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Than you can write your right name not to hide behind Jon name and tell us that you are greek or macedonian greek i dont kknow how to call you because you change your identity daily. Macedonian people do not forbid to greeks to call them self macecedonian greeks we never did this and we will never do that is your right if you want you can make 31 names for your identity and call your self different each day in the month.I really hate when somebody call me Slav Macedonian because i am MAcedonian same like my grandfather was. You need to ask your self how many minorities in your country exist?
you can ask your self why 20 000 children escape from greece and who they were?
you can ask your self from what country and what part of the world greece bring people in greek macedonia?
did they speak greek language?
you can ask your self from where Karamanlis name came from?
Did you know what is mean Karaman mean?
I will finish this conversation because i know that i will be attacked by greeks here.
I dont understand how you can think that Republic of Macedonia is treat for Greece with only 2 million people?
or you greeks try to hide something and keep it secret? :)
A better question would be why would you obvious NON-Macedonians in FYROM hide your own ethnic Bulgarian heritage and ridiculously pretend to be “ethnic” Macedonians. There isnt’ a single Macedonian in FYROM. Not one. A country built entirely on fraud and hatred of Greeks.
kojoti, i’m not sure whether your directing your comments at me but if you are, it shows how paranoid you are. I am a Welshhman, i have no affiliation to either side in this dispute. I have no axe to grind but I see no validity in a newly-founded country (FYROM) to suddenly claim the name of a region solely as their own. Especially when over 50% of this region lies in another country (Greece). You have no right to claim a name solely for yourself because the name ‘Macedonia’ is associated with Greek people and culture for over three millenia. This is what i was taught at school – Macedonia = greek – this is what we have been taught and this is what the Western world believes. Like it or not.
I work with Westerns last 10 years if you ask westerns they dont know where Macedonia is.
http://www.igenea.com/index.php?content=132&st=114
read little bit on german language and search for macedonians
if you don’t know tell me i am not educated like western people but i still speak 6 languages :)
you will be suprised :)
you can say what ever you want blood is blood DNA is DNA
is in my blood that i am macedonian
REAL MACEDONIAN
and about paranoid no i am not i am just real and talk with facts what you don’t have :)
Answer me on questions what i give in my previous post.
I know how westerns are smart and good “educated” :) i am with them every day :)
I think the world’s most prominent Classicists and History professors will agree with you Jon. They wrote the books that suggested Alexander spread the Greek culture far and wide. Macedonia has always been associated with Greek culture as far as i know.
I think Jennifer’s suggestion above is the best way out of this dispute.
Yes that i agree also only problem is 2 000 000 people.
but wester can make them disapear right?
Read little bit about Alexander the great i will give you some links about other side of the story.
DId you know why ALexander was not allowed to participate in Greek olympic games in begining?
:)
Erm, i prefer to get my education from books written by Oxford professors rather than a random guy on the internet. No offence.
This is getting more silly by the hour….now we have a person referring to Macedonians as ‘Slavo Albanian’!!!
I would laugh if this wasn’t so serious! What planet of understanding are you from to conjure this? This is why no politician, and equally no mug off the street, is going to define my name and ethnicity!! There is only ONE Macedonia, and I am Macedonian!
SO if you are so well educated answer me on questions :)
Yes all because of former otoman province greece and their democtacy, society where no minority exist LOL
They are all PURE BLOOD greece people or macedonians i am not sure what they are.
I post before i will say again answer is in DNA books and all rest can be writen daily depend on political situation
nobody can’t change blood and DNA :)
and i am still sure that those people above are from balkan
Eutopean citizens don’t evan know who how and when Macedonia was divided on 4 pieces :)
Macedonia must be Greek, is written everywhere Greek. The whole world is knows Macedonia is Greek.
All the rest are lies and ex-YugoSLAV people confused.