Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia is a new country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast

Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it

declared independence in 1991. It became a member of the United Nations in

1993 but, as a result of a dispute with Greece over its name, it was admitted

under the provisional reference of the former Yugoslav Republic of

Macedonia,sometimes abbreviated as FYROM. A landlocked country, the

Republic of Macedonia is bordered by Kosovo to the northwest, Serbia to the

north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west. It

constitutes approximately the northwestern half of the larger geographical

region of Macedonia, which also comprises parts of Greece and Bulgaria. The

country's capital is Skopje, with 506,926 inhabitants according to a 2002

census.

"For many reasons. Citizens of this country feel as real descendants of the ancient Macedonian kingdom's population , they should keep their name

The current population of this country are mostly Slavic , like those in the Kingdom of Macedon . About 33% are Albanian, and among the rest 66% Turks, Bulgarian and other people. The reason there are no greeks & it is right next to the modern Greece is that the regions of Dyktiki and kentriki Makedonia were originaly Macedonian , but in 1913 it was annexed and all of it's inhabitants brutally massacred without mercy .

However , Greece has not apologised , given the land back , or even admitted the land was Macedonian . In fact , They still demand Macedonia changes its name to something not associated to the region of their homeland they lost."

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1.slavs entered the European territory and more specific the Balkan peninsula in the early 6th century AD. nearly a thousand years after Alexander the Great lived and died.

2.Ancient Macedonian kings identified themselves as Greeks attested many times in ancient scripts. Two of the most vigorous examples:

• Alexander I ( great-grandfather of Alexander the Great ) the night before the battle of Marathon, as quoted by Thucydides,
• Philip II ( father of alexander the great ) called for the corinthian panhellenic council to fight united against Persians, in which the defeated (!) city-states voted(!) for the participation or in this war, with the Spartans the only state that declined, as noted by Strabo,
• Philip II also freed the defeated Athenians he had kept as slaves after those wars, having remorses against enslaving his compatriots. as noted by Strabo,
• the most Macedonian kings participated in Olympic and other athletic events in which only Greeks were allowed to, after proving their Greek origins to the qualified council call "hellanodikai",
• Strabo also wrote about the origin of Macedonians that came from Argos in the Peloponnese, thus the name "Argolid" (Argead) dynasty in which Alexander the great was part of

3. The ancient Macedonian kingdom, during the time of Philip II's rule, conquered all the places that he passed through, but DIDN'T acquire any land now occupied by the newly formed state of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The parts belonging to ancient Macedonia outside of the historical area of Greece constitutes less than 4% dispersed between Albania, FYROM and Bulgaria, which can easily be verified on a map of the ancient kingdom compared to the modern Slavic state. The land on which the Former Yugoslav Republic created its newly founded state contains ancient Dardania and Paeonia. They were separate kingdoms which only paid tribute to the king of Macedon as conquered kingdoms and who only paid tribute until the end of Alexander the Great's reign.

4. After the death of Alexander the Great, there followed a state of decline for the kingdom he left behind. Centuries afterwards, the declining kingdom fell into the hands of the intruding Romans. The Roman empire settles in the greek area and begins to adopt everything Greeks for their empire due to the admiration of Greek civilisation With the elevation of the Greeks to the Eastern Roman empire, the Byzantine Empire was born, (also know as the Empire of the Greeks). Macedonia is subject to the Byzantines till 15th century AD. Greeks have lived in the area now for more millennia. Ottoman Turks conquer the empire, but also the Bulgarian and Slavic hordes to the north that had entered the area from the 6th century AD. With the open administrative units created by the Ottomans, the Greeks were forced to live alongside the Bulgarian, Slavic and Turkish people that had relentlessly tried to invade Greece. The Ottomans having slaughtered many Greeks through the invasion brought in Jews fleeing from Spain to alter the demographics of Greece and weaken the ethnic balance. The Balkan wars saw the Greeks liberate themselves against the Ottoman Turks and fought off the Bulgarians and Slavs who wanted to stake their claim over the lands freed from the Turks due to its strategic value. Ports, valleys and big cities meant economic incline for a country. Slavs needed to forge their way to the sea instead of being landlocked in the peninsula.

Greece liberated their land and their people that had been occupied and subjugated by foreigners. The agenda by foreign interests to acquire the historic land of Macedonia continues in reinvented form.

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• Historical Macedonia was an ancient Greek kingdom on the northern Greek peninsula
• Modern Macedonia is a Greek province corresponding almost entirely to the ancient Greek kingdom on the northern Greek peninsula.
• There is an unbroken record of people with a Greek ethnic consciousness, language and cultural identity, continuously inhabiting the land of historical Macedonia from the present to ancient times.
• The state known as the (Former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia is a newly founded nation of Bulgarians, Slavs, Albanians, Turks and Shutka people to the north of historical Macedonia on land that was in ancient times named Paeonia to the south and Dardania to the north. It's culture, history, land and historical ethnic identity of its population are unrelated to the historical Greek kingdom of ancient Macedonia.
• The state knows as the (Former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia was a province of The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia named Vardar Banovina, whose communist regime renamed the province by the historical name of Macedonia, to lay claim to the strategic land of northern Greece and forge for itself a path to the Aegean Sea.