Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars. Washington, D.C., The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1914. с. 27. Here are the statistics for the Bulgarian-exarchist schools for the same period: there were in Macedonia 1896 – 97, 843 such schools (against 77 Servian schools), 1,306 teachers (Servian, 118); 31,719 scholars (Servian, 2,873); children in the kindergarten, 14,713. These figures show that at the close of the nineteenth century the overwhelming majority of the Slav population of Macedonia was sending its children to the exarchist Bulgarian school.
