Posts Tagged “Ionians”

MINA "NEWS" AGENCY MISINFORMS AGAIN...
It has recently come to our attention that MINA (the "news" agency serving Skopje's VMRO government line and based in the United Kingdom) yet again published false information about Greece on its website on March 25, 2010; the day of Greek Independence. Taking advantage of the recent anti-Hellenic propaganda published in ... Tags: anthony, byron ayanoglou, Dorians, hellenism Mina news agency, Ionians, Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer, Minoan
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 Miltiades Elia Bolaris
January 30, 2010
In the http://my. opera.com blog there is a section named "Macedonian Civilization/Македонска Цивилизација - Truth about Macedonians". Within that section there is a chapter about the Ionian Greeks, called "Yavan-Ionians", which was published on January 22nd, 2008 by a young Skopjan propagandist named Stojanche Chabir... /Стојанче Цавир..., who is writing under ... Tags: fyrom, greek, history, Ionians, macedonia, macedonians, Miltiades Bolaris, opera, slavs, yauna, yauna takabara, yavan
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Quote:
[Iliad , XX.74]
«ἄντα δ' ἄρ' Ἡφαίστοιο μέγας ποταμὸς βαθυδίνης,
ὃν Ξάνθον καλέουσι θεοί, ἄνδρες δὲ Σκάμανδρον.»
"...the great, deep-eddying river, that gods called Xanthus, and men Scamander."
Apparently , Skamandros must have been a river with clean/pure water and that induced the original anatolian speaking Trojans to call him with a name that derives from PIE *scand- . ... Tags: Aeolians, Ancient Macedonia, ancient macedonian dialect, homer, illyrians, Ionians, μακεδονιστί, Language, Linguistics, macedonia, macedonians, northern greek dialect, thessaly
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Figure 1
1. Yauna Takabara
A Persian inscription dating from 513 BCE records the European peoples who were, at that date, subject to the Great King. One of these people is described as Yauna Takabara, meaning ‘Ionians whose head-dress is like a shield’. The Persians, like other eastern peoples of antiquity, are known to have applied the ... Tags: Alexander the Great, Eddy, ethnicity, Ionians, macedonians, Near East, Nebraska, persian, sassanid, Yunan
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