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Ethnicity of the Ancient Macedonians Alexander's Macedonian conquest was not a Greek conquest. When the Macedonian Army conquered territories from Greece to India, it was the "Greek Empire" that received the recognition, not the Macedonian Empire (although Alexander's empire had been correctly called Macedonian and not Greek in the ancient sources). The Macedonians were smart enough to keep this international Greek language for the Persians, Egyptians, Jews, and all the nations of his empire to communicate. faq.macedonia.org /history/ancient.macedonia/ethnicity.html   (2215 words)

macedonia :: the ancient macedonians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) The ancient Macedonians were the largest population of this region. The ancient Macedonians were a nation with their own language, culture, different by other by their appearance, clothes, weapons with symbols, different from the other ancient nations of the Balkans. The newest archeological researches made, proved that the ancient Macedonians were a nation with large knowledge in the architecture. www.popovashapka.com /macedoniainfo/history/ancient_macedonians.htm   (1235 words)

Macedonian Heritage - FAQ Until that time, it was well understood that reference to the “Macedonian language” of the Ancient Macedonians meant reference to a classical Greek dialect; whereas reference to the “Macedonian dialects” of the Slav-speakers of Macedonia signified dialects of the Bulgarian language. Subsequently, by monopolising the Macedonian name for the new language, nationalist activists, most significantly throughout the Diaspora, began to put forward the claim that the Macedonian language of the ancient Macedonians, was by no means a Greek dialect, but, indeed, a distant relative of the current Macedonian language of the Slavs of FYROM. Their choice of the term “Slav Macedonian” has helped, on the one hand, to preserve the distinction of the Macedonian language of the Ancient Macedonians, and on the other, to define the official language of FYROM in a more precise way- by simply underlining its doubtless slavic character. www.macedonian-heritage.gr /FAQ.html   (3688 words)

Macedonia for the Macedonians The hypothesis that ancient Macedonian was closest to the Thessalian and Magnesian Aeolian dialect is based upon a fragment from Greek mythology in Hesiod (Fr.7-MW), that Magnes and Makedon were first cousins by the sons of Helen. Another fact proving the idea that ancient Macedonian was a separate language is the fact that the mother tongue of Alexander the Great was not understood by the ancient Greeks: a fact of which there are explicit proofs. Because contemporary Macedonian language is also a Slavic language, and according to a lot of research the ancient Macedonian language was of the same kind as the language of the Pellastis, being the oldest recognized Slavic language, it is very likely that contemporary Macedonian in certain laxic elements is like the Homeric Language. www.makedonija.info /ancient.html   (6233 words)

Similarities between ancient Macedonian and today's' Macedonian Culture (Linguistics and Onomastics) The remark that the middle age Macedonians simply borrowed this word from the language of ancient Macedonians and used it in 11th century is not valid. There is plenty of ancient, middle age and modern age narrative evidence concerning the analogy between the culture of the ancient Macedonians and the culture of the Veneti (ancestors of the "Slavs"). Ancient Macedonians were considered to be "Slavs" (Veneti) by a number of poets from Dubrovnik, and also a number of Russian historians: Butkov, Saveljev, Rostislavich and Chertkov, as well as archimandrites Leonid and Filrot. www.historyofmacedonia.org /ConciseMacedonia/similarities.html   (7719 words)

Ancient Macedonians and their Macedonian language To avoid battle Xennias, a man whose speech was Macedonian, was sent by Eumenes to negotiate with the commander of the phalanx. The suggestion is surely that Macedonian was the language of the infantry and that Greek was a difficult, indeed a foreign language to them. We may thus take it as certain that, when Alexander used Macedonian in addressing his guards, that too was because it was their normal language, and because (like Ambiance) he had to be sure he would be understood". www.mymacedonia.net /ancient/ancient.htm   (3368 words)

Ancient Macedonian Language - a distinct Indo-European language Many scholars have concluded that the ancient Macedonian language was not a Greek dialect and that it was more or less related to the languages of Macedonia's northern neighbors, the Illyrians and the Thracians. The Macedonian kings, Philip and Alexander, favored Hellenization and encouraged the use of Attic Greek in their administrations, but the use of this foreign tongue was not foisted upon ordinary Macedonians. We must remember also that much of the history about ancient Macedonians that is passed on to us comes through Greek sources, and names are likely to have been shaped into Greek forms for a myriad of reasons, including the likelihood that Greek writers may not have been able to pronounce other tongues. www.ancientmacedonia.com /shea2.html   (4766 words)

Badian The Kultursprache of ancient Macedonians, as soon as they felt the need for one, was inevitably Greek, as it was in the case of various other ancient peoples. The question of whether the Macedonians, in the fourth century B.C., where regarded as Greeks or as barbarians--a question which, as I have indicated, is not closely connected with the real affinities that a modern scholar might find--is therefore of considerable historical interest. The fact that in the final battle a large contingent betrayed their comrades and deserted to the Macedonians shows that (as centuries before in the battle of Lade) national antagonism was by no means pervasive, and was perhaps not at all prominent. www.gate.net /~mango/Badian.htm   (7216 words)

Macedonian Olympians Macedonians, through their agrarian and bucolic lives, their mountainous terrain, their continuous struggles to keep at bay barbarians from raiding the Greek peninsula and their intermittent internal struggles for succession to the Throne of Macedonia, ended up being rather isolated from the rest of the Greeks. Dion, the sacred place of Macedonians, is one of the largest (about 4 acres) and most archeologically significant districts of Greece, featuring multifarious bath areas, taking up about 1 acre, with tiled floors, marble bathtubs, complete plumbing system (led and clay pipes) and lavish colonnaded tiled halls. All ancient authors refer to the impact of the Hellenistic cultural and intellectual thinking that was passed on by the Macedonians to the peoples of the Far East. www.panmacedonia.info /martis_contribution.html   (1608 words)

Barnes & Noble.com - Ancient Macedonians: Differences Between the Ancient Macedonians and the Ancient ... To understand the history of the ancient Macedonians, their ethnogenesis and their innermost drives as people, we need to analyze and comprehend, first and foremost, their deeply rooted material culture. Gandeto had applied all ancient historical evidence on the ancient Macedonians and had confirmed what the ancient Greek and Romans themselves had conveyed in their own writings - that the Macedonians had never been Greeks, but a distinct nation which had conquered the ancient Greeks and kept them under occupation till the coming of Rome. It was a fact known to, and acknowledged by, the Roman generals who demanded that the Macedonians withdrew from 'the whole of Greece.' Anybody who is interested in the history of ancient Macedonia must get acquainted with the wealth this books has to offer. search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ISBN=0595-23306-6&pdf=y&userid=55PD2JL5MH   (398 words)

Were the ancient Macedonians Greek?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) There is no doupt that ancient Macedonians were Greek. Among the discoveries of this tomb is the "Vergina sun" the symbol that FYROM attempted to use on its flag initially. All the ancient Macedonian names mentioned in history or found on tombs are Greek. truth.macedonia.gr /index00.html   (565 words)

"Ancient Macedonians were Greeks" In place of the nine-foot spear carried by the Greek hoplite, the Macedonian infantryman was armed with a pike or sarissa about 13 or 14 feet long, which required both hands to wield it. Here you have a clear delineation between Greeks Hellenes [Athenians and Spartans] and their common enemy - the Macedonians Why not accept the fate of the ancient authors and reconcile with the fact that ancient Macedonians were just that - Macedonians. Nothing could be further from the truth than to claim that the ancient Macedonians and the ancient Greeks were brethren. www.historyofmacedonia.org /AncientMacedonia/greeklie2.html   (2472 words)

[soc.culture.greek] Macedonia FAQ The ancient people inhabiting the area around Skopje, at the time of the ancient Macedonians, were the Dardanians, and their land was called Dardania. Macedonian people (Greeks) are already a majority in Greece, with Macedonian churches, schools and cultural centers teaching Greek and regional dances and songs. As long as they use the term "Macedonian" to describe their nationality, their minority in Greece cannot be recognized since the same name is used by the Greeks of Macedonia to describe themsleves for much longer that the written history of any slavic tribe. www.faqs.org /faqs/cultures/macedonia/faq   (2154 words)

Oshchima Furthermore, and without a shred of evidence, they claim that “all” the ancient Macedonians were killed off during the so called “Slav invasions” of the fifth and sixth centuries AD and there is no one left but the Greeks to claim Macedonia’s heritage. The Greeks, again without any evidence, claim that the modern Macedonians are Slavs who invaded Macedonia during the fifth and sixth centuries AD and have nothing in common with the ancient Macedonians and therefore have no rights to the Macedonian heritage. There is ample evidence that shows that the ancient Macedonians not only survived the many calamities from ancient times to now but their descendants do exist in Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Albania, Canada, Australia, the United States of America, Europe and the world over. www.oshchima.com /hbook.htm   (627 words)

Macedonia - United Macedonians Organization of Canada Amyntas III was the great grandson of Alexander I. The shakeup of the Macedonian kingdom due to the early and unexpected departure of Archelaus, was a signal for Macedonia's enemies to make their move. If the Pelasgi, the ancient pre-Hellenic peoples, who occupied Greece before the 12th century BC, and who were said to have inhabited Thrace, Argos, Crete, and Chalcidice, had their own alphabet, it unquestionably predated the alleged import of the Greek from the Phoenician. From what the ancient authors (Diodorus Liculus) tell us, Philip was no ordinary man. When he was taken hostage to Thebes he was only thirteen years old and yet at that young age he was more interested in the affairs of the Theban government and military than playing with his peers. www.unitedmacedonians.org /macedonia/stefov20.html   (8068 words)

Macedonian History - Canadian Macedonian Historical Society On Sunday, November 30th, 2003, the Canadian Macedonian Historical Society -- together with St. Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral and the Macedonian Human Rights Movement of Canada -- jointly hosted a historical presentation by Joseph Gandeto, author of Ancient Macedonians: Differences Between the Ancient Macedonians and the Ancient Greeks. With extensive citations from ancient and modern sources Joseph delivered indisputable evidence that the ancient Macedonians were a unique, determined and proud race. He riveted the audience by delivering piece after piece of documented and properly sourced evidence demonstrating not only that the ancient Macedonians were not Greek, but also that they were proud of their distinct achievements as Macedonians. www.macedonianhistory.ca /html/events/gandeto.html   (681 words)

Ancient Macedonia Ancient Quotes on the Macedonians as Distinct Nation Greeks and Macedonians by Ernst Badian (Harvard University) Why were the Macedonians styled as "Greeks" in the 19th Century? www.ancientmacedonia.com   (119 words)

Macedonian language - [wp-polyglots] Translation of WordPress in Macedonian language Kiril i Metodij The Macedonian Language, Literature, and Culture Seminar is a major annual event that takes place during the month of August in Ohrid. MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE DISPUTE A dispute over teaching in the Albanian language language class at a local secondary school. The Macedonian language was introduced into literature mostly in an The vocal system of the Macedonian language consists of five sounds (a, e, i, o, u). macedonian-language.getinfoeasy.com   (206 words)

Neolithic Neolithic inhabitation of the so called Porodin group on Pelagonija show a specific sign on living and burial. The Macedonian Neolithic revolution and evolution, as well as the one from the Balkan - along the Danube and Balkan - Anadolia (map5) spaces is not cut of as some modern archaeologists would claim, but instead it has transformed and evolved to a higher degree of development of the material and spiritual culture. Possible migrations of some populations from East to West, from North to South and back could not be the cause or reason for the complete demise of cultures and populations of the Balkans. www.unet.com.mk /ancient-macedonians/neolithic.htm   (337 words)

Ancients Titles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) Covers each of Caesar campaigns in ancient France, Britain and Germany describing battles on land and sea including the bridge across the Rhine, invasions of England and sieges of Celtic strongholds. Tales from the historic oral tradition and ancient manuscripts of the Celts. An illustrated encyclopedia of weapons, warriors and warfare in the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome. www.lastsquare.com /BookCatalog/Ancients.html   (1907 words)

MAKEDONIA for GREECE (THE TRUE ANCIENT MACEDONIANS) -- chaotic forums MAKEDONIA for GREECE (THE TRUE ANCIENT MACEDONIANS) -- chaotic forums Subject: MAKEDONIA for GREECE (THE TRUE ANCIENT MACEDONIANS) Re: UNITED MAKEDONIJA ONLY FOR THE MACEDONIANS -- saraf, 09:58:55 03/13/06 Mon www.voy.com /72789/27.html   (78 words)

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