HISTORY OF MACEDONIA
Macedonia is an historical and geographical region in Balkans. The ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon, famous for being the home-place of Alexander the Great, became for a brief period the most powerful state in the world. It falls almost exclusively where is now Macedonia, the 2nd most populated and biggest region in Greece.
5 million people live in the modern region of Macedonia. More than 2,5 millions have a Greek national identity, along with their Macedonian cultural identity, due to their Hellenic heritage. Another quarter has Bulgarian, Albanian, Serbian, Roma or Turkish national identity.
That leaves us with a minority; less than a quarter of the region´s population. These are the people inhabiting a former Yugoslavian province, prone to state-sponsored propaganda and historical falsification. They refuse to accept that they constitute only a small part of Macedonia, have a different origin, and should define themselves accordingly.
Over 3.5 million people worldwide with a Greek national identity and a Macedonian cultural identity, have a right to self-determination and preservation of their historic cultural identity. They claim what is rightfully theirs. If their northern Slavic neighbors monopolize the terms "Macedonia/Macedonian" for international use, in practice they are being denied one of their basic rights.
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ANCIENT MACEDONIAN NAMES KINGS OF MACEDONIA AND DIADOCHI 1. ALEXANDROS m Ancient Greek (ALEXANDER Latinized) Pronounced: al-eg-ZAN-dur From the Greek name Alexandros, which meant ‘defending men’ from Greek alexein ‘to defend, protect, help’ and aner ‘man’ (genitive andros). Alexander the [Read More]
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Modern Historians about Ancient Macedonia – Di Claude Orrieux
The Macedonians spoke a little-known dialect, some peculiarities of which were apparently close to the Thessalian and Boeotian dialects, When we referred to the peoples of Epirus and Macedonia as Barbarians, Thucydides quite wrongly restricted Hellenism to the world of the [Read More]
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Ancient Macedonian testimonies about their own Ethnicity
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Modern Historians about the Greekness of Ancient Macedonians
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Kings of Ancient Macedonia
ARGEAD DYNASTY Karanos (c. Late 9th/Early 8th Cent.) Koinos (c. Mid-8th Cent.) Tyrimmas (c. Late 8th/Early 7th Cent.) Perdikkas I (c. 670-652) Argaeus I (652-621) Philip I (621-588) Aeropos I (588-68) Alketas (568-40) Amyntas I (540-498) Alexander I (c. 498-454) [Read More]
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The Hellenistic Period and the Spread of the Greek Language
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Dion – The Religious Centre of ancient Macedonians in Macedonia (Northern Greece)
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Ancient Macedonia in History Channel – Age of Alexander
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