This symbol known as the Argead sun of Vergina (with the 16 rays) is the same symbol as is the one with the 8 rays, but it has 8 additional smaller rays (reflections) in order to emphasize the brightness of the sun, since the 8 smaller rays do not touch the central circle of the ...

Quote: Caranus also came to Emathia with a large band of Greeks, being instructed by an oracle to seek a home in Macedonia. Hero, following a herd of goats running from a downpour, he seized the city of Edessa, the inhabitants being taken unawares because of heavy rain and dense fog. Remembering the oracle's command to ...

FYROM'S History Books: Facts The Ambassador of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Mr. Dimitrov during a recent briefing in Washington D.C. tried to convince a few congressional staffers not to support HR 521 and 306. Regarding the history books of the FYROM public education, where the propaganda against Greece emanates, he stated: "Even though the mentioned textbooks do not include ...

To:  U.S. Senate, Congress, U.S. State Dept., White House, E.U., Rep. of MacedoniaP E T I T I O N We, the below signed Orthodox Christians, citizens of the United States of America, and of many countries of the western world, direct this petition, at the same time as a voice of plea, and of common sense too, ...

Quote: Caranus also came to Emathia with a large band of Greeks, being instructed by an oracle to seek a home in Macedonia. Hero, following a herd of goats running from a downpour, he seized the city of Edessa, the inhabitants being taken unawares because of heavy rain and dense fog. Remembering the oracle's command to ...

Quote: and in his own name and that of the people of Thessalonica he offered the city to the Venetian signoria, asking only that it should be governed "according to its usages and statutes"; that the orthodox metropolitan of Thessalonica be confirmed in his ecclesiastical charge; that the greek inhabitants should retain their local rights of ...

NOTAM by the Imperial Ottoman Embassy in Paris to the French Foreign Office Paris, August 10, 1903 Source: French Foreign Office Archives, AMAE/NS Turquie-Macedoine, vol 35, p. 230r The BULGARIANS gathered in large numbers at Kleisoura and its suburbs have occupied the villages of Djivarek in the Kesrie administrative region, have assasinated all the Muslim inhabitants, women and ...

FALLACIES AND FACTS ON THE MACEDONIAN ISSUE BY MARCUS A TEMPLAR There have been certain fallacies circulating for the past few years due to ignorance on the “Macedonian Issue”. It is exacerbated by systematic propaganda emanating from AVNOJ, or communist Yugoslavia and present-day FYROM, and their intransigent ultra-nationalist Diaspora. Fallacy #1 The inhabitants of The former Yugoslav Republic ...

Quote: ..Herodotus, the Father of History, relates how the Macedonian king Alexander I (498-454 BC), a Philhellene (that is "a friend of the Greeks" and logically a non-Greek),... It is currently wide-spread, mainly to modern Fyrom's propaganda (see quote above), a misuse of the term Philhellene as having a meaning of non-Greek.  During antiquity, Philhellene certainly didnt mean 'Non-Hellene' but ...