MACEDONIA

The Varied Population of Uskub (Skopje) consists of Turks of Europe, Turks of Asia, Albanians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Jews, Gypsies and Germans. Once more the so-called "Ethnic Macedonians" are nowhere to be found.

http://history-of-macedonia.com/

The beggining

Vergina

Troy

Gordion Knot

Issus & Tyre

Gaza

Alexandria

Siwa

Lord of Asia

Susa

The trap

Persian Gates

Darius dies

No going back

Land of Wolves

Kabul

Afghanistan

Uzbekistan

Bactria

The Mountain

Into India

Ends of Earth

The Kalash

Climbing pir sar

Crossing the jhelum

Monsoon rains

The fleet

Multan City

Indus Delta

 

The Camel trek 

HELLENIC, that means

 

GREEK

 

and from the ancient region of MACEDONIA, the actual Northern region of Greece!

Greeks in antiquitity had different Cities-States families, but same Ethnicity!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rF_aUDftv8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qklDm23WtE8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZq4pD3ttdM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBOQ8427FUk&feature=fvw

DID YOU KNOW WHERE ANCIENT MACEDONIA IS?

In the actual N. Greek Region of Macedonia!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsL_tUTrph0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtDcgAgas50

DID YOU KNOW WHAT LANGUAGE ANCIENT AND MODERN MACEDONIANS SPEAK?

HELLENIC, that means GREEK!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsXxLuqF1BA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8bR2PrbtdM

DID YOU KNOW WHO COULD PARTICIPATE IN THE ANCIENT OLYMPIC GAMES?

Only GREEKS! All the Greek City-States including Macedonian Kingdom!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2apbwuzAfsk&feature=related

DID YOU KNOW WHO MACEDONIANS ARE TODAY?

The 2,500,000 Greeks living in the N. Greece region of Macedonia and the 1,000,000

rest of Macedonian Greeks living around the Globe!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQfBinQwPGs&feature=related

DID YOU KNOW WHEN FormerYugoslavRepublicOfMacedonia NAMED LIKE THIS?

Only 50 years ago, by the Communist Regim of General TITO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q36tSlVBlvU

DID YOU KNOW THE FORMER NAME OF ACTUAL FYROM?

VARDASKA BANOVINA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALhzFhImlc8

DID YOU KNOW WHY ALL THAT HAPPENED?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIipDu-2QR8&feature=related

DID YOU KNOW WHAT ETHNICITY CITIZENS OF F.Y.Republic Of Macedonia ARE?

Predominantly SLAVS and ALBANIANS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITEiBgHGxDo&feature=related

DID YOU KNOW THAT FYROM IS TRYING TO CREATE THE BIGGEST LIE OF HISTORY?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HliaAz6BAlI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR7PP0OD4EE

SO NOW YOU KNOW THE TRUTH!

HOLY BIBLE shows the GREEK IDENTITY OF MACEDONIA

ΕΤΑΙΡΙΑ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΩΝ ΣΠΟΥΔΩΝ 

ΔΕΛΤΙΟ ΤΥΠΟΥ

«Ο Αλέξανδρος είναι Έλληνας και σε καμία περίπτωση πρόγονος των σημερινών Σλαβομακεδόνων», δήλωσε την Παρασκευή 13 Νοεμβρίου 2009 ο κ. Alfried Wieczorek Διευθυντής του Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου Reiss-Engelhorn Museum στο Μάνχαϊμ της Γερμανίας. Η δήλωση του κορυφαίου Γερμανού αρχαιολόγου μεταδόθηκε από το γερμανικό πρακτορείο ειδήσεων Deutsche Presse Agentur.

Στο Μουσείο του Μανχάϊμ εγκαινιάσθηκε στις 2 Οκτωβρίου 2009 και λειτουργεί μέχρι 21 Φεβρουαρίου 2010, με μεγάλη κοσμοσυρροή, η διεθνής έκθεση «Ο Αλέξανδρος και το Άνοιγμα του Κόσμου», όπου, για πρώτη φορά στα χρονικά, Μουσεία του Τατζικιστάν, του Αφγανιστάν, του Ιράν και το Ερμιτάζ της Αγίας Πετρούπολης απέστειλαν βαρύτιμα κειμήλια με τα οποία οι ανατολικοί Λαοί υμνούν τον Αλέξανδρο.

Tην ημέρα των εγκαινίων το Γερμανικό Πρακτορείο Ειδήσεων μετέδωσε προς όλα τα Μ.Μ.Ε. της Γερμανίας μεγάλο αφιέρωμα στην έκθεση όπου σημείωνε ότι «το σύγχρονο Κράτος, που αυτοαποκαλείται Μακεδονία και έχει κύρια γλώσσα την σλαβική, σφετερίζεται την παράδοση της αρχαίας Μακεδονίας».  Το αφιέρωμα πλαισίωνε συνέντευξη του διευθυντού του Μουσείου, που δήλωνε κατηγορηματικά ότι «οι πρόσφατες έρευνες αποδεικνύουν με μεγάλη σαφήνεια, ακόμη μια φορά, πως οι Μακεδόνες την εποχή του Μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου ήταν στενά συνδεδεμένοι με τους άλλους Έλληνες και μιλούσαν την ίδια γλώσσα». Συνέντευξή του με ανάλογο περιεχόμενο δημοσίευσε η εφημερίδα Real News στις 24 Οκτωβρίου 2009.

Η Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών κυκλοφόρησε στην ελληνική και στην αγγλική γλώσσα και ανήρτησε στην Ιστοσελίδα της www.ems.gr το σύντομο βιβλίο του Προέδρου Ν. Ι. Μέρτζου με τίτλο Ζει και βασιλεύει. Διανέμεται δωρεάν στα σχολεία και σε κάθε ενδιαφερόμενο. Δημοσιεύει σπάνια έργα των πολιτισμών, συνήθως άγνωστα στο ελληνικό κοινό, με τα οποία οι Λαοί σε Ανατολή και Δύση δοξάζουν εσαεί επί 2.300 έτη τον Μακεδόνα Μέγα Αλέξανδρο.

Τούτο το μοναδικό στην Οικουμένη φαινόμενο παρουσιάζει το βιβλίο του Ν. Ι. Μέρτζου και τεκμηριώνει με εικόνες. Συνοδεύεται με το CD-ROM των εικόνων που μπορούν να προβληθούν σε μεγάλη οθόνη. Eπειδή θα ήταν χρήσιμο να το γνωρίσουν επαγωγικά οι Ελληνόπαιδες ώστε να διευρύνουν την μόρφωσή τους, το παιδαγωγικό αυτό υλικό απεστάλη ήδη σε 120 επιλεγμένα Γυμνάσια και Λύκεια υψηλής στάθμης με την πρόταση να το εντάξουν σε ένα ωριαίο μάθημα για τον παγκόσμιο  πολιτισμό και τη Μακεδονία.

Το Διοικητικό Συμβούλιο

                                                                                        Θεσσαλονίκη, Πέμπτη 19 Νοεμβρίου 2009

http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2009/11/19/etaireia-makedonikon-spoudon-megas-alexandros/

Belgrade/Mannheim - Skopje may continue the already two- decades-long battle over the right to use the name Macedonia, but history is clearly on the side of Athens, a scholar said Friday. At the core of the strife is the national identity of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian conqueror from the 4th century BC.

"Alexander was basically a Greek and in no case a forefather of today's Slavic Macedonians," the director of Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Alfred Wieczorek, told the German Press Agency dpa. "Macedonians and Greeks understood each others, as they spoke the same language." The exhibition "Alexander the Great and the Opening of the World" opened on Friday at the museum. It offers impressive insight into the short life of one among the ancient world's greatest leaders. Before he died in 323 BC, aged just 32, Alexander stormed the southeastern Mediterranean and sliced through the Persian empire, leaving a massive cultural and historical legacy in his wake. The exhibition in Mannheim, in southern Germany, follows his course to Central Asia and demonstrates the cultural, economical and social upheavals caused by his conquests. Two and a half millenia later, Greece is blocking Macedonia, which emerged as a sovereign state from the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia in 1991, from using that name. Athens insists that only its northern province, Alexander's homeland, has the right to it. Slavs began arriving from Asia in the 6th century, a millenium after Alexander died. These were the predecessors of Slavic Macedonians, who represent a three-quarter majority in the former Yugoslav republic, which has a significant, 25-per cent Albanian minority. Yet contemporary Macedonians claim the heritage of the great king, putting his Star of Vergina on the national flag and naming major buildings and projects, such as the Skopje airport and the key highway, after Alexander. The latest effort aimed at proving relation with Alexander is a plan to put multi-million-dollar statue of him on a prancing horse on the sprawling central square in the capital. All that does not impress Wieczorek. "The latest discoveries clearly prove that Macedonians and Greeks of the Alexander era were closely related," he said.

The row over the name has so far cost Macedonia membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which Greece vetoed last year. It is also hindering the country's closer ties to the EU.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/288373,modern-macedonians-not-sons-of-alexander-the-great-scholar-says.html

Mannheim, Germany - The head of a German museum which is set to show an exhibition about Alexander the Great weighed into a dispute between Skopje and Athens on Friday, saying the ancient leader had been predominantly Greek. The modern state of Macedonia, where the main language is a Slavic one, claims the heritage of ancient Macedonia.

"Alexander was predominantly Greek and definitely not an ancestor of contemporary Slavic Macedonians," said Alfried Wieczorek, head of the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in the southern German city of Mannheim.

The exhibition devoted to the ancient general and ruler, who lived from 356 to 323 BC, opens on Saturday and runs till February 21.

For two decades, Athens has been objecting to its northern neighbour calling itself Macedonia. Skopje has named its airport after Alexander and insists on having Alexander's "star of Vergina" symbol on its coat of arms.

In an interview with the German Press Agency dpa, Wieczorek said, "The latest research shows very clearly yet again that the Macedonians in the days of Alexander were closely related to the contemporary Greeks."

He added, "In antiquity, Greeks and Macedonians could interact because they spoke the same language."

Athens has been insisting that the name Macedonia can only been applied to a province in its own north.

The country of Macedonia became independent in 1991 when Yugoslavia split up. The name issue has held up efforts to bring the new country into NATO and into formal assocation with the European Union.

The museum director referred to findings that its population of 2 million, one quarter of them Albanian speakers and three quarters Slavic speakers, are descended from people who immigrated in the 6th century of the modern era, long after Alexander's death.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/288354,german-museum-man-says-alexander-the-great-was-mainly-greek.html

Και μεταφράζοντας εν συντομία, ο Υπεύθυνος των Μουσείων του Μανχάιμ στην Γερμανία δήλωσε ότι ο Αλέξανδρος ο Μέγας ήταν Έλλην και όχι σκοπιανός, καθώς οι σκοπιανοί είναι σλάβοι που εμφανίστηκαν στην περιοχή περί τον 6ο αιώνα μετά Χριστόν!

Αυτά τα είπε με αφορμή την έκθεση που ετοιμάζει το Γερμανικό μουσείο του Μανχάιμ για τον Μέγα Αλέξανδρο!

Να τα ακούν κάποιοι του Υπουργείου Πολιτισμού, που καμία μεγάλη έκθεση με Μακεδονικά ευρήματα δεν περιέφεραν ανά τον κόσμον, ώστε να προωθήσουν το δίκαιο αίτημα των Ελλήνων για την ονομασία των Σκοπίων!

Διαβάστε το! Συγχαρητήρια στο Blog History-of-Macedonia για τα μοναδικά άρθρα !

http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2009/09/02/use-phrases-oux-omofylou-genous-allofylon-genos-ancient-sources/

http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2009/05/02/breaking-news-rare-documents-prove-macedonians-participated-in-the-greek-national-assembly-of-1827/

http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2009/05/01/fyromian-myth-stating-that-the-name-macedonia-was-forbidden-in-greece-before-1988-dispelled/

http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2009/05/09/eksairetika-spania-documents-epistoli-1832-dimogerontia-thettalomagnitomakedonon/

http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2009/05/12/1845-protasi-epitropis-makedonon-upourgeio-ekklisiastikon-xorigisi-ipotrofias-neous-makedones/

http://macedonian-videos.blogspot.com/

The Whole Truth about Macedonia:
PART 1

PART 2

By Robert Marquand
2,300 years later, 'Alexander-mania' grips FYROM
Much to the anger of Greece, the ancient conqueror is making a big comeback in Fyrom - he's arriving just in time for Sunday's election.
SKOPJE, FYROM - As part of a stunning new homegrown ideology of history and identity based on Alexander the Great, this capital city's main square may soon boast a huge new statue of the ancient conqueror.

Two years ago, the national airport was renamed after Alexander, infuriating Greece.

In January, despite a recent Greek nixing of FYROM'S NATO bid over the airport name, the ruling nationalists here changed the name of its main roadway to Alexander of Macedon Highway.

In FYROM, it is becoming all Alexander the Great, all the time. Ahead of Sunday's presidential elections, the ruling party's Alexander ideology is seen as fantastic, even by Balkan standards.

In an intense media campaign, locals are told that ethnic 'Macedonians' are the proud direct descendants of Alexander, and thus a people responsible for spawning the white race of planet Earth, from the Caucasus "to the seas off Japan," according to a public service spot on national TV.

The "Alexander-mania," as critics call it, is partly a vote-getting strategy by the ruling party, known by its initials VMRO. Doubts exist as to whether party leaders actually believe the claims, but they are being sold as truth. The failure last spring to get a clear NATO invitation prompted fury in Skopje, and the Alexander campaign is seen as an effort to up the ante.

By pushing its thumb further into the already sore eye of Greece, both NATO and EU membership for the small, landlocked state remains in limbo. FYROM is also distracted from reducing tensions with its sizable Albanian minority community following a brief ethnic war in 2001, diplomats say.

The dispute with Greece, largely unchanged since 1991, centers on a fight over the use of "Macedonia" as the country's name. Greece wants a name that doesn't include or at least deemphasizes "Macedonia," which Greeks say is their own. The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia says its name is its own sovereign business. Negotiations have been endless.

For years, Greek demands were seen as cock-eyed and petty in diplomatic circles. Yet  FYROM has been losing sympathy as it roars out heritage claims on Alexander.

"If the name is the condition of our survival, which it seems to be, we are very far from reaching our strategic aims: NATO and the EU," says former FYROM Foreign Minister Denko Maleski. "The new way of thinking about history is keeping tensions alive. We are a new nation, liberal and international, suddenly veering into the 19th century."

A poll last month showed that 97 percent of ethnic 'Macedonians' favored staying out of the EU if it meant compromising on the name.

"The name dispute is more than a bilateral issue between Skopje and Athens. It risks derailing the main strategy of both NATO and the EU for stabilizing FYROM," says a recent report from the International Crisis Group.

Some diplomats frame Sunday's elections as a vote for a president who may push Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski for a name resolution versus a nationalist who would not. Right now, it appears that VMRO's George Ivanov, an architect of the Alexander discourse, is set to win big. The opposition is in disarray, and FYROM could end up with a one-party state.

"The entire nationalism hysteria, which only few question as most media get huge sums of money through government advertising, serves not only as a distraction from serious problems ... but has created an atmosphere that makes compromise difficult. It reminds me a bit of the madness of Serbia in the '90s, though not on the same scale, when Serbs spoke of themselves as 'the heavenly people,' " says Ana Petruseva, managing editor of Balkan Insight, in Skopje.

Indee, FYROM's bold claim to be the taproot of Western civilization is daily media fare.

Last summer, the government flew in members of Pakistan's Hunza tribe, considered lost descendants of Alexander, to tour the country. Startled and pleased Hunza were greeted at Alexander airport with flowers and treated like long lost cousins as they disported across the nation, cameras in tow.

Even "God" has gotten involved. A nine-minute TV ad starts with a petition from FYROM to the heavens: "Our neighbors distributed thousands of books across the world, containing false history and portraying a wrong picture about FYROM. ... Only you know our pain." The Almighty then responds: "From you, Macedonians, descendants of Macedon, I conceived the white race. All that stretches to the seas off Japan is conceived from your genes."

Sinisa-Jakov Marusic, a columnist for Balkan Insight, cheekily observed, "So there you have it! What better proof than God himself?"

Beyond theatrics, the new program deeply troubles many scholars and intellectuals here - who are being sidelined - for its promulgation of myth as truth. The new taxpayer-funded Alexander ideology has no serious texts.

Unlike Serbia's Kosovo story, based on centuries of poetry and legend, the FYROMIAN ideology is being both invented and presented at the same time. There is no outside scholarly consensus, no textual tradition; the result is a kind of history-free history. The top-down, debate-free imposition of the new history is itself seen as illiberal and authoritarian.

The new program deeply troubles many scholars here. "What is the content of 'Alexanderization?'" asks Irena Stefoska, a Byzantine scholar at the Institute of National History here. "Who knows? It is a new reading of history completely different from the previous, not done from an academic point of view, but from a purely political view."

Alexander is considered one of the greatest military leaders of all time. Born in the Greek city of Pella in 356 BC, his conquests extended to most of his known world by the time of his death at age 32. He opened up Greek civilization from the Mediterranean to India, and is regarded as the first to link Europe, Asia, and Africa.

"Alexander was the captain general of all the Hellenes. He spoke Greek. He went to war on behalf of the Hellenes. No one in the ancient, medieval, or modern world has disputed this," says Michael Wood, a historian and British filmmaker who has produced a work on Alexander and has another in the making.

"The FYROM state claim has no basis in history; it is a state-sponsored myth. I tell my Macedonian and Greek friends to ignore it," Mr. Wood adds.

State archaeologists in Skopje and Athens, however, are busy unearthing ancient Hellenic artifacts, which are then presented as evidence of Alexander heritage. Advocates of this new history leap from the present day to ancient times, ignoring Ottoman, Slavonian, and Byzantine periods when the Balkan peoples migrated and mingled.

"The problem is that no one today can be the direct descendants of ancient civilizations," says Ms. Stefoska. "FYROMIANS are Slavs. Our Slavonic heritage is accepted by historians."

Several years ago, VMRO officials claimed that FYROM's majority population had an ethnic Bulgarian or Slavic origin.

A chief fear here is a scenario of partition - of north Kosovo Serbs in the Mitrovica area joining Serbia proper, which could push FYROM'S and Kosovar Albanians into a union, breaking FYROM.

So far, ethnic Albanians here have been patient over the FYROM-Greece dispute. Albanian parties are in the ruling coalition. Yet the patience may not be unlimited, senior diplomats say.

Artan Grubi, head of an Albanian civil society organization, says, "Most Albanians will tell you they have nothing against building a Macedonian identity. But they don't want to suffer because of it. At the moment, the policies of this government are moving us further from Europe."

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0321/p01s01-wogn.html

Another Historical testimony from the Old Testament, about the Greek eredity of Alexander the Great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90w-k73jsr4

http://noiazomai.agrino.org/Alexandros.html

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