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of those communities, merchants and benefactors, in Europe, at a time when
the “state budget made no provision for schools”. 13 This explosion in the
educational activity of the Greek-speakers of Macedonia is also evidence of
the natural ethnic consciousness of those parents and children, since the
choice of school was wholly free and as an expression of personal will thus
stood as a measure of their ethnic identity. 14
Figure 3. View of Monastir
13. Ioannis . Kalostypis, Macedonia, 57.
14. Antonis M. Koltsidas, Ideological constitution, 304.