Are Macedonians distinct from Greeks?

Question

also meaning of ancient Macedonians & greeks.

The Rosette Stone is writen in greek, heriogliph & macedonian (the rullers of egypt were macedonians). ?

Answer 1

Macedonia, although Macedonians, have 4000 years continuity with the same territory, name, and the ethnically feeling. Hellens regarded them barbarians, which means, foreigners, strangers. Macedonians are indo-Europeans, with Bryggian substratum and Paionian super-stratum. In sixth century AD, they have mixed with Slavs, too. Greeks, hm, their origin is in the "dark territory", but they have mixed with Slavs too. After 1830, they started to create a "Greek" nation.

Answer 2

How can you say that these 3 genetic groups are related to Greeks? They're not. Greeks are native to this area, slavs migrated from the north thousands of years after. They may be neighbors but there is no common heritage. Greeks are Mediterranean, rest are slavic. Greek DNA is more similar to French than Bulgarian.

Answer 3

The Macedonians lived in Macedon, which was very far in the north of ancient Greece.
The Greeks always referred to the Macedonians as northern savages, uneducated, and without culture etc etc.
The Macedonians on the other hand, always believed that they were Greeks, and viewed the southern states with envy, saying that they were weak and spoilt.
Phillip of Macedon dreamed of conquering the southern states, and created an army, complete with new tactics and weaponry to do so, but he died whilst in the process of training them. His son Alexander became king of Macedon, and waged war on the Greeks, defeating them easily.
As for a distinction between those two cultures, there is hardly any......they had the same gods, they were really the same sort of people. Any distinction between the two would have to be in their culture in regard to their lifestyle. The Macedonians were warlike and ambitious, as against the Greeks who were by that time pursuing the arts and education. (Philosphy etc).

Answer 4

OK there are two distinct people laying claim to the name of macedonian. There are the ancient macedonians of Alexander the Great. most likely they were greeks, they had a hellenistic culture the spoke greek they believed in the greek pantheon of gods. most likely they were ethinicaly greek at least the uppper classes.

The modern people living in the country which for better or for worse is named macedonia, have nothing to do with greeks. they are a slavic people that moved into the region between the 4th and 9th century. Macedonian are infant not a distinc ethinic group nor a slavic tribe, they are a mix of Bulgarians and Serbians. There was no such thing as a macedonian national identity prior to the 19th century.

-- Reply: Yes, the British also came up with wonderful ideas like Yugoslavian and Czechoslavakia. To them all slavs are the same.. Gladstone was prime minister in teh second half of the 19th century.. around which time the notion of a macedonian national identity begun to be developed. He said this for political reason because it was the interestes of Britain to have many small weak nations in the balkans rather than a large bulgarian or serbian state which would be strong and pro Russian in its outlook..
... about the 4000 years of continuity... i would love to hear some sourses. I am doing my PhD in the History of Eastern Europe. There are no reference to macedonia as anything other than a geographical area to the north of Greece between Bulgaria and Serbia. Macedonia is mentioned in ancient text in reference to alexander the great and then again resurfaces as an idea in the 19th century.

Answer 5

At one time the Greeks were a bunch of city states, Macedon was almost outside of them, and considered crude. Then came Alexander the Great, who seemed preferable to the Persians until he embraced them. And he cut the Gordian Knot, which was considered crude, as well.

Still, he went pretty far for someone who died in his thirties.

Answer 6

Depends on the period and who you ask. Philip the Great considered himself a tougher Greek. Alexander, his son, considered himself the son of Zeus. Demosthenes, not without political intent, called the Macedonians barbarians. It is good to remember that Alexander led an East-ward crusade in the name of the Peloponnesian, as revenge for the Persians raid on Athens. It is also good to remember his father conquered the whole of Greece.
Two milennia have passed, the Romans and the Ottomans have changed the national landscape and 19th and 20th century ideological and nationalist struggles have shaken the land. In the current geopolitical map, Macedonia plays with the Balkans, not with Greece.
Yet I can tell you more about Phillip and son than about Tito. Sorry.

Answer 7

The Ancient Macedonians were the inhabitants of Macedon in ancient times. Historians generally agree that the ancient Macedonians—whether they originally spoke a Greek dialect or a distinct language—belonged to the Koine Greek-speaking population in Hellenistic times. Whether the ancient Macedonians were an ethnically Greek people themselves continues to be debated by historians, linguists, and lay people. However, the Macedonian Royal family known as the Argead dynasty claimed Greek descent. After the 4th Century BCE, the ancient Macedonians were universally considered to be Greek by their contemporaries.

Answer 8

At some point in history Macedonia became a province of the Greek empire. As with every other civiliation, the bloodlines became intermingled over time.

Answer 9

http://www.makedonika.org/processpaid.aspcontentid=ti.2001.pdf

Answer 10

Ancient Macedonians like all other Greek tribes had Greek blood coursing in their veins...

As long as one Greek remains on this planet it will be his duty to remeber and honour his ancestors for all their sacrifices and wisdom they passed on to their heirs...

The Vardars of Skopjeslavia have picked on the wrong culture to **** with......

Answer 11

Yes, they were originally part of the Greek empire. Go to website to learn more.