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Sources from Kashmir prove Ancient Macedonians were Greeks

Sources from Kashmir prove Ancient Macedonians were Greeks

Irvan Naveed has written a book review of “Ancient Greeks in Kashmir” by Iqbal Ahmad. Mr. Iqbal Ahmad, 51, was born in Parigam Chek, Kulgam. He is a graduate with Diploma in Numastics, Archaeology and Heritage. He is an archaeologist, writer, and a cultural historian. Mr. Iqbal Ahmad has published 12 reference books on Kashmir archaeology and heritage.) Except valuable information, […]

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Macedonia History – Famous Jewish Historian :  Alexander was a Great Greek Leader

Macedonia History - Famous Jewish Historian : Alexander was a Great Greek Leader

Macedonia History - Rabbi Berel Wein, a famous scholar and historian - admired through the world over for his lectures on Jewish history, speaks about Alexander the Great. the Great Greek Leader as he calls him and Greek influence. http://JewishHistory.org Alexander the Great conquers the Persian Empire and most of the known world, and comes to the land of Israel at about 325 B.C.E. […]

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Turkey doubles efforts of distorting the historic facts about the Armenian Genocide

08.11.2011 15:49 Alisa Gevorgyan “Radiolur” Turkey has doubled its efforts of distorting the historic facts ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Young Turkish historian Mehmed Perincek has published his recurrent masterpiece, where he presents his views on the Armenian Genocide. In” The Armenian Cause in 120 documents of Russian state archives” book published […]

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The term “Vardar Macedonia” has Illyrian Origin according to Albanian Historian

The term “Vardar Macedonia” has Illyrian Origin according to Albanian Historian

According to a recent article found in Skopje’s Lajm, an Albanian Historian claims that the name “Macedonia”, can be deciphered only with the Albanian alphabet and the term ‘Vardar Macedonia’ has Illyrian Origins. Particularly, the Historian Skender Asani claimed that the names of Macedonia and of the Vardar River have a meaning only in the Albanian language while the term, Macedonia, was a […]

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Polybius on the Ethnicity of Ancient Macedonians

Polybius on the Ethnicity of Ancient Macedonians

Polybius (ca. 203–120 BC) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his book called ‘The Histories’ covering in detail the period of 220–146 BC. [1](Philip V of Macedon speaking) For on many occasions when I and the other Greeks sent embassies to you begging you to remove from your statutes the law empowering you to get booty […]

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Albanian Academics rebuke the so-called “Macedonian” Encyclopaedia

Albanian Academics rebuke the so-called “Macedonian” Encyclopaedia

“Encyclopedia? Macedonia Was Unknown in the 15th Century” by Alma Mile. Take from Panorama (Tirana 20 Sep 09 p 5). “ “This sort of encyclopedia is an expression of deep despair.” This is the view of Dritan Egro, a historian of Albania under Ottoman occupation, who also explains the motives that make the Slavomacedonians embark on this onslaught against […]

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Ancient writers about Macedonia – Diodorus Siculus

Ancient writers about Macedonia - Diodorus Siculus

[1] The members of the Council then passed a decree admitting Philip and his descendants to the Amphictyonic Council and according him two votes which formerly had been held by the Phocians, now defeated in war. [Diodoros of Sicily 16.60.1] [2] that all the cities of the Phocians were to be razed and the men moved to villages, no one of […]

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Modern historians about Macedonia - Eugene Borza

Quote: During medieval and modem times, Macedonia was known as a Balkan region inhabited by ethnic Greeks, Albanians, Vlachs, Serbs, Bulgarians, Jews, and Turks. Quote: The emergence of a Macedonian nationality is an offshoot of the joint Macedonian and Bulgarian struggle against Hellenization. With the establishment of an independent Bulgarian state and church in the 1870s, however, the conflict took […]

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