Thessalonicean Brothers Cyril and Methodius International Sources on Saints Cyril and Methodius being Greeks. 1. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05: (Cyril and Methodius, Saints) 869 and 884, respectively, GREEK missionaries, brothers, called Apostles to the Slavs and fathers of Slavonic literature. 2. Encyclopedia Britannica, a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information: Saints Cyril and Methodius: The emperor […]

October 26, 2009   President Michael K. Young University of Utah 201 Presidents Circle Salt Lake City, Utah 84112   Dear President Young,   On behalf of our multi-thousand membership of our organization and indeed of all U.S. citizens of Hellenic descent, we want to protest in the strongest possible terms the presentation of distorted facts pertaining to the history […]

The Hellenistic world In Classical times the focus of the Creek world had been Greece itself and the cities of the eastern Aegean seaboard such as Miletus Smyrna and Ephesus. During the later fourth century BC the centre of gravity underwent a shift to the east: to Asia Minor, northern Syria and Egypt. The historical basis of these developments was […]

Tirana Tema, 23 Sep 09, p 10 Commentary by Niuton Mulleti: “Gruevski Government’s Blind Alley”   The publication of the “Encyclopedia” by the [FYR]Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts is yet another indication of the returning wave of nationalism in this country.  What makes its publication even more scandalous is that the Encyclopedia was funded by the [FYR]Macedonian Government, that […]

Skopje. Chairperson of the association of former Albanian prisoners and political refugees, Shpetim Polozani, accused Albanian politicians of appointing improper people on important state position, people who cannot present Albanian history in the right way, Alsat M television reports. “This comes as a result of the infantilism and immaturity of the “Macedonian” pseudo-science and “Macedonian” pseudo-intellectuals”, Polozani said, commenting on […]

Quote: 1) “The latest archaeological findings have confirmed that Macedonia took it’s name from a tribe of tall , Greek-speaking people , the Makednoi …” 2) “The Macedonian kingdom streched more or less as far north as the present northern border of Greece.” 3) “The “vulgar” Macedonians were not unanimously accepted by “refined” southern Greeks , especialy the Atheneans , […]

From the Encyclopaedia of Chicago, we get the same message. No “Macedonian ethnicity” but instead people who considered themselves as Bulgarians or Bulgarian Macedonians prior to 1944.

Another evidence that shatters the totally absurb claims of FYROM propaganda about banning of the term “Macedonia” in Greece prior to 1988 is “Helios”. “Helios” was a Greek Encyclopaedia whose full title was “Neoteron Egkyclopaediko Lexikon Helios”. It was renamed from “The Weekly Encyclopaedic Review ‘Helios’ and it was published in Athens between 1945 and 1960. In its edition of 19th Dec. 1947, […]