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Philip was born a Greek of the most aristocratic, indeed of divine, descent Philip was both a Greek and a Macedonian, even as Demosthenes was a Greek and an AthenianThe Macedonians over whom Philip was to rule were an outlying family member of the Greek-speaking peoples.
Nicholas G. L. Hammond, Philip of Macedon Duckworth Publishing, February 1998


Where the Hellenic city-states had failed, the culturally backward GREEK kingdom of Macedon came within an ace of success;
That the Macedonians and their kings did in fact speak a dialect of Greek and bore Greek names may be regarded nowadays as certain.
R. Malcolm Errington, A History of MacedoniaUniversity of California Press, February 1993,

"There was a PERSISTENT, WELL ATTESTED tradition in antiquity that told of a group of Greeks from Argos-descendants of Temenus, kinsman of Heracles-who came to Macedonia and established their rule over the Makedones, unifying them and providing a royal house. "

[E Borza (1990) In The Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon pg. 80.]

"... not much need to be said about the Greekness of ancient Macedonia: it is undeniable."
Ian Worthington, English historian and archaeologist:
("Philip II of Macedon", Yale University, 2008)

W. J. Woodhouse, Australian historian: "This was Macedonia in the strict sense, the land where settled immigrants of Greek stock later to be called Macedonians." ("The tutorial history of Greece, to 323 B.C", p.216, University Tutorial Press)

Ulrich Wilcken, German historian: "Macedonians were a Greek race and akin to the Dorians." ("Alexander the Great", p. 22)

Francois Chamoux, French historian: "Such a glorious ancestry was in the eyes of Greeks the hallmark of the Greek persona of the king of Macedon, who could, on the other hand, rely on fidelity of the people from which he had sprung. The Greek cities did not feel that they were allying with a barbarian, since for generations the Macedonian dynasty had been allowed, as Greeks, to take part in the Olympic Games." ("Hellenistic Civilization", Blackwell Publishing Professional, 2002, p.8, 9

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I AM GENUINE MACEDONIAN THAT MEANS I AM GREEK AND NOT SLAV. IT IS OUTRAGEOUS THAT THE MAJORITY OF FYROM HAS DECIDED TO STEAL OUR HISTORY AND NAME THE SLAVS IN SKOPJE AS MACEDONIANS.
ANCIENTS MACEDONIANS WERE GREEKS FROM THE DORIAN TRIBE LIKE THE SPARTANS. KING FILIPPOS WAS A 3 TIME OLYMPIC GAMES WINNER (ONLY GREEKS COULD PARTICIPATE AT THE GAMES).
IN THE BATTLE OF CHAERONIA HE FOUGHT AGAINST THE ATHENIAN DOMINANCE IN ORDER TO UNITE ALL GREEKS UNDER HIS COMMANDS AND AVENGE THE PERSIAN INVASION TO GREECE! THAT'S WHY THE ATHENIAN DIMOSTHENIS CALLED HIM "BARBARIAN" NOT BECAUSE HE WASN'T GREEK. AFTER ALL DOMOSTHENIS CALLED ALEXANDROS "KING OF THE GREEKS" IN HIS SPEECH TO OLISTHENIS. DEMOSTHENIS CALLED BARBARIAN ALL HIS POLITICAL OPONENTS JUST LIKE THE ATHENEAN ORATOR ARISTOGEITON. MACEDONIANS SPOKE GREEK, HAD GREEK NAMES, PARTICIPATED IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES & WORSHIPED GREEK GODS.

Callisthenes of Olynthus 2.4.7-8; Oration of Demosthenes

"No king of the Hellenes had ever conquered Egypt with the exception only of Alexander, and that he did without war"

".....If Alexandros has become full of himself and wishes to be a warrior, and subjugate barbarian peoples why do we follow him? Let him move on alone and engage in wars. Having heard these Alexander separated the Persian host from the MACEDONIANS AND THE OTHER HELLENES and addressed them..." [2.4.7-8; Oration of Demosthenes]

Alexander III was born in 356 BC in Pella, capital at the time being of the Macedonian kingdom. He was son of the Macedonian king Philip II and Olympias, princess of Molossians in Epirus.
The Macedonian Royal House
The Macedonian royal house was called "Argeads" or "Temenidae". According to the tradition, the founder of the royal house Perdiccas - even if the name of the founder differs in reference with the ancient source used - along with his brothers, the "Temenidae" came to the place called Macedonia from the Greek city of Argos. These Temenidae were descendants of Heracles, through Temenus, thus they were called also 'Heracleids'.
Since the time of Alexander I, Macedonian kings participated in Olympic games, which as we all know only Greeks could take part. The Argive origin of the Macedonian royal house was well-attested and widely believed both from Macedonians, as well as the rest of Greeks. Rifles like the political intricasies of Demosthenes against Philip is the tenuous exception to the general rule.


FYROM'S POPULATION CONSISTENCY IS:
50% SLAVS (MOSTLY BULGARIANS)
30% ALBANIANS
10% GREEKS
10% GYPSIES - TURKS

FYROM'S LANGUAGE IS A BULGARIAN DIALECT AND THE GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSES & PROMOTES THE UNFAIR TREATMENT OF THE MINORITIES IN ITS LAND!

The so-called "Macedonian Question", is in fact a great political and historical fraud that was deliberately fabricated by the Communists in 1944 in order to wrest Greek Macedonia from Greece and absorb it into the Communist bloc, thus breaking up the West's eastern flank and gaining control of the north Aegean seacoast.
The political motives behind the creation of this spurious Republic have been rejected by:
The U.S. Roosevelt Administration which was quick to assess the true motives for setting up a "Macedonian" State and issued clear directives denouncing it. This is an excerpt from a circular by Secretary of State Stettinius.
"This Government considers talk of Macedonian "nation", Macedonian "Fatherland", or Macedonian "national consciousness" to be unjustified demagoguery representing no ethnic nor political reality, and sees in its present revival a possible cloak for aggressive intentions against Greece. The approved policy of this Government is to oppose any revival of the Macedonian issue as related to Greece".

"In this period, sixty-five years before the founding of Rome, Carthage was established by the Tyrian Elissa, by some authors called Dido. About this time also Caranus, a man of royal race, eleventh in descent from Hercules, set out from Argos and seized the kingship of Macedonia. From him Alexander the Great was descended in the seventeenth generation, and could boast that, on his mothers side, he was descended from Achilles, and, on his fathers side, from Hercules."
Velleius Paterculus, Book I