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Sep 22 2008

Modern historians about ancient Macedonia - Kathryn A. Morgan

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BY CHICAGOGEORGE

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Sep 22 2008

Modern historians about ancient Macedonia - Mogens Herman Hansen

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[Mogens Herman Hansen,Polis:An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State,Oxford University Press, page 82]

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So, the really problematic regions are Epeiros and Macedonia. For these my estimates are definitely much too low, and to reach the total number of Greeksâ€”including Epeirotes and Macedonians, another half a million or rather more have to be added to the result I have obtained.

To conclude, if we include Epeiros and Macedonia, the total population of the Greek world comes to 7.5 million, and that is a minimum figure.
If we change one or more of the variables, we can reach 8 or 9 or perhaps even 10 million.

By Akritas

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Sep 22 2008

1829, Voyage militaire dans l’empire Ottoman by Baron Felix d’ Bojeaur

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A testimony from 1829 for the use of the Greek toponyms Loudias and Axios in Macedonia. As for the non-Greek inhabitants,they were either Turks or Bulgarians.

<Thessaloniki which is called vulgarly Saloniki>,not Solun of course.

Thessaloniki is considered as one of the most important cities of Greece (in a time that didn’t exist officially a Greek state) and its population is consisted of Turks, Greeks and Jews.

Again Greek toponyms are mentioned; Florina instead Lerin, Castoria instead Kostur, Monastir instead Bitola and Haliacmon instead Bistritza.But more important are the last lines of the page: <They are the most beautiful soldiers of Macedonia and the soldiers of Macedonia are the most beautiful soldiers of Greece>.