One of the funniest discussions you will ever watch about the origins of ancient Macedonians is the one between the former PM of FYROM Ljubco Georgievski and one called Milenko Nedelkoski in a FYROM’s TV channel. The former PM of FYROM explains with simple and reasonable arguments the reasons why Alexander the Great is considered Greek, while he built through […]

By Ptolemy November 18, 2008 The common definition of “taking text out of context” is to remove a passage from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its true meaning. In other words, a shorter extract or phrase is used purposedly in an attempt to represent the views of the person being quoted inaccurately. The latter certainly […]

Thessaloniki was a princess; daughter of King Philip II, half sister of Alexander the Great. She was given this name because she was born on the day of the Macedonian victory at the Battle of Crocus Field. Her name literally translates to “Thessalian Victory“, in Greek. The city of Thessaloniki, today the largest city of Macedonia, was founded by her […]

  Gordynia or Gortynia or Gortynion was a settlement in ancient Macedonia, in south Axios valley, North-East of Bottiaea, in Lower Paionia. Ptolemy places Gordenia, Γορδηνία, in his list of cities in Emathia, after Idomenae and before Edessa. Plinius (HN 4.34) gives the name in plural, Gordyniae. Stephanus of Byzantium calls it Gordynia and its ethnic noun Gordyniates. In Thucydides […]

Alexander the Great Alexander the Great : Origins of Alexander Is Alexander the Great Greek? The Destruction of Thebes Plutarch on Alexander’s bringing Greek civilisation to Asia Ancient Sources about Alexander’s Panhellenic Campaign Bible about Alexander the Great Alexander King of Yavans Exchange of letters between Alexander the Great and Porus Mural of 1568 calls Alexander king of Hellenes Alexander […]

Miltiades Elia Bolaris    May 13, 2010          The Archaic temple of Aphrodite is dated to the end of the 6th cBC and it was originally discovered during excavations in 1936, only to be lost years later in the destruction of Nazi occupation of the city and the subsequent post war development. It is at the beginning […]

19 Ιούν 2009 — Ljubčo Georgievski, the former Prime Minister of FYROM, uses linguistic arguments against Pseudomacedonism by demonstrating that the absence of Latin superstratum in the vocabulary of FYROMian Slavic, which indicates that the Slavs arrived after the Romanization of the Balkan peninsula. From the Youtube Channel of Srbolog

Tuesday, April 13, 2010   Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton State Department United States of America Dear Madame Secretary,                                We, the representatives of the Pan Macedonian Association USA, one of the largest Greek-American organizations are writing you this letter on the heels of an article published in the US Department of State’s April 2010 issue of State Magazine, whose […]

Professor Kagan – Macedonians were fundamentally Greeks, that is to say they were Greek-Speakers and Ethnically Greek. Introduction to Ancient Greek History (CLCV 205) In this lecture, Professor Kagan tells the story of the rise of Philip and describes his early actions: unifying Macedon, defeating barbarian armies, and creating a new, professional, national army. According to Professor Kagan, through these […]

*Ulrich Wilcken, “Alexander the Great (The Norton Library) ”,   page 89 Alexander undertook as his first duty the liberation of the Greek cities of Asia Minor from the Persian yoke. page 91 Everywhere the liberation from Persian rule was greeted with enthusiasm, and Alexander celebrated as the liberator. page 94 The first point of the Panhellenic program had been quickly achieved: […]