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 Macedonians were […]

Dionysios Pyrros the Thessalian, 1818 and “Methodic Geography of the whole universe,on behalf of his friends and pupils and the Hellenic genus“ “She (Hellas) is today subjugated to the despotic rule of the Turk emperor,the so-called Sultan,who descends from the interior of great Asia,which was once utterly defeated by the Macedonian Alexander the Great” “Hellas was called in older times […]

One of the most ill-concieved Lies created by FYROM’s propaganda deals with the claim that “Greece officially prohibited the usage of the name “Macedonia” prior to 1988″. Despite the ovewhelming evidence [1] [2] [3], the Slavs of FYROM insist on denying the obvious. A couple of years ago another terrible lie came into existence by FYROM’s propaganda. This time they allegedly claimed Greek government […]

  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 meaning. In other words a shorter extract or phrase is used purposedly in an attempt to respresent the views of the person being quoted inaccurately. The latter became an effective tool on the hands […]

All those from you who attend occasionally in internet forums, i am certain while “discussing” Greece-FYROM relations you will have been bored to death witnessing FYROMians to provide ad naseum the same pics from a Greek Geography school book of 1977. The FYROMian usual silly argument is something like “Look what Greeks were learning in their schools prior to 1988”. Lets check out now […]

Strabo – “Geography”  “There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the parts of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium; secondly, Greece; and thirdly, the islands that are close by. Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece, yet now, since I am following the nature and shape of the places geographically, I have decided […]