“And yet the Hindus of the Punjab were simply old-fashioned Hindus, as the
Macedonians were old-fashioned Greeks. ”

“ The Century” By Bim Sherman , page 527, 1930

“The Macedonians were originally one of several Greek tribes living on the northern frontier of the Hellenic world.”

“The relatively remote geographical situation of the Macedonians contributed to their retention of a social organization different from the rest of Greeks”

Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt By Katheryn A. Bard, Page 460

The Macedonians were backward Greeks, with a good deal of Illyrian and other
admixture, a rustic dialect, and a native pantheon.

“The European inheritance”  by Ernest Barker

The Macedonians were Greeks in contradistinction to Barbarians, but they lived
on the periphery of the Greek world, far removed in space and spirit from the rest of Greeks.

Archaeological Institute of America - 1948

The Macedonians were of the same stock as the Greeks. Their language probably did not differ from Greek more than French does from Italian.

“The New Calendar of Great men: Biographies of the 558 Worthies of All ages” By Frederic Harrison - 1892