Ancient Macedonia was never part of Vardaska (Fyrom). Real Macedonia lies in Greece:
Map of Ancient Macedonia. 95% of Ancient Macedonia still lies in Greece. The region above macedonia (Fyrom) was known as Vardaska.
Regions of Ancient Macedonia:
http://www.macedonia.com/english/history/regions1.html
And the real name of the area above Greece inhabited by the West Bulgarians is Vardaska.
Fyrom is a fake country that hijacked the name and history of Ancient macedonians. As late as 1946 Fyrom was known as Vardaska
"In 1931 Yugoslavia was reorganized into 9 regions (Banovinas). The southern region of Yugoslavia, including today's FYROM, was named as Vardaska Banovina (or Vardaria). That was the original name of the area of FYROM, when it was first created, inside Yugoslavia."
In 1946 it was renamed to Macedonia, the same name as the Greek province of Greece (where real Macedonia is). They clearly aimed in accessing the Aegean Sea, a priviledge that they had lost after the 1st World War. On their side they had the Russians who wanted to gain access in the area. They proposed the creation of a communistic state in Macedonia which they planned to annex in the future.
Fyrom continues to have territorial claims against Greece:
Notice how they include a huge chunk of Northern Greece in their map. They indoctrinate their children from a small age that Ancient macedonians had nothing to do with Greeks, and indoctrinate them to hate Greeks.
Fact is that Macedonians have never associated themselves with anything other than Greek. Slavs,Turks or Bulgarians were NEVER characterised as “Macedonians” in Byzantine, Ancient, and foreign Sources.
The two terms, Macedonian, do not always have the same significance: they coincide only to the extend that they refer to a geographical concept.
The term Μαcedonian also was to a considerable extend used in its geographical sense, when it designated a Byzantine inhabitant of Macedonia. Since, however, it could at the same time have other, non-geographical, connotations (racial, family, etc.). it does not appear blindly to follow the successive administrate changes effected by the central authority.
It is characteristic that those who from time to time are designated as Μacedonian are always members of Byzantine society or the Byzantine army, speaking the same language and apparently following the same failh, and that
they never appear to turn, as the head of a certain group, against ihe Byzantine state.
(as was the case with Bulgarians)
In this sense, the term Μακεδών could be applied lo a person who was not of Macedonian descent. The characteristic example here is that of the Emperor Basil I, who is clearly described as being descended “from the Armenian nation“: This however, did not stop the Byzantines from calling him a Macedonian.
e) This category does not appear to include the more recent immigrants to Macedonia, evidently because they retained their own ethnic particularity (language, religion, culture, etc.) and, more important still, their independence from the Byzantine rule.
Thus, for example, in no case could any Bulgars, Slavs or Turks who were known to have settled in the region after a certain period (and who, indeed, became the permanent residents) ever be described as Μacedones
An interesting case of this refusal to use the term Μαcedon, as a descriptor for local, generally Slav, rulers, is that of Tsar Samuel. Samuel who came from the Western Macedonian district of Ochrid and who brought all Macedonia under his rule in the late 10th centure and early 11th century, was never called Μακeδών (=Macedonian), either by the Byzantines or by local Slavo-Bulgarian sources.
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Originally Posted by Alexq
here we go again...I wont bother waste my time going over this shit again, I wil tell you one thing, the word "greek" is a made up word by the latins, and those ancient macedonians never claimed being "greek"
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