Folk Songs of the Macedonian Bulgarians

Folk Songs of the Macedonian Bulgarians[1] (Serbian: Народне песме Македонски Бугара, Bulgarian: Народни песни на македонските българи,[2] Macedonian: Народни песни на Македонските Бугари)[3] is an ethnographic collection of folk songs collected by Stefan Verković, considered to be his most valuable contribution in the field of Bulgarian folklore.

The songs were collected by him during his time as a Serbian ethological agent in then-Ottoman town of Serres (today in Greece).

In the preface, Verković states that he called the songs "Bulgarian" as opposed to Slavic because "if you ask a Macedonian Slav "What are you?

[10] In 1961 the book was re-published by Kiril Penušliski in Skopje under the title "Македонски народни песни" (Macedonian Folk Songs),[11] although Verković did not describe in his collection any presence of Macedonian identity then.

In addition to the original text, a translation into Bulgarian of Verković's preface was made and an introductory study was added.