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 1944 as greek nationalist historians […]
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Prof. Dr Ivan Kochev – Sofia University, newspaper “Kontinent” – 17.10.1997
Quote It [Macedonian language] has not created by natural means, as all other languages in the world, but was created by political circumstances. It is an absurd, that it was created on a certain date – namely August 2nd, 1944, and at certain place – the monastery “Prohor Pchinski”, with a decree. Such an event has not happened to any […]
Read more ›Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 1994
Quote “From a strictly linguistic point of view Macedonian can be called a Bulgarian dialect, as structurally it is most similar to Bulgarian. — Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (1994)
Read more ›Linguist Fr. Scholz, “Slavische Etymologie”, 1966
Macedonian national conscience and from that conscientious promotion of Macedonian as a written language, first appears just in the beginning of our century and is strengthened particularly during in the years between the two world wars Fr. Scholz, “Slavische Etymologie”, 1966, p.61.
Read more ›Linguist Vladimir I. Georgiev “Introduction to the History of the Indo-European Languages”
“……….the nucleus of the Macedonian vocabulary consists of words which have exact correspondence in Greek.The importance of these words and the archaic phonological character of Macedonian lead to the conclusion that these are not borrowings but inherited words: this fact is confirmed by the genetic unity of Macedonian and Greek. Moreover, the numerous lexical and phonological isoglosses in Macedonian and […]
Read more ›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 […]
Read more ›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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