Another evidence about the ethnicities inhabiting Macedonia around 1897 comes from the book “The Battlefields of Thessaly, With Personal Experiences in Turkey and Greece“. Remove the Turks from Macedonia to-morrow and Greek, Wallach and Bulgar would be at each other’s throats for a week. Ther are kurds, Zeibecks, Arnauts, Drusos, Syrians of many sorts, Lazes, Jews, Ethiopians, Arabs and Circussians. […]

By Miltiades Elia Bolaris 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). “Sopol(is). This ancient Macedonian name is mentioned by the Greek historian […]

Greek intellectuals […] did not consider the Ancient Macedonians to be a Hellenic nation. Paparrigopoulos, for example, one of the first Modern Greek historians, in his book “General History” published in 1848 wrote: “Macedonian nation fulfilled, in the frame of the general world history, one completely different mission than the one of the Hellenic nation.” The terms “ethnos” (plural: ethne), […]

“Ajami” wins Golden Alexander at 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival     The 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival came to an end on Sunday night with the closing ceremony and the presentation of awards.     The top prize, the Golden Alexander for Best Feature-Length Film, was awarded to the Israeli-German production “Ajami” (“Crossroads of life”) by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani. […]

Quote: [Iliad , XX.74]«ἄντα δ’ ἄρ’ Ἡφαίστοιο μέγας ποταμὸς βαθυδίνης, ὃν Ξάνθον καλέουσι θεοί, ἄνδρες δὲ Σκάμανδρον.»“…the great, deep-eddying river, that gods called Xanthus, and men Scamander.” Apparently , Skamandros must have been a river with clean/pure water and that induced the original anatolian speaking Trojans to call him with a name that derives from PIE *scand– . When the […]

Nassau William Senior in his  “Journal Kept in Turkey and Greece in the Autumn of 1857, and the Beginning of 1858“ (page 32), includes a conversation between himself and a Frenchman who lived in Turkey. When the author asked the opinion of the Frenchman regarding the future of most regions under Ottoman rule he got the following reply: Quote: Macedonia and Thessaly must OF […]

The Tempi Theatre in the region of Omolios, central Greece, opened to the public with Aeschylus’ “The Choephori” (meaning “The Libation Bearers”), the second part of the”Oresteia” trilogy, performed by the Thessaly Theatre Group.     Aeschylus (ca. 525 B.C.) is regarded “the father of Ancient Greek tragedy”. He has written between 50 and 90 plays, but only six of them still […]

One of the many ancient historical personas who are being claimed as their own by different ethnicities is Pyrrhus of Epirus. We wil attempt to analyze facts about his life which will shed some light to the answer of modern claims mostly among Balkanian Nations. Pyrrhus of Epirus was born in 318 BC. He was son of the Molossian king, Aeacides and […]

   THE CRY OF IRENE   The true story of a young girl, Irene Damopoulou from Kastoria, in western Macedonia, that began during the years of the internal Greek conflict (1946-1949)                 By       Ioannis Bougas …………………………………………………………………………………. …………………………………………………………………………………. “Paidomazwma” – “Children Gathering”       A Short time after my uncle […]

Nationalists from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M) and her diaspora frequently promote the following excerpt from George Finlay’s “A History of the Greek Revolution” published in 1861: According to G. Finlay in his ‘History of the Greek Revolution volume 1 – 1861: “The Albanian population occupies most of ancient Greece. Albanians now occupy all Attica and Megaris, Boetia […]