The National Assembly of Macedonia was established in 1880, as a reaction to the Congress of Berlin (1878) and composed of 32 representatives from all over Macedonia. The National Assembly of Macedonia established a Provisional Government, which published a Manifesto in 1881. According to the Macedonian historiography the Manifesto expressed Macedonian nationalism, portraying Macedonia as a separate ethnic-nation state with an ancient origin, in particular, an Ancient Macedonian origin. In fact Macedonian identity was espoused then only by a handful of intellectuals, and the references in the issued by the Assembly documents to Ancient Macedonia, and the biographies of its founders are pointing on strong Greek influence, while the delegates represented all the ethnoreligious groups in the