Introduction - Part 04

Putting the EU and democracy in the same sentence is an oxymoron, the two cannot be more diametrically opposed.

Before Catalonia and Macedonia it was Crimea. Once again the EU would not recognize a Referendum that had over 90% turnout simply because they did not like the result, just like they did not like

the results in Macedonia and Catalonia. In Catalonia Spanish police beat voters who waited in line to vote, police stole ballot boxes to reduce the turnout percentage, which they did. And what did the EU say, absolutely nothing. It never condemned all the crazy violence against the Catalan people.

Catalonia, Macedonia, Crimea all have one thing in common. The people have spoken, but the EU vassals serving globalists were told not to ‘recognize’ the results.

What more can I say…?

I know that words can do no justice to the suffering the Macedonian people endured since 1878. I will do my best to describe what life was like to be ruled by the Ottomans, governed by the Greeks, pillaged by the Albanians and robbed and beaten by the villains of society. It has been said that education was a curse in Macedonia. No educated Macedonian lived to a ripe old age. If a man was educated, he died at the hands of his enemies, not because he was educated but because he was feared. The Ottomans feared him because he might rise up against them. The Greeks feared him because he might oppose them. The Bulgarians feared him because he might expose them. (If you wish to learn more about the horrors committed by the Ottomans in Macedonia, read Brailsford’s book, Macedonia, Its races and their Future.)

The 1878 Treaty of Berlin awakened the Muslim Rulers (Ottomans and Albanians) in the Balkans to the reality that their Empire had come close to disintegrating. But instead of searching for a rational solution, the Ottomans did what they had always done best and what the Great Powers expected them to do, turn to violence. They took counter-measures to suppress the “troublemakers”, by extinguishing their rebellious spirit. In practice this manifested itself in a variety of punishments that included the following:

Taxes were raised to pay off western loans. The Ottomans and Muslim Albanians were a predatory (parasitic) race and produced nothing themselves. Instead they lived off the earning power of the Macedonians and other Christians.

To prevent further uprisings and rebellions, the Ottomans stepped up espionage activities and searches for weapons. In reality, however, the weapons searches were nothing more than an excuse to take revenge and further pillage the Macedonian peasants. Those who could afford to pay bribes paid off the Ottomans to avoid misfortune. Those who couldn’t were tortured and usually beaten to death. If by any chance weapons were found, the entire village was burned to the ground, even if the weapons belonged to a thug.

The Ottomans were not above shaming or kidnapping Macedonian women either. In fact it was common practice for Muslim soldiers to grab Christian women while conducting raids on villages. (For a Macedonian woman death was preferable over a lifetime of shame.) The Macedonians of the Ottoman era were extremely moral people and conducts of this nature were not taken lightly. Unfortunately, there was nothing that could be done to avenge the women, so women carried the burden of shame alone, for the rest of their lives. No Christian was allowed to bear arms and defend his family. There was no one to complain to because in most cases the perpetrators and the villains were the law. No Muslim could be punished for doing harm to a Christian, no matter what the crime.

In addition to contending with the Ottoman authorities, Macedonians faced kidnappings and assaults from the Albanians. Any man, woman, or child that ventured too far from the village exposed themselves to the risks of being kidnapped (an old Albanian pastime) by Albanian marauders or by Ottoman outlaws who demanded a hefty ransom for a safe return. It was certain death if no ransom was paid.

There were also the roving Ottoman patrols that traveled the highways and if someone happened to cross paths with them, they would be robbed, beaten and humiliated in a number of different ways, depending on the mood of the soldiers.

The greatest threat to Macedonian life came from the Bashi-buzouks or armed civilian Muslims. Most of the Bashi-buzouks were Albanians who made a career of pillaging, burning Macedonian villages and torturing the inhabitants. After 1878, Bashi-buzouk raids escalated to a point where they became intolerable. The

Christians had no legal recourse to fight back. Being Muslims, the Bashi-buzouks were immune from legal prosecution. The only way Macedonians could fight back was to flee to the mountains and join the outlaws.

Let’s not forget the annual routine homage and tributes paid to the Albanian clans for not burning the villages and crops, the local policemen for not humiliating and beating family members and the local hoods for not assaulting and bullying the women and children.

It would be an injustice if I didn’t mention the way Ottomans treated women. No Macedonian woman was safe from them. If a woman caught an Ottoman’s eye there was no escape, she would be plucked kicking and screaming from her home and family, converted to Islam by force and thrown into a harem to become an object of lust. No woman was safe, not even a bride on her wedding day.

A Macedonian could not rise above his tyrannical existence on his own because every time he did he was either killed for his education, robbed of his wealth, kicked out of his home for his lands, murdered for defending his family, or humiliated for his existence.

This is not what Macedonians wanted for themselves, but those powerful enough refused to help them. The Greek clergy who were responsible for the well-being of the Macedonian people were the first to condemn them. Their first priorities were to Hellenize them so that they could steal their heritage. The Greeks, with their “superior attitude”, despised the Macedonians because of their race (the Slavs were the enemy) and because of their agrarian abilities (which the Greeks loathed).

The Great Powers, in their zeal to dominate the Balkans, found themselves at odds with each other and by 1878 were either content with “doing nothing” or stifled by frustration and “turned their backs” on the mess they had created. The Ottoman state, for the West was the goose that kept on laying golden eggs.

No excuses or apologies from the English and the French can make up for unleashing the Ottomans and Hellenism on Macedonia after

1878. No Macedonian, or any human being for that matter, should ever forgive the Western Powers for putting profit ahead of human life and intentionally turning their backs on the Macedonian people.

Labeling people “Slav” and “Barbarian” because they were not educated does not make them inhuman and certainly does not excuse “civilized” western societies for tormenting them. Here is what Petrovska has to say. “It is erroneous to dismiss peasant culture as backwards, simply because they are not literate cultures. Indeed the opposite is the case. Children were educated by way of story telling and folklore, which contained morals and lessons about life, relationships and their places in the world.” (Page 167, Children of the Bird Goddess) (If you want to learn more about life in Macedonia read Kita Sapurma and Pandora Petrovska’s book entitled “Children of the Bird Goddess”, an oral history that spans over 100 years and explores the lives of four generations of Macedonian women.)

One has only to examine Macedonian traditions, customs, dress, folklore and attitude towards life to find an “old race” full of vigour, enduring hardships, living as it always lived close to nature, always craving everlasting peace. Macedonian songs are timeless records of sorrow and of hope that “someday this too will pass”. Macedonians have survived to this day because they have a caring quality and a capacity to give and forgive, never wanting anything in return. Anyone who has visited a Macedonian home or has lived among Macedonians can attest to that.

Macedonia (outside of Alexander’s campaigns) had done no ill against any nation to deserve such punishment from the Ottomans and the Greeks. Macedonians did not desire to be labeled “barbarian Slavs” or choose to be illiterate. It was “pure prejudice” on the part of Western Societies that degraded the Macedonian people to barbarian status and created the conditions for the Ottomans and the Greeks to abuse them. The West’s artificial creation of Greece and Hellenism and the Greek quest for purity and national homogeneity is what upset the “natural balance” in the Balkans. Macedonia, since Alexander’s time, has been a “worldly” nation and has maintained its multi-ethnic, multi-cultural pluralistic character. If you take the Ottomans out of Macedonia in the 19th century you will find a

society of many nations working and living together in peace, each doing what comes naturally. Anyone who has lived in Macedonia can attest to that. It has always been “outsiders” who shifted the balance and disturbed the peace in the Balkans. While western Europe slept through her “dark ages”, the people of the Balkans lived in relative harmony for over 1,100 years. Each race played an important role in maintaining the social and political balance and the economic self-sufficiency of the region.

During the 19th century almost all Macedonians lived in village communities. There were no Greeks living in the Macedonian mainland and only a small minority lived in the coastal towns, islands and larger cities. The majority of the villages were Macedonian with the odd Vlach village nestled here and there in the mountains. Macedonians spoke the Macedonian language and lived an agrarian life working the lands. Among the Macedonians lived some Vlachs who spoke both Vlach and Macedonian. Their main occupation was retail trade, running the local grocery stores and retail businesses. In addition to the Vlachs, there were roving Romas (Gypsies) who traveled from village to village trading their wares. They traded pack animals like horses, mules and donkeys, repaired old and sold new flour sifters, loom reeds and other fine crafts. They bartered with the village women and traded beads, string and sewing needles for beans and walnuts. To those who could afford it, they sold silk kerchiefs, handmade baskets and purses. With those who couldn’t afford them, they traded their wares for vegetables, eggs and a few bales of hay. Among themselves the Gypsies spoke their Gypsy dialect but with their customers they spoke Macedonian.

Another race that frequented the Macedonian landscape were the panhandlers from Epirus and Thessaly who performed magic on old copper pots and pans and made spoons and forks shine like mirrors. In addition to their own language, they too spoke Macedonian and were open to bartering for their wares and services.

Carpenters, stone masons, barrel makers and woodcutters came from far and wide. They came from as far as Albania or as close as the poorest Macedonian village. For a fair wage, some rakia (alcohol spiced with anise during distillation) and three meals a day, they built fences, porches, staircases and entire houses. For the

Macedonians the soil provided most of life’s necessities. For the rest they bought, traded, or bartered.

The only desire Macedonians had in the 19th century was to rid themselves of the tyranny of the oppressive Ottomans. This was most evident in the communiqué’s, appeals and manifestos of the legendary Macedonian Revolutionary Committee.

While Macedonia was being choked by the Ottoman noose of oppression, tormented by Hellenism and frustrated by Bulgarian deception, the Greek army, in 1881, annexed Thessaly and in 1885 the Bulgarian army (with Russia’s support) annexed eastern Rumelia. While the Ottoman Empire was crumbling at the edges, it was tightening its grip ever harder on Macedonia. Looting, burning homes and murders were on the rise. More and more Macedonians were made homeless and forced to become outlaws. The brave ones took up arms and fought back only to see that their actions caused more death and misery. The Ottomans and their Albanian allies didn’t care who they killed. If one Ottoman or Albanian died in battle, the army took revenge on the next village they encountered. Thousands of innocent women and children were murdered in revenge killings, not to mention the assaults on countless young girls. Homes were burned down and the inhabitants were shot as target practice as they ran out to save themselves from the fire. Those too old or sick to move died a horrible, fiery death. Many of the survivors from the burned out villages joined the outlaws in the mountains and as their ranks swelled they began to organize and fight back.

Western Europeans and Russians, on the other hand, were flooding the Ottoman Balkans on vacation, to do business or lend a helping hand as missionaries or relief workers. They enjoyed all the freedoms and privileges as honourary citizens of the Ottoman Empire, under the protection of their country’s flag and paid nothing for the honour bestowed upon them, not even taxes. Ottoman officers, even generals, had to salute western soldiers. Imagine a proud Ottoman general having to salute a common English soldier, just because he was English! Some Ottoman officers were so humiliated they refused to wear their uniforms out in the streets.

It has been said that soon after the Ottomans conquered Albania, the Albanian people began to convert to Islam. As Muslims, the Albanians to a large extent enjoyed the same privileges and advantages as their conquerors. The advantages of becoming a Muslim as opposed to staying Christian were obvious. Those who wanted to retain title to their lands did not hesitate to convert. In fact many realized that by converting they could amass wealth and increase their own importance at the expense of their Christian neighbours.

By the 19th century about two-thirds of the Albanians embraced Islam and served in almost every capacity in the Ottoman administration including the Sultan’s palace guard. Also by the 19th century a great deal of the Ottoman services became corrupt and self-serving. Being Muslims, the Albanians were protected from prosecution of crimes committed against the Christians. This encouraged them to perform predatory acts like kidnappings for ransom, illegal taxation, extortion and forceful possession of property.

There are two documented methods, that I have come across, which describe how Albanians of the 19th century came to live in Macedonia, among the Macedonians.

1. To keep the Macedonians in check, the Ottomans created and strategically positioned Albanian villages inside Macedonia among the Macedonian villages.

2. By expelling or killing a few families in a Macedonian village, Albanian bandits could claim squatter’s rights and move into their homes. By the next generation, the children of the squatters would become the “lords” of the village which made them legitimate landowners. Being in charge of the village, they then appointed their own family members and trusted friends into positions of authority like tax farmers and policemen. In this manner they could rule unchallenged.

Forceful occupation of villages was most prevalent during campaigns in the absence of the Ottoman army. When the Ottomans

were sent to fight against Russia in the east or against Napoleon in Egypt, the Albanians sought their chance and moved in unabated.

Here is an excerpt from Brailsford’s book about the habits of some Albanians. “He will rob openly and with violence but he will not steal...He will murder you without remorse if he conceives that you have insulted him...” (Page 224, Macedonia, Its Races and their future)

To be fair, I want to mention that Albanians have their good qualities as well. Brailsford speaks very highly of them when it comes to loyalty and honesty. As mentioned earlier, under the right conditions Albanians can peacefully co-exist with other ethnicities and be a contributing factor to the wealth of a nation. The Macedonians have co-existed side by side with the Albanians since the Albanians settled on Macedonian lands.

In addition to being handed back to the Ottomans, the 1878 Treaty of Berlin subjected Macedonia to three new tyrants, the Greeks the Serbians and the Bulgarians. In time, Macedonia would be subjected to all kinds of evil but the most cunning would turn out to be Bulgarian chauvinism. The Macedonian people knew very well where they stood with the Greeks. Greek policies were straightforward, Hellenize everyone by any means possible, force and brutality included. The Bulgarian approach was very different. The Bulgarians were interested in brainwashing the Macedonian masses into believing that they were Bulgarians. Anyone who showed any opposition didn’t live to tell about it. And so became the legacy of so many educated Macedonian young men and women.

Forging new identities in the Balkans to replace the Macedonians

Greece, as I mentioned earlier, was a “Western creation” created for the purpose of achieving several objectives. One; keep Russia out of the Mediterranean Sea, two; break up the so-called Ottoman occupied “Slav (Macedonian) lands” and three; act as a proxy for its patron England and the other Great Powers that created it. Greece was to be a small and homogeneous nation, different from the other nations but easily manageable, and loyal to the Great Powers that created it. Greece was part of the solution to the “Eastern Question”, what to do with the lands and people after the Ottoman Empire falls.

Created by the Great Powers, the new Balkan States would be loyal to their creators and act on their behalf; English politicians were counting on Greece to fulfill its obligations and, for years, it did… and still does. But, in order to divide and break up this great multi-ethnic, multi-cultural world in the Balkans, opened up by Philip II, a Macedonian, 2,600 years ago, the Western Powers of the 18th and 19th centuries introduced “nationalism”.

The Western Great Powers were interested in replacing the Ottoman Empire but with many small, easily manageable “divergent” states that would compete against one another but would be unable to survive without patron protection. This symbiotic relationship between patron and state in turn would keep the small states loyal to their patrons, do their bidding and be grateful for their protection. Nationalism, however, was never a way with which Balkan people identified before the 18th and 19th centuries.

For over 2,300 years, since Philip II, King of Macedonia, created the ancient Macedonian state spanning from the Mediterranean Sea in the south to the Danube River in the north and from the Black Sea in the east to the Adriatic Sea in the west, the Balkan region had been without borders and without a sense of national identity. For over 1,800 years the people in this region lived with their Christian identity as the only unifying force which brought them together and allowed them to live in peace. Lack of borders and freedom of movement allowed the diverse people to travel anywhere within the

Ottoman Empire and settle and mix with other people. So, how does one create “national consciousness” where one does not exist?

Ignoring the fact that the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century was a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural pluralistic society, the Western Powers initiated a nation building process anyway. To them, it didn’t matter what kind of “nations” they were building, provided that the new nations were a “non-Slav” (non-Macedonian) singular society that agreed to do their bidding and, in England’s case, keep Russia from reaching the Mediterranean waters. While the Western Powers were trying to break up the Balkans into small and divergent states, Russia was promoting “Panslavism” to unite all the Slav speakers under Russian leadership.

The national awakening of Serbia was an accident that couldn’t be helped, but Greece was created by design. Greece was the opposite of Serbia and a solution for keeping the balance of power in the Balkans. While Serbia, supported by Russia, was destined to become a Slav State, Greece supported by the west would be destined to become the “opposite”.

The name “Greece” was chosen to denote a “Latin” lineage, to represent the Latin “Romaos” (Roman) character of the people. The name “Hellas”, with German help, was later chosen by Hellenized Phanariots to denote a lineage from the old City States of antiquity. Both of these names were foreign to the 19th century Balkans, but ideal to reflect the character of the newly artificially created Greek nation-state.

The pre-19th century Phanariots had no notion of nationalism or knowledge of the ancient City States. Their aim was to drive the Ottomans out of the Empire and keep the Empire intact so that they could rule it themselves. But this was not what the Western Powers wanted. The process of Hellenization began by educating some Phanariots about the existence of the old City States and their exploits. Phanariots who studied abroad, in London in particular, were seduced by the eloquently written, romantic stories about a people who lived at the bottom of the Balkans a long time ago. Phanariots were especially thrilled when they were received by westerners as the descendents of those ancient people. Not all

Phanariots were Hellenized or convinced to take the Hellenic road, some still wanted to re-create the Byzantine Empire (“Megali Idea”) but the West gave them no such choice.

It was one thing to “create a nation” and another to “give it life and a past”. The idea of modeling the new Greece after the old City States was well-received but lacked continuity. No one could explain how today’s so-called Greeks progressed from the old City States to the present, pre-19th century. History has no record of it. There was no Greek culture or language that would tie the modern Greek to the old City State citizen.

But, with some creative imagination and a lot of convincing, the problem was solved. The Macedonians had continuity and they could “somehow” be used to propel the “ancient people who lived in the city states” into modern times. And for that an ancient history had to be “invented” and “engineered” to fit the modern Greek model. Yes, read your (fake) classical history and learn how the mighty Macedonian Empire was somehow “Hellenized”, not by a powerful race or super intelligent beings, but by “the vanquished and subjugated” people of the old City-States. Alexander the Great, the most hated man of the old City-States, the man who destroyed Thebes and brutally crushed the spirits of the old City-State citizens was now the “Great King of the Modern Greeks” whom they revere and hold in such high honour.

We Macedonians have a song about that that goes something like this:

Alexander a Macedonian King

Sung by Suzana Spasoska

It was the year 338 before Christ, the year of the battle at Chaeronea, Philip, a Macedonia King, led his army, a Macedonian army, against Athens.

The Greeks are mistaken,

they are lamenting at a foreign grave, a foreign king they are revering, mother Macedonia will show the world, Alexander was a Macedonian King.

Years and centuries have passed, and the Macedonians exist for eternity, the truth will triumph, the world will say, go away Greeks, stop lying!

The Greeks are mistaken, they are lamenting at a foreign grave, a foreign king they are revering, mother Macedonia will show the world, Alexander was a Macedonian King.

Years and centuries have passed, and the Macedonians exist for eternity, the truth will triumph, the world will say, go away Greeks, stop lying!

Alexander was a Macedonian King. Alexander was a Macedonian King.

* * *

Unfortunately altering classical history to say that the ancient Macedonians were Hellenized does not explain how and why there are “Slavs” (Macedonians) all over the Balkans today. Thousands of years of Slav influence and culture could not be easily erased, but thanks to the ingenuity of the western mind that problem too was solved.

The ancient Macedonians extinguished all the City-State cultures when they annexed them more than two-thousand years ago, history is clear on that. Therefore the only continuity the City-States could have that connects them to the Roman era was through the ancient Macedonians. But the ancient Macedonians were not Greeks. But that too was no problem for the western mind which concocted the idea that the Ancient Macedonians were “Hellenized”, in other

words the ancient Macedonians “somehow” became Greeks down the line.

When the westerners began to write the new “Greek” history, they quickly discovered that there were no ancient Macedonians who were Greeks in existence in the Balkans… only “Slavs”. So, what happened to the ancient Macedonians?

Those who wrote “modern history” during the 19th and 20th centuries began to claim, without scientific proof, that the ancient Macedonians had died off (mysteriously to the last one) and had been replaced by the “newcomer Slavs” who arrived in the Balkans during the 6th century AD. In other words the “theory of mass Slav migrations” was concocted.

It was there and then that the Great Powers decided to not only give Macedonian territories to Greece but ordered “history to be revised” so as to KILL everything that was Macedonian and make it look like it was Greek. Greece could not exist without the ancient Macedonians and Greece could not exist with the modern Macedonians! If Greece was to live then it had to inherit everything that was Macedonian.

Even after that, however, there was still the “Slav problem”. The Slavs were always in the way of Greek Nationhood and for these reasons the “Real Macedonians” became and still are Greece’s worst enemy. The Greek zeal to become “the descendants of the ancient city states” was transformed into jealousy and hatred for Macedonia and for the Macedonian people. From the outset, the Greek people were deliberately brainwashed by Greece’s western patrons, particularly the English, to treat the Macedonian people as “the enemy”. The Slav (Macedonian) was viewed as the “boogieman” lurking in the woods always staring at them with its piercing red eyes waiting for a chance to pounce on them and steal their Macedonia from them.

Again, thanks to the ingenuity and brilliance of the western mind, the Slav problem for Greece was solved with the creation of “Bulgaria”.

“What is not Greek must be Bulgarian, what is not Bulgarian must be Greek, there can be no such thing as Macedonian”, are the words echoed to this day. This is what Macedonians faced and must face, lived and must live, every day of their lives both at home on their own ancestral lands and abroad from the 19th century to this day.

The 19th century creation of Bulgaria was the “answer” to covering up all remaining evidence of the existence of everything that was Macedonian outside of the “Hellenic model”. Never scientifically proven, as mentioned earlier, the so-called “Slav invasions” were concocted to cover up thousands of years of Macedonian culture and influence in the Balkans (and beyond).

To divide the Bulgarians from the Slav fold and to show that they were a distinct society, different from other Slavs (such as the Serbs), the non-Balkan name “Bulgaria” was chosen to represent them. Bulgaria, like Greece however, was a Balkan State created for the first time in the 19th century. The name “Bulgaria” was derived from the river “Volga”, allegedly where the first Bulgarians came from. We are told that the Bulgarians were the descendents of a Tartar/Turkish tribe that invaded the Balkan region during the 6th or 7th century AD and settled among the Slavs. There they mixed with the Slavs and created a new semi-Slav race.

So according to the western mind, the Bulgarians are not exactly pure Slavs or a pure Tartar/Turk but a mix of both, enough to make them different from other Slavs and enough to divide them from the Slav fold. Being part Slav, Bulgarians could lay claim to the “Slav speaking residents of Macedonia” on account that they too are Slav. Because they were part Tartar/Turk from the “Volga”, a region outside of the Balkans, the Bulgarians too were newcomers to the Balkans. Thus being newcomers to the Balkans, the Bulgarians could not lay claim to the heritage of ancient Macedonia. Bulgarians, however, could lay claim to the Slav heritage which included the modern Slav (Macedonian) culture and language.

So, once again: “What is not Greek must be Bulgarian, what is not Bulgarian must be Greek, because there is no such thing as Macedonian!”

But looking at the problem realistically, the people that existed in the Balkan Region before the invention of nationalism cannot be called “nations”, something that was not yet invented.

Before these modern nations were created, by the nation building process, and before borders were placed around them, all the people in the Balkans lived together within the confines of one large borderless region.

As history tells us, the people in this large Balkan region began to openly and freely live together after Philip II (338 BC) opened the frontiers and united them under his large kingdom.

This frontier remained open from the 4th century BC to the 19th century AD. In other words, all through the Macedonian Empire, the Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire and the Ottoman Empire. That is until the European Great Powers of the 19th century decided to break up the Ottoman Empire and replace it with smaller nation states each with their own uniquely fabricated nationality and border.

As mentioned earlier, the concept of “nationalism” and “nations” at the time was not known, was alien to the people of the Balkans inside the borders of the Ottoman Empire.

Nationalism was introduced to these people by the Western European Powers, brought to them from the outside.

In addition to having lived together without borders for over 2,300 years, the Christian people of the Balkans, as mentioned earlier, shared Christianity, a common religion for over 1,800 years, which served as a unifying force and kept them together.

Also as mentioned earlier, the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century was a multi-ethnic, multicultural and multi-religious pluralistic society, but outside of language and some folk traditions there was not much in the Balkans to distinguish one people from another.

Unfortunately the real aim of the European Great Powers was not to free the Christian people in the Balkans but to get rid of the ailing

Ottoman Empire and replace it with smaller and more manageable “nation states”. In retrospect, freeing the Christians was only a side effect of that aim.

As mentioned earlier, the Western European Great Powers chose the name “Greece” and “Greeks” for the new state because it was a Latin name denoting a “Latin” lineage which was to represent the Latin “Romaos” (Roman) character of the people.

[According to Strabo, the Phoenicians of Halkidiki were the first colonists of Eubeia who, in “Kampania” on the west coast of Italy, founded the cities “Kim”, in 757 BC, and “Region”, about 730-720 BC. This was the oldest colony in that region. There, the Phoenicians made contact with the neighbouring Latin “Etrurci” and passed on to them their culture, their Phoenician alphabet and their myths. A few years later, around 600 BC, they founded the city Naples, and in Sicily they founded the cities “Mesena”, “Katana” (730 BC) and “Naks”. The Latins called the new colonists “Graios” in accordance with their origin, the land of the “Greia” (Graias), today’s “Orop”, a boundary located between Boeotia and Attica, at the mouth of the river Asop.] (Page 83, Antonije Shkokljev, “Prehistory - Central Balkans Cradle of Aegean culture”)

The name “Hellas” and “Hellenes” was later discovered by German historians. This was a more suitable, realistic and unique name for the new state and on top of that it had local origins. Or perhaps the Germans did not like Greece to be a “Latin” state.

[King Deukalion (Deykalion) was considered to be father of all Hellenes. He was married to Pira, daughter of Epimetei and Pandorar and lived in Thessalian Ftia together with the indigenous Pelasgians and later among the Achaean Mirmidonians in their existing cities. According to Homer (Homer, Iliad and Odyssey, II, 681, Novi Sad, 1985. (Prev. Gjurigj MN)), “… Some were from Arg and lived in Pelasgian cities. Some were from Alopa, Al in Trehina, and from Ftia and Hellada. They had beautiful women. They were called Mirmidonians, Hellenes and some still called themselves Achaeans. They had fifty ships and their leader was Ahilei.”

From what we know from Homer, it would appear that the cities Arg, Alop, Al, Hellada and Trahin existed in Thessalian Ftia before Deukalean’s arrival. Each place name had special meaning. The word “Ftia” comes from the verb “fino” meaning land of the dead, disappearance, destruction. The word “Hellada” comes from the word “helos” meaning swamp, mud. The word “Trahin” comes from the word “trahus” meaning brittle, rocky. The word “Al” comes from “alos” and “als” meaning salt. The word “Alopa” means salty, salty island. The word “Arg” means white. The river which created the plain where these cities were located was called “Sperhei” meaning fiercely attacking. A mountain to the south bears the name “Eta” meaning misery, suffering. It was on this mountain that Hercules lit himself on fire to escape his pain. This is also the location of the Thermopolis Gorge and where the city Lamia, capital of Ftia, is located. (The word “Lamia” is a Macedonian word meaning dragon).

If the toponyms are names associated with real objects and events, then the stories in mythology must also have realistic meaning. And as such the ethno genesis of the Hellenes can be derived from the myths about who Pindar (Pindar, Olympia, IX, 41), Apolodori (Apollodori, Bibliotheca (I-II) I, 7, 2) and others have informed us.] (Pages 185, 186, Antonije Shkokljev, “Prehistory - Central Balkans Cradle of Aegean culture”)

In other words the 19th century German scholars found a more selective ancient name and history for the modern Greeks, now called “Hellenes”.

Unfortunately, both names, “Greece” and “Hellas”, were foreign to the 19th century Balkan people who lived in that region.

But, if you ask a Modern Greek person in English today to identify his or her “nationality” they will say they are “Greek”. If you ask them what is that in “Greek”? They will say “Ellinas” or “Ellinida”. There is no word for “Greek” in the Greek vocabulary. If there is it is rarely used and unknown to most Greeks.

According to most modern Greeks today, “Greek” and “Ellines” are synonymous. In other words a “Hellene is a native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek”.

The pre-19th century Balkan people had no notion of “nationalism” or knowledge of any “ancient City States”.

Encouraged by the European Great Powers, the Balkan people’s main aim was to drive the Ottomans out of the Balkans and replace their Muslim Empire with a Christian Empire which they themselves could then rule.

But this was not what the Western European Great Powers wanted. As I said earlier, the European Great Powers wanted to break up the “large Ottoman state” and replace it with smaller divergent “nation states” and make sure they never again combined.

The part of the Balkan Peninsula where Greece began as a modern state was then called “Morea” and occupied the region today called the Peloponnesus.

So, in order to distinguish Greece from Serbia and from other future Balkan states, a better model had to be found for Greece, one that had a unique and long past. And that model was found in the “Hellenes”, the pre-historic people I mentioned earlier.

Unfortunately there was no living trace of the “Hellenes” in the 19th century, which made it difficult to explain how they got to the 19th century from pre-history. There was no history to explain that.

But, again with some creative imagination, German ingenuity and a lot of convincing, the problem was again solved by “re-engineered” history so that it could fit the modern “Hellenes” with the pre-historic or ancient “Hellenes”.

A bridge of “Hellene” continuity connecting the “Ancient Hellenes” from pre-history to the “Modern Hellenes” of the 19th century was apparently again found in the Macedonians. The Macedonians, according to modern western historians, had such continuity from ancient times to the 19th century.

Not only was historic information readily available that proved that there was such continuity but the 19th century people in the Balkans, who identified themselves as “Macedonians”, knew about it… so we are told.

So, after the Great Powers introduced the little state to the world under the name “Greece”, a name which has stuck with the outside world to this day, its “architects”, for reasons mentioned above, decided to call the little country “Hellas” and its people “Hellenes”.

And so a “classical history” was written and introduced to the world which explained the beginning and continuity of the modern “Hellenes” as well as their contribution to our modern world; a classical history which unfortunately only served and still serves the interests of the Western European Great Powers.

In the new classical history Alexander the Great, the most hated man in the ancient so-called “Hellenic” world, the man who, as mentioned earlier, wiped out Thebes and brutally crushed the spirits of the old City-State citizens, is now the “Great King of the Hellenes” whom the modern “Hellenes” revere and hold in high honour.

But, the only way this continuity between the “Ancient Hellenes” or “Ancient Greeks”, as the outside world calls them, and the so-called “Modern Hellenes” or “Greeks” could exist is if the Macedonians themselves were “Hellenes”. In more simple terms, in order for the Modern Greeks to be the descendants of the “Ancient Greeks” the Macedonians would have to be Greek.

But how could the Macedonians be Greek? They were and still are Macedonians?!

According to the re-engineered 19th century classical history model, the Macedonians were “Hellenized”. They were “Hellenized”, a process that began sometime just before Philip II’s time. And so, being “Hellenized” makes them Greek.

So, how exactly does this “Hellenization” process work?

The explanation we are given is that Macedonians began to speak the “Attic” language in the Macedonian king’s court, they began to adopt the so-called “Greek culture” and they began to act like Greeks… and therefore they became Greeks.

[According to the Columbia Encyclopedia, Hellenism is “the culture, ideals, and pattern of life of ancient Greece in classical times. It usually means primarily the culture of ATHENS and the related cities in the Age of Pedicles [495-429 BC]. The term is also applied to the ideals of later writers and thinkers who draw their inspiration from ancient Greece. Frequently it is contrasted with Hebraism – Hellenism then meaning pagan joy, freedom, and love of life as contrasted with the austere morality and monotheism of the Old Testament. The Hellenic period came to an end with the conquest of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC. It was succeeded by the Hellenistic civilization.”] (Page 930, Columbia Encyclopedia, Third Edition 1963, New York and London)

As I mentioned earlier, historically, the self-perception of the Greeks and the definition of Greek-ness have varied, but with the emergence and consolidation of the nation-state, from the late 18th century, Greek-ness was redefined along the lines of what some people call romantic nationalism.

Romantic nationalism is the form of nationalism in which the state derives its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it governs. This includes, depending on the particular manner of practice, the language, race, culture, religion and customs of the “nation” in its primal sense of those who were “born” within its culture. This form of nationalism arose in reaction to dynastic or imperial hegemony, which assessed the legitimacy of the state from the “top down”, emanating from a monarch or other authority, which justified its existence. Such downward-radiating power might ultimately be derived from God.

Greece accepts all those who agree with this principle and rejects those who disagree.

In other words, the Ancient Macedonians became “Greeks” because some spoke Greek, believed in the same Gods, and behaved like Athenians… But such behaviour can also be found in people today. Look at me for example, I speak English, I believe in the same God as the English, I live among the English and culturally I sometimes behave like the English, does that make me English? No. I am still Macedonian.

Ancient history was very clear about who the Macedonians were and the fact that they were not “Greek”. The ancient people from the City States knew the Macedonians were not Greek and said so themselves many times. The ancient authors were also in agreement with that.

Many times history has mentioned that the Macedonians spoke another language, an “unidentified” language, unique to the Macedonian people, spoken by the common Macedonian people.

I am not going to get into details on this here again but if you want to learn more about the differences between the Ancient Macedonians and the Ancient Greeks then read Josef S. G. Gandeto’s book, “Ancient Macedonians, Differences Between the Ancient Macedonians and the Ancient Greeks”.

“There is not a single word or fact written by the ancient authors that shows that the Macedonians are Greek. There is not a single word or fact written where the Macedonians thought of themselves as Greeks. There is not a single book written by the ancient authors, including the ancient Greek authors, which has mixed the lineage and has not shown diverse differences between Macedonians and Greeks.” (Joseph Gandeto)

Also, modern scholars and scientists believe that the Slavic language has its roots in prehistory. A number of ancient inscriptions deemed undecipherable have recently been successfully deciphered by linguists Vasil Iliov, Anthony Ambrozic, Sergei V. Rjabchikov and others, by using the Slavic languages which indicates that these languages have been around a lot longer than previously thought. Even Alexander the Great may have spoken Slavic. It is well-known that Alexander spoke at least two languages. We know one was

Koine and the other was a language indigenous to Macedonia labeled “unknown” by western and Greek historians.

But, since no Macedonian or foreign archeologist has even been allowed to dig in Greek occupied Macedonia or examine any archeological findings unsupervised, we can’t verify what other language Alexander the Great spoke.