Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russian Federation, stated that, in effect, Alexander of Macedon (Alexander III, Alexander the Great) was Greek, in a comment following a question about economic crisis in Greece during "Russia 2012" forum, February 2012. In the excerpt from a debate at the forum, the obvious synergy of otherwise blunt statement that "Alexander ...

Ελλήνων αποθέωση στις ΗΠΑ μέσα από έκθεση με 564 έργα Το αντίγραφο της νεκρικής χρυσής μάσκας του Αγαμέμνονα Οι αρχαίοι Ελληνες από άκρου εις άκρον της χώρας, από την Κρήτη του Μίνωα ως τη Μακεδονία του Φιλίππου και του Μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου, από τους κυκλαδίτες εμπόρους και ναυτικούς του Προϊστορικού Αιγαίου ως τις πολύχρυσες Μυκήνες του Αγαμέμνονα και ...

 Head of Alexander with ancient graffiti   Τον τελευταίο καιρό στο κέντρο της Αθήνας συντελούνται διάφορες ασχήμιες που, εκτός των άλλων, αναδεικνύουν και την αδυναμία της κρατικής μηχανής σε όλο της το μεγαλείο. Αποκορύφωμα των δυσάρεστων αυτών φαινομένων ήταν το περίλουσμα πρόσφατα με μπογιές και σπρέι των ανδριάντων που κοσμούν την είσοδο του ιστορικού κτιρίου του ...

  By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Published: December 19, 2011 In its time and place, the ancient city of Dura-Europos had much in common with today’s most cosmopolitan urban landscapes. Religious, linguistic and cultural diversity characterized much of the city’s life for more than 500 years, starting at the outset of the third century B.C. in what is now ...

Hellenistic Period - Dr. David Neiman, the renowned Jewish scholar in the fields of Biblical Studies and Jewish history follows the conquests of Alexander the great and the subsequent spread of the Greek language through the Greek Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires. Dr Neiman speaks about the Greek Ruler Ptolemy and Alexandria, the "greatest Greek city ...

Kiro Gligorov, the first democratically elected president of FYROM passed away on Sunday at the age of 94. Gligorov became president of the country in January 1991, when it was still a Yugoslav republic. He led his countrymen through a referendum, in which they voted for independence. He was considered a moderate on the name dispute with Greece. «We ...

Macedonia History - Rabbi Berel Wein, a famous scholar and historian - admired through the world over for his lectures on Jewish history, speaks about Alexander the Great. the Great Greek Leader as he calls him and Greek influence. http://JewishHistory.org Alexander the Great conquers the Persian Empire and most of the known world, and comes to the land of Israel at ...

A couple of weeks ago we had the statements of FYROM's former PM's Georgievski which shocked FYROM. Today the eminent professor from FYROM and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ljubomir Frckoski, mentioned in his column for Fokus Newspaper: Our "Macedonian" identity of a small Slavic nation is not connected to Alexander the Great, but with our Ethnic Albanian fellow citizens, through the history of the common ...

«ΕΣΤΙΝ ΟΥΝ ΕΛΛΑΣ ΚΑΙ Η ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ»  By Christos Karatzios MD (Estin oun Ellas ke i Makedonia) “Macedonia, is of course a part of Greece”                         Strabo, Geography, book 7, Fragment 9 (circa 7 BC – 23 AD) With this quote, Strabo, the famous ancient Greek historian and geographer described the relation of Macedonia to the rest of Greece when he was describing the known ...

The Macedonia Perspective: Geography and History By Professor Nina Gatzoulis   Macedonia is one of the regions in Greece and has always been an integral part of the Greek world. The original Macedonians, the Macedonian Greeks, arrived in the area around 2000 BC and they were descendants of the Heracleides (descendants of the mythical hero Heracles). The ancient ...