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Turkey is definitely on the top, I would go as far as to say that Turks don't even have a false identity because they lack identity period. Turkey's population is 80% Greco-Semetic leftovers which identify as Turks, with the other 20% being Kurdish.
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rico was a sockpuppet...bb
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Mia vlacho, vlacopoula.
The Vlachs
The third racial group of False-Greeks are Vlachs who in old times were also called Kutsovlachi. Their origin remains a mystery for anthropologists, although the historians’ opinion is that they are a latin-speaking nation which probably comes from barbaric Thracian tribes who were Romanized after the occupation of ancient Dacia by the legions of the Roman Emperor Trajan.
Ancient Thracians and Dacians did not have any relation with the newer inhabitants of the Balkan peninsula, who resided or still reside in Greek, Turkish or Bulgarian Thrace (former Eastern Rumelia). Vlachs live throughout the Peninsula of Haemus, from Istria and Moldova (Moldovlachia) to Albania and Greece. There is another theory that from Transylvania they migrated to Walachia (“Land of the Vlachs”) and Moldavia. The word Vlach derives from the ancient German word “Walh”, meaning foreigner. At first, German tribes attributed that name only to Romans and Celts. As a result, certain countries of Europe, away from Vlachia of modern Romania, are until now called accordingly, like Wales in United Kingdom or Wallonia in Belgium, which were conquered by Anglo-Saxons and allied Teutonic nations. In older times, Thessaly was called Great Walachia (Megale Vlachia), while Moldavians belong racially to the same people. Yet it is a fact that Vlachs started to come down toward the south of the Balkan peninsula from 13th century A.D.
They were rarely used by Byzantines as mercenaries, because, according to registered reports of the time, they were regarded as “capricious and unreliable troublemakers and thieves”. Perhaps the word Vlach, which for the Asia Minor Greeks meant “churl” and “peasant” and implied almost the whole of False-Greeks, later on, for the Smyrna refugees, has its root to the Middle Ages.
The Vlachs of Greece hardly participated in the War of Greek Independence of 1821 against the Ottoman Empire. Others were Hellenized by learning Greek, like the habitants of North Epirus and the Vlachs of the district now belonging to FYROM (Monastir and Strumeshnitsa). Those who live in today’s Greek territory (Western Macedonia, mountainous Epirus and Thessaly), due to their incorruptible Vlachian conscience, tried in the past to organize an autonomous state with Metsovo as capital, while they have caused for a long time several diplomatic frictions between Greece and Romania. However, numerous Vlachs of Greece studied in Romania obtaining free scholarships with the mere obligation to accept their Romanovlachian origin. In Rumeli of Greece, at the south of Epirus and Thessaly, some Vlachs moved in search of new pastures for their sheep. In Boeotia intermarried with Arvanites and formed the so-called Arvanitovlachi. In the 13th century that district was overrun by Catalan mercenaries whose off-springs perhaps survived in Lebadeia.
There is also a mysterious connection between Vlachs and Sarakatsani, another nation who lived until recently, under primitive conditions, in Greece. Their shacks were more sloppy than the peasants’ huts from Black Africa. Their customary male dress was fustanela, national emblem of False-Greeks, as we can see in the Evzone Guard in front of the Parliament in Athens. Yet others dispute that fustanela is a Vlachian dress.
In the plain of Thessaly, the former serves of Byzantines and Turks, known as Karagunides, are descendants of Vlachs, Slavs and Albanians. Even today, however, there is a mutual dislike between Karagunides and Vlachs. It would be wonderful, if the off-springs of Greek refugees from Asia Minor felt the same dislike towards all of them. It applies, in this case too, what we call “generations gap”
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Raine, i am sure that you are descendant of an Australopitek. You are a psorokostaina.
Gainas
I would have used a more conventional title for this chapter, e.g. “Germans are coming back”.
In the early Byzantine years, during the emperor Arcadius’ era, Gainas was leader of the Gothic mercenary corps that exerted great influence in state affairs during the 4th and 5th centuries A.D.
Teutonic nations of Ostrogoths and Greuthungi had already settled in Phrygia of Asia Minor with Trivigildo as leader, adding their genes to the Great Nation of Asia Minor. Like the Galatians centuries ago, ancient Germans emerged in Ionia as invaders and destroyed the temple of Ephesian Artemis in AD 262, a temple which coexisted with the Christian cathedral for a short while in the city of Ephesus.
Today, however, we do not live in Asia Minor of past times, although we are descendants of the refugees expelled tragically, between 1915-1923, alongside the Greeks of Constantinople who received the finishing stroke by the Turks, during the pogrom of 1953, for a matter very little concerning them: the effort of Makarios III, archbishop of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, to assert his authority to the Turkish-Cypriot minority, after the independence of the island from British occupation.
The unknown history of Revolution
Through the distorting glass of Balkan propaganda of False-Greeks, history is presented in a mode of operation that the theory of heliocentrism suggests. All things in the universe have as central point Greece, regardless of the spreading of ancient and medieval Greek world which achieved great things beyond its narrow boundaries in three neighboring continents.
Although most of modern habitants of Greece are far from being Greeks, civilizations of the past, like colonies of antiquity, the Hellenistic realms and the Byzantine Empire, were an acquisition of the supposedly history of a small Balkan country, for the well-being of which they shed their blood even Greeks of Asia Minor, without their off-springs having recorded it in their own collective memory. The usual suspect is present here too! The prime movers of the so-called Revival of 1821, which had to do with the revolt of Slavic and Albanian peasants of Peloponnese and Rumeli against the Ottoman Empire, are Greeks of Asia Minor, of aristocratic lineage, with roots to the Byzantine period. The Ypsilanti of Trebizond, the Mavrokordati of Phanar and even thousands of soldiers who fought in Greece and elsewhere, the members of the famous Ionian Phalanx and the Sacred Batallion (Hieros Lochos), rendered invaluable services to the revolted Arvanitovlachs. Even the theoretic moving spirit of ethnic Hellenization of False-Greeks, the great scholar of Modern Greek Enlightenment, Adamantios Korais, who laid the intellectual foundations for the Greek struggle for independence, originated from Smyrna.
Ammunition and gold pounds arrived from Greek Smyrna, the palikars (soldiers) of Ayvalik (Kydonies) stormed castles like Palamidhion of Nauplia and destroyed the Turkish ships in Aegean Sea under the command of captain Saltellis, while a distinguished figure in the War of Independence was Nikolaos Papazoglu, ex admiral of the Mamluk fleet, who had joined the forces of Napoleon. Nicolas, as is referred to in Bonaparte’s journal, died forgotten and dressed in rags finally. Son of a Greek priest from Anatolia, he had become sultan of Egypt before the country was occupied by the Ottomans, as other compatriots of his in earlier time, and was far famed by the nickname El Rum. Those two men were crypto-Christians. Asia Minor Greeks and inhabitants of the nearby islands (Chios and Caso) paid also a significant death toll in the same war.
Wealthy cities and their communities, to Cappadocia and Ancyra, were abandoned to flames and the revengefulness of the Turkish mob. Smyrna, in 1821, experienced a second massacre, after the “Rebellion of Janissaries” (1797), when angry Turkish soldiers and ex-apostate Christians attacked the Greek population in order to revenge the murder of a janissary by a drunken False-Greek sailor from Seven Isles. It was an event that had to do with the significance of theatrical performances in the city, because the murderer wished to attend an opera show without paying the fee. It is also a remarkable event that the first theatrical performance registered in Smyrna’s history, after the Greco-Roman period, was “Nicomede” of Pierre Corneille in 1657.
Besides the slaughters in Smyrna, in 1821 Greeks of Kydonies were forced to abandoned their city in a heroic sortie and take refuge contemporarily in Greece, before returning to Ayvalik in 1840 after a general amnesty granted by the new sultan. Families of Ayvalik citizens, among those who established at Hermoupolis of Syros, brought out personalities who played a primal role in Greek politics, like Theodoros Pangalos, the dictator, Alexander Papagos, the commander in chief, and Stylianos Gonatas, the great.
Among those refugees of revolted Kydonies, ranks a tragic woman who gave a nickname to her new country, that is “Psorokostaina”. When in Nauplia a fund-raising was taking place for the needs of soldiers in the war of independence of 1821, a noble woman, widow of someone named Constantinos who had lost his life fighting against Turks in Ayvalik, offered first of all her mite. As she was also very poor (she suffered of scabies = psora in Greek) and, in Peloponnese, Arvanites and Greek-speaking Slavs gave to a woman the name of her husband, the widow of Kydonies was known as “Psorokostaina”. By contrast to wealthy Asia Minor’s Ionia and the lost homelands of Greeks afterwards, this derisive nickname was applied to Balkan Greece, in order to describe the misery and underdevelopment by which is entertained, for then on, as by an evil demon.
(Translation to English by Yolanda Dalka from the Periplous Edition, Athens)
Bibliography
Helene Glykatzi – Ahrweiler, “L’Idéologie politique de l’empire byzantin”, 1975.
Arnold Toynbee, “Constantine Porphyrogenitus and His World”, Oxford University Press 1973.
Spyros Bryonis, “Decline of medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Islamization, 11th – 15th centuries”, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, Athens 2008.
Ekdotiki Athinon, “History of Greek Nation”, Athens 1979.
Georg Ostrogorsky, “Geschichte des byzantinischen Staates”, Verlag C. H. Beck, München 1965.
Photis Kontoglou, “Ayvalik, my country”, Astir Publications, Athens 1962.
Phaidon Maligoudis, “The Slavs in medieval Greece”, Vanias Publications, Thessaloniki, 1988
Asia Minor Chronicles, The Association of Smyrnaians, a) John Veinoglu, “Contribution in research for Martyrs and Saints of Asia Minor”, b) Theodoros Theodoridis, “Vasariotic songs”.
Stantis and Ircos Apostolidis, Ismene Kapandai, “Ionia, the Greeks in Asia Minor”, Adam Publications, Athens 1997.
George Sakkaris, “History of Kydonies”, The Association of Kydonians, Athens 1982.
Donald Edgar Pitcher, “An historical geography of the Ottoman Empire: From earliest times to the end of the sixteenth century”, Leiden 1972.
William R. Biers, “The archaeology of Greece”, Cornell University Press 1996.
Review by Bob Nicolaides 06/09/13 via Typoglos.com http://www.typologos.com/is-greek-ar...of-asia-minor/
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Fallmerayer was proved wrong, just google him. He had political motivations, all of Europe was on Greece's side but he knew that the Ottoman Empire will make a good ally of Austria-Hungary. By claiming that Greeks are Slavs, he wanted to say that Greeks are not the descendants of the Ancient Greeks and that there is no reason for Greece to be liberated.
Do you really think that researchers couldn't see Slavic influence on Greeks? Greeks don't look Slavic at all.
Slavic influence is present in Albania and Kosovo though:
Albanians look very Slavic. Look at your own country before spreading lies about Greece.
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Says the pseudo-Iranic. The difference between Scythians/Andronovo/Sintashta and modern Iranians is like a difference between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals LOL.
You are basically a mish mash of browns folks (elamo-dravidians, semites etc) who got fucked in the ass by original Iranic speakers, and then by Arabs in th 7th century. I would call you semito-dravidians who dream about being descended from Scythians LOL
At least Turks always get Turkmens in their oracles, who are Oghuz speakers from Central Asia.
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