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"The 20th century development of a Macedonian ethnicity, & it's recent evolution into independant statehood following the collapse of the Yugoslav state in 1991, has followed a rocky road. In order to survive the vicissitudes of Balkan history & politics, the Macedonians who have had no history, need one"
"The Macedonians are a newley 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 & Bulgarians"
"If the claim is based on ethnicicity, it is an issue of a different order. Modern Slavs, both Bulgarian & Macedonians, can not 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 emigres of US, Canada & Australia - even attempt to establish a connection to antiquity"
Eugene Borza - In the Shadow of Olympus...
"The Macedonians are a newley 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 & Bulgarians"
"If the claim is based on ethnicicity, it is an issue of a different order. Modern Slavs, both Bulgarian & Macedonians, can not 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 emigres of US, Canada & Australia - even attempt to establish a connection to antiquity"
Eugene Borza - In the Shadow of Olympus...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
hellinisation period started when aleksandar died.your greek general was spoiled with his new unchallenged territries and tried to spread hellenisation all over athens and macedonia he had big problems in macedonia.
[Plutarch, Alexander 2.1-2]
Velleius Paterculus, Book I