From Gjorgija Puleski "Dictionary of Three languages: Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish" published in 1875 he writes the following to the question “What do we call a nation”?

Pulevski answers “People who are of the same origin and who speak the same words and who live and make friends of each other, who have the same customs and songs and entertainment are what we call a nation, and the place where that people lives is called the people's country. Thus the Macedonians also are a nation and the place which is theirs is called Macedonia.”