are divided: 1. Muslims, 2. Greeks (Rum-millet) and 3. Bulgarians-millet, and there are no Serb-millet anywhere, even if the Turks took these lands only from the Serbs and the Serbs lived in them and had their own empire, today before the Turkish law we are nowhere registered and recorded as Serbs as though we do not exist!"
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