Dorothy King against FYROM's (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) propaganda
Dorothy King against
FYROM's (
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) propaganda. Archaeologist Dorothy King states the historical truth and stands against FYROM's (the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, which actually corresponds to ancient Paeonia) propaganda.
Stephen Batchelor, “
The Ancient Greeks for Dummies”, 2008: "
Macedonia was - and still is - a territory of northern
Greece.
The Ancient Macedonians were of
Greek origin and spoke a broader rougher dialect of Greek."
Ovid [
Author],
Peter Green [
Translator], "The Poems of
Exile",
University of California Press,
2005, p.319: “Ovid was lax in his geography, not least over Paeonia (in fact roughly coextensive with the present
Slav republic of Macedonia.)”
Timothy Howe,
Jeanne Reames, "
Macedonian Legacies",
Regina Books, 2008, p.239: “Paeonia, roughly where the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is today."
Ridvan
Peshkopia, "Conditioning Democratization",
Anthem Press,
2015, p.189:
“
Besides the former kingdom of
Macedon, the
Roman region included the territories of Paeonia where the contemporary
FYR Macedonia rests
.”
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The “
Macedonia name issue” (the disagreement over the use of the name "Macedonia" between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) is not simply a dispute over historical facts and symbols. It is a problem with regional and international dimensions, given that FYROM is exercising a policy of irredentism and territorial claims fuelled by the falsification of history and the usurpation of Greece's historical and national heritage.
In its current form, the FYROM name issue arose in
1991, when FYROM declared its independence from
Yugoslavia under the name
Republic of Macedonia. Historically, the
Greek name Macedonia refers to the state and civilisation of the ancient Macedonians, a
Greek people, and bears no relation whatsoever with the residents of FYROM who identify themselves as “ethnic Macedonians” but are of
Slavic (
Bulgarian and
Serbian) origin and arrived in the region of the ancient
Kingdom of Macedonia in the 6th and
7th centuries AD, more than
1,000 years after the demise of the Macedonian kingdom.
The modern geographical term “Macedonia” refers to the Ottoman lands in Balknas that became identified as "Macedonia", a broader region that emerged in the late
Ottoman era and includes portions of the territories of various countries (mainly Greece, FYROM and
Bulgaria). However, the greater part of the modern geographical Macedonia corresponds to the area covered by the ancient
Greek Macedonia, which lies within the boundaries of modern Greece and coincides with
Macedonia, Greece, the biggest and second most populous Greek region.
On the contrary, the modern state of the FYROM (which borders with Macedonia, Greece), coincides with the ancient kingdom of Paeonia, an enemy of Macedonia.
Some 2.5 million
Greek citizens currently live in Macedonia, Greece, whose inhabitants have called and considered themselves Macedonians since time immemorial, and are unrelated to the
Slavic people who are associated with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The name issue originated in the aftermath of the
Second World War, when
Josip Broz Tito separated the area then known as
Vardar Banovina (now FYROM) from
Serbia, granting it the status of a
Republic within the new federal Yugoslavia, under the name
Socialist Republic of Macedonia, concurrently promoting the doctrine of a separate “
Macedonian” nation. It is now known that the most important reason for opting to promote the doctrine of “Macedonism” at clear variance with the geographical reality of the broader region of Macedonia, was his desire to gain access to the
Aegean Sea by cultivating the notion of reunification of all the territories of the modern geographical Macedonia, following
Comintern's (
Communist International) orders
.
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Encyclopedia of
World Geography,
Volume 1,
2006, p.564: "
Macedonian nationalism, as distinct from other
South Slavic peoples is, moreover, a relatively new concept, introduced and encouraged by dictator
Josip Tito, upon the creation of a separate
Macedonian Republic within the Yugoslav federation in 1946. Prior to this, the area generally known as
Vardarska banovina (the district of the
Vardar river) was considered simply an extension of its southern Slavic neighbors, either
Serbians to the north, or
Bulgarians to the east.
Slavs arrived in the
Balkan Peninsula only in the
6th century AD, and therefore have nothing to do with the well-known classical kingdom of Macedonia, which dominated the rest of Greece, the
Near East,
Egypt and
Persia under
Alexander the Great in the
4th century BCE.”
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