Posted 3/6/2010 3:40 pm
I was having a conversation with my relatives and we came to the conclusion that Yugoslavs are the real descendants of Alexander the Great.
If you think about it, Alexander was a Macedonian king and he lived in Macedonia and he spoke Macedonian.
So the people that live in the republic of Macedonia are the real desecdants of the ancient Macedonians.
Why do Greeks claim Alender the Great to be one of them ?
I just don't understand the logic, Alexander the Great was Macedonian.
Posted 3/6/2010 3:45 pm
Alexander the Great was a Hellene [Greek] the ancient Macedonians were Greek Hellenic people.
Slavs have nothing to do with the ancient Macedonians of antiquity.
Slavic fool!
Posted 3/6/2010 3:57 pm
FYRoM [The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia] has nothing to do with the ancient macedonians from antiquity. FYRoMians are Slavic people mixed with Bulgars Avars and Turks and quite probably Byzantine Greeks and Romans also.
Alexander the Great was Hellenic, he fought for the freedom and glory of Greece not Yugoslavia.
btw, Slavs entered the Balkan peninsular in the 6th century a.d. this is quite basic and common knowledge.
Slavs have nothing to do with the Hellenic Macedonians of antiquity.
357 International scholars of repute have got together to form a loose academic grouping, a politicised unit ready and willing to speak with one voice in order to protect and defend the boundaries of academic reference points. Academic reference points come first, above and beyond those of poor ill thought out political considerations.
FYRoM was recognised as "Republic of Macedonia" [RoM] in haste and under false pretenses. Greece has recognised historic rights over the ancient region of Macedonia.
Today's Greeks are the sole and legal modern representaives of that Hellenic legacy. No other modern people on this planet are closer to the ancient Macedonians and their Hellenic legacy, than today's modern Greeks.
Posted 3/6/2010 4:17 pm
Ancient greece was not a unified entity. they were a collection of warrior farmers living in city states. The modern worlds borders would have meant nothing to them.
Posted 3/6/2010 4:22 pm
The ancient Macedonians were the rowdier cousins of the ancient Greeks. Alexander's mother was Greek. Sorta like being half Brit and half Irish. Semi-civilized but still pugnacious.
Posted 3/6/2010 4:25 pm
The Greek Character, having formed over millenia is best summarized as being multi faceted. Most people would firstly consider Greeks as being Mediterraneans, but theres more.....
1....Mediterranean: Greeks could be clustered together with Italians, Maltese, Spaniards, Portuguese and to a lesser extent the French, within the context of a greater Greaco-Roman civilization.
2....Western European: since, in the West, Greece is considered to be the cradle of Western civilization.
3....Eastern European: since Greeks baptized christianized and civilized the Slavic Tribes into the Greek Orthodox Religion.
4....Middle-Eastern: since the Greek expansion into Asia ensured prolonged ties with the Oriental Eastern Cultures.
5....Balkanian: Greeks are not comfortable with this term, Greeks prefer Southeastern European.... anyway, a Balkan Identity similar to Albanians, Serbians, Bulgarians, Romanians exist's. There are common elements, contributions from the Eastern Roman Empire and from the Ottoman Empire bears testament to shared attributes.
The Greeks have always been an International People since time immemorial!
The Greek Character is Multifaceted, drawing in, embedded experiances from 5 different geographical locations.
The Greeks were never Restricted to one particular country, there were no countries with fixed border's in ancient times.
Greece in ancient times could be visualized as spanning from the far West of Spain.....to as far East as Georgia.
There was never a country called Greece in ancient times, instead there were Greeks inhabiting Many regions....from Spain to Georgia.
Posted 3/6/2010 4:44 pm
Ancient Macedonians were one of 230 known Greek Hellenic groups tribes and kingdoms. The ancient Macedonians belong to the Hellenic collective of peoples, the Greek family of Nations. The ancient Macedonians were at the northern extremity of the Greek world. The Greek northern frontier was protected and defended by the ancient Macedonians. The ancient Macedonians protected Greece from barbarian invasions and attacks, they learned new military skills and used that military power to take over and Govern Greece as a unified Nation of Hellenes.
Ancient Macedonians under Alexander the Great unified the fractious Greeks into one Nation and proceeded to spread the Greek language and culture to the far reaches of the known world. How do we know all this....it was written down and recorded for posterity, as if the ancient Macedonians knew that one day into the far and distant future their Greekness might be questioned, so they took out an Insurance policy.....
Wherever the ancient Macedonians went, they left their "Calling Card" carved into stone for all to see their Greekness.
Posted 3/6/2010 4:57 pm
The Greeks are an ethnic group who have populated Greece from the 17th century BC to the present day. Today they are primarily found in the Greek peninsula of southeastern Europe, the Greek islands and Cyprus.
Posted 3/6/2010 5:09 pm
Are the modern Slavic Macedonians descended from the Greeks and Alexander the Great?
by James Mayfield (Chairman, European Heritage Library)
Posted 3/6/2010 5:15 pm
Power to Greeks, keep your culture and traditions, God bless the Greek people.
I seen how much envy turkish people and slavish people have for Hellenic things.
The entire Greek world at that time was Celtic. He was a Celt. The Celts don't really start getting pushed aside until the 4th and 5th century AD with the Gothic or Germanic invasions
