Some Great Macedonians (15th-19th century) Andronikos Kallistos (b.Thessaloniki, 1400 - d. London, 1486). He lived and studied in Constantinople. After its fall he went to Italy where he joined Vissarion. He taught in Bologna (1464), Rome (1469), Florence, Paris and London (1476). From there he began the systematic teaching of Greek literature ...

Quote: "...these mountains [the Pindos Mountain-range near Kasto- ria] were the limits between the [despotate of] `Old and New Epeiros', and our Hellenic lands." <Georgios Akropolitis, `Annales', Patrologia Graecae, vol.140 col: 1196a (80)> Quote: "So, I am down here among Bulgarians, a true Constanti- noupolitan, a foreign body, living like a Bulgarian..." <Theophylactos of Ohrid, "To the Despoina Lady Maria [Alani]," 58-59> Constantine Poryphorgenitus: " Quote: The ...

Quote: The Macedonians have a following percentage of Y-haplogroups (male lineages): E3b1 21.4% , I1b 29% , J2 12.2% , R1a 14.7% , R1b 7.8% . Its actually quite funny how people misquote (intentionally?) papers.. According to the paper in question FYROMians have a 6.3% of the subclade J2e-M102 and not 12.2 of J2 which is not entirely presented ...

High-Resolution Phylogenetic Analysis of Southeastern Europe Traces Major Episodes of Paternal Gene Flow Among Slavic Populations -- Pericic et al. 22 (10): 1964 -- Molecular Biology and Evolution http://vetinari.sitesled.com/slavic.pdf Quote: E3b1 comes from East Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia) and got to the Near East after the end of the Ice Age with the bearers of Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) languages. Here ...