Another evidence that shatters the totally absurb claims of FYROM propaganda about banning of the term “Macedonia” in Greece prior to 1988 is “Helios”. “Helios” was a Greek Encyclopaedia whose full title was “Neoteron Egkyclopaediko Lexikon Helios”.

It was renamed from “The Weekly Encyclopaedic Review ‘Helios’ and it was published in Athens between 1945 and 1960. In its edition of 19th Dec. 1947, it had a long article about the undisputed Greek character of Macedonia with the title…Macedonia!!!! All of these of course in a country where according to FYROM propagandists the use of the name “Macedonia”  was….strictly forbiden!!

Tr: The third Greek power, Macedonians.

The greatest International event of Thessalonike taking place as back as 1926, is at the same time the smack in the face of FYROM propagandists. Their claim “the word Macedonia was forbiden in Greece prior to 1988″ is unfortunately for them shattered as the evidence shows.

20th International Fair Of Thessalonike, 4-25 of September 1955

“Harvard  Encyclopedia of American  Ethnic  Groups”, Stephan Thernstrom,  *
*   Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980,                *
*                                                                            *
*   and from the entry under the title: Macedonians, p. 691:                 *
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Macedonian L E A D E R S BEGAN to develop a strong sense of R E G I ON A L I D E N T I T Y in the 19th century, but it was not until the 20th century that SOME I N T E L L E C T U A L S BEGAN to A R G U E [2]
that Macedonian Slavs were neither Bulgarian nor Serbian, nor Greek, but a S E P A R A T E P E O P L E. The C O M M U N I S T party of Yugoslavia SUPPORTED THIS IDEA during World War II, and in 1945 a People’s
(later Socialist) Republic of Macedonia was established as one of the six constituent republics of the Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia. A Macedonian L I T E R A R Y L A N G U A G E was D E V E L O P E D, and the I D E A of Macedonian N A T I O N A L I T Y was E N C O U R AG E D. In 1958 a Macedonian Orthodox C H U R C H was C R E A T E D, and nine years later it acquired jurisdictional independence. Neighboring Bulgaria, which has a Macedonian minority population, initially favored these developments and from 1944 to 1958 even recognized the existence of a Macedonian nationality. Since 1958, however, Bulgaria has argued that all Macedonians are Bulgarians, and this policy contributes to the discord and tension between Bulgaria and Yugoslavia.