There is no recognized republic of macedonia. Only FYROM.
There is no Macedonian language. Ancient Macedonians spoke Greek. Great Alexander (his name means protector (alex) of men (andres)) and his father Philipos (his name means friend (philos) of horses (ipos)) were Greek, spoke Greek and were born in the Greek area of the ancient territory called Macedonia. Their names mean nothing to your slavic language and therefore you cannot claim you speak "macedonian". You can claim you speak a slavic language called FYROMian or whatever you want to call it.
The only reason your country started having the idea of being Macedonia/Macedonians is because around 1945 a politician over there named Tito (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito ring any bells?), who kicked out all Greeks residing in Yugoslavia and didn't permit them to go visit their place of birth and houses, decided that the idea of the Great Macedonia in the Balkans is great and he should impose it. The only reason you are called Macedonians is because some politicians thought that by implanting such ideas in your heads will create tension in the area and a country named like that would later give them reason to claim areas from Greece and Bulgaria. In your schools you all you are taught is propaganda. You should realize it and embrace your true identity and not try to pretend you are someone else. The idea that you decent from Great Alexander and his empire may make you feel that you belong somewhere and have glorious ancestors, but if you were decedents of his empire you would be speaking Greek and not Slavic. What you used to be is a part of Yugoslavia (meaning the land of south Slavs
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Yugoslavia) and therefore you are a Slavic nation.
I totally agree with Elias2 and his posts. If some people think that Greece is over reacting and we should be more rational you are wrong. We are as rational as it can get. In the past we wouldn't even consider allowing a name that contains the word Macedonia for the former state of Yugoslavia that used to be called Vardarska (the original name before the propaganda and idea of Great Macedonia). Now our country keeps proposing names and we eventually agreed with the name North Macedonia, that will eliminate every thought of FYROM expanding it's boarders to Bulgaria and Greece, and they don't even agree to that. Talk about rationality from their side...
In Greece we have a saying: if you let the savage in your garden he will eventually climb to your bed and claim your wife (loose translation). That is what is happening here. We are backing off constantly and they aren't, not even a little. If you want to talk about rationality address to FYROM and not Greece.
My country is facing the danger of losing it's territorial integrity from the North by FYROM and the idea of Great Macedonia, from the North-East in Thrace (150.000 turks living in Greece and only 2.000 Greeks living in Constantinople while the Lausanne treaty clearly states that the amount of Greeks and Turks in Turkey and Greece must be kept equal and Turkey has kicked out the majority of Greeks during the last 50 years, see
http://www.eupedia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25545) and from the East at the Aegean (USA already calls the Aegean a "gray zone", which is clearly Greek area, just to please Turkey so they can help them with their plans in the Middle East) with Turkey constantly claiming Greek territories as Turkish, violating our boarders with their air force and not letting us claim our international right of 12km by threat of war.
Yet we are the bad ones here.
What is EU doing with all these matters that a country-member faces? Nothing.
Those of you who think that a few km of territory don't make a difference you are right but what we are talking about here is almost 1/3 of Greece being claimed by others. And if your country is in the middle of peaceful Europe or in it's own continent and can't really understand what it means to have other countries next to you claiming your land because you are at the boarders of your continent then I advise you to think better before posting your opinion without a little bit of research on that is going on.
PS. If you think my post is a bit aggressive it's because you are guys and never had PMS