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I mean permanent inhabitation, you wombat. Not the invasions. Permanent inhabitation of Slavic residents took place in the mid-18th century.
Excuse me, since when Thessaloniki had a Slavic name? Or Pella? Or Drama? Or most toponyms in Macedonia. There are almost 2,500 toponyms in Macedonia. Of them the 138 have or had Slavic origin:
http://akritas-history-of-makedonia....st_25.html?m=1
Yeah, these 670,000 Greeks from 1910 to 1923 were added to the already existing total of 750,000 Greeks (both the Christians and the Islamised ones), who were 70% of Macedonia's population before 1910. And when I say Islamised Greeks, I don't mean the Muslim community in Thrace, as you've said once I considered so, but them:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Muslims
They were ethnic Greeks who converted to Islam. In the demographic censuses in the area, Greek Muslims were separated from the other Greeks. But both in total always were the 70% or more of Macedonia's population. In the population exchange of 1923, more than half of the 610,000 Muslims that left for Turkey were Greek Muslim converts.
As for the oppression, yeah, I'm sorry about that. But through this passage is evident that they're Slavs, and not related to the ancient kingdom.
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