chris eblana
Regular Member
if you want to understand the problem, you need to understand the history of the region....ancient macedonians were a greek tribe...otherwise why on earth with the spread of the empire of alexander the great, we see the spread of HELLENISTIC art and culture in the period of humanity and not the macedonian, and GREEK language is spread all the way to india,and not the macedonian one..that is that...
now the modern macedonia has two ethnicities..the greek macedonians, and the slav macedonians....slav macedonians are of bulgarian mainly decent, that is why their language is bulgarian...they moved to the region in the byzantine years, 1000 years after the years of alexander the great so they have no claim over the heritage of ancient macedonia...with the liberation of macedonia from the turks,started a struggle to carve the macedonian region into the different nations that were being created in the region...bulgaria, greece albania..we had also the thessalonian jews that did not want the macedonian region to fall either to greece or bulgaria and wanted an independent region or state of macedonia because simply they controlled financially the region and it was in their ineterests....even today the jewish lobby in USA, still supports the creation of an independent macedonian state....
there is no one macedonian nation, nor language...what is called macedonian language is actually a bulgarian diallect...macedonia should be a region of europe not a country, just like other regions of europe that contain more than one ethnicities....greek macedonians existed in teh region since the ancient times and are being forced to forget their heritage,yet no one complains about them (i am one of them)...the modern macedonian region has more that one ethnicities living in it, the greek macedonian and the slavomacedonians....in fact people of fyrom are known in greece as that...slavomacedonians....so you see our problem IS NOT THE NAME, we could share the name, but not the history and the heritage...
but as fyrom believe that they are the true descendants of alexander and other nonsence like that,and they claim ,after the brainwashing and propaganda they endured under the Tito regime that had views on the northern greek region of macedonia, that greece actually occupies their land and there are minorities that are being supressed and other ridiculous claims, we can not accept FYROM as one of our allies, no matter how much some hard core europeans want them asap in EU and NATO...why should i compromise my heritage so for some to see all countries of europe in EU...??
as i said we could share the name, but not the heritage and history....if FYROM accepts this and stop making claims over greek territory and culture and heritage. i would be happy to accept a name like northern or new or vardar macedonia for them....otherwise i am sorry, let them stay where they are...!!
now the modern macedonia has two ethnicities..the greek macedonians, and the slav macedonians....slav macedonians are of bulgarian mainly decent, that is why their language is bulgarian...they moved to the region in the byzantine years, 1000 years after the years of alexander the great so they have no claim over the heritage of ancient macedonia...with the liberation of macedonia from the turks,started a struggle to carve the macedonian region into the different nations that were being created in the region...bulgaria, greece albania..we had also the thessalonian jews that did not want the macedonian region to fall either to greece or bulgaria and wanted an independent region or state of macedonia because simply they controlled financially the region and it was in their ineterests....even today the jewish lobby in USA, still supports the creation of an independent macedonian state....
there is no one macedonian nation, nor language...what is called macedonian language is actually a bulgarian diallect...macedonia should be a region of europe not a country, just like other regions of europe that contain more than one ethnicities....greek macedonians existed in teh region since the ancient times and are being forced to forget their heritage,yet no one complains about them (i am one of them)...the modern macedonian region has more that one ethnicities living in it, the greek macedonian and the slavomacedonians....in fact people of fyrom are known in greece as that...slavomacedonians....so you see our problem IS NOT THE NAME, we could share the name, but not the history and the heritage...
but as fyrom believe that they are the true descendants of alexander and other nonsence like that,and they claim ,after the brainwashing and propaganda they endured under the Tito regime that had views on the northern greek region of macedonia, that greece actually occupies their land and there are minorities that are being supressed and other ridiculous claims, we can not accept FYROM as one of our allies, no matter how much some hard core europeans want them asap in EU and NATO...why should i compromise my heritage so for some to see all countries of europe in EU...??
as i said we could share the name, but not the heritage and history....if FYROM accepts this and stop making claims over greek territory and culture and heritage. i would be happy to accept a name like northern or new or vardar macedonia for them....otherwise i am sorry, let them stay where they are...!!