The Ethnicity of the Ancient Macedonians

[MegaArgus1]

Then Rename your multi-ethnic country to Illyria or Dardania/ Peonia. Macedonian was a tribal name of a Greek tribe. The ethnicity was Greek.

That is not proven. Many historic sources claim that you are wrong.
A lie repeated few thousand times becomes true. Is that you believe in?

[MegaArgus1]

Good luck in proving the Dorians weren’t a Greek race.

I don't care and I don't want to prove anything. On that question will answer more qualified people than you and me. Let them do their job.

[wvwvw]

That is not proven. Many historic sources claim that you are wrong.
A lie repeated few thousand times becomes true. Is that you believe in?

What is not proven? That the etymology of their tribal name is not Greek, that their North-West dialect is not Greek, that all their toponyms and material culture are not Greek, or that they didn’t identify as Hellenes?

But even if they weren’t Greek, but Hellenized Martians, Celts or Skythians what difference does it make. They have been part of the Greek nation for millenia of years, and they never inhabited Peonian Fyromian lands.

[Mingle]

Even in the Macedonian textbooks of History, Alexander and Macedonia are considered as part of the Hellenic culture . That doesn't mean Greeks as nationality or race.

Greek and Hellenic are synonyms and always have been. Saying that Greek and Hellenic are distinct terms is like saying that Slav and Sclaveni are distinct terms.

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[MegaArgus1]

Greek and Hellenic are synonyms and always have been. Saying that Greek and Hellenic are distinct terms is like saying that Slav and Sclaveni are distinct terms.

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Like English speaking world are English, like Spanish speaking world are Spanish, like Latin speaking world were Romans, consequently Hellenic speaking world were Greeks. With that logic all population in Europe were Greeks since before the Latin it was the only language which left written records. I think this stupidity is going too far. The Greeks should stop at once and wake up in the 21st century.

[Queen B]

Like English speaking world are English, like Spanish speaking world are Spanish, like Latin speaking world were Romans, consequently Hellenic speaking world were Greeks. With that logic all population in Europe were Greeks since before the Latin it was the only language which left written records. I think this stupidity is going too far. The Greeks should stop at once and wake up in the 21st century.

The stupidity of this part is believing that there was a secret ghost language that there is not one single record about its existence.
There are many languages with no written form. BUT you can find records from other languages in reference to their existence, some names/words/info.

[Eridon]

Macedonian is in the Hellenic Language family, they were obviously Greeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedo...cient_kingdom)

Let's be honest, the Slav horde failed to conquer Greece and they ruined the reach of Greek/Hellenic Cultural power in the process due to constant Bulgar invasions that left the East Roman Empire weak and Turkey, vulnerable to the Seljuk Muslim Horde.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(Greece) Northern Greece is literally called Macedonia, the Slav Horde encountered Greeks in the far Northern Regions and they ultimately failed to Slavicize the entire region.

[MegaArgus1]

Macedonian is in the Hellenic Language family, they were obviously Greeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedo...cient_kingdom)

Let's be honest, the Slav horde failed to conquer Greece and they ruined the reach of Greek/Hellenic Cultural power in the process due to constant Bulgar invasions that left the East Roman Empire weak and Turkey, vulnerable to the Seljuk Muslim Horde.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(Greece) Northern Greece is literally called Macedonia, the Slav Horde encountered Greeks in the far Northern Regions and they ultimately failed to Slavicize the entire region.

How come British to be interested in Macedonian issues?
I can see "unbiased" opinion which instantly tells me the origin of the writer.

[MegaArgus1]

The stupidity of this part is believing that there was a secret ghost language that there is not one single record about its existence.
There are many languages with no written form. BUT you can find records from other languages in reference to their existence, some names/words/info.

keep your temper

[wvwvw]

Like English speaking world are English, like Spanish speaking world are Spanish, like Latin speaking world were Romans, consequently Hellenic speaking world were Greeks. With that logic all population in Europe were Greeks since before the Latin it was the only language which left written records. I think this stupidity is going too far. The Greeks should stop at once and wake up in the 21st century.

The Macedonians were Dorians, a Greek tribe. They couldn’t have adopted the Greek language, because they spoke an archaic dialect of North-West Greek, spoken nowhere else in Greece. All their toponyms, placenames, and material culture is Greek.

If they just had adopted the Greek language, traces of a language other than Greek would have been found in Macedonia, like it was found in Illyria or Thrace. But the only traces of languages found in Macedonia is that of North-West Greek.