This article is an answer to the article entitled “The Macedonians, the Greeks, and the Communists” and published in
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=22926 by Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis at April 2007.
Below, the term Macedonian has its proper meaning that was and is “Greek from Macedonia” and the term Macedonia refers to the land from Pindus to Strymon and from Olympus to Ohrid-Gevgelja line. Skopje never was in Macedonia.
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Macedonians had always Greek names, toponyms, ways, heroes, gods, dialect and spread Greek Language and Civilization to the World. If any modern white people do the same things we Greeks will accept them as Macedonian, that is Greeks.
Blood and dna are not related to ethnicity at least within a race(color). We Greeks do know this since the times of Herodotus and Issocrates. If you think that we are wrong then you might let us educate your chilfren: We promise that we will not change their blood.
We don't care about what Greeks were before being Greek, but for historic reasons.
Herodotus was not Greek because he was from Caria? Give us a brake, will you ??!!
Yes, Peloponnesian war was a civil war, that is between Greeks. Thudcydides knew pretty well: "ἐξανέστη ἄπαν τὸ Ἑλληνικόν" (e3anestê apan to ellênikon) wrote he.
Alexander's model wasn't Athens but older Greeks: Hercules, Achilles. You know, Macedonians were living in the era of Homer when southern Greeks read Aeschylus, Euripides, Thucydides... Anyway, Macedonians called Euripides to teach them the new Greek Civilization in their own language:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pella_katadesmos
Regas called all peoples around to hellenize themselves: to become Graikoi. He knew where the Light comes from.
Ottoman occupation was a yoke for all Balkans and Turks themselves. We Greeks were about 10,000,000 people before Ottomans but about 5,000,000 after Ottoman collapse. Byzantine Empire was the Centrer of the World and Ottoman Empire was the Center of the Dark.
Demosthenes said what he said, during Macedonian+Thessalian versus Athenian+Theban conflict about Greece's domination. It was just another civil war. Read more here:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/415923/message/1122318428
Greek Communist Party recognized for a while a Macedonian ethnic identity under presure of Comintern and dictator Stalin. Now, in the times of freedom it knows and claims: Macedonians have always been Greeks.
Istor
Solun or Thessaloniki?
Conflict about Macedonian name