| YUGOSLAVIAN PROPAGANDA AND OUR ANSWERS |
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| YUGOSLAV PROPAGANDA 3: Macedonia For The "Macedonians" (the Slavs of state FYROM) |
| ANSWER TO PROPGANDA 3: Until World War Two there is never mentioned any (Slavic) Macedonian natiobality in Balcans.When Greek Macedonia was under Turkish Occupation, the geographical area of Macedonia was inhabited by Greek Macedonians who were the people with the most population. Other nationalities were Hebrew, Serbs, Turks, Bulgarians but there is not mentioned any (Slavic) Macedonian Nationality .The term "Macedonians" was meaning Greeks those days. |
| YUGOSLAV PROPAGANDA 4 : Ancient Macedonians were faced as Barbarians (non-Greeks) by other Greeks and Demosthenes called Philip barbarian |
| ANSWER TO PROPAGANDA 4 The other Greek city states were independed and Athens was their leader. Demosthenes and Athenians were afraid that they would lose their leadership. So they didn't want King Philip 2 to be their leader. Demosthenes believed that Athenians were more civilized than Macedonians and used the word barbarian in the meaning "lower level of civilization" and not in the meaning "Non-Greek". Isocrates wanted the Macedonians as leaders and called Philip Greek. In 217 B.C. Agelaos wished to "stop the wars between Greeks" ( between the Macedonians and the other Greek city states). Polibios says that "Ahaians and Macedonians are the same tribe (Greek) " |
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