"Speakers of these various Greek dialects settled different parts of Greece at different times during the Middle Bronze Age, with one group, the "northwest" Greeks, developing their own dialect and peopling central Epirus. This was the origin of the Molossian or Epirotic tribes."  E.N.Borza "In the shadow of Olympus; The emergence of Macedon" (revised edition, 1992), ...

Skopje. MP Vlado Buckovski accused FYROM's Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of defrauding the revenue with USD 3.3 million as Minister of Trade in 2001, FYROM's Vest newspaper informs. According to Buckovski the country paid EUR 3.3 million compensation due to dissolution of the contract with Kirjakos Mamidakis for OKTA case. Buckovski showed a document in the parliament according to ...

Skopje. Admiral Mark Fitzgerald, commander of NATO's Allied Joint Force Command Headquarters Naples arrived in Skopje for a two-day working visit. He expressed his regret FYROM did not become NATO member state despite it made the necessary reforms, Makfax agency informs. Fitzgerald said at a meeting with FYROM's President Branko Crvenovski the problem with the name dispute with ...

In the years of Macedonian expansion under Philip II (359-336) BC the Athenian orator Demosthenes referred to Greece's northern neighbors as "barbarians", claiming that they had only recently ceased to be shepherds. Certainly the Thracians and Illyrians were non - Greek speakers, but in the northwest, the peoples of Molossis, Orestis and Lynkestis spoke west ...