Alexander the great was Greek or something else?

Answer 1

Alexander the Great was a Greek of Macedonia.

Macedonia was a part of ancient Greece, just like Sparta.

The Macedonian region is divided today into 2/4 in Greece, 1/4 in Bulgaria and 1/4 in The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

The inhabitans of the F.Y.R.O. Macedonia are 60% slavic and 40% albanian. They have nothing to do with Ancient Macedonia.

The Ancient Macedonians were Greeks of the Doric tribe.

PS. I can't believe how naive most of those answers are.

Answer 2

Alexander the Great was Macedonian. However, I wouldn't agree on calling him "Great" because he destroyed many of the world's famous and strongest civilizations, such as the Phoenician civilization, which gave the world the Alphabet, the Murex, and invention of glass. He did a lot to spread Hellenic culture, like conquering most of the then known world. He came from Macedonia which is now a seperate republic outside the borders of modern Greece. In those days of course there was no Greek nation or anything like that.

Answer 3

Spartan is right. The Macedonians spoke a dialect of Greek and considered themselves Greek. What's more, the Macedonian royal family were believed to be descended from legendary Greek heroes.

Answer 4

Alexander the great was born in Pella,Macedonia.Pella is Greek.His reign marked the beginning of the Hellenistic Age.The term Hellenistic (derived from Eλλην /Héllēn, the Greeks' traditional self-described ethnic name) He was taught by Aristotle.Alexander's mother, Olympias, was from Epirus (a land in the western part of the Greek peninsula).
Alexander:From the Greek name Αλεξανδρος (Alexandros), which meant "defending men" from Greek αλεξω (alexo) "to defend, help" and ανηρ (aner) "man" (genitive ανδρος (andros).
As for "ancient Greece",is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the geographical peninsula of modern Greece, but also to areas of Hellenic culture that were settled in ancient times by Greeks: Cyprus and the Aegean islands, the Aegean coast of Anatolia (then known as Ionia), Sicily and southern Italy (known as Magna Graecia), and the scattered Greek settlements on the coasts of Colchis, Illyria, Thrace, Egypt, Cyrenaica, southern Gaul, east and northeast of the Iberian peninsula, Iberia and Taurica.In common usage it refers to all Greek history before the Roman Empire.

Answer 5

Alexander the great was not Greek . Actually he was a Marcedonian

Answer 6

Alexander the great was Macedonian from a country name Macedonia in Europe.

Answer 7

He did a lot to spread Hellenic culture, like conquering most of the then known world. He came from Macedonia which is now a seperate republic outside the borders of modern Greece. In those days of course there was no Greek nation as we would understand it today.

Answer 8

His father was Macedonian; his mother was Illyrian, from a tribe that is the ancestor of modern Albanians (who, by the way, are not Slavs).

Spartan, who sent me a nasty personal message, is completely wrong. There was no "ancient Greece" as he tries to state; Greece was not a unified nation at that time, nor for many centuries afterward. No one knows where the Dorians came from. And describing that area in terms of who's there now is like describing 10th-century North America as Western European.

Answer 9

Alexander the Great was Macedonian. However, I wouldn't agree on calling him "Great" because he destroyed many of the world's famous and strongest civilizations, such as the Phoenician civilization, which gave the world the Alphabet, the Murex, and invention of glass.

Answer 10

He was Macedonian but ethnically grrk since macedonia was a greek state.