Miltiades Elia Bolaris March 04, 2011 SLAVIC HOMER IN SKOPJE & assorted Balkan fables HOCUS POCUS SLAVOMAKEDONIENSIS: Bogus scholarly witchcraft in the age of Antikvizatsiyja The man known in the internet as Petrus Invictus, a.k.a. Perica Sardzoski, a.k.a. Pero, a.k.a. Petro, a.k.a. John Donne has come up with a “theory” which claims there are certain words […]

Miltiades Elia Bolaris SLAVIC HOMER IN SKOPJE & assorted Balkan fables HOCUS POCUS SLAVOMAKEDONIENSIS: Bogus scholarly witchcraft in the age of Antikvizatsiyja “Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.” This is the quote from Homer with which Petrus Invictus chose to start his work […]

Miltiades Elia Bolaris February 15, 2011 HOCUS POCUS SLAVOMAKEDONIENSIS: bogus scholarly witchcraft in the age of Antikvizatsiyja In notoriously unreliable sources, such as the “Slavic Nationalist Forum” or the expatriate Skopjan misinformation website “MakNews” , it is naturally expected to stumble upon products of pseudo-scholarly emesis such as “A new theory about the Trojan era”, by […]

Miltiades Elia Bolaris June 16, 2010 Balkan Illusion - phantasia archaica: “…it is very interesting to note that many of the authentic ancient Macedonian words, according to their etymology and pronunciation, have a striking resemblance to the appropriate words used in the modern Macedonian language (and other so called “Slav”[sic] languages).”…”Pella is another ancient Macedonian word. […]

Miltiades Elia Bolaris May 13, 2010 The Archaic temple of Aphrodite is dated to the end of the 6th cBC and it was originally discovered during excavations in 1936, only to be lost years later in the destruction of Nazi occupation of the city and the subsequent post war development. It is at the beginning […]

By Miltiades Elia Bolaris A 2007 article by the Greek political scientist Constantinos Holevas, originally published in Antibaro, a Greek magazine made its re-appearance in the Akritas Macedonian blog recently. http://akritas-history-of-makedonia.blogspot.com/ It is titled “The importance of the name and Byzantine Diplomacy”. Professor Holevas reminded us in this article that the Byzantines never called their state Byzantium. They called themselves […]

Balkan Illusion - phantasia archaica: Miltiades Elia Bolaris April 15, 2010 “…it is very interesting to note that many of the authentic ancient Macedonian words, according to their etymology and pronunciation, have a striking resemblance to the appropriate words used in the modern Macedonian language (and other so called “Slav”[sic] languages).”…”Nana. The noun “nana” in the […]

Miltiades Elia Bolaris April 04, 2010 Balkan Illusion - phantasia archaica: “…it is very interesting to note that many of the authentic ancient Macedonian words, according to their etymology and pronunciation, have a striking resemblance to the appropriate words used in the modern Macedonian language (and other so called “Slav”[sic] languages). “Perustae. The noun “perustija” in […]

Slavomacedonian male names of FYROM-Skopje The Slavs begun arriving in the south Balkans sometime around the end of the 6th and the beginning of the seventh century AD. A well orchestrated attempt is being propagated out of Skopje to portray the Slavic presence in Macedonia as eternal, going back to the ancient Macedonians, who were a Greek tribe, and to […]

By Miltiades Elia Bolaris This article was written in August of 2009 and it was originally published in the Slovak language under the title “Macedónsky zápas o názov a budúcnosť európskej integrácie bývalej Juhoslovanskej republiky Macedónsko” in the October 2009 edition of the Slovak political and diplomatic magazine “Euro-Atlantic Quarterly”. Miltiades Elia Bolaris We are both neighbors. I live in […]