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Cleopatra VII ( Elizabeth Taylor ) speaks about Alexander the Great’s Greek Ethnicity - Macedonia

From the Youtube Channel of spherikos Cleopatra VII (Elizabeth Taylor) tells about Alexander the Great’s Greek Ethnicity for skip (

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The Identity of the ancient Greeks according to Jonathan Hall

The Identity of the ancient Greeks according to Jonathan Hall

The Hellenic Identity according to Jonathan Hall In the 4th century BC, the Athenian assembly debated whether to align with King Philip II of Macedonia, who had begun invading Greek city-states. Isocrates hoped to unite the bickering city-states and believed Philip could lead a war against longtime enemy Persia. Echoing Philip’s own argument, he contended that the Macedonian king in […]

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Ο ταλαντούχος κύριος Ηρακλείδης

Ο ταλαντούχος κύριος Ηρακλείδης

Με μεγάλο ενδιαφέρον διαβάσαμε το κείμενο του κ. Ηρακλείδη στο ιστολόγιο “Foreign Press”. Για το ζήτημα των Σκοπίων, ο κ. Ηρακλείδης γράφει: “Η προφανής μέση λύση … είναι «Βόρεια Μακεδονία», «Νέα Μακεδονία» ή «Μακεδονία» στα σλαβομακεδονικά, δηλαδή Μakedonija. Η τελευταία είναι, νομίζω, η καταλληλότερη…” Αν δεν μας απατά η μνήμη μας, το συνταγματικό όνομα της γειτονικής χώρας αυτή τη στιγμή […]

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Who were the Ancient Macedonians?

Who were the Ancient Macedonians?

It is almost impossible for an admirer of the Ancient Macedonian History not to be involved, one way or another, with one of the questions which still remain crucial in our days. Who were the Ancient Macedonians? The aforementioned question has emerged into an object of scholarly research for a really long time. Many eminent scholars discussed the various manifestations of the Macedonian identity mostly […]

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Pyrrhus of Epirus and the contradicting claims over his Ethnicity – Greek or Illyrian?

Pyrrhus of Epirus and the contradicting claims over his Ethnicity - Greek or Illyrian?

One of the many ancient historical personas who are being claimed as their own by different ethnicities is Pyrrhus of Epirus. We wil attempt to analyze facts about his life which will shed some light to the answer of modern claims mostly among Balkanian Nations. Pyrrhus of Epirus was born in 318 BC. He was son of the Molossian king, Aeacides and […]

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HOW SERBIAN PROPAGANDA INFLUENCED AND EVENTUALLY CHANGED MACEDONISM

HOW SERBIAN PROPAGANDA INFLUENCED AND EVENTUALLY CHANGED MACEDONISM

Control of the Bulgarophile population (who self-identified Bulgarian) in the Southern-most area of the Kingdom of Serbia known as Vardarska Banovina, was of the utmost importance for Serbs who used political and educational propaganda in a systematic way in order to keep Vardarska Banovina from uniting with the Kingdom of Bulgaria in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Essentially, where Serbs […]

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‘Macedonian’ Nationality – A fictitious concept by London Times of 1944
Modern writers about the Bulgarian origin of FYROMs Slavs – Francis Seymour Stevenson

Modern writers about the Bulgarian origin of FYROMs Slavs - Francis Seymour Stevenson

Taken from the book “History Of Montenegro” by Francis Seymour Stevenson, 1914 In page 24 we can find: Stevenson makes it explicit that the Ethnicities suffering from the extension of Serbian state were Greeks, Magyars, Shkipetars and Bulgarians since unfortunately for the usual propagandists of fYROM, these were the only Ethnicities of the region. Its even interesting to witness the fact Stevenson mentions […]

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Babylonian testimonies about ancient Macedonian ethnicity

Babylonian testimonies about ancient Macedonian ethnicity

BABYLONIANS According to classical sources, Antiochus IV invaded egypt twice, once in 169 BC and again in the spring of 168 BC. As the Babylonian diaries records, Antiochus and his men, in order to celebrate his victories made “a pompe and activities according to…their Greek customs” Quote: Diary No -168. A14-15: ITU.BI al-te-e um-[ma] An LUGAL ina URU.MES sa KUR […]

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Persian Testimonies about ancient Macedonian Ethnicity

Persian Testimonies about ancient Macedonian Ethnicity

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 term ‘Ionians’ to […]

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