2006-07-12 01:37:36 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Yes, Macedonia was never Greek. Alexander the Great was never Greek either.
Greek islands was formed out of the nine islands of the Mediterranean only recently historically speaking.
Most civilized two islands were Sicily and Crete.
Both islands had trading partners with Egypt some 4000 years ago before the Greek island was born.
2006-07-12 01:46:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 7⤋
The Greek Civil War
During the Greek Civil War that followed World War II, the Macedonians of Aegean Macedonia fought on the side of the Greek Communist Party (KKE) who promised them their rights after the war. After two years of KKE's success in the civil war, the United States decided to side up against them, afraid that Greece would become another communist country. With the military support that came from the United States and Great Britain, the communists lost the war, and the Macedonians once again did not get their human rights.
2006-07-12 19:46:03 · answer #2 · answered by Karolina D 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Was macedonia ever part of Greece? technically, no.
but neither was Sparta, Athens or any of the other City states.
Why? because they were all City states.
When speaking of the Greek empire though, Macedonia was most definitely part of Greece as were all the others.
Alexander the Great was macedonian and he build most of the greek empire.
All the City States worked together and moer or less formed a confederacy which was the greek empire.
2006-07-12 12:04:59 · answer #3 · answered by urbanbulldogge 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Hello dear Vasko!
How are you? All the best to you and your loved ones!
The only sin, according to the Greeks is to oppose knowledge!
Of course, there are plenty of excuses, but I consider as the only real excuse the brainwash from organized society!
Thus, we see people fighting for no reason! Instead of working towards progress to cry over the false past!
Believing is the main part of the sin! Don't believe anything and anyone! Open your eyes wide, see the Truth! Be careful! At the beginning we will get the impression that the light of the Truth will make us blind! It is not so, Truth does not hurt, part of the Truth hurts. And propaganda is anything but whole Truth!
Please, use your mind and check on Historical evidence, not propaganda and books written by people who got paid to do it!
If Macedonians, Cretans, Athenians, Spartans, Aeolians, Thessalians, etc., are Greeks can be found from archaeological findings and checking into our cells, our own cells, not the knowledge given by rulers of one or another state!
2006-07-13 12:31:45 · answer #4 · answered by soubassakis 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Macedonia was north of Greece. In fact, Alexander the Great was Macedonian, and he and his father, Phillip of Macedonia, conquered Greece.
2006-07-13 09:52:45 · answer #5 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes, macedonia WAS greek because it was in Rome and Rome associates with Greece because they're only 38 miles away from eachother.
2006-07-12 08:39:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Here we are again! The same person has asked the same type of question at list 20 times!!
Let’s repeat the answer!
Macedonia is in Greece!
The ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon or Macedonia (the birth place of Alexander the Great) was in the northern-most part of ancient Greece, bordering the kingdom of Epirus on the west and the region of Thrace to the east and it still is entirely in Greece!( Entire north Greece is the province of Macedonia).
Alexander the Great build a gigantic Greek empire that expanded from Greece all the way to India! {Do not confuse real Macedonia in Greece with a small state that emerged from Yugoslavia. That small state is called Republic of Makedonija. {Republika Makedonja is officially translated by UN (and officially recognized by UN and European Union) as Former Ygoslavic Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) or Slavic-Macedonia}.
The site you are mentioning is a commercial site that tries to bring tourists to Slavic- Macedonia and it is deliberately confusing Slavic-Macedonia with real Macedonia in Greece! (I believe that this is illegal!!)
What they forget to mention is that all the important archaeological sites of Ancient Macedonia are in real Macedonia in Greece!
The capital of Ancient Macedonia (the city of Pella) is in real Macedonia of Greece, the royal Macedonians tombs including that of Philip (the father of Alexander) are in Aigai which is in real Macedonia in Greece!!
It wouldn’t be funny for a tourist to visit Slavic-Macedonia and soon realize that there is nothing related with Alexander the great and they will have to go to Greece to visit real Macedonia!!
In Slavic Macedonia there is only one archaeological site related with real Macedonia of Greece and that is the city of Herakleia (Greek meaning city of Hercules) founded by Philip!
You probable don’t know that everything that has been found is ….Greek!!
I have to mention that the asker and the site that is mentioned are against the policy of Slavic-Macedonia government! The Slavic-Macedonian government doesn’t want to confuse people and it has clearly stated that they are not related to Alexander the Great and real Macedonia of Greece!
Here are the most official statements: the first President of FYROM (Slav Macedonia), Kiro Gligorov said: “We are Slavs who came to this area in the sixth century ... we are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians" (Foreign Information Service Daily Report, Eastern Europe, February 26, 1992, p. 35). Also, Mr Gligorov declared: "We are Macedonians but we are Slav Macedonians. That's who we are! We have no connection to Alexander the Greek and his Macedonia… Our ancestors came here in the 5th and 6th century" (Toronto Star, March 15, 1992).
On 22 January 1999, Ambassador of the FYROM to USA, Ljubica Achevska gave a speech on the present situation in the Balkans. In answering questions at the end of her speech Mrs. Acevshka said: "We do not claim to be descendants of Alexander the Great … Greece is Macedonia’s second largest trading partner, and its number one investor. Instead of opting for war, we have chosen the mediation of the United Nations, with talks on the ambassadorial level under Mr. Vance and Mr. Nemitz." In reply to another question about the ethnic origin of the people of FYROM, Ambassador Achevska stated that "we are Slavs and we speak a Slav language”.
On 24 February 1999, in an interview with the Ottawa Citizen, Gyordan Veselinov, FYROM'S Ambassador to Canada, admitted, "We are not related to the northern Greeks who produced leaders like Philip and Alexander the Great. We are a Slav people and our language is closely related to Bulgarian." He also commented, “There is some confusion about the identity of the people of my country".
Moreover, the Foreign Minister of the FYROM, Slobodan Casule, in an interview to Utrinski Vesnik of Skopje on December 29, 2001, said that he mentioned to the Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, Solomon Pasi, that they "belong to the same Slav people.”
I hope I've helped you to realize that the site that you mention is simply a commercial trick that tries to direct (confuse) tourist instead of visiting real Macedonia in Greece to visit Slavic-Macedonia instead!
Check the following sites were you will see the real ancient Macedonia of Greece!
2006-07-12 17:47:20 · answer #7 · answered by ragzeus 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
ok
2006-07-12 08:41:08 · answer #8 · answered by jegreencreek 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋