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The lungs of Greece, Macedonia

By Athanasiadis Konstantinos k_aliris@yahoo.com

It is the lack of history the Slavs have in the region called Macedonia that leads them to practically steal a Greek name and symbol, putting on their flag the sixteen edged star.
The adoption of a Greek name for their new republic is a way of making a history for their people, (never has the name of a region given the name to a race, but vice versa.) Taking on that name is a way of showing that they have been populating in this region as long as the Greeks have, thus hoping that it will insure and stabilize their existence in the specific region. It is obvious that their choice of a name for their republic is clearly political and strategic, rather than being a name that emerges from their own history.
(A history that can't give them self-confidence, but on the contrary making them vulnerable to claimants from neighbour countries like Albania Bulgaria and Serbia.)
Never has an ethnic group chosen a name for its nation based on the geographical region it populates but it has always been the other way around, a nation tend to give the name to a region after its population’s name, and or its history.
Furthermore this choice of name has created an antiparathesis with Greece, giving the Skopians something to bargain with, either for creating a united Macedonia with the part in Greece that would give them access to the Mediterranean Sea, which would be their only chance to develop economically, and so be able to survive in the region, or to give the Skopians something to bargain with when a time to join the European community will come up. It must be known that if Greece didn’t relocate a lot of its factories to Skopia its people would starve even more.
It is truly sad that a race should be so afraid and ashamed of her origins that it would deny it, but that is understandable as they are in such a fragile position.

It is funny how the Skopians claim that Phillip, father of Alexander the Great is one of their forefathers, so trying to state a Macedonian descent, and so “forging” an existence in the region further back in time than they are entitled to. Many people believe that the Skopians are doing this because they will later on claim parts from northern Macedonia and so unite with Greece….
. About the city Skopia, Its name originates from the Greek name “Σκοποί” (Skopi), meaning (guard, watch) Skopia was in other words a fortress built by Alexander’s forces to guard Macedonia from enemies while Alexander and the Greek army was in Asia

A little bit of history
In the year of 540 CE. Two waves of incursions took place, this is where the Slavic race first appears in the Macedonian region, they where following the Hunnic tribes together with the Andes as grooms for the Hunnic horses. The Slavs originate from central Russia (Byelorussia).
During the sixth century, the Slavs populated in current Rumania, called by Theofylaktos Simikatti as Sklavinia.
Next, the Avars brought the Slavs south of the river Danube.
The Avars was a Central Asian people living near the frontier of Iran, probably of Mongol decent.
During the 6 century under the weight of Turkish Alteans, they appeared at the Caucasus area.
They penetrated the Balkans in the wake of the Huns and established a Dark Ages empire within the western and central Balkans. They subdued the people that inhabited north of the Black Sea and reached as far as the river Danube. They made a treaty with emperor Justinian (Byzantine Empire), who in return for the services they offered him granted them a part of Pannonia.
In 567 CE. The Avars under the lead of Vaian shattered the Gepids and extended their influence as far as
to the Adriatic Sea.
In 581 CE. They turned against Byzantium and occupied the important city to the empire, Sirmio.
Emperor Mauricio’s continuous attacks against them didn’t bring any permanent results.
In 597 CE. They unsuccessfully siege Thessaloniki.
In 598 CE. Byzantium made a peace treaty with the Avars.
There was also an agreement that the river Estrus would be the border between the empire and the lands of the Avars…………….

If the Skopians argue that they are Macedonians too, then why don’t they speak ancient Greek!?
Why doesn’t history make them right?! Their language is a Slavic one identical with the Russian
Fillip II and the Macedonians spoke ancient Greek!!

Stanford

The Eminent work of the English linguist and geographer Stanford (1877) reports that "the Macedonian land has narrow kinship with the Greek language, as well as with the ethics and customs, the Greek folk poetry, temperament and characteristics, therefore it is approved that the Macedonians are of Greek origin

The name Alexander
The name Alexander is irrefutably Greek, its meaning derives from the verb "αλέξω" -“alexo” (I prevent, I protect, I help) and the substantive "ανήρ", “anir” Consequently means "The man that protects, that prevents, that help".

Alexander the Great and the Olympic games

The proof of Alexander the Great’s Greek character is his participation in the Olympic Games in 324 BC. (Following the footprints of his father, who was an Olympic champion and excellent horseman) As we know, the attendance in the Olympic Games was allowed only to Greek, free citizens and not to barbarians. Consequently, if he had been born in Skopia, as some claim, neither the name, neither his language nor his religion would be Greek, neither would he be able to participate in the Olympic Games.

The meaning of Macedonia
The etymology of the toponymy Macedonia is Greek. Herodotus reports that the name Macedonia emanates from the makethnos or makethanos which means high, long, “pyramid like” (In the Dorian dialect makos, “μάκος” = length). Also all toponymy and names of Macedonians of (kings and historical persons) that are reported in the ancient texts, are Greek.

Marsi Kokkinaki. Doctor of Metropolitan University London
Macedonia occupies the bigger part of Northern Greece, from Aliacmonos river and mount Olympus as the river Strimonas and Nestos. First mentioned from Homeros, but also the archaeological discoveries of the region testify an intense presence, at least from 5,000 BC. (Prehistory, Mid-Stone Age).

Herodotus Homeros
Herodotus mentions (1, 56) that the Macedonians was a Doric tribe that was exiled from “Estieotitha” (Thessaly), and lived in the foot of mount Pindos. Homeros in Iliad (V.765, 848-849, Z.226, P.287-289) mentions the Pelasgean (Greek) tribes that lived in Macedonia.

MAKETHNOS:
(founder of the Macedonian tribe. Makethnos =”superior height”, tall, long)
Son of Dias (Zeus) and Ethria, daughter of Deukalion.

The Dorians some decades after the end of the Trojan War came through Thessaly and settled in Dorida, which they used as base of operations in order to occupy other countries (states) of Greece. Dorida in the ancient years was the country that extended in the region of former municipality Dorians, in the province of Parnassitha of state Fokida, where today we can find the villages Kastellia, Gravia and Inohori and are today encompassed by the mountains Parnassus to the southeast., by Gionas to the northwest., by Kallidromou to the northeast., and by Itis to the west.

Quotes

That the Macedonians were also Greeks is proven by the Macedonian coins found in archaeological excavations. They all have engraves on them symbols and letters and illustration that are Greek….
Offman-German linguist

The Macedonians, a Greek tribe, with Greek soul and Greek ethic and with a language indisputably Greek… Savan-French archeologist

The king of Macedonia Fillip II was a true Greek both in descent as in his language as well in his education. Ferguson-English historian

The national conscience of the Slavic tribes was so fluid, that those personally interested did not know if they were Bulgarians or Serbs. And needed the terrorism of the partisans in order to finally turn them to one or the other direction … Hans Geltser-Swiss wise man

Racial the Macedonians are the purest Greek race. After them come the Thessalians and the Epirotes….
Beloh-German historiographer

It is impossible to be a serious scientist and researcher who respects himself, that will question the Greek character of Macedonia. Stenhil-Swiss publicist

……….For starters we are obliged to agree on, that Macedonia taken in a whole means nothing but a geographical region. There is no Macedonian tribe. There does not exist a Macedonian race. In the Greek Macedonia, all its population to the very last one speaks purely Greek. Stenhelin Walter Swiss publicist

The earth of Macedonia is macedonian, but its elements are Greek. Ionas Dragoumis

….ιn reality the so called “Macedonian language” is plasma with mainly political descent.
Vittoke Pisani linguist (essay-Paedial, 1957)

Argeades, the genus of Alexander the Great and forefathers, The Doric tribe that came from Orestiada (Peloponnesus), descendants to Argeas, descendant from the Timenides kings of Argos, consequently from the Heraclides. They came north to the mountain range Pindos, from where they years later moved on eastwards founding the kingdom of Macedonia.

By Athanasiadis Konstantinos k_aliris@yahoo.com