Post by kartadolofonos on Nov 3, 2007 21:43:59 GMT -5
Facts about the one and only Greek Macedonia:
1. Recorded history refers to an ancient kingdom of Macedonia beginning in the 7th century B.C.E.
2. The name "Macedonia" was given by its people and in Greek it means "Highland".
3. Many ancient sources-historians, the Bible, the Torrah, geographers etc. refer to Macedonia as a Greek kingdom. It is also mentioned by Homer and by the Historian-geographer Strabo who states: "Macedonia is Greece as well."
4. 0ver 5,000 excavated relics of the ancient Macedonian kingdom carry only Greek inscriptions.
5. The ancient Macedonians participated in the Olympic Games and only Greeks could do that. They believed in the same Gods as the rest of the Greeks. Their kingdom's coins carried Greek inscriptions only. The Palace floor in the ancient Macedonian capital of Pella depicts Greek deities and Greek mythological figures with Greek language inscriptions.
6. Mt. Olympus, home of the Greek Gods, was located in Macedonia. At the foot of the mountain, excavations unearthed the ancient Macedonian burial grounds with Greek inscriptions.
7. The Greeks were the only people in ancient time to build theaters. Four have already been found in Macedonia.
8. Apostle Paul refers to Greeks receiving him when visiting Macedonia. He was preaching in Greek and his epistles were written in Greek, the language of its inhabitants.
9. Alexander the Great-king of Macedonia and leader of the united Greek city-States disseminated Greek culture and civilization during his campaign against the Persian Empire as well as in Europe, Africa and Asia.
10. There never was a "Macedonian language" just as there never was an "Athenian Epirotic", "Theban" "Boeotian" etc. All city-states of Greece the Greek language with various dialects. Present day Bulgaria-an idiom Of the Bulgarian language is spoken by the pseudo-Macedonians recognizes neither a Macedonian language nor a Macedonian ethnicity. Most of the present day Slavs in the country of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.) are of Bulgarian descent.
11. Demosthenes, the Athenian orator and a fanatic super patriot, never called the Macedonians "barbarians" only their king, Phillip, and that because he could not stomach the passing of Greek supremacy from Athens to Macedonia. His Athenian orator rival, Isocrates, sent a letter to King Phillip exhorting and imploring him to unite all Greeks and seeking vengeance to lead them against Persia, their common enemy.
12. Ilinden, the site of an insurrection of, supposedly, all races residing in the geographic area of ancient Macedonia against the Ottoman Empire, was planned and instigated by the Bulgarian Government whose dream it was to annex all of it and gain access to the Aegean Sea. Categorical evidence of this the many existing reports of European ambassadors and counsels which were dispatched to their respective Foreign Ministries. The pseudo-Macedonians appropriated this unsuccessful event of Ilinden most of the victims were Greek-from the Bulgarians and present it as their own heroic attempt to gain "freedom for Macedonia."
13. There never existed a country called "Macedonia" since the destruction of ancient kingdom by the Romans in 168 B.C.. Any reference to a division of "Macedonia" between Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria is a false and ludicrous statement. The geographical area of Macedonia from the advent of the Slavs in the 6th century A.D. until the First Balkan War of 1912 a period of 1500 years was populated by Greeks, Serbs, Bulgarians, Albanians, Jews and Gypsies and since the 14th century A.D. by Turks as well. No census of Roman, Byzantine or Ottoman Empires refers to any "Macedonians". Hence, what "Macedonia" was divided up?
14. Before it became Yugoslavia, the country was called "KINGDOM OF THE Serbs, Croats and Slovenes." No mention of any "Macedonians".
15. 0nly the southern part of F.Y.R.O.M. corresponds to the northern border the ancient Macedonian kingdom. Approximately only 3% of the borders of the ancient Macedonian kindom extends into F.Y.R.O.M. and the rest is located in the original Greek region of current day Macedonia.
16. No known historic record refers to any total extinction or genocide perpetrated upon the ancient Macedonian people. What of their descendants? Surely they are not Slavs. What of their rights to their identity and Heritage? Are they no longer "Macedonian"?
1. Recorded history refers to an ancient kingdom of Macedonia beginning in the 7th century B.C.E.
2. The name "Macedonia" was given by its people and in Greek it means "Highland".
3. Many ancient sources-historians, the Bible, the Torrah, geographers etc. refer to Macedonia as a Greek kingdom. It is also mentioned by Homer and by the Historian-geographer Strabo who states: "Macedonia is Greece as well."
4. 0ver 5,000 excavated relics of the ancient Macedonian kingdom carry only Greek inscriptions.
5. The ancient Macedonians participated in the Olympic Games and only Greeks could do that. They believed in the same Gods as the rest of the Greeks. Their kingdom's coins carried Greek inscriptions only. The Palace floor in the ancient Macedonian capital of Pella depicts Greek deities and Greek mythological figures with Greek language inscriptions.
6. Mt. Olympus, home of the Greek Gods, was located in Macedonia. At the foot of the mountain, excavations unearthed the ancient Macedonian burial grounds with Greek inscriptions.
7. The Greeks were the only people in ancient time to build theaters. Four have already been found in Macedonia.
8. Apostle Paul refers to Greeks receiving him when visiting Macedonia. He was preaching in Greek and his epistles were written in Greek, the language of its inhabitants.
9. Alexander the Great-king of Macedonia and leader of the united Greek city-States disseminated Greek culture and civilization during his campaign against the Persian Empire as well as in Europe, Africa and Asia.
10. There never was a "Macedonian language" just as there never was an "Athenian Epirotic", "Theban" "Boeotian" etc. All city-states of Greece the Greek language with various dialects. Present day Bulgaria-an idiom Of the Bulgarian language is spoken by the pseudo-Macedonians recognizes neither a Macedonian language nor a Macedonian ethnicity. Most of the present day Slavs in the country of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.) are of Bulgarian descent.
11. Demosthenes, the Athenian orator and a fanatic super patriot, never called the Macedonians "barbarians" only their king, Phillip, and that because he could not stomach the passing of Greek supremacy from Athens to Macedonia. His Athenian orator rival, Isocrates, sent a letter to King Phillip exhorting and imploring him to unite all Greeks and seeking vengeance to lead them against Persia, their common enemy.
12. Ilinden, the site of an insurrection of, supposedly, all races residing in the geographic area of ancient Macedonia against the Ottoman Empire, was planned and instigated by the Bulgarian Government whose dream it was to annex all of it and gain access to the Aegean Sea. Categorical evidence of this the many existing reports of European ambassadors and counsels which were dispatched to their respective Foreign Ministries. The pseudo-Macedonians appropriated this unsuccessful event of Ilinden most of the victims were Greek-from the Bulgarians and present it as their own heroic attempt to gain "freedom for Macedonia."
13. There never existed a country called "Macedonia" since the destruction of ancient kingdom by the Romans in 168 B.C.. Any reference to a division of "Macedonia" between Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria is a false and ludicrous statement. The geographical area of Macedonia from the advent of the Slavs in the 6th century A.D. until the First Balkan War of 1912 a period of 1500 years was populated by Greeks, Serbs, Bulgarians, Albanians, Jews and Gypsies and since the 14th century A.D. by Turks as well. No census of Roman, Byzantine or Ottoman Empires refers to any "Macedonians". Hence, what "Macedonia" was divided up?
14. Before it became Yugoslavia, the country was called "KINGDOM OF THE Serbs, Croats and Slovenes." No mention of any "Macedonians".
15. 0nly the southern part of F.Y.R.O.M. corresponds to the northern border the ancient Macedonian kingdom. Approximately only 3% of the borders of the ancient Macedonian kindom extends into F.Y.R.O.M. and the rest is located in the original Greek region of current day Macedonia.
16. No known historic record refers to any total extinction or genocide perpetrated upon the ancient Macedonian people. What of their descendants? Surely they are not Slavs. What of their rights to their identity and Heritage? Are they no longer "Macedonian"?