@druglover200 A man of his time. You can still look back at somebody from back and marvel at their generalship, their leadership, how they inspire those around them, the strength of their will and ambition. You can't simply discount generations of important historical figures simply because they lived in an inherently violent world of which they were very much apart of.
"he was great at killing people?"....people can say the same about our U.S Presidents too....
Alexander,as you said was a man of his time. Just as Julius Caesar/Hannibal...oh lets not forget about Genghis and Atilla who maybe did a little raiding in their time lol
@theprodigy1600 As far as common sense concerns and of course the rest of the world Persian and Ottoman empire where characterised as the most oppresive empires seen on the face of earth. Unlike to the Alexander the Great who rightiously gained his title even persian people loved him that set them free from persian chains..I guess a lot of countries wouldnt be independent if it wasnt for them..
@druglover200 He brought civilization to the world. He liberated so many cities and so many people.
Where are you from and has your country and ethnicity offered to the world? Oh, okay you are from USA, you have 50cent and Beyonce and plan attacks like 9/11 in your own country as an excuse to invade and take advantage of natural resources.
ΠΑΙΔΕΣ ΧΑΛΑΡΩΣΤΕ ΜΗ ΔΙΝΕΤΕ ΤΡΟΦΗ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΥΣ...ΔΕΝ ΑΞΙΖΕΙ ΚΑΝ ΝΑ ΑΣΧΟΛΕΙΣΑΙ ΜΕ ΥΠΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΥΣ ΑΝΕΥ ΤΑΥΤΟΤΗΤΟΣ ΠΟΥ ΑΝΤΙ ΝΑ ΣΚΕΦΤΟΝΤΑΙ ΝΑ ΔΗΜΙΟΥΡΓΗΣΟΥΝ ΚΑΤΙ ΚΑΙΝΟΥΡΙΟ ΓΙΑ ΝΑ ΜΕΙΝΟΥΝ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΜΕ ΤΟ ΟΝΟΜΑ ΤΟΥΣ(ΣΛΑΒΟΙ) ΠΡΟΣΠΑΘΟΥΝ ΜΕ ΤΟΥΣ ΠΛΕΟΝ ΥΠΟΧΘΟΝΙΟΥΣ ΤΡΟΠΟΥΣ ΝΑ ΚΛΕΨΟΥΝ ΛΙΓΟ ΑΠΟ ΤΗ ΔΟΞΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΜΑΣ...ΔΕ ΠΡΟΚΕΙΤΑΙ ΝΑ ΓΙΝΕΙ ΤΙΠΟΤΑ ΑΥΤΗ Η ΚΟΙΝΟΤΗΤΑ (ΓΙΑΤΙ ΧΩΡΑ ΔΕΝ ΕΙΝΑΙ) ΑΞΙΖΕΙ ΜΟΝΟ ΤΗ ΛΥΠΗΣΗ ΜΑΣ....ΕΝΑΣ ΜΗ ΛΟΒΟΤΟΜΗΜΕΝΟΣ ΣΥΝΕΛΛΗΝΑΣ ΣΑΣ
@VesnaProletSpring yes Slavic Macedonia would show your heritage but you people have to understand that you dont have anything to do with ANCIENT MACEDONIA even your PRIME MINiSTER TITO said that ....
i watched yesterday that abomination called alexander with farell, it made me sick to watch what those idiots made out of this incredible man and his incredible life
@CroMarduk hey my friend , i just saw this movie yesterday ..its complete PARODY ! even the DIRECTOR said HE WAS SORRY and REGRETS he made Alexander LIKE THIS !!!
Fakedonians, what do you have to say for yourselves now? Yet more professional proof that Alexander and Macedonia are Greek. Fuck you, enemies of logic and reason.
alexander wasn't that great, he fought an undisciplined army (Persian) with an uninspirational ruler (Darius). If Alexadner was to fight the might of Rome in its heydays, maybe he wouldn't have succeed. The bottom line is plenty of luck.
Are you kidding? Even if all these things are true, it would take a man with enormous capabilities and stamina to achieve what Alexander had done with with such limited resources. An analogy would be like Bush (your uninspirational leader) and a vast superpower such as the USA being conquered by a tiny country such as Cuba. The odds are staggering and show the overwhelming difficultry with Alexander had conquered. This is why he is called "the Great".
Not exactly. The Persian empire was suffering from civil strife, and the Persian soldiers were inferior to phalangists, hypaspists, and companions. Certainly he was a, great general, quite probably the greatest general, but not quite as outmatched as you describe.
For Ken1567, It doesnt matter what you think,I travel a lot in business,all over asia and middle east,and after 2400 years ,he commands tremendous respect,in Afghanistan,he is known as Iskander,,Pakistan/India he is Sikander,as well as the mideast....because he for the first time united the known world,and people from various proud afghan tribes all claim to be descended from his soldiers.He was a GREAT man,so was Darius a good ruler and adminstrator,but LOST to a a much greater man and being.
@formerutuber Alexander died shortly after constructing his empire- I think possibly within the next 10 years. It was subsequently carved up amongst his Generals I think.
Yes he would have suceeded. Alexander was the greatest tactician and general the world has ever known. His tactics are still used in the US Military today.
@Ken1567 My dear Friend .....Do you know the HERITAGE of ROME itself ? ROMA means ancient Greek - POWER - it USED EVERYTHING GREEK that time ....from ARMY to ARCHITECTURE and even RELIGION ! Roman armies had ALL tactics and everything out of ALEXANDER ....even Julius Ceasar ADMIRED Alexander and was AMAZED what he had DONE in the AGE OF 33 !!! HE won his FIRST TIME in THE AGE of 16 !!!!! think a bit ...what did you do when you were 16 ???? HE WAS A GENERAL !!!! come on ....
FYROM ( A Nation based on lies, fake history, rich propaganda and unbelievable ignorance)
Macedonia is ONE and HELLENIC !!! see Britannica online Dorians.Spartans and Macedonians are Dorians originally from north Greece, masters of iron weapons easily dominated bronze age south Greece and the Aegean islands.
It's so simple. Macedonia was a Hellenistic nation in northern Greece when it was created. The country called Macedonia today is a slavic nation, they just stole the name from ancient Macedonia. I wish they were a bit more original than that, but whatever....
ALEXANDER and all MACEDONIAS were ABSOLUTELY GREEK.there are thousands of ways to prove it like that Alexander was taught by Aristotelis and that he has written that:"I AM PROUND TO BE BORN GREEK".people who now want Macedonia are thieves of history.slavians who dont have history and took a part of Macedonia 500 years ago.they say that they speak Macedonians too but how can that be if every ancient momument of Macedonias was written in Greek?
dfactman how stuped can you be.You say that after fillip conquered Greece he could do what ever he wanted?Well,he wasn't the first macedonian that took part on the games. Alexandros I was the first and back then macedonians wheren't powerful nor fought the other Greeks. Come on little Slav that's the best you can do?
When you have conquered a country like Greece you can do what you want even enter in the olympic games. Macedonians are not greeks & never were dont claim the history of you enemies. No need to lie about History to keep the land you stole from Macedonia so leave the Macedonian history to the Macedonians.
Philip not conquer but united Greece,started the Greek unity with the alliance of Thessalia and Epirus and he fight any Greek-state that was against his ideal including of course the people of his own state
Here is a surviving list in ancient Olympia,proves that the ancient Macedonians participate in ancient Olympics long before Philip
From the ancient years Macedonians consider some of the Greeks just like the Spartans,your new Slavic-country that claim the name Macedonia even and at ancient times called Paionia,NOT Macedonia!You Slavs aren't Greeks hence neither Macedonians,now we stole your land?OMG
Moron,I inform you that I am Macedonian,real one proud Greek like the ancient,if you want my land "come and get it"
Until now there were thieves of banks,animals...now there are and thieves of history the Slav-Pseudo-Macedonians
Hallo, seit wann sind Slaven und Albaner Mazedonen? Die Slaven ab den 10 Jahrhundert als sie 1500 Jahre nach Alexander den Grossen gekommen Sind oder waehrend Tito's Diktatur Sind die Albaner zu Alt Griechen geworden?
Sagen Sie den Leute in Skopje die Keine Ahnung von Geschichte haben und alles klauen wollen ruhig zu bleiben sonst behaupten morgen die Turkisch-Mongolen dass der Sokrates waere Ihre Geschichte und Demosthenes war Tuerke gewesen.
I wish Alexander the Great could read us! He could understand the Greek language....but not the slavic one!!! And you call it 'Makedonian language'! How selfish and rude!!! Fyromians NEED a history for their NEW country! So...they steal a name....make up a language that they call it 'Makedonian' and here they are! Hey you Fyromians.....you took Bulgarian alpabet...and you added 4 more letters! This is what you did! You have to be GREEK to be a MACEDONIAN!
I wish Alexander the Great could read us! He could understand the Greek language....but not the slavic one!!! And you call it 'Makedonian language'! How selfish and rude!!! Fyromians NEED a history for their NEW country! So...they steal a name....make up a language that they call it 'Makedonian' and here they are! Hey you Fyromians.....you took Bulgarian alpabet...and you added 4 more letters! This is what you did! You have to be GREEK to be a MACEDONIAN!
He was Macedonian like Leonidas Spartan and Socrates Athenian. All of them were Greeks as by themselves declared.
Nowadays the ancient Macedonian land is the north Greece ... the 95% of ancient Macedonian land is in Greek territory and the rest 5% shared on parts of "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", Albania and Bulgaria.
who cares, modern-day Greeks are nothing like ancient Greeks so stfu!!! Greece WAS great because of your ancestors; right now greeks have nothing special to be proud about so they have nothing better to do than pursue controversy over a name.
Templarspartan wait a second, what do you suggest?
In the conjectural case that you be a Greek from the Greek Macedonia (the real one) would you ever leave foreigner populations (with NO relation with Macedonia) to claims your name, your history, your territories, YOUR HOME?
I would have a problem with them claiming direct descent. I wouldn't however have a problem with them trying to identify with the people who once lived there.
here's my point, why don't all the modern day celts try to get great britain to change its name. they're english not british. the only thing british about them is the name of the island they live on.
keep in mind i was in a bad mood when i wrote the first comment. hehe
With Celts OK,but the ancient Macedonians were in any case Greeks like the Spartans or the Athenians,moreover by themselves declared Greeks,they left only Greek writings,they participated to Olympic Games(which were then habitude only the Greeks) as in any festival were held in ancient Greece,they had the same language,gods,names,heroes,myths,traditions with the rest of Greeks just like the Spartans and they spread their own culture(the ancient Greek of course) to the known ancient world
On the other hand, the nowadays new formatted country (since Yugoslavia's breakup 1991) that calling themselves "Macedonians" are descendants of Slavic tribes that moved into Balkans between the 6th and 8th centuries AD, 1000 whole years after Alexander the Great and 1600 whole years after the ancient Macedonia's existence. They have Slavic language traditions names, even and their land at ancient years called Paionia not Macedonia!
At the end of the "World War II" the communists leaders Tito and Stalin needs emergency exit to the strategically Aegean sea into north Greece (the Real-Macedonia)
For that reason the Tito renames the Yugoslavian province of "Vardarska Banovina" to "Macedonia" intentioned of acquiring a port in the Aegean Sea.
After the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991 that Yugoslavian province appeared as new country and started the Macedonia naming dispute capitalized on the previous theme of cold war, the theme was issued during the cold war, it is just a piracy for their side to persist claiming over mine region name and moreover to tries to usurper the Greek history and heritages as a way of existence in their unknown historical traces.
One thing is 100% clear: Since the slavic people came to the area 900 years after Alexander the greats death, there is zero connection between the ancient macedonians and the the slavic people living there today
Alexander was Macedonian and not Greek.Greeks always opressed the values of grat histories and cultures such as Persia which was so much bigger and greater then Greek,it says it right in the movie of Alexander the Great!They took over teh Western values and cutlures.You can find the copy of Kuros pipe,the very 1st human right laws in UN building today!Persia freed all of its slaves ad believe in equality of all human beings unlike Greeks!
Macedonia wasn't recognized as a nation until 1991. That being said, Alexander was a Macedonian, however, it was a Greek state in his time. Which Empire did he fight to expand? Which Gods did he worship? All Greek! He didn't create a greater Macedonia; he created a greater Greece, and he loved Greek culture. In his heart, he was a Greek, or at least a Greek wannabe.
Wait a minute. I know what happened. The Greek government unearthed all the 'ORIGINAL' Ancient Macedonian relics, in the 'ORIGINAL' Macedonian dialect and hid these from the scientific world. They then were even audacious enough to change the writing on some of these ruins and relics into GREEK. Lol.
Wake up Slavic people, next you will be telling me that Alexander greeted the Babylonians by saying ZDRAVO! Lol.
im a very pashionate greek,and i get very fustrated when i read bullshit about alexander not been greek.....fukin wake up to yourselfs!!all i know is when greeks were building the acropoulis all these slavic cunts where living in trees!.see thats the problem,everyone wants only to take history from us and not respect it!
At the end of the day, what matters is not the opinions of the historians, but what Alexander believed himself, and he claimed to be Greek and was incredibly proud to be one as he said. Macedonia was always a part of Greece, at that time he was Greek, forget geographical boundaries of today, he WAS Greek
since we talk about the albanian colture the double headed eagle start from hittite but used in europe first and extencivly by Eastern Roman Empire, known more commonly today as the Byzantine Empire.
The people that Create the first phonetic alphabet sent a thousand ships and 50000 wariors more than 1000 BC ago didn't know how to use swords or horses come to your senses btw albanians start existing much later ilirians have nothing to do with albanians first you identify your self by different name the language is different even you alphabet is based on Greek a younger language base his alphabet to an older .
this is what i ment that albanians have been existed before that time,and 1000 BC ago this warrios already learned from albanians how to use swords or horses.ok?
ha ha realy ? so tell me what encient buildings you have or quaries so have stones to build houses, mines to take the metal out of the earth , or eguipment to melt it ??? I'm curius??? so you speak illirian but modern form can you read illirian ? because I speak greek and I can read even ancient because we are a continus line of people. btw the name you use illyrian was given to them by the Greeks
The mythology of greek it isn't greeks but is Albanian, all the names and words have sense only in Albanian dialectic language! Informed your self take an Albanian dictionary and the Iliad in original language like Homer write it, comparate the worlds by your self!When Homer was born, the Greeks had just recently learned how to use the alphabet from the Phoenicians.
The Arvanites (the white greks of today) are closer to Albanians, but it's their problem that they call themself greeks and not arvanites because there are brainwashed.The mythology of greek it isn't greeks but is Albanian, all the names and words have sense only in Albanian dialectic language! Informed your self take an Albanian dictionary and the Iliad in original language like Homer write it, comparate the worlds by your self!
A lot more nordic peoples lived around the mediterranean back then. Contemparies described Alexander as being 'fair'. The people you see in Greece nowadays are representive of the past thousand years of dark haired brown eyed Turkish peoples colonising and settling there. This is something the Greeks are very uncomfortable about as it opens up old wounds and questions their national character. This is one reason they went ballistic at a blond haired Alexander. The truth hurts sometimes.
OK I WILL TELL IT AGAIN:lol guys all the world know that alexander the great was greek.. nobody give a shit what albanian or fyromians believe.. it's doasn't matter guys.. all the world know that he was GREEK.. :)
lol guys all the world know that alexander the great was greek.. nobody give a shit what albanian or fyromians believe.. it's doasn't matter guys.. all the world know that he was GREEK.. :)
Tasmar and Truechild, you can say what you want, but "twinflamuri" 's Sami Flamuri is a histerian and a FSSS scientist, and he said Alexander's parents were Albanian! He looks as if he knows what he is saying. Wears glasses, nice pink tie, sharp look, everything...Plus the proofs my team has found! After you see it in my post as well, you'll talk different, I believe.
yes but he wasn't Albanian was he, thats like saying the American indians of the past where back then from the united states,also the majority of the people who inhabit Albania today are not necesarily from macedon,
great influxes or immigrants over the centuries does not mean he's yours,he belonged to the greek world of passed thereofore he was macedonian/greek
what so Albania existed back then,and the people who inhabitted macedonia back then are the same people who inhabit Albania today?he was from macedonia, and macedonia was greek,he was greek
Tasmar and Truechild, you can say what you want, but "twinflamuri" 's Sami Flamuri is a histerian and a FSSS scientist, and he said Alexander's parents were Albanian! He looks as if he knows what he is saying. Wears glasses, nice pink tie, sharp look, everything...Plus the proofs my team has found! After you see it in my post, you'll talk different, I believe.
yep what ever explain SO WHY HIM HIS MOTHER HIS FATHER HIS MOST TRASTED GENERALK EVEN HIS HORSE HAVE GREEK NAMES ????? albanians didn't existed afiew hundred years ago
the truth must hurt so much didn't it btw explain this SO WHY HIM HIS MOTHER HIS FATHER HIS MOST TRASTED GENERALK EVEN HIS HORSE HAVE GREEK NAMES ?????
ha ha yes because are many Greeks theire I know because I'm from their btw you think a nonGreek give a grrek name back then plus you don't answer all the other names btw albanians didn't exist at the time was a diferent tribe called illirians nothing to do with albanians thats why even the language is different
the Albanian people are in large part descendants of the ancient Illyrians, who, like other Balkan peoples, were subdivided into tribes and clans.The name Albania is derived from the name of an Illyrian tribe called the Arbër, or Arbëresh, and later Albanoi, that lived near Durrës.Illyria means something in albania(i ilire = FREE,i am free),ok?albanians today are illyrians,u like or not.hv good day
balkan are slavs, hense the language so you talk any illirian or maybe your alphabet sory your alphabet is based on Greek you know why? because the young take from the old nations. albanians have as mush as anthropologicly common with illirians as much inkas with today americans
btw the term illyrian was used as a definition about albaninas in the middle ages were in ancient term was use in a more varied way so you see even the term usage for albanians is relativly new
the Albanian dash "ram" would correspond the Illyrian "Dassius, Dassus"; also the Albanian bardhë "white" would correspond to "Bardus, Bardullis, Bardyllis"
4:01 - 4:18 gave me chills ha
SFSH12 1 month ago
The Greatest Warrior of History. My Supreme, Ultimate Idol!
MikeSV1989 2 months ago
ALEXANDER IS A BEAST ..
BoszTaz 3 months ago
He was great at killing people....so you guys can worship him all you want.
druglover200 5 months ago
@druglover200 A man of his time. You can still look back at somebody from back and marvel at their generalship, their leadership, how they inspire those around them, the strength of their will and ambition. You can't simply discount generations of important historical figures simply because they lived in an inherently violent world of which they were very much apart of.
TeaKae421 4 months ago
@TeaKae421 Right....
"he was great at killing people?"....people can say the same about our U.S Presidents too....
Alexander,as you said was a man of his time. Just as Julius Caesar/Hannibal...oh lets not forget about Genghis and Atilla who maybe did a little raiding in their time lol
But all these men,wanted to be Alexander
theprodigy1600 3 months ago
@theprodigy1600 As far as common sense concerns and of course the rest of the world Persian and Ottoman empire where characterised as the most oppresive empires seen on the face of earth. Unlike to the Alexander the Great who rightiously gained his title even persian people loved him that set them free from persian chains..I guess a lot of countries wouldnt be independent if it wasnt for them..
PetrosA10 3 months ago
@druglover200 He brought civilization to the world. He liberated so many cities and so many people.
Where are you from and has your country and ethnicity offered to the world? Oh, okay you are from USA, you have 50cent and Beyonce and plan attacks like 9/11 in your own country as an excuse to invade and take advantage of natural resources.
PetrosA10 3 months ago
i love how enthusiastic the guy in the hat is! great film!
PersistenceMusic 8 months ago
ΠΑΙΔΕΣ ΧΑΛΑΡΩΣΤΕ ΜΗ ΔΙΝΕΤΕ ΤΡΟΦΗ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΥΣ...ΔΕΝ ΑΞΙΖΕΙ ΚΑΝ ΝΑ ΑΣΧΟΛΕΙΣΑΙ ΜΕ ΥΠΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΥΣ ΑΝΕΥ ΤΑΥΤΟΤΗΤΟΣ ΠΟΥ ΑΝΤΙ ΝΑ ΣΚΕΦΤΟΝΤΑΙ ΝΑ ΔΗΜΙΟΥΡΓΗΣΟΥΝ ΚΑΤΙ ΚΑΙΝΟΥΡΙΟ ΓΙΑ ΝΑ ΜΕΙΝΟΥΝ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΜΕ ΤΟ ΟΝΟΜΑ ΤΟΥΣ(ΣΛΑΒΟΙ) ΠΡΟΣΠΑΘΟΥΝ ΜΕ ΤΟΥΣ ΠΛΕΟΝ ΥΠΟΧΘΟΝΙΟΥΣ ΤΡΟΠΟΥΣ ΝΑ ΚΛΕΨΟΥΝ ΛΙΓΟ ΑΠΟ ΤΗ ΔΟΞΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΜΑΣ...ΔΕ ΠΡΟΚΕΙΤΑΙ ΝΑ ΓΙΝΕΙ ΤΙΠΟΤΑ ΑΥΤΗ Η ΚΟΙΝΟΤΗΤΑ (ΓΙΑΤΙ ΧΩΡΑ ΔΕΝ ΕΙΝΑΙ) ΑΞΙΖΕΙ ΜΟΝΟ ΤΗ ΛΥΠΗΣΗ ΜΑΣ....ΕΝΑΣ ΜΗ ΛΟΒΟΤΟΜΗΜΕΝΟΣ ΣΥΝΕΛΛΗΝΑΣ ΣΑΣ
HellenicSacredKin 1 year ago
blue loves him some history ], great enthusiasm!
paulco5518 1 year ago 2
Was that blue shirted weird guy mentally ill?
footballrocksalot 1 year ago
American is telling stories to a 'British'?
amareto35 1 year ago
I own this documentary, its awesome,
I dont understand how a by-product of yugoslavia (fyrom) can just steal something so obviously Greek..Its like saying Julius Ceasar isnt roman.
No doubt he was the Greatest Greek of all time.
"I thank the god's I was born a Greek" - Alexander the Great..
PavlosDionysus 1 year ago 8
@PavlosDionysus
I will for sure be burned by my ppl for this but i argee with you.
I dont understand how can my ppl be saying that??
Did Macedonia forgot eth with the end of Yugoslavia?
Im so proud of being slavic!!! And i dont feel at all conected and i dont feel
im part of Alex.The Great or anything that has to do with him!
he was speaking greek and he was greek! let s jst finish with this stupidity ones and for all!!!
VesnaProletSpring 1 year ago 4
@PavlosDionysus
i can say that we cant change the name in Skopje as you greek
say cause is too late to change the name of a nation a country and a language
but i dont mind to modify it for example North Macedonia or... New Macedonia
or even Slavic Macedonia! What do you say?
Greetings from a ME :) The PROUD TO BE SLAVIC Girl :)
VesnaProletSpring 1 year ago 2
@VesnaProletSpring yes Slavic Macedonia would show your heritage but you people have to understand that you dont have anything to do with ANCIENT MACEDONIA even your PRIME MINiSTER TITO said that ....
jimpapa83 7 months ago
i watched yesterday that abomination called alexander with farell, it made me sick to watch what those idiots made out of this incredible man and his incredible life
CroMarduk 2 years ago
@CroMarduk and what was that?
skydome29 1 year ago
@CroMarduk hey my friend , i just saw this movie yesterday ..its complete PARODY ! even the DIRECTOR said HE WAS SORRY and REGRETS he made Alexander LIKE THIS !!!
jimpapa83 7 months ago
Greece wasn't a monarchy dipshit. You forged this quote. Greece was devided between city-states and kingdoms.
Alexandros1294 2 years ago 3
proud to be greek
prutsikas 2 years ago 12
greece history is so fasanating
nordlac 2 years ago 113
@nordlac
Completely agree, it almost seems like legend it is just awesome.
Assaultpredator 1 year ago 2
Fakedonians, what do you have to say for yourselves now? Yet more professional proof that Alexander and Macedonia are Greek. Fuck you, enemies of logic and reason.
AeroplanumMaximum 3 years ago 23
alexander wasn't that great, he fought an undisciplined army (Persian) with an uninspirational ruler (Darius). If Alexadner was to fight the might of Rome in its heydays, maybe he wouldn't have succeed. The bottom line is plenty of luck.
Ken1567 3 years ago
You could said that he wouldn't beat modern US Army and it'd be as intelligent as the thing you wrote above... ;]
asmodeus585 3 years ago 10
Re malakies pou ehoume edo....
Are you kidding? Even if all these things are true, it would take a man with enormous capabilities and stamina to achieve what Alexander had done with with such limited resources. An analogy would be like Bush (your uninspirational leader) and a vast superpower such as the USA being conquered by a tiny country such as Cuba. The odds are staggering and show the overwhelming difficultry with Alexander had conquered. This is why he is called "the Great".
AeroplanumMaximum 3 years ago 12
Not exactly. The Persian empire was suffering from civil strife, and the Persian soldiers were inferior to phalangists, hypaspists, and companions. Certainly he was a, great general, quite probably the greatest general, but not quite as outmatched as you describe.
Rogue0071 2 years ago 3
For Ken1567, It doesnt matter what you think,I travel a lot in business,all over asia and middle east,and after 2400 years ,he commands tremendous respect,in Afghanistan,he is known as Iskander,,Pakistan/India he is Sikander,as well as the mideast....because he for the first time united the known world,and people from various proud afghan tribes all claim to be descended from his soldiers.He was a GREAT man,so was Darius a good ruler and adminstrator,but LOST to a a much greater man and being.
insipid4444 3 years ago 8
united the known world by force and obligation... the result of what they did r actually debatable
bideitsmartly 1 year ago
It took Rome over 100 years to obtain what he had. Lol. Alexander kicks ass :D
MEGANUT29 3 years ago 65
@MEGANUT29 They had to beat essentially what macedonia left behind
skydome29 1 year ago
@MEGANUT29 yes, but he coulnd't hold on to what he conquered.Rome held its empire for 500 years.
formerutuber 7 months ago
@formerutuber Alexander died shortly after constructing his empire- I think possibly within the next 10 years. It was subsequently carved up amongst his Generals I think.
JonathanGiann 5 months ago
Yes he would have suceeded. Alexander was the greatest tactician and general the world has ever known. His tactics are still used in the US Military today.
Alexandros1294 2 years ago 6
@Ken1567 My dear Friend .....Do you know the HERITAGE of ROME itself ? ROMA means ancient Greek - POWER - it USED EVERYTHING GREEK that time ....from ARMY to ARCHITECTURE and even RELIGION ! Roman armies had ALL tactics and everything out of ALEXANDER ....even Julius Ceasar ADMIRED Alexander and was AMAZED what he had DONE in the AGE OF 33 !!! HE won his FIRST TIME in THE AGE of 16 !!!!! think a bit ...what did you do when you were 16 ???? HE WAS A GENERAL !!!! come on ....
jimpapa83 7 months ago
FYROM ( A Nation based on lies, fake history, rich propaganda and unbelievable ignorance)
Macedonia is ONE and HELLENIC !!! see Britannica online Dorians.Spartans and Macedonians are Dorians originally from north Greece, masters of iron weapons easily dominated bronze age south Greece and the Aegean islands.
georgeosgr 3 years ago 8
It's so simple. Macedonia was a Hellenistic nation in northern Greece when it was created. The country called Macedonia today is a slavic nation, they just stole the name from ancient Macedonia. I wish they were a bit more original than that, but whatever....
BloodyLamb 3 years ago 15
I learn more from the comments of the Hellenes than from the video itself, but I am most grateful for the posting of these videos.
aalexander928 3 years ago 11
oti den linete kovete!!
MethisAel 3 years ago 5
ALEXANDER and all MACEDONIAS were ABSOLUTELY GREEK.there are thousands of ways to prove it like that Alexander was taught by Aristotelis and that he has written that:"I AM PROUND TO BE BORN GREEK".people who now want Macedonia are thieves of history.slavians who dont have history and took a part of Macedonia 500 years ago.they say that they speak Macedonians too but how can that be if every ancient momument of Macedonias was written in Greek?
tryfonias 3 years ago 13
dfactman how stuped can you be.You say that after fillip conquered Greece he could do what ever he wanted?Well,he wasn't the first macedonian that took part on the games. Alexandros I was the first and back then macedonians wheren't powerful nor fought the other Greeks. Come on little Slav that's the best you can do?
Galuadan 3 years ago 6
When you have conquered a country like Greece you can do what you want even enter in the olympic games. Macedonians are not greeks & never were dont claim the history of you enemies. No need to lie about History to keep the land you stole from Macedonia so leave the Macedonian history to the Macedonians.
dfactman 3 years ago
Philip not conquer but united Greece,started the Greek unity with the alliance of Thessalia and Epirus and he fight any Greek-state that was against his ideal including of course the people of his own state
Here is a surviving list in ancient Olympia,proves that the ancient Macedonians participate in ancient Olympics long before Philip
480BC Theagenes-Boxing
472BC Tellon-Boxing
408BC king-Archelaos event Tethrippon
380BC Xenophon event Pankration
isn't participated list,only some of the winners
MakedonianWarrior 3 years ago 5
From the ancient years Macedonians consider some of the Greeks just like the Spartans,your new Slavic-country that claim the name Macedonia even and at ancient times called Paionia,NOT Macedonia!You Slavs aren't Greeks hence neither Macedonians,now we stole your land?OMG
Moron,I inform you that I am Macedonian,real one proud Greek like the ancient,if you want my land "come and get it"
Until now there were thieves of banks,animals...now there are and thieves of history the Slav-Pseudo-Macedonians
MakedonianWarrior 3 years ago 4
watch the documentary and learn the REAL HISTORY.
tzehos 3 years ago 10
a re elladara me tin istoria sou.i really like ancient greek history and mythology
kotsios803 3 years ago 6
Phillip II took part 3 times at olympic games and Alexander took part once,only Greek took part at olympics
Ancient Macedonians=Greeks
Chva81 3 years ago 7
Forza Greece!!!!
forzaitalia2 3 years ago 6
We, GREEKS will never sell our name, our history, our honor! FUCK YOU!
MACEDONIA IS GREEK!
F.Y.R.O.V.
Former Yugoslav Republik Of Vardarska!!!
this name we GREEKS only recocnized!!!!!
Macedonia was is and wiil be GREEK forever!
Theotsi2007 3 years ago 12
Alexander the Great never missed a chance to verify his pride for his Greek ancestry.
• His parents had Greek origins (King Philip II and Olympias)
• Considered himself as a Greek.
• He spoke Greek.
• He grew up and was educated from famous Greek teachers like Aristotle
• He worshipped the same gods like the rest of Greeks.
• He undertook and accomplice to a military campaign based on the long-term hostility between Greeks and Persians, as leader of the Greeks.
divxakias 3 years ago 8
Hallo, seit wann sind Slaven und Albaner Mazedonen? Die Slaven ab den 10 Jahrhundert als sie 1500 Jahre nach Alexander den Grossen gekommen Sind oder waehrend Tito's Diktatur Sind die Albaner zu Alt Griechen geworden?
Sagen Sie den Leute in Skopje die Keine Ahnung von Geschichte haben und alles klauen wollen ruhig zu bleiben sonst behaupten morgen die Turkisch-Mongolen dass der Sokrates waere Ihre Geschichte und Demosthenes war Tuerke gewesen.
Warum Sind die Fyromianer so Boese?
georglari 3 years ago 3
•Macedonians spoke a dialect of the Greek language.
•Macedonians had Greek names.
•Alexander's name is Greek.
•Philip's name is also Greek.
•The regions of ancient Macedonia had Greek names.
•Macedonian architecture was same to the Greek architecture.
•Macedonians took part in the Olympic Games.
•Macedonians celebrated the same festivals as the rest of the Greeks.
•Macedonians worshiped the same Gods as the rest of the Greeks.
arilaura 3 years ago 13
I wish Alexander the Great could read us! He could understand the Greek language....but not the slavic one!!! And you call it 'Makedonian language'! How selfish and rude!!! Fyromians NEED a history for their NEW country! So...they steal a name....make up a language that they call it 'Makedonian' and here they are! Hey you Fyromians.....you took Bulgarian alpabet...and you added 4 more letters! This is what you did! You have to be GREEK to be a MACEDONIAN!
plakil 3 years ago 7
I wish Alexander the Great could read us! He could understand the Greek language....but not the slavic one!!! And you call it 'Makedonian language'! How selfish and rude!!! Fyromians NEED a history for their NEW country! So...they steal a name....make up a language that they call it 'Makedonian' and here they are! Hey you Fyromians.....you took Bulgarian alpabet...and you added 4 more letters! This is what you did! You have to be GREEK to be a MACEDONIAN!
plakil 3 years ago 4
MAKEDONIA IS GREEK
PaokiforLife 3 years ago 8
Macedonians spoke Greek and their names were Greek.
Alexander is a Greek name. means defender of men.
Alexander's mother's name is OLYMPIAS.
she got it from the well-known mount Olympus of the GREEK Gods !!! olympic games you know? GREEK.
his father's name was Philippos! anyone who knows greek can get it means friend of Horses and it's a common Greek name.
Skopian language is identical to Bulgarian.
Skopians are related to Bulgars and slavs. not to Greeks or the Greek tribe Macedonians.
FygeApoDoReVromokole 3 years ago 11
Macedonian means Greek as Mohawk means indian american native.
Ancient Macedonian Language is Greek. it's a greek dialect actually.
as the ancient macedonian Pella Curse tablet proves!
check out the ---pella curse tablet---- in wikipedia.
if you know modern greek you can read it.
it's ANCIENT MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE= GREEK!
anyone who knows Greek can read ancient Greek Macedonian!!
as Alexander the Great and his greek name and Greek parents prove.
FygeApoDoReVromokole 3 years ago 5
one people where born in skopje at 15/03/1986 is one yougoslavian man!!!!same language,same nation with serbians,bosnians,croatians etc...
all this is vardarskians???
NO,,,
Is slavs
ok???
25/02/1992 like for called "macedonian"
hahahahahahahahahaha
me tomorrow call me french!
kostasthess81 4 years ago 5
Alexander was Macedonian
TheKingTheGreat 4 years ago
Who said that Alexander wasn't Macedonian?
He was Macedonian like Leonidas Spartan and Socrates Athenian. All of them were Greeks as by themselves declared.
Nowadays the ancient Macedonian land is the north Greece ... the 95% of ancient Macedonian land is in Greek territory and the rest 5% shared on parts of "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", Albania and Bulgaria.
HedebyVik 4 years ago 7
fyrom get over it.
YOUR NOT GREEKS AND NEVER WILL BE
paokmacedonia 4 years ago
who cares, modern-day Greeks are nothing like ancient Greeks so stfu!!! Greece WAS great because of your ancestors; right now greeks have nothing special to be proud about so they have nothing better to do than pursue controversy over a name.
Templarspartan 4 years ago
Templarspartan wait a second, what do you suggest?
In the conjectural case that you be a Greek from the Greek Macedonia (the real one) would you ever leave foreigner populations (with NO relation with Macedonia) to claims your name, your history, your territories, YOUR HOME?
MakedonianWarrior 4 years ago 8
I would have a problem with them claiming direct descent. I wouldn't however have a problem with them trying to identify with the people who once lived there.
here's my point, why don't all the modern day celts try to get great britain to change its name. they're english not british. the only thing british about them is the name of the island they live on.
keep in mind i was in a bad mood when i wrote the first comment. hehe
Templarspartan 4 years ago
With Celts OK,but the ancient Macedonians were in any case Greeks like the Spartans or the Athenians,moreover by themselves declared Greeks,they left only Greek writings,they participated to Olympic Games(which were then habitude only the Greeks) as in any festival were held in ancient Greece,they had the same language,gods,names,heroes,myths,traditions with the rest of Greeks just like the Spartans and they spread their own culture(the ancient Greek of course) to the known ancient world
MakedonianWarrior 4 years ago 8
On the other hand, the nowadays new formatted country (since Yugoslavia's breakup 1991) that calling themselves "Macedonians" are descendants of Slavic tribes that moved into Balkans between the 6th and 8th centuries AD, 1000 whole years after Alexander the Great and 1600 whole years after the ancient Macedonia's existence. They have Slavic language traditions names, even and their land at ancient years called Paionia not Macedonia!
MakedonianWarrior 4 years ago 6
At the end of the "World War II" the communists leaders Tito and Stalin needs emergency exit to the strategically Aegean sea into north Greece (the Real-Macedonia)
For that reason the Tito renames the Yugoslavian province of "Vardarska Banovina" to "Macedonia" intentioned of acquiring a port in the Aegean Sea.
MakedonianWarrior 4 years ago 5
After the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991 that Yugoslavian province appeared as new country and started the Macedonia naming dispute capitalized on the previous theme of cold war, the theme was issued during the cold war, it is just a piracy for their side to persist claiming over mine region name and moreover to tries to usurper the Greek history and heritages as a way of existence in their unknown historical traces.
MakedonianWarrior 4 years ago 6
it's interesting that he changed his route in Turkey and went to Gordion as he was heading to persia. I wonder why? To visit Midas's tomb?
dfnvksdvnvsdkvn 4 years ago
this is a silly argument to think alexander is not greek is just fucking stupid . Backword people think backword things u understand
grivasthe1 4 years ago
One thing is 100% clear: Since the slavic people came to the area 900 years after Alexander the greats death, there is zero connection between the ancient macedonians and the the slavic people living there today
petdou1 4 years ago 5
Alexander was Macedonian and not Greek.Greeks always opressed the values of grat histories and cultures such as Persia which was so much bigger and greater then Greek,it says it right in the movie of Alexander the Great!They took over teh Western values and cutlures.You can find the copy of Kuros pipe,the very 1st human right laws in UN building today!Persia freed all of its slaves ad believe in equality of all human beings unlike Greeks!
dmokri 4 years ago
Macedonia wasn't recognized as a nation until 1991. That being said, Alexander was a Macedonian, however, it was a Greek state in his time. Which Empire did he fight to expand? Which Gods did he worship? All Greek! He didn't create a greater Macedonia; he created a greater Greece, and he loved Greek culture. In his heart, he was a Greek, or at least a Greek wannabe.
aaron4159 4 years ago 3
"FYROM's residents have no historical cultural or linguistic ties with ancient Macedonia.
MACEDONIA,
the land OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, is the northern province
OF GREECE
and has been
HELLENIC FOR MILLENNIA
zygste 4 years ago
Alexander was a Macedon (which was one of the Greek city states at the time of his birth)
ShckJok 4 years ago
Wait a minute. I know what happened. The Greek government unearthed all the 'ORIGINAL' Ancient Macedonian relics, in the 'ORIGINAL' Macedonian dialect and hid these from the scientific world. They then were even audacious enough to change the writing on some of these ruins and relics into GREEK. Lol.
Wake up Slavic people, next you will be telling me that Alexander greeted the Babylonians by saying ZDRAVO! Lol.
menandros69 4 years ago 3
im a very pashionate greek,and i get very fustrated when i read bullshit about alexander not been greek.....fukin wake up to yourselfs!!all i know is when greeks were building the acropoulis all these slavic cunts where living in trees!.see thats the problem,everyone wants only to take history from us and not respect it!
paga3168 4 years ago 3
Don't mess with....
ALEXANDER.
AlexEnfantTerrible 4 years ago 2
The funniest thing I've heard is that he was American...LOL!!!!!!! (SERIOUSLY THO, GREEK!!)
d89gr 4 years ago 2
At the end of the day, what matters is not the opinions of the historians, but what Alexander believed himself, and he claimed to be Greek and was incredibly proud to be one as he said. Macedonia was always a part of Greece, at that time he was Greek, forget geographical boundaries of today, he WAS Greek
d89gr 4 years ago 2
one person try the whole respected hystorians say Alexander was Greek
kreb7 4 years ago 2
since we talk about the albanian colture the double headed eagle start from hittite but used in europe first and extencivly by Eastern Roman Empire, known more commonly today as the Byzantine Empire.
kreb7 4 years ago
The people that Create the first phonetic alphabet sent a thousand ships and 50000 wariors more than 1000 BC ago didn't know how to use swords or horses come to your senses btw albanians start existing much later ilirians have nothing to do with albanians first you identify your self by different name the language is different even you alphabet is based on Greek a younger language base his alphabet to an older .
kreb7 4 years ago
this is what i ment that albanians have been existed before that time,and 1000 BC ago this warrios already learned from albanians how to use swords or horses.ok?
elishabe777 4 years ago
ha ha realy ? so tell me what encient buildings you have or quaries so have stones to build houses, mines to take the metal out of the earth , or eguipment to melt it ??? I'm curius??? so you speak illirian but modern form can you read illirian ? because I speak greek and I can read even ancient because we are a continus line of people. btw the name you use illyrian was given to them by the Greeks
kreb7 4 years ago 3
The mythology of greek it isn't greeks but is Albanian, all the names and words have sense only in Albanian dialectic language! Informed your self take an Albanian dictionary and the Iliad in original language like Homer write it, comparate the worlds by your self!When Homer was born, the Greeks had just recently learned how to use the alphabet from the Phoenicians.
1bilderberg 4 years ago
The Arvanites (the white greks of today) are closer to Albanians, but it's their problem that they call themself greeks and not arvanites because there are brainwashed.The mythology of greek it isn't greeks but is Albanian, all the names and words have sense only in Albanian dialectic language! Informed your self take an Albanian dictionary and the Iliad in original language like Homer write it, comparate the worlds by your self!
1bilderberg 4 years ago
ALEXANDER THE GREAT G R E E K
webcamsSexyGirl 4 years ago
A lot more nordic peoples lived around the mediterranean back then. Contemparies described Alexander as being 'fair'. The people you see in Greece nowadays are representive of the past thousand years of dark haired brown eyed Turkish peoples colonising and settling there. This is something the Greeks are very uncomfortable about as it opens up old wounds and questions their national character. This is one reason they went ballistic at a blond haired Alexander. The truth hurts sometimes.
Augments 4 years ago
OK I WILL TELL IT AGAIN:lol guys all the world know that alexander the great was greek.. nobody give a shit what albanian or fyromians believe.. it's doasn't matter guys.. all the world know that he was GREEK.. :)
Tasmar1980 4 years ago
lol guys all the world know that alexander the great was greek.. nobody give a shit what albanian or fyromians believe.. it's doasn't matter guys.. all the world know that he was GREEK.. :)
Tasmar1980 4 years ago 2
Tasmar and Truechild, you can say what you want, but "twinflamuri" 's Sami Flamuri is a histerian and a FSSS scientist, and he said Alexander's parents were Albanian! He looks as if he knows what he is saying. Wears glasses, nice pink tie, sharp look, everything...Plus the proofs my team has found! After you see it in my post as well, you'll talk different, I believe.
BradUnossi 4 years ago
yes but he wasn't Albanian was he, thats like saying the American indians of the past where back then from the united states,also the majority of the people who inhabit Albania today are not necesarily from macedon,
great influxes or immigrants over the centuries does not mean he's yours,he belonged to the greek world of passed thereofore he was macedonian/greek
Truechilled 4 years ago
it would be right to say you inhabit the land where once alexander ruled,but i'm yet to see any one say alexander the great of Albania ruled persia
Truechilled 4 years ago
A timeless and unforgetable doucmentary, my hats off to Mr. Wood.
Ο ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΧΑΝΔΡΟΣ ΖΕΙ !
alexandros1821 4 years ago
youtubers twinsflamuri claimed that Alexander was Albanian!
Not only that I found the PROOF about it, My team, using the FSSS method found the living ancestors of Alexander! Come see it, please!
BradUnossi 4 years ago
what so Albania existed back then,and the people who inhabitted macedonia back then are the same people who inhabit Albania today?he was from macedonia, and macedonia was greek,he was greek
Truechilled 4 years ago
Tasmar and Truechild, you can say what you want, but "twinflamuri" 's Sami Flamuri is a histerian and a FSSS scientist, and he said Alexander's parents were Albanian! He looks as if he knows what he is saying. Wears glasses, nice pink tie, sharp look, everything...Plus the proofs my team has found! After you see it in my post, you'll talk different, I believe.
obrazjohn 4 years ago
yep what ever explain SO WHY HIM HIS MOTHER HIS FATHER HIS MOST TRASTED GENERALK EVEN HIS HORSE HAVE GREEK NAMES ????? albanians didn't existed afiew hundred years ago
kreb7 4 years ago
Of course,because it doesn't support the absurd historical claim that Alexander the Great was...Albanian!Man,you are ridiculus
erixthonios 4 years ago 2
This is the worst of all programs then i ever seen in my life !!!
elishabe777 4 years ago
the truth must hurt so much didn't it btw explain this SO WHY HIM HIS MOTHER HIS FATHER HIS MOST TRASTED GENERALK EVEN HIS HORSE HAVE GREEK NAMES ?????
kreb7 4 years ago
his mother,olimbia(in albanian),this name is not just used by greeks but by albanians too,you can find this name at the present time in albania
elishabe777 4 years ago
ha ha yes because are many Greeks theire I know because I'm from their btw you think a nonGreek give a grrek name back then plus you don't answer all the other names btw albanians didn't exist at the time was a diferent tribe called illirians nothing to do with albanians thats why even the language is different
kreb7 4 years ago 2
the Albanian people are in large part descendants of the ancient Illyrians, who, like other Balkan peoples, were subdivided into tribes and clans.The name Albania is derived from the name of an Illyrian tribe called the Arbër, or Arbëresh, and later Albanoi, that lived near Durrës.Illyria means something in albania(i ilire = FREE,i am free),ok?albanians today are illyrians,u like or not.hv good day
elishabe777 4 years ago
balkan are slavs, hense the language so you talk any illirian or maybe your alphabet sory your alphabet is based on Greek you know why? because the young take from the old nations. albanians have as mush as anthropologicly common with illirians as much inkas with today americans
kreb7 4 years ago 3
btw the term illyrian was used as a definition about albaninas in the middle ages were in ancient term was use in a more varied way so you see even the term usage for albanians is relativly new
kreb7 4 years ago 3
the Albanian dash "ram" would correspond the Illyrian "Dassius, Dassus"; also the Albanian bardhë "white" would correspond to "Bardus, Bardullis, Bardyllis"
elishabe777 4 years ago
btw even you say their is antropologicly two different tipes of albanias
kreb7 4 years ago 3
just a corection is olimpia not b but p due to the mounten olympous the place the GREEK gots suposedly stay
kreb7 4 years ago 2
you havent answer for the names why btw when did you have an alphabet?
kreb7 4 years ago 3
so that makes alexander albanian? The Russians love the name alexander. Maybe they're descendants too
zberlin32 4 years ago 4
was archillies from sparta?
hathwit7 4 years ago
No... Achilles was Myrmidon (from Thessaly)
13alexander 4 years ago
BRABW FILE.
Evros58 4 years ago