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Makedonika II: The Ancient Macedonian Words

Makedonika II: The Ancient Macedonian Words

 Today, over a hundred Macedonian words and a few hundred Macedonian names are known from a variety of sources. Although the names presuppose words, they will be examined separately for a number of methodological reasons. A total of one hundred and twelve words, with ninety-nine different stems, are attested directly. Of these, sixty-five words, or sixty-three stems, have been preserved […]

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Modern historians about ancient Epirus – Ethnicity of ancient Epirotes

Modern historians about ancient Epirus – Ethnicity of ancient Epirotes

  “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   […]

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