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

7) Who populated the lands of modern FYROM in the past?

The ancient people inhabiting the area around Skopje, at the time of
the ancient Macedonians, were the Dardanians, and their land was
called Dardania. Throughout their modern history, the region now
occupied by FYROM was populated mostly by Bulgarians.

The creation of "Macedonia" (FYROM, SROM) was artificial.
Ex-Yugoslavs will attest to that. FYROM is comprised of Albanians,
Serbs, and Bulgarians and their language is a Bulgarian dialect with
a few Serbo-croatian words. Bulgarians will attest to that and
understand/speak "Macedonian".

In any case FYROM's president admitted publicly that the current
inhabitants of FYROM are slavs.

"We are Slavs who came to this area in the sixth century . . .
we are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians."
( President of FYROM Ciro Gligorov,
from the Foreign Information Service Daily Report,
Eastern Europe, February 26, 1992, p. 35.)

 

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