SHORT ANALYSIS OF THE NAME ISSUE

SHORT ANALYSIS OF THE NAME ISSUE

With any name change the Greeks gain the historical, territorial and spiritual heritage of ancient and modern Macedonia.

Why?

With any name change, the situation becomes as follows:

1. Greece will keep the name of Aegean (its occupied part of) Macedonia as MACEDONIA.

2. The name Macedonia is related to all spiritual, historical and territorial rights of Ancient and Modern Macedonia. It will all be given to Greece! This is the backbone of Greek demands for changing our name.

Hasn’t Greece been trying to do this for the last two centuries?

3. Greece will also retain all rights arising from the 1913 Treaty of Bucharest.

4. It would not be a surprise that a year or so after the name is changed Greece will openly make territorial claims against the Republic of Macedonia. Will Greece not have that right?

Who had and, to this day, still has hidden territorial intentions?

Greece, of course, and not the Republic of Macedonia!

Another reason why Greece wants Macedonia to change its name and give up its history lies in the Greek business with tourism. Foreign tourists are fed up with listening to the same old “Greek” stories about their... ancient origins. By now they have read some of the books that have challenged their mythical origins (see historian Borza, Hans Lothar Stepan, David Holden, Fallmerayer, Edward Blaquiere, William St. Clair, T. J. Winifrith, J. McKeen Cattell, Lucy M. J. Garnett, James Bourchier, La Pouge, Schultz, Rennell Rodd, Michael Herzfeld, Clogg, Nigel Wilson, G. Droysen (the man who actually created Hellenism), Thomas Keightley, G. Bowersock,

Nicholas G. L. Hammond, Keith R. Legg, Richard Gleason Greene, William Z. Ripley, Colin Wells, Alexandra Halkias, Charles Eliot, G. P. Gooch, Rennell Rodd, G. A. Henty, Balasz Trencsenyi, Michal Kopecek, F.W. Walbank, Peter Green, Neni Panourgia, Vamik Volkan, Karakasidou, to name a few…) and have come to the conclusion that the Greeks are great boasters and big liars. Because of this many Western tourists have lost interest.

Well, in order to attract Western tourists again, the Greeks, in addition to serving “sirtaki”, want to serve Macedonian history and even Alexander the Great!

Will not everything be Greek if Macedonia is Greek?

In order for it not to come to that, even if we accept any name change, we should seek to change the name of the occupied part of “Greek Macedonia” to:

- “Aegean or Belomorska (Mediterranean) Macedonia”, the name that they gave us.

If this is not done, for the Greeks and for the world we will become “Slavo-Macedonians” or Slavophones who came to this region during the 6th and 7th centuries AD and stopped advancing at the Greek borders with Macedonia. Or we will become the nation that was created by the Comintern.

It is interesting to note that the Greeks found allies in some of the people here in the Republic of Macedonia who were willing to do their bidding (to direct the water to their mill). The first to appear, may God forgive his sins, was the first Macedonian president who was a good listener of Belgrade, and for Serbia’s “glorious” history, said that the Macedonians passed through the Serbian territories, gathered quite a lot of the Serbian culture and language and came to Macedonia during the 6th and 7th century where they found “Greeks”. The next to appear was another bright “Macedonian” person named Ljupco Georgievski who said don’t forget that there were also some Vlachs here and more Romans who came as “tourists” in the Balkans and forgot to go back because they liked it here.

Let us also not forget the supporters of Ljupcho’s thesis. There were also some prominent academics who know our history very well, but only since 1941 and a few things from the Middle Ages. These “prominent” Macedonians were even respected by the Greeks and Bulgarians even though neither recognized the other.

I am sorry to say that these people never did have the opportunity to get together to determine the origin of the Macedonians who supposedly came from behind the Carpathian Mountains. Something which no one knew until recently. I suppose those who claim all these things have property deeds that belong to their forefathers that extend up to the Scandinavian countries.

One thing that is not clear to me is how the Bulgarians, who came from behind the Carpathian Mountains, could remember their forefathers, and they know for sure that they are from the Tatar countries, and yet we Macedonians don’t know anything nor care about our forefathers?

We must take great care not to touch the road our “good” Bulgarian neighbours the Turkish Tartars took.

But we are confident and will always remain confident that these people will discover the origin of the Slavs as long as they don’t go to the Hunza because there they will find serious problems with the Macedonian identity.

How many descendents of the ancient Macedonians could there be left still living on their own territory? There are two Macedonian academics who claim that the Ancient Macedonians were all drowned in the Aegean Sea. But the proof of the existence of the Ancient Macedonians is in the two or three drops of blood that still remains in the present Macedonians.