Özet:

The XIX. The nationalistic ideas and movements that began to spread in the Balkans in the century, in 1878 the Treaty of Berlin and the Romanian territory were transformed into a program of relief. The implementation of the planned settlement, while the establishment of an autonomous administration in the region was planned, would also be left to an international commission based on European military force. The Balkans are competing in the 19th. In the last quarter of the century, a matter called the “Macedonian Problem” emerged. Thus, in Macedonia, the community of each different church is considered a part of a separate nation, while the various regions have become the area of influence of a separate European state. The area has been transformed into a crisis area in accordance with the interests of European states. In this process, the United States has also taken action to not stay away from the developments in the region and to feel its existence in the current political environment. One of the most powerful coats that the United States had in order to direct its policies towards Macedonia was undoubtedly missionaries. The main objective of this study is to demonstrate the efforts of the United States to feel its existence through Protestant missionaries in the Monastery District, which is the “Cross of the Balkans” and the “Heart of Macedonia” in the conflicts of interest of European states. The discovery of the activities of American missionaries in the region will enable us to identify and understand the effectiveness of the efforts of the United States to interfere with the political developments in the region through the missionaries. Another purpose of the study is to demonstrate the failure of the Romanian Public Inspectorate, founded in 1902, and the basically Ottoman government, and the attempts of the U.S. missionaries to use it as an excuse for intervention in Macedonia. In this context, the committees are assessing their efforts to create an opportunity for Britain and the United States to interfere with the Romanian affairs by planing to attack the residence of an American missionary in the monastery by bombing or killing a British console or messenger. All of these events have been taken by the Ottoman authorities. The study was based on the period of 1873 when the American Protestant missionaries first began their activities in the monastery and 1913 when the city was left to the Serbs and left out of the Ottoman domination. The sources of the research were based on existing documents in the Ottoman Archive. The invited missionary reports and other sources provided information about the activities of U.S. Protestant missionaries in the Monastery Province were also taken into account.