The deliberate and systematic campaign of distortion, stealing and absorption of the history and ethnicity of the ancient Macedonians by FYROM has intensified and is ongoing today with full and untiring strength. Although officially this country is known as the FYROM, through a vigorous campaign they have managed to contrive the world to call it “Macedonia” in common ...

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 ...

Typical residents of modern Skopje (FYROM) : two Albanians and a cop. - Ancient Scupi (modern Skopje), initially a Paeonian settlement, was founded in early antiquity near Axios (Vardar). It became the Capital of ancient Dardania, hence it was not part of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. - Dardanians were racially, a totally unrelated people to ...

Virtual Reality of the " House of Dionysos" in Pella, Macedonia in Greece. The Foundation of the Hellenic World created the Virtual Reality of one  Hellenistic building in Pella, the ancient capital of the Macedonians in Greece. The so-called "House of Dionysos", the three-dimensional reconstruction of FHW which will be part of the exhibition called "Macedonia, the Kingdom ...

One of the funniest discussions you will ever watch about the origins of ancient Macedonians is the one between the former PM of FYROM Ljubco Georgievski and one called Milenko Nedelkoski in a FYROM's TV channel. The former PM of FYROM explains with simple and reasonable arguments the reasons why Alexander the Great is considered Greek, ...

By Ptolemy November 18, 2008 The common definition of “taking text out of context” is to remove a passage from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its true meaning. In other words, a shorter extract or phrase is used purposedly in an attempt to represent the views of the ...

Thessaloniki was a princess; daughter of King Philip II, half sister of Alexander the Great. She was given this name because she was born on the day of the Macedonian victory at the Battle of Crocus Field. Her name literally translates to "Thessalian Victory", in Greek. The city of Thessaloniki, today the largest city of ...

  Gordynia or Gortynia or Gortynion was a settlement in ancient Macedonia, in south Axios valley, North-East of Bottiaea, in Lower Paionia. Ptolemy places Gordenia, Γορδηνία, in his list of cities in Emathia, after Idomenae and before Edessa. Plinius (HN 4.34) gives the name in plural, Gordyniae. Stephanus of Byzantium calls it Gordynia and its ethnic ...

Alexander the Great Alexander the Great : Origins of Alexander Is Alexander the Great Greek? The Destruction of Thebes Plutarch on Alexander's bringing Greek civilisation to Asia Ancient Sources about Alexander's Panhellenic Campaign Bible about Alexander the Great Alexander King of Yavans Exchange of letters between Alexander the Great and Porus Mural of ...

Miltiades Elia Bolaris    May 13, 2010          The Archaic temple of Aphrodite is dated to the end of the 6th cBC and it was originally discovered during excavations in 1936, only to be lost years later in the destruction of Nazi occupation of the city and the subsequent post war development. It is at the beginning of ...