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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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Historical justice forces me to admit that among all the enemies who stand against us, the Greek soldier above all, fought with the most courage. He surrendered himself only when the continuation of resistance was not possible any longer, and when he had no reason not to... However, he fought so bravely, that even his enemies can not deny their respect for him... Thus, the Greek prisoners of war were released immediately, having in mind the heroic stance of these soldiers

Adolph Hitler, Reichstag, 4 May 1941
-------------------------------------------------- George Cawkwell, Emeritus Fellow, University College, Oxford: "The Macedonians were Greeks." ("Philip of Macedon", Faber & Faber, London,1978)
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Otto Hoffmann, German
linguist: "Whoever does not consider the Macedonians as Greeks must also conclude that by the 6th and 5th centuries BC the Macedonians had completely given up the original names of their nation - without any need to do so - and taken Greek names in order to demonstrate their admiration for Greek civilisation. I think it not worth the trouble to demolish such a notion; for any hypothesis of historical linguists which is put forward without taking into account the actual life of a people, is condemned as it were out of its own mouth." ("Die Makedonen, Ihre Sprache und Ihr Volkstum", Göttingen)
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David George Hogarth, English archaeologist and scholar: "From Alexander I, who rode to the Athenian pickets the night before Plataea and proclaimed himself to the generals their friend and a Greek, down to Amyntas, father of Philip, who joined forces with Lacedaemon in 382, the kings of Macedon bid for Greek support by being more Greek than the Greeks." ("Philip and Alexander of Macedon", pp.9-10
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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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Ulrich Wilcken, German historian: "Macedonians were a Greek race and akin to the Dorians." ("Alexander the Great", p. 22)
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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)
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Ian Worthington, English historian and archaeologist: "... not much need to be said about the Greekness of ancient Macedonia: it is undeniable." ("Philip II of Macedon", Yale University, 2008)

Eugene N. Borza

During medieval and modem times, Macedonia was known as a Balkan region inhabited by ethnic Greeks, Albanians, Vlachs, Serbs, Bulgarians, Jews, and Turks.The emergence of a Macedonian nationality is an offshoot of the joint Macedonian and Bulgarian struggle against Hellenization. With the establishment of an independent Bulgarian state and church in the 1870s, however, the conflict took a new turn. Until this time the distinction between Macedonian and Bulgarian hardly existed beyond the dialect differences between standard eastern Bulgarian and that spoken in the region of Macedonia.Modern Slavs,

Both Bulgarians and Macedonians, cannot establish a link with antiquity, as the Slavs entered the Balkans centuries after the demise of the ancient Macedonian kingdom. Only the most radical Slavic factions—mostly émi-grés in the United States, Canada, and Australia—even attempt to establish a connection to antiquity.the Macedonians are a newly emergent people in search of a past to help legitimize their precarious present as they attempt to establish their singular identity in a Slavic world dominated historically by Serbs and Bulgarians.The twentieth-century development of a Macedonian ethnicity, and its recent evolution into independent statehood following the collapse of the Yugoslav state in 1991,

Has followed a rocky road. In order to survive the vicissitudes of Balkan history and politics, the Macedonians, who have had no history, need one. They reside in a territory once part of a famous ancient kingdom, which has borne the Macedonian name as a region ever since and was called Macedonia for nearly half a century as part of Yugoslavia. And they speak a language now recognized by most linguists outside Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece as a south Slavic language separate from Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian. Their own so-called Macedonian ethnicity had evolved for more than a century, and thus it seemed natural and appropriate for them to call the new nation Macedonia and to attempt to provide some cultural references to bolster ethnic survival.

Malcolm Errington,A History of Macedonia

The Macedonians and their kings did in fact speak a dialect of Greek and bore Greek names may be regarded nowadays as certain.Ancient allegations that the Macedonians were non-Greeks all had their origin in Athens at the time of the struggle with Philip II. Then as now, political struggle created the prejudice. The orator Aeschines once even found it necessary,in order to counteract the prejudice vigorously fomented by his opponents,to defend Philip on this issue and describe him at a meeting of the Athenian Popular Assembly as being Entirely Greek,Demosthenes,allegations were lent on appearance of credibility by the fact,apparent to every observer,that the life-style of the Macedonians.This alien way of life was,however,common to western Greeks of Epiros,Akarnania and Aitolia,as well as to the Macedonians,and their fundamental Greek nationality was never doubted.

Sources for Alexander the Great: An Analysis of Plutarchs Life and Arrians Anabasis Alexandrou by N.G.L Hammond, Page 5
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Hesiod would not have recorded this relationship, unless he had believed, probably in the SEVENTH CENTURY, that
the Macedones were a GREEK-SPEAKING PEOPLE. The next evidence comes from Persia. At the turn of the
SIXTH CENTURY the Persians described the tribute- paying peoples of their province in Europe, and one of them was the yauna takabara, which meant Greeks wearing the hat. There were Greeks in Greek city-states here and there in the province, but they were of various origins and not distinguished by a common hat. However, the Macedonians wore a distinctive hat, the kausia. We conclude that the Persians believed the Macedonians to be SPEAKERS OF GREEK. Finally, in the latter part of the FIFTH CENTURY a Greek historian, Hellanicus, visited Macedonia and modified Hesiodus genealogy by making Macedon not a cousin, but a son of Aeolus, thus bringing Macedon and his descendants FIRMLY INTO the Aeolic branch of the GREEK-SPEAKING-FAMILY. Hesiod, Persia, and Hellanicus had no motive for making a false statement about the language of the Macedonians, who were then an obscure and not a powerful people. Their independent testimonies should be ACCEPTED AS CONCLUSIVE.

Quoted: statement by a former United States Secretary of State Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr on December 26, 1944: "This government considers any talk of a Macedonian 'nation,' Macedonian 'Fatherland' or Macedonian national consciousness' to be unjustified demagoguery representing no ethnic or political reality ... a possible cloak for aggressive intentions against Greece."




"The future will wonder at us Just as the present wonders at us now" - PERICLES.

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE