 It devised the slogan "Macedonia for the Macedonians" and called for a supranational Macedonia, consisting of different nationalities and eventually included in a future Balkan Federation.However, the promoters of this slogan declared their conviction that the majority of the Macedonian Christian Slav population was Bulgarian.In the late 19th and early 20th century the international community viewed the Macedonians predominantly as a regional variety of the Bulgarians.