BY CHICAGOGEORGE

[Mogens Herman Hansen,Polis:An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State,Oxford University Press, page 82]   Quote: 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 Greeks—including Epeirotes and Macedonians, another half a million or rather more have to be added to the result ...

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) ...