macedonia

a country t-to made up to p-ss off greeks and bulgarians.
t-to: you know what would really p-ss off those f-ckers? if i made a country called macedonia.
stalin: lol, that’s awesome!
beautiful and ancient land, with friendly people. come and visit it.
i have been in macedonia last year, and i am coming again in this beautiful land for sure.
i. a geographical region in the north of greece; capital, thessaloniki.

ii. historical name misused to refer to the former yugoslav republic of macedonia (fyrom).

iii. ancient territory now divided among greece, bulgaria and the former yugoslav republic of macedonia (fyrom). propaganda that began as early as the end of the 19th century with the decline of the ottoman empire and the formation of ethnic states, promoted the use of the name macedonia by greek, turkish, bulgarian, serb and whatever other populaces to give them a coherent ethnic ident-ty, in favor of each country. the collapse of communist yugoslavia, sparked open controversy as skopje (the capital of fyrom) made claims on the name “macedonia” fot their state name and the star of vergina (ancient macedonian symbol) for their flag.
to confront the misinformation supplied above:
1. macedonians just like arcadians, aeolians, dorians and all the other greek “tribes” had the same main deities but worshiped their own gods as well. deities were also introduced into greek pantheons by thracians, frygians and other peoples.
2. ooookay… macedonians sat down to eat while other greeks lied on their sides; on the other hand they were admitted in the olympic games that were strictly exclusive to greek tribes.
3. greek city-states were warring all the time, athens vs sparta being the most known war. each city-state while growing in power and setting up colonies conflicted with one another. in fact, the peloponnesian war between athens and sparta (that ended with the defeat of athens) was the reason the two strongest city-states declined in power and left room for a new force to appear.
4. the name macedon (derived from the greek macednos: he who has long shanks, a tall person) should suffice. alexander the great, his father fillipos, his mother olympias (daughter of king pyrros of epirus) all have greek names. also he was educated by aristotle. his horse’s name was bucephalas (bus –> bull + cephalas (kefali in modern greek) –> head). the new cities he founded all had greek names.
5. macedonians were in fact hated by other greeks just as athenians were hated by other greeks when they were at their peak (and “owned” almost all the aegean isles, not to mention some colonies in sicily) just as any warring faction hates the other warring faction that has grown in power and away from their reach. when the macedonians (again i point out that this could be athenians, spartans, fokians and so on) forced the rest of greece into submission, they fought a major battle against the persians. the only city-state that wasn’t a part of the greek army was sparta. so, after the defeat of the persians, alexander erected a monument with an inscription that translates roughly into: “go tell the spartans, stranger p-ssing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie”. this was an epigram by simonedes of kea written in the ionian dialect. epigrams (you can look them up in wikipedia) were short inscriptions (literal meaning is “to write upon sthg”) that often had an ironic twist. get the irony in this one is rather obvious.

however, being dirt-poor, with a country in shambles, full of albanian, bulgarian and other minorities the fyrom government is feeding people lots of glorious history just because they have nothing else to feed them. this however has never been such a good idea. it has led to a rise in nationalism on both sides, absurd claims (unofficial, for the time being) of “occupied macedonia” with a notion of the historical macedonia (that spread in what is now three countries) in mind, and ludicrous claims that modern inhabitants of that bit of land descend straight for the lineage of alexander the great which is a blatant lie since claiming a 3000 year-old lineage in the balkans is a bit far-fetched (since they were not an isolated populace that intermarried) not to mention that slavic populaces descended in the balkan peninsula around 600 a.d.
q: i’ ve been in the peloponnese, epirus, crete, the ionian, literally all over greece but never macedonia.
a: you should! it’s really beautiful!
no such country in the world, it was bulgarian province, before that it was greek.
-oh man im macedonian!
-hahahaha, are you kiddin’ me, you are bulgarian.
it’s a greek province in which the city of thessaloniki is capital.

a handful of slavo-bulgarian-scopian- vardaskans have stolen the province name from greece to name their country macedonia. the scopian government is leading the world to believe that greek macedonian is not greek, but macedonian.

the scopians have no proof to prove that they have a direct connection with ancient macedonia of greece and also believe they have a direct connection with alexander the great which is by default not true as the vardaskans (today’s fake macedonians) appeared in area of vardaska 5-6 centuries after alexander the great.
the fake macedonians use extreme propaganda mechanisms without substantiated material and use people’s historical ignorance to persuade that their history is macedonian and not greek. non greeks of the world and modern scholars have proven that the fake macedonian calls are inventions of a greater plan to divide the balkans into fragments.
macedonia is a greek province and fyrom is a vardaskan original with slavs who have no direct connection with greece, macedonia and its people of greece. scopians are of slav-bulgarian origins that have neglected their history and are claiming another countries history (greece) for their own benefits and hidden agenda.
i’m a macedonian from macedonia..

no you are not… you are a slav from bulgaria wanting another countries hisory because t-to created you in 1944.
macedonia was the name of the kingdom in northern greece that became the most powerful empire in the ancient world after alexander the great conquered most of the known world and enlightend the far corners of the earth with h-llenic civilization. macedonia was is and always will be greek. macedonia was the birthplace of alexander, who was educated by aristotle. the contribution of macedonia was so great that people who know nothing about history attempt to lay false claims about the h-llenic legacy of macedonia , because they burn with envy. macedonians are the greeks that come from northern greece , like the city of thessaloniki. if you are from fyrom (skopje) then you are not macedonian , you are a slav.
slav : im macedonian
greek : really im macedonian too , do you speak greek?
slav : no
greek : then your not macedonian , your a slav from skopje
macedonia is a south -western part of bulgaria …the official language is bulgarian ..their prime minister is a bulgarian ..they are bulgarians …their history is bulgarian (facts are not to be ignored )..their culture is bulgarian …they are from bulgarian origin ..samuil,gotze del4ev,hristo smirnenski ,dame gruev,and so on are bulgarians.!!!! macedonia today has nothing in common with alexander macedonski …bulgaria loves “macedonia”,but they hate her …hope they will one day confess the truth about their bulgarian national ident-ty …sorry for the probably bad english
there is no macedonian nation .!!!!!!!

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