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Serbian “Blic”: Look at How the New “Ancient” Skoplje Looks Like

Serbian “Blic”: Look at How the New “Ancient” Skoplje Looks Like

Two more years remained to the deadline which the creators of project “Skoplje 2014” gave to themselves, and judging from the last images from the FYROM’s capital the job of giving antiquity-like, and some say kitsch-like, look to Skoplje could be over before the deadline. FYROM’s authorities thought the new look of the center of the capital city, ornamented with […]

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Pseudomacedonian Themes From The Towns Of Struga And Ohrid

Pseudomacedonian Themes From The Towns Of Struga And Ohrid

Images taken this week from Struga and Ohrid. The items presented here  provide the fact that Pseudomacedonian artifacts are not endemic in the city of Skoplje only. Struga: Pseudomacedonian (and Che Guevara!) souvenir-shop, driving school on whose “Yugo” car the ‘numismatist’ firm name „Статер“(“Stater”) stands, Electric systems & components store “Solun” (“Thessaloniki”). —————– Ohrid (“Paskoland”): Pseudomacedonians sport items store on […]

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FYROM – Pseudoarchaeological Summit: Political “Identity Archaeology” , Skoplje, 28-XII-2011

FYROM – Pseudoarchaeological Summit: Political “Identity Archaeology” , Skoplje, 28-XII-2011

The occasion shown in the video was titled “Archaeological Macedonia 2011”, conceptualized as public display of artifacts excavated during this year. It was opened with speeches first by notorious Pasko Kuzman and by FYROM’s Minister for Culture, Elizabeta Kančeva Milevska, the speech of which (contained after first 100 seconds of the video) at several occasion appropriated the ancient Macedonian heritage in a sublime, implicit way and at […]

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The Greeks of Macedonia in Slavic Sources

The Greeks of Macedonia in Slavic Sources

One of the absurd Myths of FYROM’s propaganda imposed on their population is the notion that there were NO Greeks prior to the establisment of the Kingdom of Greece (Βασίλειο των Ελλήνων) in the aftermath of the Greek revolution of 1821. More absurd theories emanating mostly by the radical groups of FYROM’s diaspora claim that Greeks were NEVER found in Macedonia prior to 1913. […]

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Skopje had a Predominately Greek Population During the 13th Century

Skopje had a Predominately Greek Population During the 13th Century

After Skoplje’s conquest by Theodore of Epiros, it was constituted as a theme with a Greek bishop (Dem. Chom. no. XIV, col. 63; no. CXXXI, col. 536. Akrpolites, ed. Heisenberg, 78, Zlatarski, III, 435). But in 1230 it passed into the Bulgarian Empire of John Asen, his son Kaliman, and its appointed governor was the PanSebastos sebastos Pribo (or Primpos) . In […]

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Secretary General of NATO: “I hope that there will be more flexibility in Skopje than I have seen up until now”

During the press conference of the  third Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) Security Forum that took  place in Astana, Kazakhstan, on June 25 2009, the NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer responded to a question posed by a journalist from the State of Skopje.  With his question regarding the NATO membership of his country and made in the usual whining and arrogant way searching always for someone else to blame, the skopjan journalist […]

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Εσωτερικές τριβές στην ΠΓΔΜ για το ζήτημα της ονομασίας

26-06-09 Το κόμμα της αξιωματικής αντιπολίτευσης, «Σοσιαλδημοκρατική Ένωση» (SDSM), απέρριψε σήμερα συνάντηση με τον εκπρόσωπο της ΠΓΔΜ στις διαπραγματεύσεις για την εκκρεμότητα της ονομασίας, Ζόραν Γιόλεφσκι, στην οποία ο τελευταίος επρόκειτο να ενημερώσει τον αρχηγό του κόμματος, Μπράνκο Τσερβένκοφσκι, για την πορεία των διαπραγματεύσεων για το θέμα της ονομασίας. Χθες, ο υπουργός Εξωτερικών της ΠΓΔΜ, Αντόνιο Μιλόσοσκι, μετά τη συνάντηση […]

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Ethnic Albanians group in FYROM calls protest

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press 2009-06-12 11:04 PM A group of prominent ethnic Albanian nationalists including a military commander who brought FYROM to the brink of civil war said Friday they will organize a demonstration to demand a new constitution. The protesters said they will stage the protest June 23 in FYROM’s capital, Skopje. They want to create a federal state […]

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The Foundation Forum of Slavic Cultures Holds a Meeting in Skoplje, FYROM [05-V-2009]

May 06, 2009 — News segment about the meeting of the Forum of Slavic Cultures in Skoplje, which went largely unnoticed by the FYROMian media. By Brzak

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NATO’s Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Warns FYROM About the Name Dispute with Greece [29-IV-2009]

NATO’s General Secretary Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, in a meeting with Branko Crvenkovski, warns about the possibility of a failure of referendum about country’s name, predicting a possibility of a security crisis.

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