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Kingdom of Greece

No. 6534

After his Highness, the King, urged the Military Secreteriat, to award to Konstantinos Nikolaou Olympiou, decently participating in the Heroic Struggle of Greek Independence , the written on 18/30 September of 1835 Silver medal, this is given to him, with his permission, to carry it in every circumstance and for verification of it, this diploma is also attached.

In Athens on 21 April of 1844

Ministry of Military

(Major) P. Gronzos(sp?)

The Head of the Office

(signature not clear)

Source: www.ems.gr (By Spanos Collection)

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November 18, 2008

 

Panos Livadas

Secretariat General of Information of the Hellenic Republic

Fragoudi 11 and Al. Pantou, Kallithea

10163 Athens

Greece

 

 

Dear Mr. Secretary General,                                                                        

 

On behalf of the North American Pan Macedonian Associations (Canada and United States of America), we are writing you this letter to express our dissatisfaction with an incident that occurred on your English online bulletin Greek News Agenda on Friday, November 7, 2008. In a news bulletin entitled “Ancient Greek Spoken By Tribe” regarding Elisabeth Mela-Athanasopoulou’s findings concerning the Kalash people of Pakistan, when one would click on the name “Alexander the Great” your website linked to www.historyofmacedonia.org which is a propagandistic website administered by Skopje’s diaspora. In it one finds articles titled:  “Ancient Macedonian Genes in the Modern Macedonian Nation not-related to the Greek Nation: HLA genes in Macedonians and the sub-Saharan origin of the Greeks”, “Why is Greece Stealing the Macedonian History?”, “Why Macedonia and the Macedonians had Never Been Greek?” and other articles dealing with the supposed partition of “the country of Macedonia” by Greece and its allies in 1913, and about the “oppressed Macedonian minority” in Greece. Is this the link that the Greek Government wants to showcase on its websites?

 

It was a member of our group that noticed this huge error on your part and spread the news via the Internet on Saturday, November 8, 2008. Even though some letters had an inappropriate tone, we applaud the coordinated effort of Greeks who took the time to write to you on this matter. Furthermore, we applaud and thank you for promptly correcting your error by removing the link on this particular news item by Sunday, November 9, 2008.

 

However, we are deeply concerned about the initial lack of professionalism exhibited by your organization in this matter. What would have happened if no one noticed the error? As the Secretariat General of Information for the Hellenic Republic, you are responsible for the dissemination of information about Greece throughout the world. How ironic is it then that you link to a website based on the dissemination of pseudoscience, racism, and revisionist history? It was almost as if your members searched “Alexander the Great” on the Internet and chose the first website that appeared on Google with the heading “Alexander the Great (Alexander of Macedon) Biography”. This begs the question: “Are there no official Greek websites that provide a biography of this great Greek leader?”. We know of many un-official ones so why don’t you? This kind of oversight is unacceptable from the Greek Government especially in an age of revisionist history for political gain in the Balkans from our northern neighbor.

 

The Pan Macedonian Association has been at the service of Macedonia and Hellenism for over sixty years now. We continue to be the watchmen and watchwomen of our glorious Macedonian history and legacy. We truly hope that mistakes like the one on your website do not occur in the future.

 

 

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Nina Gatzoulis                                                                                                    Charalambos Moutousidis

Supreme President                                                                                            President

Pan Macedonian Association (USA)                                                                             Pan Macedonian Association (Canada)

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18 Νοεμβρίου 2008

 

Προς κ. Πάνο Λειβαδά

Γενική Γραμματεία Πληροφοριών Ελληνικής Δημοκρατίας

Φραγκούδη 11 και Αλ. Πάντου, Καλλιθέα

10163 Αθήνα

Ελλάς

 

Εξοχότατε κ. Λειβαδά,                                                                               

 

Εκ μέρους των Παμμακεδονικών Ενώσεων ΗΠΑ και Καναδά σας γράφομε αυτή την επιστολή να σας εκφράσουμε τη δυσαρέσκειά μας με ένα περιστατικό που συνέβη στο ελληνικό δελτίο ειδήσεών σας στην ηλεκτρονική του μορφή, την Παρασκευή, 7 Νοεμβρίου 2008. Πρόκειται για δελτίο ειδήσεων με τίτλο «Αρχαία Ελληνικά που ομιλούνται από μια Φυλή», αφορώντας τα συμπεράσματα της Ελισάβετ Μελά-Αθανασοπούλου για τους Καλάς του Πακιστάν. Ο παραλήπτης  μπορούσε να κάνει κλικ στο όνομα «Μέγας Αλέξανδρος», αλλά υπήρχε άμεση σύνδεση με τον ιστόχωρο του www.historyofmacedonia.org η οποία είναι μια προπαγανδιστική ιστοσελίδα και χορηγείται από τη Διασπορά των Σκοπίων. Σε αυτό βρίσκονται άρθρα με τίτλο, όπως: «Αρχαία Μακεδονικά γονίδια στο σύγχρονο Μακεδονικό Έθνος που δεν σχετίζονται με το Ελληνικό Έθνος: HLA γονίδια σε Μακεδόνες και η υποσαχάρια καταγωγή των Ελλήνων», «Γιατί η Ελλάδα Κλέβει τη Μακεδονική Ιστορία»; «Γιατί η Μακεδονία και οι Μακεδόνες δεν ήταν ποτέ Έλληνες»; και άλλα άρθρα που ασχολούνται με τον υποτιθέμενο διαμελισμό της  «Μακεδονίας» από την Ελλάδα και τους συμμάχους της το 1913, και για την «καταπιεσμένη Μακεδονική μειονότητα» στην Ελλάδα. Αυτός είναι ο ιστότοπος τον οποίο η ελληνική κυβέρνηση θέλει να προβάλλει στις ιστοσελίδες της;

 

Μέλος της ομάδας μας διαπίστωσε αυτό το τεράστιο σφάλμα εκ μέρους σας και προώθησε την είδηση μέσω του Διαδικτύου, το Σάββατο, 8 Νοεμβρίου 2008. Ακόμη και αν κάποιες επιστολές είχαν κάποιο αυστηρό τόνο, εμείς επικροτούμε την συντονισμένη προσπάθεια των Ελλήνων που μπήκαν στον κόπο να γράψουν για το θέμα αυτό. Επιπλέον, επικροτούμε και σας ευχαριστούμε για την άμεση διόρθωση του λάθους καταργώντας τον ηλεκτρονικό σύνδεσμο για τη συγκεκριμένη είδηση, την Κυριακή, 9 Νοεμβρίου 2008.

 

Ωστόσο, εκφράζουμε τη βαθιά μας ανησυχία για την αρχική έλλειψη επαγγελματισμού από τον οργανισμό σας σε αυτό το θέμα. Τι θα γινόταν εάν κανείς δεν πρόσεχε το λάθος; Η Γενική Γραμματεία Ενημέρωσης για την Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, είναι υπεύθυνη για τη διάδοση των πληροφοριών σχετικά με την Ελλάδα σε ολόκληρο τον κόσμο. Πόσο ειρωνικό είναι το γεγονός ότι στη συνέχεια συνδέεστε με ιστοσελίδα με βάση τη διάδοση της ψευδοεπιστήμης, του ρατσισμού, και αναθεώρησης της ιστορίας; Η προχειρότητα είναι διάφανη. Κάποιος έψαχνε για πληροφορίες περί Μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου στο Διαδίκτυο και επέλεξε την πρώτη ιστοσελίδα που εμφανίστηκε στο Google με τον τίτλο «Η Βιογραφία του Μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου (Ο Αλέξανδρος της Μακεδονίας)». Αυτό όμως θέτει το ερώτημα: «Δεν υπάρχουν επίσημες ελληνικές ιστοσελίδες που παρέχουν τη βιογραφία του μεγάλου Έλληνα ηγέτη»; Εμείς γνωρίζουμε πολλές ανεπίσημες, εσείς δεν τις γνωρίζετε; Αυτό είναι απαράδεκτο εκ μέρους της Ελληνικής κυβέρνησης, ιδιαίτερα τώρα την εποχή που καταβάλλονται πάμπολλες προσπάθειες αναθεώρησης της ιστορίας μας για πολιτικά κέρδη στα Βαλκάνια από το βόρειο γείτονά μας.

 

Η Παμμακεδονική Ένωση είναι στην υπηρεσία της Μακεδονίας και του Ελληνισμού για πάνω από εξήντα χρόνια τώρα. Συνεχίζουμε να είμαστε οι φύλακες της Μακεδονικής μας ιστορίας και κληρονομιάς. Πραγματικά ελπίζουμε ότι λάθη, όπως αυτό στην ιστοσελίδα σας δεν θα προκύψουν στο μέλλον.

 

Με εκτίμηση,

 

Νίνα Γκατζούλη                                                                            Χαράλαμπος Μουτουσίδης                                                                        

Ύπατη Πρόεδρος Παμμακεδονικής ΗΠΑ                                     Πρόεδρος Παμμακεδονικής  Καναδά

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Another proof that the Greeks used the regional name <Makedones> already since the middle 19th century.I’ve seen many Scopians claiming that <the rise of the Greek Macedonian identity is something recent,purely political and connected with the name dispute> .This book below dating from 1851 mentions the Greek regional names Macedonians (Μακεδόνες),Epirotans (Ηπειρώται) and Thessalians (Θεσσαλοί).It’s the text of a theatrical work where the author calls those Greeks who were still under Ottoman rule to uprise against the Turks by the phrase: <Τo arms, Epirotans! Τo arms, Macedonians!Τo arms, Thessalians!In your sacred lands 3 centuries already passed,slaves and silent>.

By Kostas68

Tags: 1851, apanta, epirotans, macedonians, Panagiotis, Soutsos, thessalians

  

 

 

 

 

EMPROS 22-10-1904

EMPROS 23-10-1904

 

The Fotos were sent by our friend Samios Makedonas

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More myths created by Skopje are shattered by the following passages:

 

1) Again, the claim that there was not a Greek movement for liberation from Turkey is a complete lie.

 

2) The claim that there were no Greeks in Monastiri (Bitolia) is also a complete lie.

From the book: ‘Macedonia, The Macedonian Struggle, Greece-Macedonia 4000 Years’, Copyright 1992 by Aegean Publications, page 94:

The [Greek] revolution [against the Ottoman Empire] in Macedonia had started in 1878 from [Litohoro] Olympus and spread all over West and North Macedonia. On Mt. Olympus it was sunk in blood [by the Turks] wheras in all other regions it developed, got settled, and prevailed. The Macedonian countryside had been liberated, and in the urban centers, the Turkish army panicked and would not get out of their barracks…The war-chiefs had reached all the way up to Krousovo and Perlepe. Centers could be found in Bourino, Grammos, Mouriki, Siniatsiko, Vitsi, Prespes, Peristeri, Morihovo, Tikfes, and Demir Kapon. They threatened to disperse every authority and Ottoman domination even in Monastiri. In 1878 they almost entered Kastoria. In 1881 they stepped in Florina. In the territory of Morihovo…the capital city was Gradenitsa, which was later burned by the [Bulgarian] komitatzis. In Monastiri in 1878, the first organized revolutionary group appeared which decided to go up into the mountains…All these war chiefs had lain their weapons before the feet of the Greek consulate in Monastiri [and the Greek Consul Petros Logothetis] to be registered by, taken care of, and disposed of by Hellenism. 

 
Below is an original letter written by Greek Consul General in Monastiri to the Greek Government in Athens. Page 102:

 
The Greek Consul in Monastiri, Petros Logothetis, writes to the Greek government that the local chiefs of arms had placed their arms at his disposal. This proves that the action was purely Greek.
 
This whole movement was started by Evangelos Korovangos and was secretly aided by Konstantinos Vatikiotis who was the General Consul of Greece in Thessaloniki from 1866 - 1881.

 

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Around the same time as the Greek uprising against the Ottoman Turks in Macedonia, the Turks were signing a peace treaty (Treaty of San Stefano; March 3, 1878) with Russia after the Ottoman Empire lost the Russo-Turkish War. The Treaty of San Stefano forced Turkey to give all of Macedonia to Bulgaria and create ‘Great Bulgaria’. This allowed Russia to have a ’slav’ satellite in the Balkans where her influence could extend down to the Aegean Sea. This Russian attempt was later cancelled by the European Powers (The British Empire and France) and the treaty was never allowed to take effect. Instead the Treaty of Berlin was signed and no Great Bulgaria was created.
Ethnicity in the Balkans was defined by church affiliation. Russia and Bulgaria had created the Bulgarian Exarchate Church for political reasons on February 28, 1870. It split from the Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople. Anyone pledging allegiance to the Exarchy was Bulgarian and anyone pledging allegiance to the Patriarchate was Greek. Thousands of people living in Macedonia never wanted anything with the Exarchate and said they were Greek EVEN IF THEY SPOKE BULGARIAN and its dialects. They were considered peculiar to the Bulgarians who did not understand this. They were called discriminatorily ‘Grecomans’ by the Bulgarians. Today’s Skopjeans call these Greeks ‘Grkomans’. WHY? Because the Skopjeans were really BULGARIANS once even if they don’t want to admit it now.
 
The Greeks in Macedonia were in an uproar when they heard that they would suddenly go from Turkish rule to Bulgarian rule.  Therefore, many letters of complaint were written to Athens protesting the Exarchy and asking for help from ‘Free Greece’. Below is an example of an original letter written by the Greek Consulate in Bitolia (Monastiri) and contained 14 000 signatures. The letter also mentions that similar protests had already taken place in Skopje, Florina, and Kastoria! These people were Greek and they pledged their allegiance to the ‘Patriarcheion’ as is evident in the letter written in Greek!!!
 
One last note: The town of Monastiri was known by various names through time: MONASTIRI in Greek; BITOLIA (pronounced Vitolia) in Greek; from the Bulgarian name BITOLIA (БИТОЛЯ); MANASTIR in Turkish from the Greek Monastiri. Notice in the letter of 1878, it is written Bitolia in Greek because in the region of Macedonia lived Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Albanians, and Turks: NEVER ‘ethnic-Macedonians’. The name BITOLA was changed after 1944 when the current Serbo-Bulgarian dialect of Skopje was created and many previous Greek and Bulgarian influences and grammar were removed from the Bulgarian dialect spoken in Monastiri!!! The Skopjeans now call this language: ‘Macedonian’!!!

The letter is found on page 80 of the book by Konstantinos Douflias: ‘Macedonia, The Macedonian Conflict, Greece-Macedonia 4000 Years; Copyright 1992 by Aegean Publications’.

The Document

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The following is from page 87 of the book by Konstantinos Douflias:
 
THE REVOLUTIONARY DECLARATION OF THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT OF ELIMIA (WESTERN MACEDONIA)
In the county of Elimia in Western Macedonia (present day Kozani; in Macedonia, Greece), another group of Greek Revolutionaries took up arms in 1878 in the town of Bourino around the same time as their compatriots on Mt. Olympus. They called themselves: ‘The Temporary Government of Elimia’. The president was I.K Kovandaros, and the leader of the Revolutionaries was I. Liatis. Below is the declaration of ‘The Temporary Government of Elimia’ which expresses the will to fight off the Ottoman Turks and unite with ‘mother Greece’.

Thanks to Christos for the info.

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THE PROCLAMATION OF THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT OF MACEDONIA REQUESTING UNIFICATION WITH GREECE;

 REVOLUTION ON MT. OLYMPUS. 

 

 

This proclamation shatters 3 Skopjan myths (lies) about Macedonia:
 
Myth (Lie) #1: The name ‘Macedonia’ was not used by Greeks until after 1988. Until 1988, the area was known as ‘Northern Greece’ or ‘Northern New Territories’.
As is evident in the Proclamation written in pure Greek by Macedonian Greeks this is simply not true. ‘The Ministry of Northern Greece’ changed its name to ‘The Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace’ in 1988…not the department/province!
 
Myth (Lie) #2: There were no Greeks in Macedonia until after Greece invaded and expelled the ‘Macedonians’ in 1912 and brought more Greeks from Turkey in 1923.
Again, shameless lies. This document is proof that Greeks in Macedonia, not wanting to be ruled by Turkey anymore, took up arms and started a revolution. They formed a government and appealed to Greece and the European Powers to unite them with their motherland Greece! All this as Turkey was getting ready to sign the Treaty of San Stefano which allowed Russia to give Macedonia to Bulgaria.
 
Myth (Lie) #3: There was no Greek revolution against Turkey in Macedonia as happened in Southern Greece because there were no Greeks living in Macedonia.
This lie can now be destroyed along with the rest of Skopjean Macedonism and irredentism. To continue to propagate these lies is not worthy of a civil society.

 

THE DOCUMENT

 

 

DECLARATION OF THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT OF MACEDONIA

 

To the Governments of the European powers

 

            The long lasting sufferings which the respectable governments have heard about from their representatives, and which by now have reached a state of stressful despair, have obliged the inhabitants of Macedonia to take up arms in order to defend their lives, their honour and property. Calling a meeting today the representatives of the various communities in Macedonia, overthrew the Sultan’s tyrannical authority, declared the union of Macedonia with mother Greece, and chose us in order to form the Temporary Government of the revolution with the obligation to ask from the Christian super powers their mighty protection for the justification of our fight…(Macedonia) is ready to be freed and connected to mother Greece, even if it needs to be delivered to fire and disaster rather than continue living under the tyranny of various Turkish notables. They destroyed and violated the honour and sanctity of family life. All promises and obligations that the Turkish authorities gave to its subjects have proved by now to be nothing more than purposely sly and deceptive. The Turkish government has several times granted rights but tyranny has never been loosened. On the contrary, our misfortunes became endless and horrible because this government has neither power nor authority. Therefore, we were forced to seek our arms so that we may die as men as Greeks if we are not allowed to live like logical and free men.

 

[Signed] In Litohoro, Mt. Olympus [on] 19^th February, 1878 [by the members of]

 

The Temporary Government of Macedonia:

 

Evangelos Korovangos, President;

A. Asteriou;

G.V. Zahariadis;

Nikiforos, Monastic priest;

Athanasios Georgiou;

Ioannis G. Vergidis;

Giannis Nikolaou

 

We ask the Consul General of Greece to read [and transmit] the present document.

 

CONSULATE’S LETTER

 

 

 

Pages 81, 84, 116, and 117

From the book:

Macedonia, Macedonian Struggle, Greece-Macedonia 4000 Years

By: Konstantinos Douflias, Historian-Folklorist-Journalist

1992

Aegean Publications

 

Book is available in Greek and English.

 

Thanks to Christos

Tags: 1878, asteriou, consul, Douflias, georgiou, government, Greece, macedonia, nikolaou, olympus, temporary, unification, vatikiotis, vergidis, zahariadis

Μετά και την δημοσιοποίηση της είδησης οτι στα Σκόπια χτίζεται απο τους Αμερικανούς βάση μεγαθήριο ”πρεσβεία”, που έκανε τον γύρο της μπλογκόσφαιρας, σκοπιανοί, άσπονδοι ”φίλοι” μας, θεώρησαν σωστό να μας παραχωρήσουν επιπλέον φωτογραφίες του εργοταξίου, που τράβηξαν οι ίδιοι, με το σκεπτικό όχι βέβαια να συνεισφέρουν στην ενημέρωση των Ελληνικών μπλογκ, αλλά να μας…”ανησυχήσουν” απο την προστασία που χαίρουν απο την άλλοτε υπερδύναμη, οπότε και θεωρούμε καθήκον μας να τις δημοσιεύσουμε περαιτέρω.

Φυσικά και εμείς τους ευχαριστούμε, παρ’ όλα αυτά.

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