This page contains a list of suggested reading material for the study of Macedonian history. Where possible, the material contains external links to free downloads via legal channels in the case of a work which is either in the public domain, open access, or provided directly by the author or publisher of the work.
Disclaimer: Historical ethnographies reflect the categories and assumptions of their time; they are included here for study, not as absolute definitions. Modern research is integrated cautiously, as identity is cultural as well as biological.
Steppan, Hans-Lothar (2004). The Macedonian Knot. Peter Lang.
Damianopoulos, Ernest N. (2012). The Macedonians: Their Past and Present. Palgrave Macmillan.
Rossos, Andrew (2008). Macedonia and the Macedonians: A History. Hoover Institution Press.
Karakasidou, Anastasia N. (1997). Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990. The University of Chicago Press.
Brown, Keith (2013). Loyal Unto Death: Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia. Indiana University Press.
Panov, Mitko (2019). The Blinded State: Historiographic Debates About Samuel Cometopoulos and His State (10th-11th Century). Brill (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450: 55).
Jovanovski, Dalibor; Anastasovski, Nick (2016). "‘Textbook Truths’ and Political Dilemmas: The Image of Ancient Macedonia in 19th Century Greek Historiography". Koper, Slovenia: University of Primorska.
Contestations Over Macedonian Identity, 1870-1912 — Nick Anastasovski
Public domain
Abbot, George Frederick (1903). The Tale of a Tour in Macedonia. London: Edward Arnold.
Bérard, Victor (1904). Pro Macedonia (French). Paris: Librairie Armand Colin.
Brailsford, Henry Noel (1906). Macedonia: Its Races and Their Future. London: Methuen & Co.
Casson, Stanley (1926). Macedonia, Thrace and Illyria: Their Relations to Greece from the Earliest Times Down to the Time of Philip Son of Amyntas. Oxford University Press.
Doflein, Franz (1921). Mazedonien (German). Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer.
Sonnichsen, Albert (1909). Confessions of a Macedonian Bandit. New York: Duffield & Company.
Temperley, Harold (1919). History of Serbia. London: G. Bell and Sons.
Chapter XV: "The Macedonian Question (1903-10)".
Müller, Karl Otfried (1839). The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. I and Vol. II. London: John Murray.
Vol. I, Appendix I: "On the settlements, origin, and early history of the Macedonian nation."
Macurdy, Grace Harriet (1925). Troy and Paeonia: With Glimpses of Ancient Balkan History and Religion. New York: Columbia University Press.
Livy; Rawlins, Francis Hay (1886). The Last Two Kings of Macedon: Extracts From the Fourth and Fifth Decades of Livy. London: Macmillan and Co.
Kondakov, Nikodim Pavlovich (1909). Македонія: Археологическое путешествіе (Russian) [Macedonia: An Archaeological Journey]. St. Petersburg: Типографія императорской академіи наукъ.
Carraroli, Dario (1892). La leggenda di Alessandro Magno: studio storico-critico (Italian) [The Legend of Alexander the Great: Historical-Critical Study]. Mondovì: Tipografia Giovanni Issuglio.
Macedonian Imperialism and the Hellenization of the East — Pierre Jouguet