http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress Macedonian Online Journal focusing on the History of Macedonia through ages and also dealing with the propaganda emanating from the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia (FYROM) - Ιστολόγιο που εστιάζεται στην Ιστορία της Μακεδονίας μέσα στους αιώνες Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:57:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/11/20/the-macedonia-perspective-geography-and-history/ http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/11/20/the-macedonia-perspective-geography-and-history/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:15:27 +0000 D-Mak http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/?p=20612 The Macedonia Perspective: Geography and History By Professor Nina Gatzoulis   Macedonia is one of the regions in Greece and has always been an integral part of the Greek world. The original Macedonians, the Macedonian Greeks, arrived in the area around 2000 BC and they were descendants of the Heracleides (descendants of the mythical hero [...] Related posts:

1. Cambridge Modern History of 1910 – Greeks and Bulgarians in Macedonia
2. FYROM’s creaky EU Perspective: No solution, no invitation
3. 1818 – The Greekness of Macedonians testified by Dionysios Pyrros in his “Methodic Geography..”

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1. Modern writers about the Bulgarian origin of FYROMs Slavs – John Foster Fraser
2. The Origins of FYROM’s Slavs
3. 1913 – ‘The History of Nations’: The majority of Macedonian Slavs are of Bulgarian Race and Speech

]]> http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/10/01/macedonian-history-bulgarian-origins-fyrom-slavs/feed/ 0 http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/24/macedonian-history-prophecies-greeks-defeating-persian-empire/ http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/24/macedonian-history-prophecies-greeks-defeating-persian-empire/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:47:34 +0000 D-Mak http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/?p=18583 Macedonian History – During Alexander’s Pan-Hellenic Campaign in Asia, ancient sources occasionally mention prophecies which foretell the defeat of Persians by the Greeks. Here we present the most important of them. 1. The Chaldean Prophecy – Greeks will overthrow the Persian Empire  Curtius Rufus (3.3.6-7) “Already in a state of anciety over his immediate concerns, [...] Related posts:

1. Alexander’s Pan-Hellenic Campaign – Prophecies that Greeks should conquer the Persian Empire
2. Sibylline Prophecies about Macedonians
3. Jewish testimonies about ancient Macedonian ethnicity

]]> http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/24/macedonian-history-prophecies-greeks-defeating-persian-empire/feed/ 0 http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/15/ancient-macedonians-self-identification/ http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/15/ancient-macedonians-self-identification/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:39:00 +0000 D-Mak http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/?p=17951   In reality we have only scarce evidence on what the ancient Macedonians believed for themselves. However i will try to collect the available literary and archaeological evidence that would shed some light on the beliefs of the ancient macedonians during Classical and Hellenistic Ages. The available evidence shows that ancient Macedonians considered themselves to be Greek. Alexander [...] Related posts:

1. Carthagenian testimonies about ancient Macedonian ethnicity
2. Polybius on the Ethnicity of Ancient Macedonians
3. Ancient Macedonians : Their Greek Ethnicity according to Romans

]]> http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/15/ancient-macedonians-self-identification/feed/ 1 http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/13/macedonian-history-the-greek-religion-of-ancient-macedonians/ http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/13/macedonian-history-the-greek-religion-of-ancient-macedonians/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:55:10 +0000 D-Mak http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/?p=17900   Macedonian History: The Chryselephantine Shield from the Tomb II (Aigai/ Vergina) bearing the Greek Maiandros  in Macedonia, Greece  From the data at our disposal at present, we know that the Macedonians worshipped the twelve Olympian gods, both collectively and individually, and also Pluto, Persephone, Dionysos, Pan, Hestia, Heracles, Asklepios, Okeanos, Amphitrite, the Nereids, Thetys, Orpheus, the [...] Related posts:

1. The religion of ancient Macedonians
2. Religion in ancient Macedonia
3. Ancient sources about Ancient Macedonians and their Religion

]]> http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/13/macedonian-history-the-greek-religion-of-ancient-macedonians/feed/ 0 http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/08/skopjians-call-greeks-%e2%80%9cfreaks-of-nature%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%9cderanged-bastardly-monsters%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-courts-says-ok/ http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/08/skopjians-call-greeks-%e2%80%9cfreaks-of-nature%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%9cderanged-bastardly-monsters%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-courts-says-ok/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:15:45 +0000 History http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/?p=17799   by Nick Skrekas on Thursday, September 8, 2011 I draw this outrageous development from the sophisticated and worldly Asia-Pacific melting pot of Australia to your attention. Does anyone still doubt that a Zero Tolerance policy for Anti-Hellenism is not warranted when we are so viciously provoked …?! The selectively blind “justice system” in some [...] Related posts:

1. Andrew Bolt discusses VCAT racial vilification decision on MTR – 8 September 2011
2. FYROM organizations call for cease in name negotiations with Greece
3. Australian Macedonian Advisory Council: Sticks and Stones

]]> http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/08/skopjians-call-greeks-%e2%80%9cfreaks-of-nature%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%9cderanged-bastardly-monsters%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-courts-says-ok/feed/ 0 http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/06/macedonians-greekness-dionysios-pyrros-1818/ http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/06/macedonians-greekness-dionysios-pyrros-1818/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:30:55 +0000 D-Mak http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/?p=17769 Dionysios Pyrros the Thessalian, 1818 and “Methodic Geography of the whole universe,on behalf of his friends and pupils and the Hellenic genus“ “She (Hellas) is today subjugated to the despotic rule of the Turk emperor,the so-called Sultan,who descends from the interior of great Asia,which was once utterly defeated by the Macedonian Alexander the Great” “Hellas [...] Related posts:

1. Chatzimarkakis : “Makedonski” originates from Bulgarian Dialects and ancient Macedonians were Greeks
2. 1791 – “Modern Geography” by Daniel Philippidis and Grigorios Konstantas
3. The Greekness of ancient Macedonians in the Old and New Testament

]]> http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/06/macedonians-greekness-dionysios-pyrros-1818/feed/ 0 http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/01/macedonians-are-greeks-15th-century-account-laonikos-chalkokondylis/ http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/01/macedonians-are-greeks-15th-century-account-laonikos-chalkokondylis/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:30:25 +0000 D-Mak http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/?p=17702 15th century So the Hellenes earned great glory, having demonstrated great and praiseworthy deeds, some of them in Europe and even in Libya (he means probably Africa in general),also reaching even Gagges and Oceanus (the Atlantic) and Caucasus, and in those lands had come before many others and especially Hercules, and even earlier Dionysus, the [...] Related posts:

1. Ancient Greeks references to Macedonians as Greeks
2. 15th January of 1858 – Speech from the headmaster of the Thessaloniki’s school Pandora, identifies Macedonians as Greeks
3. Anatolian Elements and Identification among Skopje’s inhabitants during 15th and 16th century

]]> http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/09/01/macedonians-are-greeks-15th-century-account-laonikos-chalkokondylis/feed/ 0 http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/08/31/support-and-defend-our-diaspora-politicians-everywhere-when-targeted-by-anti-hellenism/ http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2011/08/31/support-and-defend-our-diaspora-politicians-everywhere-when-targeted-by-anti-hellenism/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:26:13 +0000 History http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/?p=17679   by Nick Skrekas on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Another perfect example but certainly not isolated given the global rise in Anti-Hellenism, which is also encroaching in the public political sphere and rife on the media. Victorian state Member of Parliament John Pandazopoulos has often said: “People don’t realize, even though we’re of Greek heritage, it’s [...] Related posts:

1. Ljubco Georgievski: The “Macedonian” encyclopedia is in its essence anti-Bulgarian, anti-Albanian, anti-Greek and pro-Serbian
2. Bulgarian Politicians: OMO Ilinden is a separatist anti Bulgarian organization
3. HLA Update and ALERT: Mission Accomplished in UTAH , Skopjian Conference Exposed; Anti-Hellenic Film Released

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1. Richard Gillespie – Mediterranean Politics
2. Elisabeth Barker, “Macedonia, its place in Balkan power politics”, 1950
3. L’empire de Turquie,by Xavier Heuschling, 1860

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