History of Macedonia Links

Alexander the Great:

• Origins of Alexander
• Is Alexander the Great Greek?
• The Destruction of Thebes
• Plutarch on Alexander's bringing Greek civilisation to Asia
• Letter to Darius
• Literary ancient sources about Alexander's drinking
• Ancient Sources about Alexander's Panhellenic Campaign
• Bible about Alexander the Great
• Alexander King of Yavans

 

Ancient Macedonian History :

• Modern Historians about ancient Macedonia NEW
• Ancient Sources about ancient Macedonia NEW
• Ancient Macedonian Testimonies about their own Ethnicity
• Nicholas Hammond’s Interview about Macedonia
• Etymology of 100 most famous ancient Macedonian Names
• Ancient sources about Alexander’s army Greek character
• Ancient sources about Macedonia as a Greek Land
• Ancient Greeks references to Macedonians as Greeks
• Was Greek the ‘Linqua franca’ of ancient times prior to Alexander
• Falsified versions and mistranslations of ancient sources about Macedonia
• King Archelaos and his portrayal as 'Barbarian'
• Modern Historians about Macedonian Royal House
• Eminent Macedonians among Greek mercenaries of Darius
• Greek Navy in Alexander's campaign
• Sibylline Prophesies
• Olympia in Dion
• Ancient Macedonians in Olympic games
• Persian Story of Zulqarneen
• The Hellenization's argument contradiction
• Prof. Badian's views about the incident of Eumenes – Xennias
• List of known non-Macedonian Greeks in Alexander's army
• Ancient Macedon and Thessalia – Case of Jason of Pherai
• Philip fulfiled his mentor’s Epaminondas dream to unite Greece
• Cults in Ancient Macedonia
• Eurypides and Macedonians
• The Heracleid origin of ancient Macedonians
• Hadrian, Thessalonica and Panhellenion League
• Justin sources – Marsyas of Macedon
• Relations between Upper and Lower Macedonia

 

Linguistics :

• Modern linguists about Ancient Macedonian language
• The Language of ancient Macedonians
• Ancient Macedonian language – Hoffman
• Ancient Macedonian Language Part II
• Ancient Macedonian Language Part III
• Ancient Macedonian Language Part IV
• Ancient Macedonian Language Part V
• Ancient Macedonian Language by Marcus Templar
• Ancient Macedonian language recognized as Greek dialect
• The misuse of the term Philhellene during Antiquity 

Biographies:

• Nicesipolis of Pherae
• Cynane
• Thessalonike

 

 

Medieval History of Macedonia

• Byzantine Sources about greekness of Medieval Macedonia
• List of famous Medieval Macedonians
• Sources on St' Cyril and Methodius Greek Ethnicity
• 14th Century Names of Lay Proprietors in the Themes of Thessaloniki and Strymon
• Macedonia in the 16th and 17th Centuries
• Macedonia preceeding Turkish Occupation
• The final capture of Thessalonica by Turks (1430)
• Ancient/Modern Sources about Thessalonica 

Modern History of Macedonia

• Greek schools of Pelagonia during 19th cent.
• Greek Macedonian newspapers of late 19th cent.- early 20th cent.
• Four of the best Historians, describe Balkans in 1915
• Books in Greek education prior to 1936 about Macedonia
• Paidomazoma – Communist children abductions in the Greek civil war

   

  

  F.Y.R.O.M Propaganda

• Modern Writers about the Bulgarian origin of FYROM’s slavs POPULAR
• Indisputable Evidence of FYROM’s Slavs being originally Bulgarians
• FYROM’s revisionist falsifications – Rejected by the World’s academia
• Linguistic origins of F.Y.R.O.M – From Bulgarian dialect to “Macedonian” language
• The Ethnic and Historical origins of FYROM Part I
• The Ethnic and Historical origins of FYROM Part II
• The Ethnic and Historical origins of FYROM Part III
• The Ethnic and Historical origins of FYROM Part IV
• The Ethnic and Historical origins of FYROM Part V
• The Ethnic and Historical origins of FYROM Part VI
• The Ethnic and Historical origins of FYROM Part VII
• The Ethnic and Historical origins of FYROM Part VIII
• Fighting Fyrom Propaganda #1 – Tzar Samouel
• 1910 Census and fabrications
• The so-called FYROM’s claim about “occupation” of Macedonia in 1913 exposed
• Letter from FYROMs Slavs to Oliver Stone
• Propaganda of FYROMs site HistoryofMacedonia.Org exposed – Part I
• Propaganda of FYROMs site HistoryofMacedonia.Org exposed – Part II
• Propaganda of FYROMs site HistoryofMacedonia.Org Exposed – Part III
• Propaganda of FYROMs site HistoryofMacedonia.Org Exposed – Part IV
• BIG Stefov Lie # 6 ,”Greeks Are a Superior Race”
• BIG Stefov Lie # 8,”Tito created the Macedonian Nation”
• BIG Stefov Lie # 10, ‘Greeks are Turks, Albanians, Slavs and Vlachs
• Big Stefov Lie #11, ‘Saint Cyrill and Methodios are Greek’
• BIG Stefov Lies # 17: “Ancient Macedonians were not Greeks"
• Big Stefov Lies # 18_”Philip II United the Greeks"
• BIG Stefov Lie # 19 “4,000 years of Greek Civilization
• BIG Stefov Lie # 20_The Final Answer in His Lies
• Fyrom's lies over Slavic populations genetics Part I
• Fyrom's lies over Slavic populations genetics Part II.
• Modern Bulgarian Heroes…claimed by FYROM
• Fake Letter from Alexander in…nationalistic site of FYROM
• De-Bulgarization and persecutions of Bulgarians in FYROM
• Diplomatic Sources on Ilinden – a Bulgarian Uprising
• FYROM’S History Books and propaganda: Facts
• Free Archbishop Jovan from prison in FYRO Macedonia

Albanian Propaganda

• Albanian propaganda – Alexander the ‘Albanian’ Part I
• Albanian propaganda – Alexander the ‘Albanian’ Part II
• Albanian propaganda – Alexander the ‘Albanian’ Part III 

F.A.Q – Frequently Asked Questions on Macedonia by Alexandros Gerbessiotis

FALLACIES AND FACTS ON THE MACEDONIAN ISSUE – Marcus Templar

Modern Linguists about Macedonia – Olivier Masson

For a long while Macedonian onomastics, which we know relatively well thanks to history, literary authors, and epigraphy, has played a considerable role in the discussion. In our view the Greek character of most names is obvious and it is difficult to think of a Hellenization due to wholesale borrowing. ‘Ptolemaios’ is attested as early as Homer, ‘Ale3avdros’ occurs next to Mycenaean feminine a-re-ka-sa-da-ra- (‘Alexandra’), ‘Laagos’, then ‘Lagos’, matches the Cyprian ‘Lawagos’, etc. The small minority of names which do not look Greek, like ‘Arridaios’ or ‘Sabattaras’, may be due to a substratum or adstatum influences (as elsewhere in Greece). Macedonian may then be seen as a Greek dialect, characterised by its marginal position and by local pronunciations (like ‘Berenika’ for ‘Ferenika’, etc.). Yet in contrast with earlier views which made of it an Aeolic dialect (O.Hoffmann compared Thessalian) we must by now think of a link with North-West Greek (Locrian, Aetolian, Phocidian, Epirote). This view is supported by the recent discovery at Pella of a curse tablet (4th cent. BC) which may well be the first ‘Macedonian’ text attested (provisional publication by E.Voutyras; cf. the Bulletin Epigraphique in Rev.Et.Grec.1994, no.413); the text includes an adverb ‘opoka’ which is not Thessalian. We must wait for new discoveries, but we may tentatively conclude that Macedonian is a dialect related to North-West Greek.Olivier Masson, French linguist, “Oxford Classical Dictionary:Macedonian Language”, 1996

The religion of ancient Macedonians

Ancient Macedonians worshipped the same gods as the rest of Hellenes. Despite of the claims of the pseudo-historians of FYROM that ancient Macedonians didnt shared the same gods as the other Hellenes, the evidences from ancient and modern writers are obvious.

– According to Ulrich Wilcken:

“yet if we take into account the political conditions, religion and morals of the Macedonians, our conviction is strengthened that they were a Greek race and akin to the Dorians”
(Wilcken, U., “Alexander the Great)

– Secondly, the Skopian propagandists seem to forget about the temple of Dion, (literally the city of Zeus), found in Mt Olympus, of course inside Macedonia.

– Furthermore, Pausanias makes perfectly clear that contrary to Skopian claims, Macedonians had got the same gods and religion with the rest of Greeks and puts an end to the Skopian lies.

(Pausanias [6.18.3])

“The people of Lampsacus favoured the cause of the Persian king, or were suspected of doing so, and Alexander, boiling over with rage against them, threatened to treat them with utmost rigor. As their wives, their children, and their country itself were in great danger, they sent Anaximenes to intercede for them, because he was known to Alexander himself and had been known to Philip before him. Anaximenes approached, and when Alexander learned for what cause he had come, they say that HE SWORE BY THE GODS OF GREECE, WHOM HE NAMED that he would verily do the opposite of what Anaximenes asked”

– Moreover we have several ancient sources making clear that Macedonians had the same religion as the rest of the Greeks and they worshiped the twelve Olympian Gods.

– Two quotes from Plutarch’s “Alexander” make it clear.

“Philip, after this vision, sent Chaeron of Megalopolis to consult the oracle of Apollo at Delphi, by which he was commanded to perform sacrifice, and henceforth pay particular honour, above all other gods, to Zeus;”
“He [Alexander he Great] erected altars, also, to the gods, which the kings of the Praesians even in our time do honour to when they pass the river, and offer sacrifice upon them after the Greek manner.”

Diodoros of Sicily also makes clear that the Macedonians worshiped the twelve Greek Gods and exposes skopian lies :

“Along with lavish display of every sort, Philip included in the procession statues of the twelve Gods brought with great artistry and adorned with a dazzling show of wealth to strike awe to the beholder, and along with these was conducted a thirteenth statue, suitable for a god, that of Philip himself, so that the king exhibited himself enthroned among the twelve Gods.”
(Histories, Chapter 16, 95.2)

“He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad.”
(Histories, Chapter 16, 91.5-6)

All the above quotes clearly show that Macedonians shared the same religion as the rest of Greeks.