The view from Athens
By Dora Bakoyannis Published: March 31, 2008

ATHENS:

Members of NATO are set to meet Wednesday in Bucharest to consider measures to strengthen the alliance, which may include invitations to three Balkan countries -Albania, Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) – to join the trans-Atlantic family.

As the region’s oldest member of both NATO and the European Union, we feel… ***READ MORE***

Taken from the ‘Encomium of St Demetrios’ written by the well-known fourteenth-century theologian Nicholas Kabasilas Chamaetos.

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The city [Thessalonike] has many adronments bu the most important one and that which affords in the greatest distinction is its rhetorical force, a characteristic that is admired [there] more than in other cities. This city has such a special relationship with Hellenic speech and is… ***READ MORE***

Eusebius of Caesarea (c 263 – 339?[1])(often called Eusebius Pamphili, “Eusebius [the friend] of Pamphilus”) became the bishop of Caesarea in Palaestina c 314. He is often referred to as the Father of Church History because of his work in recording the history of the early Christian church, especially Chronicle and Ecclesiastical History. An earlier version of church history by Hegesippus, that he referred to, has not survived.

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We are left with the Macedones, for whom we have important  literary evidence. Hesiod, wrote of Deucalion’s daughter as follows: “she conceived and bare to thunder-loving Zeus twin sons, Magnes and Macedon who joys in horses, and they had their habitations by Pieria and Olympus. In the Catalogue of Ships, referring to a very much later situation, Homer placed the descendants of Magnes

World Encyclopaedias about Macedonia – Oxford Dictionary of Classical World

World Encyclopaedias about Macedonia – Bolsaya Sovetskaya

World Encyclopaedias about Macedonia – Encyclopaedia of World History 6th Edition 2001

According to the tradition generally accepted by the Greeks, the Macedonian kingdom, which under Philip and Alexander attained to such extraordinary greatness, was founded by Hellenic emigrants from Argos. The Macedonians themselves were not Hellenes; they belonged to the barbaric races, not greatly differing from the Greeks in ethnic type, but far behind them in civilization,  which bordered Hellas upon the north. They were a distinct… ***READ MORE***

OXFORD DICTIONARY OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD, Page 441
2005, 2007, Oxford University Press Macedonia links the Balkans and the Greek peninsula. Four important routes converge on the Macedonian plain. Hesiod considered the ‘Macedones’ to be an outlying branch of the Greek-speaking tribes, with a distinctive dialect of their own. He gave their habitat as “Pieria and Olympus”. A new dynasty, the Temenids, ruling the… ***READ MORE***

In 1715 was published in Paris a collection of memorandums by the title “Mouveaux memorires des missions de la Compagnie de Jesus dans le Levant. Those contained accounts of Jesuite missionaries who went to Levant (among them Greece) and most of them took place in 1714.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Tags: greeks, Jesuit, levant, macedonia, salonica, Thessalonike & Other Macedonian Cities

On February 11th 1993, Stella Myller-Collet (Ph.D-Bryn Mawr), visited the Pennsylvania State University, invited by the Central Pennsylvania Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Her topic was: “Tombs and Treasures: New Discoveries in Macedonia”. The president of the Society Dr.Eugene Borza introduced the speaker to the audience praising the 20-years-contribution of “the acknowledged authority on Macedonian tombs.”

Stella Myller-Collet has also participated in the… ***READ MORE***

FYROM Claim:

GEORGIOS I – THE KING OF THE GREEKS
Salonika, October 31, 1912
“Taking into account the developed need for the urgent and temporary
organization of the administration of the territories in Macedonia,
occupied by the Greek army.”

The propagandists avoid to provide the original Greek source since obviously the decree was translated into English from Greek. The greek word used is the verb “καταλαμβάνω” and afterwards the… ***READ MORE***