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Sources from Kashmir prove Ancient Macedonians were Greeks

Sources from Kashmir prove Ancient Macedonians were Greeks

Irvan Naveed has written a book review of  “Ancient Greeks in Kashmir” by Iqbal Ahmad. Mr. Iqbal Ahmad, 51, was born in Parigam Chek, Kulgam. He is a graduate with Diploma in Numastics, Archaeology and Heritage. He is an archaeologist, writer, and a cultural historian. Mr. Iqbal Ahmad has published 12 reference books on Kashmir archaeology and heritage.) Except valuable information, […]

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The Greekness of Macedonia is engraved in a Stone

The Greekness of Macedonia is engraved in a Stone

The deliberate and systematic campaign of distortion, stealing and absorption of the history and ethnicity of the ancient Macedonians by FYROM has intensified and is ongoing today with full and untiring strength. Although officially this country is known as the FYROM, through a vigorous campaign they have managed to contrive the world to call it “Macedonia” in common day usage […]

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Dr. Frank Holt’s Prologue about Ancient Macedonia

Dr. Frank Holt’s Prologue about Ancient Macedonia

  Dr. Frank Holt’s Prologue The following text, written by Dr. Frank Holt Professor of Ancient History at the University of Houston, will be the prologue of a book published by the Macedonian Studies Center. The book will include the letter by world known archeologists, historians and researchers from various academic institutions in the world to President Barack Obama regarding […]

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Makedonika Collection – The Ancient Macedonian Ethnicity and Language

Makedonika Collection – The Ancient Macedonian Ethnicity and Language

Θέλετε να βρίσκετε γρήγορα και άνετα Ατράνταχτες Αποδείξεις για την Ελληνικότητα της Αρχαίας Μακεδονίας; Μια μοναδική Συλλογή στην Αγγλική Γλώσσα σας περιμένει, με τεκμήρια από Γραμματειακές και Αρχαιολογικές πηγές για την Εθνικότητα και Γλώσσα των Αρχαίων Μακεδόνων, για την έχετε πάντα στην διάθεση σας. Την Συλλογή μπορείτε να την “κατεβάσετε” στον υπολογιστή σας σε μορφή: – PDF (μέγεθος 4 MB) – WORD (Μέγεθος 2.33 ΜΒ) […]

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A letter from Megarovo’s inhabitants in 1904 declaring their Greekness

A letter from Megarovo’s inhabitants in 1904 declaring their Greekness

Another evidence of the heroic resistance of the Greek element in the prosyletizing plans of the Bulgarian and Roumanian propaganda in Macedonia, is found on the letter of the Megarovo’s inhabitants back in 1904. The letter is a courageous confession of faith in Orthodoxy, pride of the Historical and Religious traditions which they inherited from their glorious Greek ancestors  and a Greek patriotic […]

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Modern Historians write about the Greek Ethnicity of ancient Macedonians

Modern Historians write about the Greek Ethnicity of ancient Macedonians

(1) A rare collection of sources verifying the Greekness of Ancient Macedonians *  Bury & Meiggs (1985) “A History of Greece”       page 415             “The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock,              as  their traditions and the scanty remains of their   language combine              to testify.”   *  H. Bengston  (1988) “A History of Greece: from the beginnings  to […]

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The Use of phrases ‘ουχ Ομόφυλου γένους’ and “Αλλόφυλον γένος” in ancient sources

The Use of phrases ‘ουχ Ομόφυλου γένους’ and “Αλλόφυλον γένος” in ancient sources

One of the usual arguments being raised by the few supporters of the alleged non-Greekness of ancient Macedonians mention references by Isocrates in his letter to Philip II of Macedon. Specifically the usage by Isocrates of the phrases “Αλλόφυλον το Γένος”, “Ουχ Ομοφύλου γένους”. We are going to examine the validity of this argument and whether it constitutes an indication of non-greekness of Macedonia. […]

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Andreas Willi on Macedonia

Andreas Willi has written a rebuttal of sorts (pdf) to the letter of the Macedonia Evidence Initiative. It is an extremely interesting piece of doublethink, and as such, it is useful to address in some detail. Willi (henceforth W.) writes: The internet documentation which is referred to in the letter may be right when it sees nothing but “a personal […]

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Makedonika II: The Ancient Macedonian Words

Makedonika II: The Ancient Macedonian Words

 Today, over a hundred Macedonian words and a few hundred Macedonian names are known from a variety of sources. Although the names presuppose words, they will be examined separately for a number of methodological reasons. A total of one hundred and twelve words, with ninety-nine different stems, are attested directly. Of these, sixty-five words, or sixty-three stems, have been preserved […]

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Nigel Guy wilson , Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece (2006)

Nigel Guy wilson , Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece (2006)

Quote: 1) “The latest archaeological findings have confirmed that Macedonia took it’s name from a tribe of tall , Greek-speaking people , the Makednoi …” 2) “The Macedonian kingdom streched more or less as far north as the present northern border of Greece.” 3) “The “vulgar” Macedonians were not unanimously accepted by “refined” southern Greeks , especialy the Atheneans , […]

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