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What is Macedonia?
Macedonia is a geographical term used by Greeks who lived and live till today to describe them lands and kingdom since more than 4.000 thousands years ago. In ancient years Greece is divided in city-states. Some of them are the Athens (Athenians), Sparta (Spartans), Thebes (Thebens), Macedonia (Macedonians). All that greek cities-states speak the Greek language, join the same culture and believe to the same Gods. We had hear and know as history proofs for the Pelopponesian war during 431-404 BC. between two power greek-states, Athens and Sparta. The duration of the war was for 25 years. In all that years they stop the war as them agreement for the winter months, also the same happen when barbarians are in area. They unite and fight the extrenal barbarians, after it they back to the war between them. Athens and Spart as the strongers greek-states make allies with the other greek-states. Macedonia at this time was one greek-state ally with Sparta.
As depicted in the movie "Alexander", the Macedonians were a people of northern Greece that united the city-states of all of Greece and spread Hellenism (greek culture) from Pakistan to northern Africa. Many of the arts and sciences where then past on to these people which occupy the same lands to this day. There are many references and artifacts that indicate that Macedonians wrote in Greek, believed in the Gods and where an individual city state just as Sparta, Thebes and Athens were.
Today, Macedonia is a region of the modern state of Greece. Geographically it spreads into some parts of ex-Yugoslavia and a bit of western Bulgaria. People that had settled these northern parts of this geographic area during the Byzantine and Ottoman times where of slavic and albanian descent. Today, these people want to be called "Macedonians" and claim the ancestry and the history of the old glory of Greece. A modern nation of FYROM is in conflict with Greece in the use of the name of Macedonia. Greeks fear expansionism claims by FYROM (former Yugoslavic Repulbic of Macedonia) and refuse to call this newly founded tiny nation "Macedonia". We know that the Balkans are very volatile up to this date. Kosovo is a good example of this. Albanians claim 3/4 of FYROM as their own so it can be part of greater Albania. Also Greeks own the 70% of FYROM's economy.
Age
27
Hometown
Macedonia
Country
Greece
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