http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/76844 Australian Macedonian Advisory Council October 10, 2008 "A nation is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry and a common dislike of their neighbours." Karl Deutsch´s definition of a nation holds a great deal of truth, especially while dealing with one of the most troublesome regions of Europe; the Balkans. One of the ...

The nationalistic hysteria which predominates in FYROM is all over the place, even in streets where anyone could take a walk and be a self-witness of this tragic spectacle. Neither Bukephalas (Alexander’s famous Horse) got away from the Nationalistic Hysteria. Bucephalas’s picture from the facade of VMRO-DPMNE office. By Vasiliye

Dr. George Voskopoulos July 22, 2008 The name dispute between Greece and FYROM has been seen primarily as a conflict between Greece and FYROM. Yet historically the third factor of the dispute was Bulgarian policy and its aim to annex Yugoslav and Greek Macedonia. This very aim gave Belgrade a powerful motive in creating and cementing a ...

It appears that expressions of Irredentist claims in FYROM has became an almost daily phenomenon to the point it doesnt surprise anyone anymore. This irredentist mentality of FYROM Slavs against neighboring states appears sadly to become stronger and stronger every day, while it constitutes a main problem both for FYROM's relations with neighbouring States like Greece and certainly the main reason why the doors ...

The history of the construction of a macedonian national identity does not begin with alexander the great in the fourth century b.c. or with saints cyril and methodius in the ninth century a.d., as Macedonian nationalist historians often claim. nor does it begin with tito and the establishment of the people's republic of macedonia in ...