Australian Macedonian Advisory Council April 22, 2009 I´ve been watching in many articles the desperate attempts of Risto Stefov, Gandeto and Alexandra Aleksovska to prove that their people are the direct descendants of Alexander the Great´s Macedonians. Furthermore, they also try to "prove" that modern Greeks are actually descendants of various ethnicities that settled in Greek soil ...

The following excerpts are taken from a propaganda booklet published by the self described "Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts". The book is full of unsubstantiated claims, exaggerations and even falsifications. The authors do concede a couple of interesting points: 1. The descriptor "Macedonian" took on an ethnic significance only in the 19th century when a certain ...