Bellow, an integral brief Russian television documentary is included, which, among classical, chronologically ordered editorial concept, offers statements on Greek character of Ancient Macedonia and Alexander himself. 1. [0:56 -1: 02] Macedonia, placed on the northern part of the Greek world, aspired to straighten its links with the Hellenic culture. 2.[4:59 – 5:10] Alexander was building temples in honor of […]
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The Ultimate Question for the pseudo-Macedonists of FYROM
Mt. Athos: an autonomous state in Macedonia…has always been autonomous and has enjoyed relative peace throughout the tumultuous history of the Balkans. The obvious question and it really is a simple one: If “ethnic-Macedonians” existed and were persecuted by Greeks and Bulgarians and Serbians in the non-autonomous part of Macedonia (under Ottoman rule)…WHERE ARE THEIR MONASTERIES ON MT. ATHOS? There […]
Read more ›Mark Mazower, Salonica City of Ghosts
Quote: Meanwhile, in Salonica itself, a militant new organization was incubating: in November 1893 the ‘Bulgarian MacedoAdrianopolitan Revolutionary Committee’ was founded by a group of men reared on the ideas of Russian anarchism, and proclaimed open to any who wished to fight for liberation from the Turks and autonomy for Macedonia. Sofia-based activists regarded it with suspicion and did not […]
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