Several etymological interpretations ave been attempted and assumptions have been made concerning the origin of the name of Florina. According to one mythological interpretation the name of the town derives from the mythical Dioskouros Kastoras and his ally Floris. The Byzantine historian kantakouzinos refers to the Byzantine castle Flerinon or Hlerinon , the secretary of ...

THE RISE OF MACEDON For most of its existence Macedonia played only a peripheral role in the politics and warfare of the Greek city-states that have formed the focus of our attention. In its marginal status it bore some resemblance to the less urbanized areas of Greece such as Achaea and Aetolia. It resembled them as ...

Occasionally one of the FYROM propagandists' habbits is to bring the claim that Greeks renamed cities of Macedonia from their original names.  So lets examine the opposite claim. Toponymies of FYROM's regions/cities/villages/rivers and find out as many renamed ancient toponymies from Slavs we can get. 1. Skopje Even skopje its a changed name since it was originally founded ...

Perhaps you will have come across to the following link from the propagandistic site Historyofmacedonia.org: historyofmacedonia.org/Macedoniansymbols/MacedonianSun.html It doesnt surprise us anymore the systematic lies and falsification of history from the well-known propagandists. Picture 1.  & nbsp;                 It was found in Vergina, Macedonia, Greece and not FYROM.  Picture 2.Same as above. It was found in Vergina, Macedonia, Greece. Picture 3.               It was discovered inside ...

Ανήρ Έλλην, Μακεδόνων ύπαρχος Translation: Hellene man, ruler of Macedonians Herod. 5.20.4 This is another quote used alledgedly as a 'proof' of the non-greekness of Macedonians. However here it doesnt cognote any ethnical distinction but it shows the desire of Macedonian kings to underline their Greek ancestry. As a matter of fact Herodotus uses in some cases the ...

FYROM claim: "Herodotus (7.130) speaks of the Thessalians as the first Greeks to come under Persian submission (although the Persians entered Macedonia first), and here using his own words, he clearly exclude the Macedonians from the Greeks. We are therefore, left with the conclusion that Herodotus did not consider the Macedonians as Greeks Unfortunately for the deliberate intentions of ...

FYROM claim: Darius' Greeks fought to thrust the Macedonians back into the water and save the day for their left wing, already in retreat, while the Macedonians, in their turn, with Alexander's triumph plain before their eyes, were determined to equal his success and not forfeit the proud title of invincible, hitherto universally bestowed upon them. ...

Propagandists of FYROM tend to provide a falsified version of ancient sources like Strabo's. In particular the quote taken out of context they provide is: The Thessalians in particular wore long robes, probably because they of all the Greeks lived in the most northerly and coldest region. Strabo[11.14.12]. This quote is used by skopjans as a 'proof' of the alleged ...

A usual habbit of Skopjan propagandists is to use Orthodox icons found in churches in modern FYROM as 'evidence' of their culture. In reality this is far from truth. The vast majority of churches in FYROM contain iconographies done by Greek iconographies centuries ago. Just a few examples are: Monastery of St Naum In around 1806, the ...

FACTS: F.Y.R.O.M.-Slavs claim that the use of the term "MAKEDONIA" in Greece was forbidden until 1988 and that no province with the name "MAKEDONIA" (Macedonia) existed in Northern-Greece before 1988. There are many examples for state institutions or privat corporations which use the term "MAKEDONIA" in Greece since the end of 19th century and still use it: Newspaper "Makedonia" - ...