November 30 2005 at 4:10 PM No score for this post
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Subject: Why the Greeks agree Macedonia to be divided?
Panajota, Alepiloglu, Bordelo, Rechkov,BIGLA, June, If you own a house and it is yours for centuries, are you going to divide your house with your neighbours? Of course not, so if Macedonia was Greek why did the Greeks agree with Bulgaria, Serbia to divide Macedonia? And why did the Greeks grab 51% of the Macedonian territory in 1913. They changed the name from Macedonia to New Territory or in Grekika Nea Hora, then Northern Greece and now recently to Macedonia. Are the Macedonians in Aegean Macedonia recognized as Macedonians? Do the Macedonians in Aegean Macedonia have any human rights? Do the Macedonians have any Macedonian schools? The Macedonian language has been suppressed since 1936. Why did the Greek government change the first and last names of the Macedonian people from Toshe Perov to Anastassios Petropulos, from Dulba Trendova to Olymbia Trendopulos. 1666 Macedonian toponyms were changed from Negochani to Niki, from Banitsa to Vevi, from Kukush to Kilkis, from Zagorichani to Vasiliada, from Machukovo to Evzoni, and the list goes on and on. These are not human rights!
Ilinden the Macedonian
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The Turks owned the "house" for five centuries, during which there were massive population movements in and out of Ottoman Macedonia. When it became obvious the Ottoman Empire was crumbling and that they could be kicked out of the Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia (the _only_ three claimants of Ottoman land) could not agree how it should be divided due to the mixture of Albanians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Gypsies, Jews, Serbs, Vlachs, and others who lived there. It was so mixed that the French actually invented a food in honour of its diversity called 'Macedoine salade' (Macedonian salad).
As far as Greece was concerned, they won about 90% of Macedonia in the Balkan Wars of 1912-13, not 51%. They made no claims to the northern third of Ottoman Macedonia. The only major loss to Greece was Monastiri (Bitola), whose vibrant Greek population fled mainly to Florina, Thessaloniki, and Athens following the Serbs gaining control of the city.
If you look at any encyclopedia from the 1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's or 80's, Greece ALWAYS referred to this area as Macedonia (Makedonia). ALL the lands that were absorbed by Greece (Macedonia, Thrace, Epirus, northern Thessaly, etc.) were collectively called 'New Territories' for a short time because that's exactly what they were, but they NEVER lost their individual Greek names.
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The ancient Hellenic heritage has been stretched to such extremes, it has become a subject of ridicule around the World. A free society cannot continue under the shadows of ancient glory and myth, the chains of Hellenism have compromised the sense of freedom and reality. The concept of self-criticism is a remote idea from the national Greek psyche.
