We must really try to protect the symbol Macedonia from the FYROMian belligerant nationalism.Slav usurpation of greek land has already happened in 1913; this can easily be repeated if Greece adopts a laxist attitude toward this particular southern serbian multi-origin group of people with no true sense of History or ethnic allegiance.
Good continuation….

Dear Angelo and readers,

It is true that Aristotle and Alexander the Great, son of King Philippe of Macedonia, were both Greeks, though they were not both of them Macedonians also. Actually, it is only Alexander who is an ethnic Macedonian (i.e. a Macedonian Greek) at the time, since Aristotle was of Ionian (i.e. Chalkedean) Greek ethnic origin himself. The original Macedonians were a Dorian Greek tribe, whereas the Chalkedeans were -still, at the time, a different ethnic Greek people. Although they were still a Greek tribe themselves, Chalkedeans were nonetheless not Macedonian themeselves, since one cannot be both an Ionian Greek and a Dorian Greek, at the same time. Neither could they, because they duelled and lived to a formerly Paeonean and Thracian land, not an Macedonian one. Indeed, the Chalkedeans were an ethnic Ionian Greek tribe, which were akin to those Ionian Greeks of the south and of the southeast and, in particular, was akin to the Attican-Ionian people of Athens and were always have been very close to their political views and geo-strategy.

Alexander’s Macedonians were also an ethnic Greek tribe themselves. Indeed, they were not a far or a distant or a foreign culture to the Ionians and to the rest of the south Greeks. At no point, they were a barbaric northern ethnic tribe. Ancient Macedonians belonged to a much greater -and also to an equally ancient, ethnic Greek tribe, which was that of the Dorians. Historic as well as ancient Macedonians were always ‘Greek to the Bone’. Chalkedeans were also very proud of their Greek origin. They were also proud of their Ionian Greek descent. Ethnic Macedonian Greeks were always living in what consists of contemporary southeastern Albania -including the cities of Moschopolje and Pogradec and also the city of Korytsa, as well as the city of Bitola (or Monastiri), Ohrida (or Ahrida) and Dibre, which today belong to the state of FYROM.

On the other hand, the cities of Vellesa, Strumnica, Mavrovo, Yevgeli, Perlepes -from FYROM as well as those major cities of the Bulgaria’s Pyrin Macedonian region -namely the city of Blagoevgrad and Petritsi, as well as Tzoumagia and much of the concurrent Northern Greek Macedonian province, were once consisting of the Peaonian and Thracian lands. Paeonian and Thracian ethnic tribes duelled and lived into those ancient lands before they become assimilated to the expanding Greek kingdom of Macedonia, itself -at the time. Nonetheless, Paeonians and Thracians were closely related to Macedonians (i.e. to Dorian Greeks) and to Chalckedeans (i.e. to Ionian Greeks), as well and, to the rest of the Greeks, in the southern ancient Greek provinces.

Around the ancient city of Scopje (or Scupi), the Dardanians were to be found. The Dardanians were an ethnically-mixed people of Thracian-Illyrian ethnic origin and of ancient Pelasgian Greek ethnic stock, which were also akin to Greek Hellenes (i.e. to Macedonian Greeks, Chalkedean Greeks, and so on) of the southern parts of the Hellenic Peninsula, as well. A certain Dardanos, their mythical leader and gennator has been one of the few Pelasgian-Ionian Greeks, who once had founded the city of Athens. Thereby, the Dardanians can neither be considered as a ‘foreign’ people to the Greeks of the time or, indeed, as a ‘barbarous’ ethnic tribe of the north, which although lived alongside them has nonetheless nothing in common with the Greeks in terms of culture, language and civilisation too.

Although the Dardanians were not yet to be considered as being ‘fully-fledged’ Greeks to the eyes of the southern Greeks -that is, to the eyes of the Ionian Greeks in particular, they were nonetheless Pelasgian Greeks themselves too, since they were themselves of an also significant Thracian and Illyrian ethnic stock and national origin, as well as, of a particularly Pelasgian Greek material culture and civilisation, and also tribal descent and lineage.

As for the northwesternmost ancient neighbors of the Macedonian Greeks of the old days, i.e. the Illyrians, they were neither a barbarian, nor a foreign ethnic people to their contemporary Greeks, either. They were a significant indigenous northwestern Graeco-Pelasgian tribe of the old Hellenic Peninsula ancient people’s stock, which had for their gennator -the mythical King Illyrios- who has been the son of the Theban (i.e Boeotean) Greek King Cadmus and of his also Greek wife, Princess Armonia. The old or the ‘real’ Illyrians, which were once to be found into the northwestern regions of modern-day Albania, as well as into the contemporary Montenegrin and Serbian Illyrian regions, and also throughout the Illyrian lands of Bosnia and Croatia, and across the Dalmatian coastaline as well, were always being particularly akin to the Epirotan Greeks and to the Macedonian Greeks.

They were nonetheless closely related to the Greeks; That is, ethnically-speaking. Indeed, they were akin to the Dorian and to the Aeolian Greek ethnic tribes of the old, which were once living alongside them into the Northwestern parts of the Hellenic Peninsula in mythical and in very ancient times.

However, we need not contrast the Pelasgian Greek peoples of the north to the rest of the ancient ethnically Greek and Hellenic-Pelasgian peoples of the south of the Peninsula. Indeed, the ancient Illyrians, Thracians, Dardanians, Peaonians, and so on were ethnic Pelasgian tribes who were always akin to the southernmost of the ancient Pelasgian Greeks tribes, i.e. to the Dorian and to the Ionian Pelasgian Hellenes themselves.

On the other hand, those Pelasgians of the north along with their southernmost ethnic Greek brothers were completely foreign to the barbarous Avaric Slavs and Tatars (i.e. to the proto-Bulgarian ethnic tribes) who were not yet in the Balkans and who were only many centuries later left to invade and occupy Hellenic and Pelasgian Greek lands of the indigenous southern Hellenes and of the also indigenous Pelasgian Greek peoples of the northeast and of the northwest of the Hellenic Peninsula; That is, of the land of the Thrakes’, the land of the Illyrians and the Dardanian and Paeonian lands of ancient Pelasgian Greek peoples who also duelled into those, as well.

The foreign and barbarian Bulgars, Avars and Slavs were quick to disturb that unbroken cultural thread, which existed ever since the Hellenic (or Pelasgian Greek) tribes first settled into the Hellenic Peninsula many thousand years ago. They have shattered ever since their arrival, both Hellenic-Greek rule and Graeco-Pelasgian order in the area. They have yet disrrupted the indigenous and ethnically-Greek tribal lineage, descent and also origin of the old Pelasgian Greeks and of the concurrent to their arrival, strong Hellenic Greek dynasties throughout the provinces of Illyria, Thrake, Dardania as well as in much of the original Paeonian (i.e. Northern Macedonian) land.

It is about time to make up for all the broken threads. It is about time to end oppressive Slavic and Bulgarian rule and, also it is about time for recovering the true history and traditions of the indigenous Hellenic-Pelasgian Greek peoples of the Balkans. Forward to a federated and democratic Hellenic Republic of all Balkan Peoples, either being that of an ethnic-Greek substrata or being that of an ethnic-barbarian! Long live the future Hellenic Republic and the Pelasgian Greek cosmopolitismos!

Elias L.A.