15th January of 1858   By Kostas68

Mr Whitlock I’m writing to you regarding your recent article published on Washington post on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 concerning the Macedonian issue. I’m one of those people that you and others unfortunately have choose to ignore, either because of ignorance or deliberately. I hope in your article we’re talking about the first case. This group of people i include […]

Another evidence that shatters the totally absurb claims of FYROM propaganda about banning of the term “Macedonia” in Greece prior to 1988 is “Helios”. “Helios” was a Greek Encyclopaedia whose full title was “Neoteron Egkyclopaediko Lexikon Helios”. It was renamed from “The Weekly Encyclopaedic Review ‘Helios’ and it was published in Athens between 1945 and 1960. In its edition of 19th Dec. 1947, […]

What language did these “Macedones” speak? The name itself is Greek in root and in ethnic termination. It probably means ‘highlanders,’ and it is comparable to Greek tribal names such as ‘Orestai’ amd ‘Oreitai,’ meaning ‘mountain-men.’ A reputedly earlier variant, ‘Maketai,’ has the same root, which means ‘high,’ as in the Greek adjective ‘makednos’ or the noun ‘mekos.’ The genealogy […]