Modern History of Macedonia   1551 – Nicolas De Nicolay account: Thessalonike is inhabited by Greeks, Jews and Turks 1568 – Mural from Moni Docheiareiou in Mt. Athos 1669 – Monk Robert De Dreux:” Thessalonike is one of the most famous cities of Macedonia and All of Greece“ 1714 – The Greek populations of Thessalonike“ 1796 – Documents speaking about […]

“Speakers of these various Greek dialects settled different parts of Greece at different times during the Middle Bronze Age, with one group, the “northwest” Greeks, developing their own dialect and peopling central Epirus. This was the origin of the Molossian or Epirotic tribes.” E.N.Borza “In the shadow of Olympus; The emergence of Macedon” (revised edition, 1992), page 62 “We have […]