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1) So what if it is not used as an ethnonym? Everyone is free to use it ? Everyone can suddenly call themselves Cretan f.e.?
2) Georgia in USA and Georgia in Caucasus aren't borderding. No Georgia is dreaming of a united Georgia and claiming history of another .
You fail to grasp it .
3) I'm both Greek and Macedonian. Your question doesn't make sense.
''What are you , Parisian or French? Texan or American? Berliner or German?
4) I think Illiria would be better. They can be Illirians, and dream of united Illirian lands. Why not?
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Ancient Macadonians were not greeks. From what I heard macadonia were considered barbarians to greeks and had various other ethnic groups within macadonia.
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Seems we will retain the name Macedonia with some addition.
http://m.novinite.com/articles/18892...e+of+Macedonia
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Yesterday a Greek pilot lost his life because his Mirage-2000 fell at sea, most probably by accident or human error, and the Turkish chief of Staff is still trying to get the Greek chief of Staff in order to express his condolences, while all Turkish media are stressing out in every possible manner that they are NOT involved in the falling of the Greek airplane.
Yes you moron, I would like to see you getting bankrupt together with them. Unfortunately you are not a part of the Ottoman empire and thus you won't be affected, nevertheless you should make your best effort at sucking money out of these morons...
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A total of 50.000 of them all over your fiefdom are not enough to identify all of you.
...And most of them descend from Paeonians, with Slavs coming in second place, Illyrians, Albanians e.t.c. following, and a few actual Macedonians in the mix...Our exotic bit is in the minority, just like your Macedonian bit is in the extreme minority. Greeks of Macedonia can rightly identify as either Macedonians or Anatolians (due to the recent exchange of populations) while you can rightly identify with the Paeonians.
A bit like yourselves....a few whiffs of Bulgarians, Albanians, Vlachs etc etc etc
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Topics like "Macedonians were Greeks or were not Greeks" are stupid.
Macedonians were Hellenic people.
And who are Hellenic people?
Those are people who at some point in time traveled and settled Europe from Anatolia and Mainland Greece.
Celts are Hellenic people (now near extinct)
Illyrians are Hellenic people
Thracians are Hellenic people
Anatolians (with respective regions) are Hellenic people
Sicilians are Hellenic poeple
Etruscans (Lydians) are Hellenic people
and so on...
So when Alexander proclaimed that he is "Hellene" he didn't meant "Mainland Greek"
So let's say that Macedonians are Slavophone Hellenes just like Anatolians are Turkified Hellenes... does that mean that modern Greeks can stop them from claiming Macedonian identity? For Strabo in Geographica said long ago that people of Western Balkans mixed with Scythians (Slavs) even in his time.
If Greeks think that THEY are Only Hellenes I think they are very wrong. It is correct however that people in modern Greece has saved Hellenic Culture, but Hellenic People does not EQUAL with Hellenic Culture.
When we talk about Hellenes we talk about Ancestry as well as culture.
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