We keep up showing to all the readers, the increasing number of modern Historians and Encyclopaedias verifying the Greekness of ancient Macedonians. (Actually you wont find anywhere in the world, any serious Historian linking the West Bulgarians of FYROM with ancient period. Even their fave historian Borza has denounced any link of them with antiquity!!)

Today we present what “the World History Atlas” by Dorling Kindersley (published 2005) mentions about Alexander’s empire.

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One of the most valid and interesting accounts about Slavonic people is the one of Catholic Encyclopaedia. In the article related to the Slavs in America, it contains plenty of info about Slavonic people in general.

It makes clear the slavs migrating to US from Macedonia were BULGARIANS while ALL the accounts of “the greatest representatives of Slavonic linguistics” in 19th c. about classification of Slavic languages and peoples,  made it explicit there was NO ”Macedonian” language or people!!!!

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British Museum - Dictionary of Ancient Egypt

Of course ancient Macedonians were Greeks.

And a death blow to current Skopjan propaganda. Rosetta stone carries three scripts. Hieroglyphic, Demotic and Greek.

Demotic - script of Ancient Egyptians or simply “native Egyptian”.

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Some really interesting quotes on FYROM, Makedonia, Alexander…etc from Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007 edition.

 

 

 

By Orphic Hymn

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Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Part 4 by James Hastings, page 79

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He [Alexander] had a vision for a world empires in which  the wealth and culture of the East would meld with the rationality and drive of the Greeks. He encouraged his veterans to marry Persian women in order to facilitate the integration of the two societies. He began to act more like an Eastern potentate than a Greek general, and his men grew weary of that.

 Encyclopaedia of invasions and conquests,  Davis, McKenzie and Haris, 2006, page 20

We are left with the Macedones, for whom we have important  literary evidence. Hesiod, wrote of Deucalion’s daughter as follows: “she conceived and bare to thunder-loving Zeus twin sons, Magnes and Macedon who joys in horses, and they had their habitations by Pieria and Olympus. In the Catalogue of Ships, referring to a very much later situation, Homer placed the descendants of Magnes by the Peneus and Mt Pelion {Iliad π. 756f) From this we may infer that The Magnetes had been driven out and the coast of Pieria below Mt Olympus had been occupied by the Thracian Pieres before whatever date we care to attribute to the Catalogue. The Macedones, whom Homer never mentions, evidently stayed on as inland neighbours of the Pieres. According to their own account, as reported by Herodotus, the Macedones were NEIGHBOURS of the Phrygians or Briges, as they were called in Europe, when the so-called gardens of Midas lay below Mt Bermium(Hdt,vII- 73 and vII. 138.2); also, we may add, when the royal cemetery of the Briges was at Vergina on the right bank of the lower Haliacmon. Thus we may define the habitat of the Macedones, before they began to expand, as being inland of the coastal plain below Mt Olympus and situated between Mt Olympus inclusive and the river Haliacmon above Vergina, where it emerges from a long gorge, difficult to traverse. We can arrive independently at this conclusion if we study the account of the Macedones’ expansion in Thucydides n. 99.

Cambridge Ancient History page 280

The  first step in the expansion of the Macedones was associated with the adoption of a new capital, Aegeae, in place of Lebaea, and an oracle of Delphi, certainly a vaticinium post eventum purported to tell the king how to act:

The noble Temenidae have royal rule over a wealth-producing land; for it is the gift of aegis-bearing Zeus, But go in haste to the Buteid land of many flocks and wherever you see gleaming-horned, snow-white goats sunk in sleep, sacrifice to the gods and found the city of your state on the level ground of that land. (Diod. Sic. vII fr. 16)

The new capital was named Aegeae, derived in popular etymology from the goats (Aiges) and all Macedonian kings were buried there from that time until the corpse of Alexander the Great was taken to Alexandria in Egypt. According to the tradition the new name replaced the old name, Edessa, a Phrygian word

page 281

This expansion of the Macedones was associated by Herodotus (viii. 137.1] and Thucydides(n. 99.3) with a royal house, the Temenidae of Argos in the Peloponnese. Thus the Temenidae of Macedon (as in the oracle we have just cited) were a branch of the Temenidae, the royal house of Argos. Both historians were in agreement also on the number of generations which divided the first king, Perdiccas, from the reigning king. Since Thucydides numbered Archelaus (floruit c. 410 B.C.) the ninth of the line, we may date the floruit of the first king c. 610 on the basis of thirty years to a generation.

page 282

Indeed, it has become CLEAR from the inscribed stelai at Vergina which Andronikos has found recently, that the fathers of Philip’s Macedonians had entirely Greek names, and we may deduce that their parents spoke Greek at the beginning of the fourth century- What then of earlier times? Hesiod CERTAINLY thought them to be Greek-speaking; otherwise he would not have made Magncs and Macedon into cousins of Dorus, Xouthus and Aeolus, who were the eponymous ancestors of the three main forms of the Greek language (Dorian, Ionian and Aeolian). Hellanicus, writing late in the hfth century, made Macedon a son of Aeolus; he would not have done so unless he had supposed the Macedones to be speakers of some form of Aeolic Greek. As the twin people, the Magnetes, did speak an Aeolic dialect (this wc know from inscriptions), there is no good reason to deny that the Macedones spoke an Aeolic dialect, retarded indeed and broad, because the Macedones, like the Vlachs of Vlakholivadhi, had been a self-sufficient community on the foothills of Olympus for many centuries.411
If we are correct in our conclusions, the Greek speech of the tribes in Epirus and in Macedonia west of the Axius SHOULD NOT BE ASCRIBED to the influence of the Greek colonies on their coasts. NOWHERE in fact did Greek colonies convert the peoples of a large hinterland to Greek speech; for the differences in outlook and economy between colonists and natives were too great. Equally so in Epirus and Macedonia. For example, Eretria planted a colony at Methone before 700 B.C., but it had no effect whatsoever on the culture of the people who buried their dead at Vergina, only some fifteen miles away as the crow flies. So too the Greek colonies in Chalcidice had NO influence on the Bottiaei during our period, as far as the archaeological evidence goes. If these tribes of the hinterland spoke Greek, it was because they had done so before the Dark Age. What we have seen in this chapter is the consolidation of the Greek-speaking tribes in the north, which enabled them to fulfil their future role of defending the frontiers of a city-state civilization and later of leading that civilization into wider areas

Page 285

THE BATTLE OF CHAERONEA. Philip annihilated Athens’ mercenary force and captured Amphissa. In August, at the Battle of Chaeronea, Philip crushed the allied armies of Thebes and Athens. He garrisoned Thebes but let Athens go free. Philip called the Congress of Corinth, during which all the Greek states, except Sparta, entered a Hellenic League against Persia, under Macedonian hegemony. The league council had proportional representation and was presided over by a chairman, replaced by the Macedonian king in wartime. The autonomy of the members was guaranteed, existing constitutions were not to be altered, and no private property was to be confiscated. There was no tribute required and no more than four garrisons—Thebes, Corinth, Chalcis, and Ambracia. The king had supreme military command, and the Amphictyonic Council served as a court of appeals. Philip announced plans for a campaign against the Persian Empire.

“Encyclopaedia of World History” 6th Edition 2001

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The people Ethnicity and languageMacedonia has inherited a complex ethnic structure. The largest group, calling themselves Macedonians (about two-thirds of the population), are descendants of Slavic tribes that moved into the region between the 6th and 8th centuries AD. Their language is very closely related to Bulgarian and is written in the Cyrillic script.In language, religion, and history, a case could be made for identifying Macedonian Slavs with Bulgarians and to a lesser extent with Serbs. Both have had their periods of influence in the region (especially Serbia after 1918); consequently, there are still communities of Serbs (especially in Kumanovo and Skopje) and Bulgarians.

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The people who form the majority of the inhabitants of the contemporary Macedonian republic are clearly not Greeks but Slavs. However, this ecclesiastical tradition, taken together with the long period during which the region was associated with the Greek-speaking Byzantine state, and above all the brief ascendancy of the Macedonian empire (c. 359–321 BC) continue to provide Greeks with a sense that Macedonia is Greek.

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Yet, although the inhabitants of the present-day republic are Slavs, it remains to be determined what kind of Slavs they are. Among the short-lived states jostling for position with Byzantium were two that modern Bulgarians claim give them a special stake in Macedonia………………

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Vŭtreshnata Makedono-Odrinska Revolutsionna Organizatsiya secret revolutionary society that operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to make Macedonia an autonomous state but that later became an agent serving Bulgarian interests in Balkan politics……….IMRO’s terrorist bands operated in conjunction with Bulgaria’s foreign policy, which was designed to force a redistribution of Macedonia.

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Alexander the Great also known as Alexander III or Alexander of Macedonia king of Macedonia (336–323 BC)………………….LifeHe was born in 356 BC at Pella in Macedonia, the son of Philip II and Olympias (daughter of King Neoptolemus of Epirus). From age 13 to 16 he was taught by Aristotle, who inspired him with an interest in philosophy, medicine, and scientific investigation; but he was later to advance beyond his teacher’s narrow precept that non-Greeks should be treated as slaves.He then marched south, recovered a wavering Thessaly, and at an assembly of the Greek League at Corinth was appointed generalissimo for the forthcoming invasion of Asia, already planned and initiated by Philip

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Alexander’s short reign marks a decisive moment in the history of Europe and Asia. His expedition and his own personal interest in scientific investigation brought many advances in the knowledge of geography and natural history. His career led to the moving of the great centres of civilization eastward and initiated the new age of the Greek territorial monarchies; it spread Hellenism in a vast colonizing wave throughout the Middle East and created, if not politically at least economically and culturally, a single world stretching from Gibraltar to the Punjab, open to trade and social intercourse and with a considerable overlay of common civilization and the Greek koinē as a lingua franca. It is not untrue to say that the Roman Empire, the spread of Christianity as a world religion, and the long centuries of Byzantium were all in some degree the fruits of Alexander’s achievement.

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By Orphic Hymn

 SEE ALSO: Bolsaya Sovetskaya Encyclopaedia about ancient Macedonian ethnicity