Folk Songs of Macedonian Bulgarians

Folk Songs of Macedonian Bulgarians (Народне песме Македонски Бугара) is a book published in Belgrade in 1860 by Stefan Verković. The author dedicated the work to Princess Julia Mihailovna Obrenović, recognizing her as a fervent patron of national education and progress. The book is a collection of folk songs, specifically "female songs" ("Ženske Pesme"), from the Slavic population living in the southernmost part of European Turkey, a region the author refers to as Macedonia.

In his foreword, Verković states that he has been traveling through Macedonia for over nine years to collect folk traditions and historical materials. He notes that the Macedonian Slavs are a branch of the Slavic people who are least known to the world. He also criticizes Western scholars for relying on inaccurate sources, such as Greek or "Vlach" writers, when documenting the region's people.

The book is presented as the "first volume" and is a collection of songs sung by women in the Macedonian region. The author gathered a significant number of these songs from a single singer, a woman named Dafine, and he details the process of how he recorded them. This collection is a pioneering work aimed at introducing the Macedonian folk heritage to the Slavic world and highlighting the culture of a people who, according to Verković, were largely overlooked by Western writers.