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This article is from the Macedonia FAQ, by Angelos Karageorgiou angelos@iqs.gr with numerous contributions by others.

4) Why do you claim exclusive rights to the symbols of the ancient Macedonians?

We have linguistic, cultural, genealogical, and geographic ties to
the ancient Greeks and Macedons. They (FYROM) are mostly Slavs who
descended after 600 CE in the region, and have no ties whatsoever
(ancient Makedonia was within modern Greece since its inception).

Even after the great expansion by Philip the II and Alexander the
Great in the 400s BCE, perhaps even less than 10% of the FYROMian
land was part of the `enlarged kingdom'. The reader should realize
that the punitive expeditions of the Macedonians in the north, as
well as their imperial acquisitions in the Balkans and Asia did not
necessarily produce a `wider concept of Macedonia' - a country with
boarders extending to India. That would be most simplistic!

Pella, the capital of the ancient Makedones, is well within modern
Greek borders.

 

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