The Macedonians in Aegian Macedonia lived there long before Hellens settle the coastline areas, Modern Greeks genocided the endopi (original settlers) of what become north Greece last century.. Here is the simple truth: Antic Macedonians, Thracians, Illurians were all proto-slavic people with dominant I2a and R1a haplogroup , this same haplogroups even today go in pair in all of Eastern Europe..
The timeline is also very much prolonged and what is 2000 years is 1000y in actuality.
Macedonians which also knows as Slavo-Macedonians in Northern Greece and now in Macedonia (the Republic N. Macedonia) are the same people but because in the 1800' the concept of nationality was not popular within the people which before that only know themsefs as "nashi" (ours) they were subject to Bulgarization, Serbization which are closely related to and later forceful assimilation to Greek (simple murdering / or exodus) .. the previous macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and current president of Macedonia George Ivanov are both from Aegian Macedonian heritage that were expelled from Greek authority in early to mid 20th century, The picture of the people changed drastically after the Greeko Turshish war where huge number of Anatolian Greeks and other chirstina people were moved mostly to Aegian Macedonia , they are called Madzirs or Prosfiges (newcomers) this people now are calling macedonians bad names like monkey-donians etc..
The greek side claims that macedonians in ancient time were greeks / hellens but this is blatant lie, the only greek in them was the rulling class manners , and that was all , since greek / hellen was like english in those times
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