Dorothy King against FYROM's 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, not to ancient Macedonia) propaganda. "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." (Stephen Batchelor, “The Ancient Greeks for Dummies”, 2008)
"The so-called Republic of 'Macedonia' is located in what was ancient Paeonia." (Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge, UK)
“Paeonia, roughly where the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is today.”
(Timothy Howe, Jeanne Reames, “Macedonian Legacies”, Regina Books, 2008, p.239)
“Ovid was lax in his geography, not least over Paeonia (in fact roughly coextensive with the present Slav republic of Macedonia).”
(Ovid [Author], Peter Green [Translator], “The Poems of Exile”, University of California Press, 2005, p.319)
“Besides the former kingdom of Macedon, the Roman region included the territories of Paeonia where the contemporary FYR Macedonia rests.”
(Ridvan Peshkopia, “Conditioning Democratization”, Anthem Press, 2015, p.189)
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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, 2014, p.564: "[FYRO]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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The creator of this video (HellenicFighter) deserves all my gratitude.
