We have been accustomed in this blog to reading groundless claims from Albanian Nationalists regarding an alleged connection between Ancient Macedonians and Illyrians.  While all the available archaeological and literary evidence makes it explicit that Ancient Macedonians and their Barbarian Illyrian neighbours shared nothing in common - except a common border -  it has becoming tiresome to point out the obvious again ...

We have already adressed in this blog, the fact that a large number of Macedonians after the breakdown of the Greek revolution in Macedonia, fled from their native lands and scattered in the newly emerged kingdom of Greece. These Macedonian refugees founded settlements, like New Pella in Atalanti where its evident even of the settlement's name, the ...