Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ahakoa te whakaturanga o te Principality o Bulgaria (i raro i te mana Ottoman) i te 1878, me te mana Bulgarian i runga i Eastern Rumelia i muri i te 1885, i reira tonu he taupori Bulgarian nui i roto i te Balkans e noho ana i raro i te ture Ottoman, rawa i roto i Maketonia. Hei whakararu i nga take, i kii ano a Serbia me Kariki mo etahi waahanga o Makeronia, i te mea ko Serbia, he iwi Slavic, i whakaarohia hoki nga Slavs o Makeronia he mea no te iwi Serbian. Nō reira i tīmata ai tētahi pakanga a ngā taha e toru mō te mana o ēnei rohe i roa tae noa ki te Pakanga Tuatahi o te Ao. I te tau 1903,
i reira he whakaoho Bulgarian i roto i Ottoman Makeronia me te whawhai i te mea pea.