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An example of the desecration of Macedonian tombstones written in the Cyrillic text. This cross is from the village of Gabresh (Gavres) in the district of Kastoria (Kostursko).

 

This desecration occurred in May, 1998, in the village of Ano Loutraki (Gorno Pozharsko), in the district of Edessa (Voden). The old Macedonian cemetery at St. George's church was destroyed. Subsequently, a new Greek church dedicated to the same saint was built on the site.

The graves that were destroyed dated back to the 17th-18th century and their stones bore Cyrillic inscriptions.

The destruction of Macedonian religious centres has been ongoing since the acquisition of Aegean Macedonia by Greece in 1913. With the elimination of the old Macedonian cemeteries and churches Greece intends to remove all remaining traces of the indigenous Macedonian presence and ensure that Greece is an ethnically "homogeneous" state.

 

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