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Falsifying History - Fabricating a Fake Identity: Skopjan pseudo-Makedonism on YAUNA - YAVAN - IONIANS

Miltiades Elia Bolaris
January 30, 2010





















In the http://my.opera.com blog there is a section named "Macedonian Civilization/Македонска Цивилизација - Truth about Macedonians". Within that section there is a chapter about the Ionian Greeks, called "Yavan-Ionians", which was published on January 22nd, 2008 by a young Skopjan propagandist named Stojanche Chabir... /Стојанче Цавир..., who is writing under the pseudonym "Makedon".

The internet page containing this entry is dripping with hideous ethnic hatred and venomous spite against the Greeks:

http://my.opera.com/ancientmacedonia/blog/sub-saharan-turkish-tribes-which-today-call-their-self-greeks-have-not-ethymolog

It is about, we are informed in advance, the:

"sub-Saharan-Turkish tribes which today call their self Greeks" [sic].

The misinformative article is starting with a piece of historical information copied wholesale from the following website:

http://www.livius.org/aa-ac/achaemenians/DNc-e.html#DNe

"In ca.521, the Persian king Darius I the Great ordered that a new alphabet, the Aryan script, was to be developed. This was used for a small corpus of inscriptions, known as the Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions. An overview of all inscriptions can be found here."

Further down:

"Darius was buried at Naqš-i Rustam. The inscriptions on the upper and central registers of his tomb (DNa and DNb) are well-known, but there are several smaller texts on the same monument: two trilingual honorific inscriptions for the courtiers Gobryas and Aspathines, and inscriptions on the figures supporting Darius' throne. Because inscription DNe mentions Macedonians, it must have been made after 512."

Here is the transliterated Persian inscription and next to it its English translation:

"DNe, indications of people

1. iyam Pârsâ 1. This is the Persian.

2. iyam Mâda 2. This is the Mede.

3. iyam Uvja 3. This is the Elamite.

4. iyam Parthava 4. This is the Parthian.

5. iyam Haraiva 5. This is the Arian.

6. iyam Baxtriya 6. This is the Bactrian.

7. iyam Suguda 7. This is the Sogdian.

8. iyam Uârazmiya 8. This is the Chorasmian.

9. iyam Zrakâ 9. This is the Drangian.

10. iyam Harauvatiya 10. This is the Arachosian.

11. iyam Thataguiya 11. This is the Sattagydian.

12. iyam Gadâraya 12. This is the Gandaran.

13. iyam Hiduya 13. This is the man of Sind.

14. iyam Sakâ haumavargâ 14. This is the haoma-drinking Saca.

15. iyam Sakâ tigraxaudâ 15. This is the Saca with the pointed hat.

16. iyam Bâbiruš 16. This is the Babylonian.

17. iyam Athuriya 17. This is the Syrian.

18. iyam Arabâya 18. This is the Arab.

19. iyam Mudrâya 19. This is the Egyptian.

20. iyam Arminiya 20. This is the Armenian.

21. iyam Katpatuka 21. This is the Cappadocian.

22. imay Spardiya 22. This is the Lydian.

23. iyam Yaunâ 23. This is the Greek.

24. iyam Sakâ paradraiya 24. This is the Scythian from across the sea.

25. iyam Skudra 25. This is the Thracian.

26. iyam Yauna takabarâ 26. This is the Macedonian.

27. iyam Putâya 27. This is the Libyan.

28. iyam Kušâya 28. This is the Kushite.

29. iyam Maciya 29. This is the man of Maka.

30. iyam Karka 30. This is the Carian."

So far so good, as the expression goes.

Then, out of the blue, a photo of an archaic homoerotic art appears, setting the scene for a borboros of sewer which only the sick mind of a psychopath could come up with

"YAVAN

Little wonder, then that the Irano-Semitic peoples considered the Greeks to be effeminate.[sic]
In fact, the terms for Greek in the Irano-Semitic world
Yauna (Old Iranian), Yona (Pali), Javan (Greek), Yavana (Prakrit), besides meaning barbarian or savage, [sic] are derived from the root-word yoni, meaning vagina."[sic]
from PIE base (Sanscrit)[sic] yavan=a rider horseman , invader , aggressor
yavan=javan-c (mod. Mac)=a rider horseman
yavan="javan"(mod.Mac)=fucked [sic]
finally, we found etymology for word Yavan (greeks)"

The psychopath-turned-fake-linguist who threw up such a scatological creation of pseudo-linguistic dunk is obviously jubilant to have invented yet one more way to hurl abuse and insult on Greeks. Fake science has always been the fig leaf of political charlatanism. The bigger and more outrageous the lie, the more abysmal the insult, the more believable becomes the propaganda message, to small-brained receptors anyway. This is an old recipe. Nazi Party supporters reveled in finding "rat" qualities in the "eternal Jew", their "enemy other". Their VMRO-DPMNE knock-offs in Skopje are following in their Nazi political predecessor steps. German pseudo-scientists at the Nazi "Research Institute for Racial Hygiene" were using racial "metrics" to prove that Jews, Gypsies and Eastern Slavs were untermenschen / subhumans. In a great historical irony, normal and otherwise decent people who fell under the spell of these theories ended up becoming the subhuman abomination of the twentieth century, whose atrocities these theories helped perpetrate. Here the aforementioned deranged psychopath above is using lies and twisting semi-truths in his attempt to prove that Greeks are somehow inferior species, who, his reasoning follows, are "not worthy" of historic Macedonia.

Propaganda is the art of making many people accept a BIG LIE. To even partially succeed in this, the propagandist must create what would pass as a "scientific"- sounding construction. The BIG LIE, as any modern student of Joseph Goebbels knows, needs to sound credible. The BIG LIE, of course, needs many smaller lies to support it.

Yoni/योनि is a Sanskrit philosophical and religious concept that means origin or source of life. Its origin is unrelated to the female reproductive organ and it has obviously nothing to do with the Ionian Greeks.

Yauna, Yona, Javan, Yavana, are not original Sanskrit words and they do not mean "barbarian" or "savage". They mean Greek and as in most eastern languages, the word is derived from the Greek ethnonym Ionian. As for the "barbarian" or "savage" that the Skopjan propagandist is trying to insert next to "Greek", speaking of an imaginary "PIE base (Sanscrit) yavan=a rider horseman, invader, aggressor", this "Indo-European base" and the so called "horseman-invader-aggressor" meaning exist only in his delusional imagination: they are nowhere to be found - he is simply and shamelessly lying.

On the contrary, this is how Bṛhat Saṃhitā, the 6th century Sanskrit encyclopedia speaks of the Yavanah, the Greeks, the descendants of Alexander the Great Macedonians of Bactria (modern Afghanistan):

Mleccha hi yavanah tesu samyak shastram idam sthitam Rsivat te api pujyante kim punar daivavid dvijah (Brhatsamhita 2.15)

The Greeks, though impure, must be honored since they were trained in sciences and therein, excelled others (Brhatsamhita 2.15)

The Mahābhārata/महाभारत), one of the two major Sanskrit ancient Indian epics speaks of the "all-knowing Yavanas/sarvajnaa Yavanah"…hardly an epithet for "savages" or "barbarians":

sarvajnaa.yavanaa.rajan.shuraaz.caiva.vishesatah

mlecchah.svasamjnaa.niyataanaanukta.itaro.janah

(Mahabharata VIII.31.80)

The Yavanas, oh king, are all-knowing; the Suras are particularly so. The mlecchas are wedded to the creations of their own fancy.

(Mahabharata VIII.31.80)

Continuing down the path of Skopjan hallucination and we read:

"yavana

from PIE base (Sanscrit)
[Sanskrit is spelled with a "k" incidentally, but spelling is probably his strongest point till now, considering the rest of his performance...M.B.]

yavana=Ionian , Greek (or a king of the Greeks), in later times also a Muhammadan or European , any foreigner or barbarian.

yavana-deza=sometimes applied to Ionia , Greece , Bactria , and more recently to Arabia

yavana=f. the wife of a Yavana , a Greek or Muhammadan woman Ka1lid [sic]

javanI=n. salt from saline soil L

yavana="javana"(mod.Mac)=f. fucked"

Whatever we saw above applies here too. Yavana is not derived from any Sanskrit root, it is simply an Indian adaptation of the Greek ethnonym Ionian, a man of Ionia.
It is like saying that Arabia is called Arabia in English because it has some Arable land, or that Germany is called Germany in English because it has many germs: Germ-many ~ Germany! You get the point...typical Skopjan pseudo-Linguistics!

What the Skopjan propagandist did was simply copy what he saw in a Sanskrit dictionary, which describes various words, not all of them connected linguistically, all of which have different meanings.

This is what he saw in the dictionary:

"yavana* =1 mfn. (1. {yu}) keeping away, averting (see {dveSo-ya4vana}). //2 n. (2. {yu}) mixing, mingling (esp. with water) Nyâyam. \3 mfn. quick, swift; m. a swift horse L. (prob. w.r. for {javana}). \ = mfn. quick, swift L. (prob. w.r. for {javAna}). \4 w.r. for {paijavana} Mn. vii, 41. \ =5 m. an Ionian, Greek (or a king of the Greeks g. {kambojA7di}; in later times also a Muhammadan or European, any foreigner or barbarian) Mn. MBh. &c.; N. of a caste Gaut. (accord. to L. `" the legitimate son of a Kshatriya and a Vais'yâ or `" an Ugra who is an elephant catcher "') of a country (= {yavana-deza}, sometimes applied to Ionia, Greece, Bactria, and more recently to Arabia) W.; wheat L.; a carrot L.; olibanum L.; pl. the Ionians, Greeks (esp. the Greek astrologers) MBh. VarBriS. &c.; N. of a dynasty Pur.; ({I}) f. the wife of a Yavana, a Greek or Muhammadan woman Kâlid. Sis'. (Yavana girls were formerly employed as attendants on kings, esp. to take charge of their bows and quivers); = {javanI}, a curtain L.; n. salt from saline soil L.

http://www.srimadbhagavatam.org/downloads/SanskritDictionary.html

It is easy for anyone, even someone with absolutely no knowledge of Sanskrit to realize that "salt" and "swift horse" and "keeping away" have little or no relation to the ethnonym "Yavana" describing a Greek. The fact that they sound or are even spelled the same does not at all mean that they are also derived from the same root.

"Lot" is an English word that describes a piece, or a plot of land. Lot/לוֹט is a biblical Hebrew name of Semitic linguistic origin meaning the "covered" one. LOT is the name of the national Polish airlines, meaning "flight" in Polish, and a "lot" is a synonym of the word "many" in English: a lot of things.

The Greeks were not always one nation. Several ethne under different names made up what later on, in the Hellenistic era, after Alexander the Great helped unified them as the nation of the Hellenes.

The earliest recorded Greeks were the Danaoi/Δαναοί and the Achaeans/Αχαιοί. Later on history encounters also the Dorians/Δωριείς, the Graikoi/Γραικοί, the Hellenes/΄Ελληνες, the Aeolians/Αιολείς and the Ionians/Ίωνες.

The name Greeks is not how Greeks call themselves now. For self identification Greeks now (as in classical antiquity) use the name Hellenes/ Έλληνες. In most Western European languages the Greeks are named by one of the multiple derivatives of the ancient Greek ethnonym Γραικοί/Graecoi:

Grecs, Greci, Greeks, Griegos, Grci, etc. In the languages of the near East, on the other hand, Greeks are named from words derived from the ethnonym Iones/Ίωνες: Yunan, Yavan, Yavana, Yunani, Yauna, etc.

Ionia/Ἰωνία or Ἰωνίη was the Greek western part of Asia Minor, which is now part of the Aegean coast of Turkey, around the city of Smyrna/Σμύρνη/Izmir.

The meaning of the name Ionia/Ἰωνία is vague and unknown and neither linguists (Pokorny, Georgiev) nor Historians or Classical philologists that have tackled it have been able to reach an acceptable etymology. Several Hellenic and other Indo-European etymologies have been suggested but hitherto Ionia defies easy decipherment. I might as well be an ancient, pre-Hellenic Anatolian toponym.

Again, the propagandist continues, misquoting a Sanskrit dictionary, supposedly that Yavana (Ionia) is derived from a "PIE base" (whatever that means):

"yavanadeza

from PIE base (Sanscrit)" [sic], [clearly a false statement: M.E.B.]

and continues with the copied entry:

"yavanadeza=m. the country of the Yavanas (-ja),mfn. growing or produced in the country of the YñYavanas Bhpr,mfn. born in the cñcountry of the YñYavanas , Pra7yas3c."

This is in fact correct, Yavanadeza means Greece in Sanskrit:

What is interesting though is the fact that the only Greeks that the Indians ever came in contact with were the Greek army of Alexander the Great, and then the Greek kingdoms that sprang after Alexander´s empire was split into its components parts.

Two of these component parts were the Macedonian kingdoms of Bactria and the later known Indo-Greek kingdoms in the geographic area that is now Afghanistan, Pakistan and Northwest India. After the Greek kingdoms were overtaken by the Skythians, around 30BC, the Indians lost contact with the Greeks but still remembered them as their conquerors from the West. Centuries later, they mis-identified the attacking Arabs as Greeks, hence:

"of a country (= {yavana-deza}, sometimes applied to Ionia, Greece, Bactria, and more recently to Arabia)", Sanskrit-English Dictionary, http://www.srimadbhagavatam.org/downloads/SanskritDictionary.html

Having seen what the ancient Indians thought of the ethnicity of the Macedonians who conquered them, let us see what another ancient nation, the Hebrews thought of the Macedonians and their relation to the other Greeks:

"In the Table of Nations in Genesis 10.1-32, which lists the descendants of Noah and the nations they founded, the Greeks appear under the name "Yavan," who is a son of Yaphet. Yavan is parallel with the Greek word, "Ionia," the Greek region of Asia Minor; "Yaphet" is parallel with the Greek word, "Iapetus," who is the mythological father of Prometheus in Greek legend. Two other Greek nations appear in the table: Rhodes (Rodanim) and Cyprus (Kittim and Elishah). The sons of Shem, brother to Yaphet, are the Semitic (named after Shem) nations, including the Hebrews. Imagine, if you will, the Hebrew vision of history. At some point, in the dim recesses of time, after the world had been destroyed by flood, the nations of the earth were all contained in the three sons of Noah. Their sons and grandsons all knew one another, spoke the same language, ate the same mails, worshipped the same god. How odd and unmeasurably strange it must have been, then, when after an infinite multitude of generations and millenia of separation, the descendants of Yavan moved among the descendants of Shem!

They came unexpectedly. After two centuries of serving as a vassal state to Persia, Judah suddenly found itself the vassal state of Macedonia, a Greek state. Alexander the Great had conquered Persia and had, in doing so, conquered most of the world. For most of the world belonged to Persia; in a blink of an eye, it now fell to the Greeks.

This great Greek empire would last no longer than Alexander's brief life; after his death, altercations between his generals led to the division of his empire among three generals. One general, Antigonus and then later Ptolemy, inherited Egypt; another, Seleucus, inherited the Middle East and Mesopotamia. After two centuries of peace under the Persians, the Hebrew state found itself once more caught in the middle of power struggles between two great empires: the Seleucid state with its capital in Syria to the north and the Ptolemaic state, with its capital in Egypt to the south. Once more, Judah would be conquered first by one, and then by the other, as it shifted from being a Seleucid vassal state to a Ptolemaic vassal state. Between 319 and 302 BC, Jerusalem changed hands seven times."

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/HEBREWS/YAVAN.HTM

At some point, the partially educated propagandist is adding to the confusion by claiming that the word Ionian is related to horses:

Ionians

Ionians=(Hi-yanians or yavanians = horse tribes)

(Hi-yanians = Ionian sea)

Hi = horse, singular.

Hiyan = pleural.

Pa = chief.

Ira = earth.

Yavan or hiyan = swift horse

I was wondering where on earth he had came up with these unsubstantiated horse ramblings. It took me some time but I was eventually able to locate the source of these farcical claims. Here is the source of his profound knowledge:

THE ORIGIN OF GREECE (Family Letter from an Awakened Hindu)
[What else are we going to hear!...M.B.]

http://alt.nntp2http.com/history/2006/12/94299bd99900c41d0546772b0fa0d660.html

Ionians. =(Hi-yanians or yavanians = horse tribes) (Hi-

yanians = Ionian sea) Hi = horse, singular. Hiyan

pleural. Pa = chief. Ira = earth. Yavan or hiyan = swift

horse.

The man who wrote these is a certain Dr. Sharad Wagle, a Medocal Doctor, (Psychiatrist, Psychosomaticist) from New Jersey, USA. The fact that this is a "Family Letter from an Awakened Hindu" is assuring me that he was only day dreaming (Awakened Hindu) and that he did not dream up his theories while being asleep (Asleep Hindu) - pun intended!

The good doctor though is accepting the fact that: "The identification of Yavana and Ionia is well known…". His only problem is that he raises a claim that...Greeks came to Greece from India, and that Ionia got its name from Greek horse tribes originally from India. That should have raised the specter of inconsistency in our Skopjan friends's intellectual antennas, but this is small change. You cannot lie AND be consistent at the same time.

The fact that a Skopjan pseudo-Makedonist ultra-nationalist is adopting wholesale such unsubstantiated theories (Greeks as horsemen arriving from India), furnished not by a historian but a psychiatrist is sheer lunacy. Here it is where Dr. Sharad Wagle´s real professional psychiatric services are urgently in need. A trip in Skopje would make Dr. Sharad Wagle a very busy man indeed. Starting from such pseudo-academic charlatans as Tendov and Boshevski who "translated" the Egyptian Demotic text of the Rosetta Stone using the Slavomakedonski dialect of FYROM, going to the pseudo-historian Aleksandar Donski who reads Slavomacedonian names in ancient Thrace, Illyria and Macedonia, then moving to Skopje restauranteur Vasil Ilyov who claims to have translated Neolithic lithographs found in Greece, FYROM and Bulgaria using the Cyrilic alphabet 7000 years ago!) and the Bulgarian dialect spoken in FYROM! The list of lunacy is endless! There are aspiring Skopjan writers like the so-called Petrus Invictus, aka Pero Sardzoski, who has "proved" that Homer was simply a copycat of earlier Slavonic poems of Bronze age Macedonia, and the Homeric language is not Greek but Slavonic.

Anyone with a lunatic theory pertaining to Greece or Macedonia that openly insults the Greeks or makes claims to the Slavic roots of ancient Macedonia is welcome to join the swelling ranks of club "Paranoia Skopjana – Pseudohistoria Absurda".

Martin Bernal, the Sinologist turned-"Classicist" (a "classicist" who speaks and writes and specializes in Chinese language and history but knows neither Greek nor Latin), author of Black Athena (voted as the "8th worse book of the 20th century") saw the translation of his discredited book into Slavomacedonian (in the only one of the Slavic languages that found a willing editor to do so) and was awarded to become "Senator Makedonski" in Skopje, in the summer of 2009.

Can you cook up some gene theory which "proves" that the Slovenomakedonci are autochthonous to the Balkans while the Greeks are invaders from sub-Saharan Africa, related to the Ethiopians the Faso tribesmen of West Africa and, of all people, the Japanese? (HLA genes in Macedonians and the sub-Saharan origin of the Greeks, by A. Arnaiz-Villena, K. Dimitroski, M. Blagoevska, V. Zdravkovska, etc). The parade of lunacy is enough to keep Dr. Sharad Wagle, the New Jersey Psychiatrist to contemplate opening a satellite office in Skopje and keep him for a while away from his Hindo-Hellenic theories.

It sounds funny, but it is not. The naked hypocrisy of the Skopje pseudo-Makedonists who shed crocodile tears about their imaginary "human right" to be called Macedonians is evident to anyone who sees their true ultra-nationalist face. The pseudo-Makedonist ideologues are not simply demanding a name-grab of the name Makedonia for their exclusive use. They also demand that the true cultural descendants of the ancient Macedonians, the Greeks of historic Macedonia (not FYROM) be stripped of their cultural and historic heritage.

They also go a step further, making a hideous assault on the Greek collective dignity too, identifying supposedly Ionia with some vulgar words in the locally spoken Bulgarian slang:

"yavan="javan"(mod.Mac)=fucked

finally, we found etymology for word Yavan (greeks)

yavana="javana"(mod.Mac)=f. fucked""

Having been dragged into this rat-filled gutter of ethnic intolerance and Nazi ideological thinking, the true nature of pseudo-Macedonism becomes apparent in all its fanatical bigotry and ugliness. They not only demand that the name Macedonia is usurped for their own exclusive use, despite and against history, geography and linguistics, but they also demand to be identified as the rightful descendants of the ancient Greek Macedonians and feverishly make irredentist claims on the Northern Greek province of Macedonia. In every breath they spit hatred, dripping fatal venom against anything Hellenic, anything of Greece or the Greeks. To anyone from outside, the repulsive and abysmal hatred of the Slavomacedonian nationalists against Greece and the Greeks, seems to be and truly is as culturally primitive as it is politically regressive, deleteriously racist and outright dangerous. In the same way that the Nazi adherents of the "sub-humanity" of the Jews the Gypsies and the Slavs ended up in their own trap becoming abhorrent sub-humans themselves, in the same way, the poison that officially and unofficially the Skopjan ethno-political nomenclatura is promoting and fermenting to be directed against Greeks and Greece is slowly eating into their own youth´s psyche, creating traumatic scars that will be with them for generations to come.

Let us now come back to where we started from, when the author informed us that we will learn about the:

"sub-Saharan-Turkish tribes which today call their self Greeks" [sic].

He idiotically led us to Naqš-i Rustam and the royal tomb of the Persian king Darius and inscription DNe which mentions the Macedonians.

On the transliterated Persian inscription DNe, "indications of people", we read on the name of nationality #23

23. iyam Yaunâ - 23. This is the Greek, and, more specifically the Ionian Greeks who were under the yoke of the Persian Empire.

Yaunâ is unquestionably Greek.

Further down we read in Geographic succession Going north from Ionia and crossing into Europe:

24. iyam Sakâ paradraiya 24. This is the Scythian from across the sea.

25. iyam Skudra 25. This is the Thracian.

Finally, on number 26 we read:

26. iyam Yauna takabarâ 26. This is the Macedonian.


How is a Macedonian described by the Persians? Yauna takabarâ, meaning: Ionians/Greeks with Shield-shaped hats. Why did they call them Ionian/Greeks? Because the Persians were running an empire, they were not clowns, they wanted to describe everything and everyone properly, and they knew who is who and who speaks what. To the Persians, the Macedonians were not Thracians or anything else, they were speaking Greek and they were considered by their neighbors Greeks. There was one thing that they noticed different; superficial but enough to make a note of it: the wide-brimmed causia/kausia/καυσία hat of the Macedonians, protection against the heat of the sun (causis/καύσις is burning, the word "caustic´ in English is directly derived from causis: causticon). The photo of the causia-wearing Macedonian horseman in the beginning of this article is self explanatory.

Now, should anyone laugh or cry? The poor idiot tried to prove to us earlier that:

"the terms for Greek in the Irano-Semitic world Yauna (Old Iranian), Yona (Pali), Javan (Greek), Yavana (Prakrit), besides meaning barbarian or savage, [sic] are derived from the root-word yoni, meaning vagina."[sic]",

Supposedly it was derived from:

"PIE base (Sanscrit)[sic] yavan=a rider horseman, invader, aggressor", etc.

He confidently assures us that in his Bulgarian idiom, the Slavomacedonian which he misnames as "Modern Macedonian" there is a word "javan" which means:

"yavan=javan-c (mod. Mac)=a rider horseman"

Now let us ponder. We were earlier told that "Yaunâ is unquestionably Greek" and "Yauna takabarâ" is "the Macedonian". We know that Macedonian in Persian means "the Causis-wearing Ionian". I wonder now: what is the whole fuss, if the only obvious difference separating those despicable "barbarian" and "effeminate" "yavan=Javan", the Ionians i.e. the Greeks, and the "Ionians wearing the Kausia hat", i.e. the Macedonians, was just a shield-shaped hat?

Our genius had vitriolically proclaimed that "finally we found etymology for word Yavan (greeks)", which means according to him:

"yavan="javan"(mod.Mac)=fucked" [sic]

With this profound revelation apparent, the reader is now anxious to know the final etymology: We already know that "takabarâ" means "wearing the kausia, the wide-shield hat", and he already told us what "yavan="javan", another rendition of Yauna, means in "mod.Mak", his language.
So, then...putting one and one together, how would a Skopjan propagandist, who claims to be nothing less than a "Yauna takabarâ" himself, translate from the Persian the name "YAUNA takabarâ" i.e. the "Macedonian" using his own Slavo-"Makedonski" dialect?

Silence...he might as well forget the Macedonian Kausia: he just won himself a nice, tall conical hat!

It seems to me that the poisonous snake in its apparent eagerness to spread its deleterious venom ended up biting its own tail.

As the Greeks would say: Ανοιξε μόνος του τον τάφο του-He dug his own grave!...then jumped in it!

The example of the 1930´s German Nazis bend on dehumanizing their enemy other, the untermenschen / subhuman Jews, Gypsies and Eastern Slavs, ending up themselves dehumanized in the most grotesque way, should be a lesson for any and all extreme nationalist bigots polluting the Balkans with irrationality, ethnic hatred and cultural intolerance.


NOTES:

By "Skopjan" we define not the inhabitants of the city of Skopje, nor the people of the former Yugoslav Republic of Makedonija, but the irredentist, ethnic-engineering and history-falsifying policies emanating from the ultra-nationalist regime of Skopje and the propagandists in their (usually paid) service.


WHAT´S THE POINT?

The first thing that someone with even elementary knowledge of Greek would ask, after reading this article would be: "Why on earth did you spend so much time writing it? What is the point of answering every lunacy coming out of Skopje?". This is a valid question, and many people asked me already the same question for similar articles. Truly, why should anyone spend ink and time defending the self-evident truth? Honestly, the more valid question, which they should be asking, should be not why I am writing these rebuttals, but WHY ARE THE SKOPJANS WRITING THEIR OUTLANDISH BOGUS THEORIES, to begin with! And why is Mr. George Soros spending his billions promoting the fake and fraudulent pseudo-makedonism:

http://www.soros.org.mk/archive/index.htm

There is a huge, well-oiled and paid organized propaganda industry supporting and bolstering pseudo-makedonism, the vast extent of which anyone can recognize in an quick instant by doing an internet search for anything "Macedonian", anywhere in the internet, where someone would be looking up something or anything about Macedonia, Macedonian History, Macedonian Culture, Macedonian language, Alexander the Great, Philip II, etc, etc. Everywhere you look up the internet is polluted by a virtual tsunami of outrageously scatological products of hideous, truth-twisting Skopjan propaganda which passes itself for casually "impartial" information. I myself admit feeling like an idiot many times, trying to defend the self evident against vicious attacks by the BIG LIE perpetrators, spending untold hours doing the research to answer what is clear and obvious yet I believe that truth needs to document itself against falsehood. I find the strength to continue exposing deception and fake arguments in the same way that a lawyer needs to expose defamation to defend someone whose name has been tarnished has been hideous slanders and libel. Greeks or Greek-speaking persons can smell such pseudo-linguistic and pseudo-historian rotten fish from a mile, because they know Greek, the language that Alexander and his Macedonians spread to the outer reaches of the known world, and most Greeks know ancient Greek history too. For them it is easy to spot the gutter-quality fraudulent fallacies that are being mass-produced daily in untold quantities in Skopje. The obvious reason, for me is that the pseudo-Makedonists are not here to convince the Greeks. They know better than that. After all, you are not going to convince a Greek, when they know that venomous songs like "Grci katili"/"Greek killers", by Orce Stevkovski, a popular singer in Skopje made it to the top 10 in FYROM in the summer of 2009:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTOUiAn4xF0

The BIG LIE propaganda from Skopje is directed towards the wide world audience, the unsuspecting millions who have little or no knowledge of the bloody details of the Macedonian Issue, and most have little or no knowledge of ancient, medieval or modern European history and Balkan history in particular. But more than anyone else the pseudo-Makedonist propaganda target are the Slavic inhabitants of FYROM. To anyone that seeks the truth, to anyone who wants to be on the side of history and impartiality, I suggest that they look up and read the letter that the 200 Classical Scholars from around the world sent to the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama:

http://macedonia-evidence.org/obama-letter.html

History will eventually find a way to show its scorn to the ones who abuse it.


REFERENCES:

http://my.opera.com/ancientmacedonia/blog/sub-saharan-turkish-tribes-which-today-call-their-self-greeks-have-not-ethymolog

http://www.livius.org/aa-ac/achaemenians/DNc-e.html#DNe

http://macedonia-evidence.org/persians.html

http://www.srimadbhagavatam.org/downloads/SanskritDictionary.html

http://alt.nntp2http.com/history/2006/12/94299bd99900c41d0546772b0fa0d660.html

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/HEBREWS/YAVAN.HTM

Falsifying History - Fabricating a Fake Identity: Skopjan pseudo-Makedonism on MACEDONIAN THEATER

Miltiades Elia Bolaris
January 25, 2010

δῆλον δὲ πρῶτον μὲν ὁρισαμένοις τί τὸ ἀληθὲς καὶ ψεῦδος. τὸ μὲν γὰρ λέγειν τὸ ὂν μὴ εἶναι ἢ τὸ μὴ ὂν εἶναι ψεῦδος, τὸ δὲ τὸ ὂν εἶναι καὶ τὸ μὴ ὂν μὴ εἶναι ἀληθές, ὥστε καὶ ὁ λέγων εἶναι ἢ μὴ ἀληθεύσει ἢ ψεύσεται (Αριστοτέλης, Μεταφυσικά)

This will be plain if we first define truth and falsehood. To say that what is is not, or that what is not is, is false; but to say that what is is, and what is not is not, is true; and therefore also he who says that a thing is or is not will say either what is true or what is false. (Aristotle, Metaphysics)

Once someone rejects truth and accepts falsehood, the search for explanations to cover the tracks of his falsehood becomes essential. This inevitably leads to the creation of an alternate reality that attempts to explain the unexplainable. The pseudo-Makedonist regime in Skopje has elevated fraud to the level of science, and it has correspondingly reduced science to being the contemptible paramour of their repulsive politics of hatred, ultra-nationalist bigotry and ethnic intolerance.

The Skopjan blog http://my.opera.com/ancientmacedonia/blog is one of the numerous conduits of extremism and propaganda constantly polluting the internet with outrageous pseudo-history, invented pseudo-linguistics, ethnic hatred and shameless misinformation.

That aside, many of its articles make excellent recreational reading of great amusement value. Their pretentious and serious-sounding pseudo-scientific tone is coupled with some of the most hilarious mental inventions that a twisted mind in the service of a third world regime propaganda department can fabricate. The truly tragic part of this story is that students in FYROM, eager to find the truth on their identity, reading this in their own language, have very limited, if any, means of double checking this crime perpetrated against their fertile minds, and unsuspectingly accept this fraud as universally accepted truth. This is, unfortunately, the fate of people who live in regimes that treat their own citizens as docile subjects of the all powerful political state apparatus, with contempt normally reserved for pasture animals.


MACEDONIAN THEATER

There is a method to good propaganda. Any experienced propagandist always starts with something factually correct that is well established and known to be true, in order to gain his victim´s confidence and to relax his critical thinking into accepting falsehoods and lies further down:

"Theatre-Teatar-theatron –θέατρον

Wednesday, 23. December 2009, 10:46:42

The first recorded theatrical event was a performance of the sacred plays of the myth of Osiris and Isis in 2500 BC in Egypt.This story of the god Osiris was performed annually at festivals throughout the civilization, marking the beginning of a long relationship between theatre and religion.

Stanton, Sarah; Banham, Martin (1996). "Middle East and North Africa". Cambridge paperback guide to theatre. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 241. ISBN 0-521-44654-6."

The article pompously starts with a dictionary entry from a Cambridge University publication on theater. The serious aura of Cambridge university is cunningly used by the propagandist to start off sounding as intellectually serious. This, quote, incidentally, has no relation to what is in store for us later on, it is just a relaxing pill.

"..............

How the culture began in Macedonia?

From Neolithic to....Macedon and Pierus had daughters-MUSES....

Dionysus celebrated ....and was celebrated...Orpheus....Ksantika-Xanthicus"

The article starts, the author has committed his own words on ink and now we enter the realm of delirium. His sentences lack cohesion: an era (Neolithic) is chronologically contrasted to a land (Macedon) and Greek mythology is thrown in for good measure. Pierus/Πίερος (Mythological eponymous hero of Pieria/Πιερία=wealthy land) with his daughters the Muses/Μούσες (the words Music/Μουσική and Museum/Μουσείον come from their name) are mixed in with the Greek God of wine Dionysus/Διόνυσος. The Thracian God of music Orpheus/Ορφεύς is mentioned being celebrated along with the Macedonian lunar month (corresponding to March) Xanthicos/Ξανθικός (also known as Ξανδικός/Xandikos). Xanthicos is coupled with the word Ksantika which is supposed to explain it, somehow, completing this bizarrely incomprehensible sentence.

Time for truth again, and here once again the propagandist simply copies an entry ontheater" from "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology". Very impressive reference, indeed!

"Etymology:

1.theatre

U.S. theater in antiquity, open-air structure for plays and spectacles XIV; playhouse XVI. — OF. t(h)eatre (mod. théâtre) or L. theātrum — Gr. théātron ´place for viewing´, f. theâsthai behold.

So theatrical XVI; sb. pl. XVII. f. late L. theātricus — Gr. theātrikós.

2.theater

late 14c., "open air place in ancient times for viewing spectacles," from O.Fr. theatre (12c.), from L. theatrum, from Gk. theatron "theater," lit. "place for viewing," from theasthai "to behold" (cf. thea "a view," theates "spectator") + -tron, suffix denoting place.

3.Polykleitos (Circa 350 B.C.)

A renowned sculptor, Polykleitos the Younger was architect of the Tholos at Epidauros. Started around 365 B. C., the Tholos exhibited elaborate detailing...

Notes:"

As I understood it, the Oxford dictionary refers the English word for theater to the Latin word which is in turn refered to the original Greek word Theatron/Θέατρον.

Before we go any further, let us stop here for a moment: just below the dictionary entry, the Skopjan propagandist puts his own "notes", without a break, in a way that the unsuspecting reader would think they are simply a continuation of the Oxford dictionary. Then he starts his attack:

"notes:


Epidauros theatre----- Greeks (around 365 B. C) in Epidauros

ok...let see...in Greek language

behold=βλέπω, αντικρύζω, παρατηρώ=blepo, antikryzo, paratiro

where is theâsthai?"

I suppose we are now in trouble! True, the Oxford dictionary tells us that the word theater derives its etymology from Latin Theatrum which in turn takes it from the Greek Theatron/Θέατρον, a place of viewing, from theasthai/θέασθαι that means to behold. But "Wait!" cries the cunning propagandist: there is no word theastai/θέασθαι in the Greek language! Where did Oxford dictionary find it and came up with it? There is only: "βλέπω, αντικρύζω, παρατηρώ=blepo, antikryzo, paratiro! where is theâsthai?"

Amazing! The Oxford dictionary has been caught with its pants down, so to speak, urgent assistance is needed to be sent from Skopje to revise it! The cunning propagandist is obviously using some pocket size modern Greek dictionary and is at a loss for not finding an ancient Greek word in it, in its original format…horror of horrors…I looked up some Latin word in an Italian dictionary and I could not find it! Moreover, I looked up a Sanskrit word in a modern Hindi dictionary and it was not there! Now, finally, I can completely understand. For someone that speaks a language that was established and codified as the "Makedonski language"/"Mакедонски јазик" in 1944, using the Bulgarian dialect spoken in Pelagonia, with a lot of lexical borrowings from Serbian, the notion of a historical language with thousands of years of history and development behind it sounds incomprehensible. Unfortunately for him, Greek is one of these languages, but it is not the only one. There are several historical languages like it, Latin, Sanskrit, Chinese, Hebrew join Greek in this category. All of them survive as written and spoken languages in some form or another whether as intact languages (Hebrew, Chinese and Greek) or in dialectical form as new languages (Latin survives as Italian, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Catalan, etc, Sanskrit survives as modern Hindi, Urdu, and other Indian subcontinent languages, and both Greek and Chinese exist in multiple spoken but not written dialects).

I open the G. Babiniotes Lexico tes Neas Ellenikes Glossas/Λεξικό της Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσσας, Lexicon of the Modern Greek language, a dictionary which, with over 150,000 lemmata only partially covers the modern Greek language, and it contains no ancient Greek words, unless currently used. The Words found in the Greek language in all its eras, approximates one million lemmata. By comparison, the Oxford English Dictionary contains 170,000 words, with about 50,000 obsolete words in the English language. On page 742 we read (I consciously did not include words that are not related, like lemmata related to the word Theos/Θεός, God, which appear among them but are etymologically unrelated):

Θέα/thea
Θεαθήναι/theathenai
Θέαμα/theama
Θεαματικός/theamaticos
Θεαματικότητα/theamatikoteta
Θέαση/theasi
Θεατής/theates
Θεατός/theatos
Θεατράνθρωπος/theatranthropos
Θεατρίζομαι/theatrizomai
Θεατρικογράφος/theatricographos
Θεατρικὀς/theatricos
Θεατρικότητα /theatricoteta
Θεατρίνα/theatrina
Θεατρινισμός/theatrinismos
Θεατρίνος/theatrinos

We now move to page 743 and we continue:

Θεατρισμός/theatrismos
Θέατρο/theatro
Θεατρολογία/theatrologia
Θεατρομανής/theatromanes
Θεατρόφιλος/theatrophilos
Θεατροφιλικός/theatrophilicos
Θεατρώνης/theatronis

The word theasthai/θέασθαι is indeed missing, simply because in modern Greek it does not exist in that exact grammatical format, as an aparemphaton, "of the infinitive mood" as it appears in ancient Greek. While theasthai/θέασθαι is not to be found, the word from which theasthai is derived, the original word of both theasthai and theatron, is still widely used in modern Greek: the word Θέα/thea=view, especially from above, as from a mountaintop, or a high building. Many toponyms, villages and hotels in Greece are named Kalithea/Καλιθέα or Kallithea/Καλλιθέα (written with either one l/λ or two ll/λλ) meaning "Beautiful View", or as the Italians would say Bella Vista, or the French Bellevue.

The Skopjan propagandist remains unconvinced:

"Question:

Indeed the word behold explains the notion of word theâsthai?"

The answer will be obvious once I translate the first words found in the aforementioned dictionary:

Θέα/thea=view, especially from above, as from a mountaintop, or a high building
Θεαθήναι/theathenai=being seen
Θέαμα/theama=spectacle, cinema or television program
Θεαματικός/theamaticos=spectacular
Θεαματικότητα/theamatikoteta=spectacularity, popularity of a television program or a movie in cinema
Θέαση/theasi=viewing
Θεατής/theates=viewer
Θεατός/theatos=visible, opposite Αθέατος/atheatos: invisible

Now he challenges us again, by being absolutely certain in his pseudo-scientific credentials:

"Root of this word theâsthai does not exist in the so-called IE languages."

He is again caught lying through his teeth, and we are certain that he is lying, not simply making a mistake because if someone is not sure, they can at least search for it. When you search, you eventually find things. If, on the other hand, all you want to do is fabricate a BIG LIE, then the truth is against you, you need to cover your tracks, like a dog covers his excrement: this is why Skopjan propagandists are constantly becoming the laughing stock of Greeks who mistake them for idiots.

Far from being idiots, they do the best they can with an insurmountable task at hand: they try to prove that a mouse is an elephant and that a bull is a rabbit, or something to that effect. They know they are lying…and in my experience with several of them, once you catch them fabricating facts and prove them wrong, they either throw insults at you (the internet makes it easy for someone to be rude) and disappear, or they casually move on to the next BIG LIE, as if nothing happend.

Despite his pretentious certainty that "Root of this word theâsthai does not exist in the so-called IE languages." the truth is that indeed it does: theasthai comes from theasis, and theasis comes from thea. Θέα/thea=view is derived from *θήFη < θάFα < ΙΕ *dhau, meaning "to see", "to look", see also the word θαύμα/thauma= miracle and of course: thea-tron/θέα-τρον, theater, theates/θεατής=viewer and theaomai/θεάομαι=I am viewing.

G. Babiniotes also gives us an alternate derivation from: IE *dhmsva- < *dhem-bh- (see the word thambos/θάμβος=bright light).

Herebelow starts the real circus. Here we need to sit down. The thoughtful propagandist understands our situation and kindly obliges, as we shall see:

"Answer:?

Let see...

Macedonian

théātron=tron=трон=king chair"

Thank lord Zeus, now we can sit down. A throne has indeed been provided for us. Now we can bear whatever comes our way:

"Tholos=stol;stolovi;stolot etc..=стол=chair;stool;seat

Greeks
chair=καρέκλα=karekla
stool=σκαμνί, έδρανο, σκαμπό=skamni, edrano, skampo
seat=κάθισμα, έδρα, καθίζω=kathisma, edra, kathizo
theâsthai
1.sthai=stoi-стои=stand;stay up
2.sthai=stoi (na mesto)-стои (на место)=sit
3.sthai=astal-астал-stol=table (eat),chair
4.sthai=staja-odaja-стаја=chamber;room
etc....

theâsthai=

the=the end =d_end)macedonian)=

asthai=_sta(v)i;_stoi

theâsthai=de_stavi;de_stoi=let put(sit);let stay (sit)"

If I were a Roman I would have exclaimed in desperation: Reductio ad absurdum ad maiorem Scupi gloriam, but I am not, so I will simply say: Reduction to absurdity for the greater glory of Skopje!

What was that all about?

Tholos/θόλος is not a stool or a Slavonic table (from Proto-Slavic *stolъ=table), Tholos/θόλος is "covered roof, a cupola, a dome., a rounded vaulted chamber". Anybody that has been to Epidauros or has seen its Tholos in a reconstructed image will immediately recognize the round building with the conical roof. Tholos is also linguistically related to the word Thalamos/Θάλαμος which means a room in the inner part of the house, but also an underground chamber, a cove, a cavern. These are both words that appear in homer but are still used in modern Greek. An interesting derivative word in Modern Greek is Thalami/θαλάμι which means the cavernous home of an octopus, and also a trap use to catch an octopus, usually in the shape of a rounded pot which the octopus adopts as a home.

Alas, our mental torture has no quick end in sight:

"next....

"Greek Theater" in Epidaurus is unbelievable stupidity...from some modern scholars...Residents of the city states were swept by Macedonians-Philip II of Macedon

Epidarium was built by Macedonians, built at a very strategic place, where Philip 2 intended to shift the Macedonian army against the Persian fleet in the Aegean.

Therefore, around the theater were built library, stadium, camp, hospital, rotunda - old shrine dedicated to Asklepios....altar on the stage of the theater where was bust of Dionysus."

So now that we learn that it was Philippos/Φίλιππος the father of Alexander the Great who built Epidaurus, let us see what some impartial entity like UNESCO has on its website describing the monuments of Epidaurus and its famous theater, a Unesco dedicated monument. It is written for all of humanity to read, in English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish:

"In a small valley in the Peloponnesus, the shrine of Asklepios, the god of medicine, developed out of a much earlier cult of Apollo (Maleatas), during the 6th century BC at the latest, as the official cult of the city state of Epidaurus. Its principal monuments, particularly the temple of Asklepios, the Tholos and the Theatre - considered one of the purest masterpieces of Greek architecture – date from the 4th century. The vast site, with its temples and hospital buildings devoted to its healing gods, provides valuable insight into the healing cults of Greek and Roman times."

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/491

In other words, Epidaurus with its Ascleipeion and its Tholos was not built by Philip II, the Greek King of Macedonia in the 4th century BC, but at least two centuries earlier, on a shrine that was probably much earlier than that. Greek history is not our Skopjan propagandist´s forte, it seems. A couple centuries here or there, makes no difference. This is small change when compared to the adoption of Philippos II/Φίλιππος Β´ and Alexandros the Great/Αλέξανδρος ο Μέγας, the greatest of all Macedonian kings by the modern descendants of the Draguvites/Dragovici/Драговити, Sagudates/Sagudaci/Сагудати, Bersites/Brsjaci/Берзити and the other Slavic tribes that entered the Balkans a full thousand years AFTER these Greek kings of Macedonia had passed into Hades.

Now exposed, our history fabricator runs unbridled:

"There is no any facts about hellenisation (word from 19 cent....german nonsens) of Macedonian culture"

Yes, indeed, for our friends from Skopje 19th century those German intellectuals were nonsensical vagabonds of some sort...what do they have to show to the world? Who was

Goethe? Schelling? Hegel? Marx? Nietzsche? Bismarck? Who was the Hellenist historian Johann Gustav Droysen? Very nonsensical characters indeed, these Germans! Calling the era after Alexander Hellenistic as Droysen did, was indeed too much!...just because a Hellenic language, Attic Greek was spoken and promoted by Alexander the Great and his Macedonians and was thereafter spoken in the Macedonian Hellenistic kingdoms? Nonsensical Germans, indeed! How could it have escaped them the rumor that Alexandros was in fact a Bulgarian-speaking Skopjan komitadzi called Aleksandar Veliki? All they have to do is read the recently published "Makedonskata Enciklopedija" in Skopje and they will learn all they need to learn about that famous Aleksandar, the proto-Slav kingpin whose humongous statue has already arrived from Florence and is being prepared for installation in Skopje´s central square.


" if it is known that in Athens in 5th century BC there was a wooden theater with wooden benches that once collapsed.

Athenians...they "known and applied" versus gorgeously marble theaters that were built from Macedonians, everywhere to where Macedonians arrived."

If anyone was wondering what is that makes great theater, the answer is obvious: marble! This is what makes great theater! What audacity could the Athenians have to boast of creating Drama and Comedy, with such trivial theatranthropoi as Aescylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, holding their theatrical events in such embarrassingly primitive wooden benches (one of which, in fact once collapsed, we are told!)! What shame! Soon enough someone will claim that Shakespeare´s Globe theater was some wooden structure! For heaven´s sake…who would call that a theater worthy of the name? Theater, let us remember, by Skopjan definition means:

"Macedonian

théātron=tron=трон=king chair"

That is correct…Theatron means chairs…in fact a royal chair, a throne! But if TRON is a throne, a king´s chair, then why did they call it THEA-Tron? Whatever happened to Thea-? And what does "Thea-" mean? In the beginning of this article we were given the words:

"Theatre-Teatar-theatron –θέατρον

Let me follow this, because I am already getting confused:

Theatre is the English word for theater. Sofar so good.

Teatar is the Serbian, Croatian and Slavomacedonian word for theater.

Theatron –θέατρον is the Greek word for theater.

Let us follow this again: teaTAR…theaTRON. Teatar/Tеатар. We know that Teatar is theater in Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian etc, but we are asked to believe it is also the ancient Macedonian word for it. Teatar ends in –TAR and theatron θέατρον, the Greek word ends in TRON. The word-magician is telling us that this is all derived from Tron the Makedonski Throne. Now if Tron is the Makedonski word for Throne and Theatron is derived from Throne, then how come the Makedonski word for Theater is not ending in TRON but only the Greek one does: teaTAR…theaTRON. Something is fishy here, obviously. To make things worse we find out that tron is throne in Polish, Hungarian, Scottish Gaelic, Danish, and several other European languages, most of which are languages that I would say have never had any contact with Skopje, but all of them share one common thread: they do not have the Θ sound, not for the Th spelling anyway. It is also obvious that all these languages borrowed tron, the throne from Latin. In the Latin Dictionary of Lewis & Short, Oxford University Press, 1993, Theatrum i, n., =θέατρον, a playhouse, theater, is referring us to the original Greek.

Someone would wish that the anonymous author would have enlighten our ignorance by explaining how is theatron/θέατρον derived from tron/трон but then becomes teatar/Театар/Театър once again. And why does Theatron/θέατρον, with the –on ending ends in –tron, but in Slavomacedonian ends in –tar? There are many words in Greek that end in –tron: Lytron/Λύτρον, Phobetron/Φόβητρον, Electron/Ηλεκτρον, etc. The ending –tron/-τρον is actually very typical for many Greek words but non-existing as a Slavonic ending, except for Greek loan words.

The linguistic derivation still begs for explanation:

Tron/трон

Theatron/θέατρον/Театрон (note the absence of a letter to express the Greek Th/Θ sound in all Slavonic languages, since this sound is not to be found in Slavic languages. It is always replaced, depending on the language by either T or F)

Teatar/Театар

Many linguists would commit suicide being at the loss in trying to solve this puzzle.

Theater or in Greek Theatron, starts from the Th/Θ sound, found in Greek as well as in English. It is very common sound in Greek so much so that a letter has been committed to express it. There is no Slavic word that contains the Greek Th/Θ sound. There is no such word, in ANY Slavic language: simply none! Theodore Dostoyevsky is pronounced Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in Russian and Theodore Zhivkov, the Bulgarian leader was Todor Zhivkov. Despite pretending to be descendants of the ancient Macedonians, our Slavonic friends north of Greece are unable to pronounce the Macedonian name of Alexander the Great´s sister, now also the name of Greece´s second largest city: Thessaloniki/Θεσσαλονίκη: her Macedonian name is a phonetic impossibility for the Slav-"Makedonskis" who shortened her name to the more manageable Solun/Солун. Irredentist cries of Solun is the capital of Makedonija, sound out of place coming from people who cannot even find a Th/θ sound in their supposedly "Macedonian" language to properly pronounce Thessaloniki/Θεσσαλονίκη, a pronunciation that corresponds to the her true MACEDONIAN name.

Thirdly, Tron, even spelled in Cyrillic characters as трон/tron is still a Greek word with another impossible (for a Slavic-speaking Makedonski) to pronounce Th/θ sound: Thronos/θρόνος, from which the English word for Throne is derived. Its Indo-European root lemma is: dher-2 meaning to hold firmly, to support. This root gives us words like farm, firm, affirm, the Latin firmus, strong, suffixed with zero-grade form *dhr-ono-, throne from Greek thronos, seat, throne("support"). The same roots gives us the Sanskrit Dharma, statute and dharana, holding firm, and the Persian name Darius, meaning holding firm the good, from ancient Persian daraya, to hold firm, to uphold.

"First Macedonian theater in Athens dedicated to Dionysus, built in 330...was build from the occupation -Macedonian Army....This Theater brings all the features of the Macedonian buildings."

By now we have lost any hope that our pseudo-makedonski propagandist would tell us history the way it is, so we check the dates and sure enough we catch him fabricating long tales again:

"The third theatre at Athens was built around 330 B.C. under Lycurgus. The Lycurgan theatre is the first permanent (that is, stone) theatre at Athens, and Lycurgus´ building project produced much of the Athenian theatre that one sees today."

Lycourgos/Λυκούργος was the Athenian manager of the public revenue office, under whom the rebuilding of the theater of Dionysos was executed. The main political figure of that era, let us remember was Demosthenes/Δημοσθένης son of Demosthenes, the staunchest Athenian political enemy of the Macedonian king Philip II. The theater was built 330BC, and Demosthenes was in power from 342 BC to 324BC. There were no Macedonians during this time in Athens - they came much later, after the theater was rebuilt. Is this important? Not really, but it is always good to catch a pseudo-makenonist lying shamelessly and exposing his historical fabrications even in smaller details that truly make no difference to his case…if he had one.

"next..dramatists and great tragedians....Euripides
The theater of Dion hosted the first performance of Euripides world-famous tragedy Bacchae, which he wrote at Pella of Macedonia. Euripides died and was buried in Macedonia.
etc.....
Therefore it is macedonization of culture and not hellenisation."

We know that the Macedonian king Archelaos/Αρχέλαος (derived from: archo/άρχω,=to lead + Laos/ λαός= the people in arms) invited the Athenian dramatist Euripides/Ευριπίδης to Macedonia/Μακεδονία. The Macedonian kingdom was growing and Archelaos had just built his new capital, Pella/Πέλλα. The spoken Macedonian dialect, a hitherto unwritten form of Greek, related to Aeolian dialect and intelligible to Northwest Greek dialect speakers (Aetolians, Epirotans, etc), was deemed insufficient for the running of the fast growing kingdom. Attic Greek, the dialect of philosophy (the Athenians Plato/Πλάτων and the Macedonian Aristotle/Αριστοτέλης) and Drama (the Athenians dramatists mentioned earlier), the Greek dialect most advanced and respected and most studied by all educated Greeks throughout the Hellenic world, was thus introduced as the official language of Macedonia. Archelaos himself invited several poets, philosophers, men of the letters and wise men (Socrates, Plato´s teacher reputedly refused the invitation) to his palace and it is correct that Euripides wrote and played Bacchae/Βάκχαι in Macedonia. He also wrote the drama Archaelaos/Αρχέλαος, named after the king, a play now lost. While Archaelaos/Αρχέλαος, the drama play, has been lost, Bacchae/Βάκχαι survived antiquity and is available for all to read in its original beautiful Attic Greek. We know that the ancients never made any translations of literary texts (most had to wait until the Renaissance to be translated into Latin and much later into the main European languages) and drama is not as universal an art as say, painting or music: you either understand every nuance of the spoken text or miss the whole plot. We know that Euripides performed Archaelaos/Αρχέλαος and Bacchae/Βάκχαι in Macedonia and we know that both plays were performed in Attic Greek in the open theater of Dion/Δίον, the holy Macedonian city of Zeus/Ζεύς-Dios/Διός.

My question, therefore, to the paid propagandist from Skopje who wrote this pitiful pseudo-linguistic and history-falsifying paper is as follows:

Were the Macedonians just watching like some ignorant barbarians unable to comprehend the Greek poetry? Were the people of Dion, Aegai (in whose theater Philip himself was assassinated), Heracleia Lyncistis, Sirris, Amphipolis, Philippoi, Stoboi and Thassos simply flush with money and they were building marble theaters on a whim, just to hear some actors mumble about in a foreign incomprehensible tongue? Or were they all speaking and comprehending Greek just fine, and going to a Greek theater/θέατρον and to a Greek Gymnasion/Γυμνάσιον as a normal part of their every day existence as all other Greeks?

The answer to this question, which also gives an answer to what language was spoken during the time these theaters were built. It can be found written on the marble steps of Heracleia Lyncystis/Ηράκλεια Λυγκιστίς, a few minutes outside of Monastir/ Μοναστήρι/ Bitola/ Битола, and on the steps of the Greek theater of Stoboi/Στόβοι by Gradsko/Градско, south of Veles/Велес. These are thirty centimeter (30cm) tall inscribed letters and the language, as I recall them, was unmistakably not Bulgarian nor any proto-slavic dialect.

Since our friends from Skopje, Macedonians themselves as they claim, reputedly of the direct blood and linguistic line of the ancient Makednoi, can easily read the Greek language of the ancient Macedonians, I will repeat what was written, to the best of my recollection, on these theater steps, without any need to translate them:

ΑΡΤΕΜΙΣΙΑΣ ΦΥΛΗ . ΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΑΣ ΦΥΛΗ . ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΑΣ ΦΥΛΗ . ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΑΣ ΦΥΛΗ

Finally, a note on Euripides the Athenian dramatist, the third of the triad of Attic drama giants.

"Euripides died and was buried in Macedonia.
etc.....
Therefore it is macedonization of culture and not hellenisation."

The amazing genius of this argument is obvious. Any Arab can now claim that Alexander the Great died in Babylon which now lies in Iraq and was buried in Egypt. Alexander the Great, therefore, a cunning Arab nationalist could argue, was an Arab Haliph (not a proto-Slavic Czar, as Skopje pseudo-Makedonists claim him to be). Therefore, we should not be speaking of Hellenization of the East but Arabization of the East, a thousand years before the Arabs entered Egypt and Mesopotamia/Iraq.

Such an argument would be as laughable as the claim that Alexander was a Slav, a thousand years before the South Slavs invaded the Balkans. To their credit, the Arabs revere Alexander the Great for who he trully was, Iskander /الإسكندر الأكبر , the great king of the Greek-speaking/ باليونانية Macedonians. When a traveler is entering Alexandria of Egypt, a large bilingual sign reading ALEXANDRIA greets him: http://api.ning.com/files/VUrNRP7mCPTNOJ8238r6W5yAcogGhE81em8KK6tpFHyAM17NYwBccraFZrUAvtdJVaLDfPhSzOGyYaFsUa4kc77iGTLD8FJm/alexandria.jpg : Greek and Arabic.

The Arabs, of course, are serious people with great history of their own and centuries-old culture to show to the world. They are not plagued by the identity confusion and nightmarish insecurities tormenting some (but not all, by any means) of the Slavomacedonians: they do not need to pretend to be something they are not. Once a similar realization hits home at Skopje, and they come to grips with their own TRUE Slavic identity, they will suddenly realize that they do not need thirty meter tall bronze statues of Alexander the Great, a Greek king of the past, unrelated to them, to bolster a fake "Macedonian" identity. Then the mending of the trauma in their national psyche, and their relations with their own neighbors, including their Greek friends and partners to the south, will be as easy as 1,2,3.

Finally, here are the references of the anonymous propagandist:

"references:

Greeks (around 365 B. C) in Epidauros

1.The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | T. F. HOAD | © The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996.

2.Douglas Harper

3.Polykleitos

4.greek-english lexicon

5.Macedonian language...if you do not believe go to Idividi[sic]

continue..."

NOTES AND REFERENCES:

By "Skopjan" we define not the inhabitants of the city of Skopje, nor the people of the former Yugoslav Republic of Makedonija, but the irredentist, ethnic-engineering and history-falsifying policies emanating from the ultra-nationalist regime of Skopje and the propagandists in their (usually paid) service.

WHAT´S THE POINT?

The first thing that someone with even elementary knowledge of Greek would ask, after reading this article would be: "Why on earth did you spend so much time writing it? What is the point of answering every lunacy coming out of Skopje?". This is a valid question, and many people asked me already the same question for similar articles. Truly, why should anyone spend ink and time defending the self-evident truth? Honestly, the more valid question, which they should be asking, should be not why I am writing these rebuttals, but WHY ARE THE SKOPJANS WRITING THEIR OUTLANDISH BOGUS THEORIES, to begin with! And why is Mr. George Soros spending his billions promoting the fake and fraudulent pseudo-makedonism:

http://www.soros.org.mk/archive/index.htm

There is a huge, well-oiled and paid organized propaganda industry supporting and bolstering pseudo-makedonism, the vast extent of which anyone can recognize in an quick instant by doing an internet search for anything "Macedonian", anywhere in the internet, where someone would be looking up something or anything about Macedonia, Macedonian History, Macedonian Culture, Macedonian language, Alexander the Great, Philip II, etc, etc. Everywhere you look up the internet is polluted by a virtual tsunami of outrageously scatological in quality products of hideous, truth-twisting propaganda which passes itself as casually "impartial" information. The (admittedly idiotic) "teatar from tron" article at hand about the supposed "Macedonian Theater" is but a drop in the ocean, just one of thousands out there. I myself admit feeling like an idiot many times, trying to defend the self evident against vicious by the BIG LIE perpetrators, spending untold hours doing the research to answer what is clear and obvious, but still, I believe that truth needs to document itself against falsehood. I find the strength to continue exposing deception and fake arguments in the same way that a lawyer needs to expose defamation to defend someone whose name has been tarnished has been hideous slanders and libel. Greeks or Greek-speaking persons can smell such pseudo-linguistic and pseudo-historian rotten fish from a mile, because they know Greek, and most of them know Greek history too. For them it is easy to spot the eye-popping, gutter-quality fraudulent fallacies that are being mass-produced daily and in untold qualities in Skopje. The obvious reason, for me is that the pseudo-Makedonists are not here to convince the Greeks. They know better than that and anyway, very few people, comparatively, speak Greek in this world anyway. The BIG LIE propaganda from Skopje is directed towards the wide world audience, the unsuspecting millions who have little or no knowledge of the bloody details of the Macedonian Issue, and most have little or no knowledge of ancient, medieval or modern European history and Balkan history in particular. To them I ask that if they want to be on the side of history and impartiality, then they should at least look up and read the letter that the 200 Classical Scholars from around the world sent to the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama:

http://macedonia-evidence.org/obama-letter.html

ARE THEY ALL LIKE THAT?

Trying to find out if the opinions held by the ultra-nationalist VMRO-DPNE crackpots and disseminated through the internet reflect a more general view in FYROM, I was pleasantly surprise to find out that there are serious people indeed, probably the silent majority, who do not espouse this kind of unfounded theories. A quick check on the Slavomaceedonian Wikipedia confirmed my best hopes that there is future for reason to prevail at the end: Театарот во Античка Грција (Од Википедија)

http://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82_%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%93%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0

a. Latin Dictionary of Lewis & Short, Oxford University Press, 1993

b. Lexico tes Neas Ellenikes Glossas, G. Babiniotes /Λεξικό της Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσσας, Γ. Μπαμπινιώτης , Athens 2002

c. The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, Calvert Watkins, Boston, 2000

d. A New Greek and English Lexicon, James Donnegan, Boston, 1835

e. Liddell & Scott, Oxford University Press, 1952

f. Epidaurus and Epidaurus Theater: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/491 Unesco website

g. Theatre of Dionysus at Athens: http://traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455/Archaeopaedia/184 , Stanford University website.

h. http://www.soros.org.mk/archive/index.htm

i. The original "Macedonian theater" article can be found on this website:

http://my.opera.com/ancientmacedonia/blog/2009/12/23/macedonian-theatreteatar-theatron

j. Macedonian Evidence, Letter to Obama, http://macedonia-evidence.org/obama-letter.html

k. Театарот во Античка Грција (Од Википедија), http://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82_%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%93%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0

Macedónsky zápas o názov a budúcnosť európskej integrácie bývalej Juhoslovanskej republiky Macedónsko

This article was originally published in Slovak, in the 4th Quarter 2009 issue of the "Euro-Atlantic Quarterly" magazine, published by the Slovak Atlantic Commission, in Bratislava. It will soon appear in the American Chronicle in English.
Το παρών άρθρο πρωτοτυπώθηκε στην Σλοβακική γλώσσα, στο 4o τεύχος Τριμηνιαίο τεύχος του περιοδικού "Euro-Atlantic Quarterly" που εκδίδεται απο την Σλοβακική Ατλαντική Επιτρπή, στην Μπρατισλάβα. Σύντομα θα εμφανιστεί στο Αμέρικαν Κρόνικλ στην Αγγλική.

Miltiades Elia Bolaris

Obaja sme susedia. Ja bývam v tej krásnej vile blízko mora, ktorá sa volá Macedónsko a ty prebývaš v menšom vzdialenejšom dome na kopci. Som členom pár prestížnych klubov v blízkom okolí, ako je napríklad Rotary klub a Gulf klub, v ktorých som váženým a rešpektovaným členom. Nedávno si sa rozhodol zísť z kopca a stať sa členom týchto klubov. Nato, aby si sa stal členom však potrebuješ moje odporúčanie. Teraz som v pozícii rozhodnúť: Mal by som ti pomôcť? Začínaš pociťovať neistotu, pretože aby som ťa mohol odporučiť ako člena klubov potrebujem cítiť, že sme priatelia a že skutočne ako priateľ patríš do týchto klubov. I napriek tomu prestieraš, že si priateľ? Chodíš k mojim susedom a vravíš im, že moje deti nie sú skutočne moje a že sú nemanželské. Šíriš fámy, že môj pradedo Alexandros, syn Philippa nebol skutočne mojim pradedom a že som jednoducho podvodník. Bez váhania tvrdíš, že to bol tvoj pradedo a tým, že je to práve tvoj predok jasne prehlasuješ, že ti dal právnymi dokumentmi prímorskú vilu, a ja som jednoducho obsadil tvoj majetok, ktorý právoplatne patrí tebe. Každý v susedstve však vie, že tvoje priezvisko bolo doposiaľ Bulgarov po matkinej strane a Serbovic po otcovej strane. Po 2.svetovej vojne si nejakým spôsobom prišiel na radnicu a registroval svoje deti pod menom Macedónsky a potom vyhlásil, že vila Macedonia je tvojím majetkom. To, čo požaduješ je privlastniť si meno prímorskej vily (Macedonia), kde leží väčšina historického Macedónska a použiť toto meno pre malý dom na kopci, teda na malú časť FYROM, juhoslovanskú časť. Navyše trváš na tom, že si musím zmeniť svoje priezvisko a nesmiem sa naďalej volať Macedónsky, pretože ty si jediný Macedónsky v okolí. Skutočne si povedal, že chceš, aby som ti pomohol stať sa členom mojich klubov?
Takáto je presne dilema, ktorej čelí Grécko: bývalá juhoslovanská republika sa chce stať členom NATO a tiež Európskej únie. Gréci však nechcú spolupracovať. Je to staré nepriateľstvo, ktoré ich núti držať sa bokom? Vôbec nie. Počas všetkých významných konfliktov dvadsiateho storočia, prvých a druhých balkánskych vojen, stálo Grécko a národy bývalej Juhoslávie bok po boku ako spojenci. Naopak, Grécko a Bulharsko vždy bojovali proti sebe počas druhej balkánskej vojny a tiež počas oboch svetových vojen. Grécko sa stalo dokonca najväčším investorom v Bulharsku (tiež vo FYROM) a značne im pomohlo zabezpečiť si pozíciu ako v NATO, tak v EÚ, za čo sú Bulhari veľmi vďační. Grécko a Bulharsko sú príkladnými susedmi, ktorí zanechali staré spory a spolupracujú vo vytváraní prosperity pre svoje národy. Grécko nie je bohatou a silnou krajinou, avšak má dlhú históriu, kultúru a jazyk, ktorý bol zdokumentovaný v písomnej podobe za posledných 3650 rokov. Gréci sú nesmierne hrdí na svoju históriu, kultúru a jazyk a vykonali ohromnú prácu, aby tieto prednosti ukázali celému svetu počas otváracej ceremónie Olympijských hier v roku 2004. Keď sa bývalá juhoslovanská republika Macedónsko snažila stať registrovanou medzi krajinami sveta pod menom Macedónska republika, Atény sa cítili ohrození väzbou k tureckému militarizmu a tiež rečami prívržencov iredentizmu zo Skopje o ovládnutí Thessalonike a že sa následne stane ich hlavým mestom. Každý rozpráva o historickej atmosfére v bývalej juhoslovanskej republike Macedónsko a o gigantickej soche Alexandra Veľkého, ktorá je pripravovaná na umiestnenie na hlavné námestie v Skopje. Spôsobuje to mnoho problémov s gŕeckou kultúrnou a historickou precitlivenosťou, a preto sa Gréci len smejú nad klaunmi zo Skopje, a pár z nich hovorí o skorom odhalení sochy Kemala Attaturka na tom istom meste. To je výstrahou pre grécke radary. Nepotrebujú druhý front v prípade, že sa niečo stane s Tureckom. To vytvára paradox: malá chudobná bývalá juhoslovanská republika Macedónsko je vlastne silnou stranou vyrovnania. Aj keď má Grécko karty vo svojich rukách, je v slabej pozícií. Premiér FYROMu Nikola Gruevski a minister zahraničných vecí Milososki na konferencii rozširovania NATO pod záštitou prezidenta Busha si boli priveľmi istí, že Grécko by nepovedalo nie Amerike, vstupu FYROMu do Aliancie po ubezpečení Condolízou o vstupe FYROMu do Atlantickej aliancie. Mali pripravené šampanské na otvorenie, keď sa na ich zdesenie (ohromenie), objavili Gréci v Bukurešti s vetom v rukáve. George W.B musel prehltnúť svoju imperiálnu pýchu a bývalej juhoslovanskej republike Macedónsko bolo zdvorilo oznámené prísť neskôr, keď dosiahnu dohodu s Aténami. Nerozlučné pro-washingtonské duo premiéra Costas Caramanlis a jeho ministra zahraničných vecí Dora Bakoyianni uznalo politickú samovraždu, keď sa s tým stretli zoči-voči. Grécki politici, ktorí vyjednajú meno Macedónia pre FYROM budú potrebovať pekný domov vo veľmi odľahlých Egejských ostrovoch, kde by strávili penziu. Grécki voliči, najmä tí z gréckej časti Macedónska (dvakrát väčšie a viac zaľudnené ako celá FYROM) prísne potrestajú každého politika, ktorý sa odváži vyhovieť externým tlakom a podvolí sa požiadavkám Skopje. Thessaloniki a zvyšok Macedónska dôsledne vysielajú konzervatívne väčšiny do parlamentu v Aténach. Mimochodom, Skopje nikdy nenazýva historickú Macedóniu v Grécku svojim menom. Oficiálne ju pomenúvajú „Egejská Macedónia“ a odmietajú akceptovať Grécku suverenitu tejto oblasti, domnievajúc sa, že je zotročenou časťou FYROMu. Aj napriek ich horlivosti vyhovieť spojencom NATO, boli ministerskí predsedovia Caramanlis a nádejný Bacoyianni zovretí medzi dvoma mlynskými kameňmi: nemohli by sa podvoliť (vzdať sa, ustúpiť). Z pravej strany im dýcha na krk drsná strana LAOS, ktorá odmení pokrikom „velzrada!“ kohokoľvek kto zradí Macedóniu „Skopianoi“ Európsky naklonená strana PASOK, u ktorej je predpoklad že vyhrá nasledujúce voľby, ktoré sa uskutočnia niekedy do konca Marca 2010 bude mať ešte menej dôvodov odstúpiť Helenske kultúrne a historické dedičstvo Skopje. Prinajlepšom Skopje bude schopné vyjednať kompromis, ktorý nakoniec bude nejakou kombináciou mena ako Gornamakedonija, alebo Gornamakedonija, alebo niečo na tento spôsob. Prehlásenie Dora Bakoyianni, že Horné Macedónsko by mohlo byť prijateľným riešením pre Atény je pravdepodobne len zbožné prianie vytrvalej pro-washingtonsky orientovanej političky, ktorá čoskoro príde o prácu.

Ako jeden grécky výraz vraví, Bakoyianni je “ viac monarchistický ako sám kráľ.“ Kráľom je teraz Barack Obama, ktorý ako kongresman štátu Illinois od 3. augusta 2007 podporil spolu s Olympia Snowe of Maine rezolúciu Senátu SR-300 (http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-sr300/show), ktorá bola navrhnutá floridským senátorom Bobom Menendezom. Rezolúcia Senátu č.300 je „ rezolúciou, ktorá vyjadruje snahu Senátu, ktorou by bývalá juhoslovanská republika Macedónsko mala zastaviť požívanie materiálov, ktoré narúšajú opatrenia Spojených národov, sprostredkovaných dočasnou dohodou medzi FYROM a Gréckom týkajúcich sa „nepriateľských aktivít alebo propagandy“ a mali by spolupracovať s Organizáciou spojených národov a Gréckom, aby sa dosiahli dlhodobé politické ciele Spojených štátov a OSN a nájsť spoločne akceptovaný oficiálny názov pre bývalú juhoslovanskú republiku Macedónsko. To donútilo FYROM, aby odradila súkromné osoby od takého správania, ktoré by podnecovalo k násiliu alebo nenávisti ako aj od revízie učebníc, máp a školských pomôcok, aby bola zaručená presnosť informácií.
Rozširovanie NATO v Bukurešti jednoducho prišlo a odišlo a každý si myslel, že konečne prevážia v Skopje chladnejšie názory. Namiesto toho spravila vláda Nikola Gruevského hlbší skok do macedónskej priepasti: Kvôli nasledovnému premenovaniu letiska Alexandera Veľkého v Skopje si Gruevski objednal 33 metrov vysokú bronzovú sochu Alexandra Veľkého z Talianska, aby bola postavená do stredu Skopje. Takisto premenoval hlavný štadión krajiny po Phillipovi II., ktorý ako prvý kráľ zjednotil Grécko, a časť diaľnice od Belehradu po Thessaloniki cez FYROM premenoval na diaľnicu Alexandra Veľkého. Pozval Gazanfara Aliho Hana, kmeňového vodcu domorodcov Hunza z Pakistanu, ktorý vyhlásil, že je strateným vojakom Alexandra, a vytvoril cirkusovú atmosféru návštevou pakistanských Macedóncov: Pseudomacedónske delírium v glorifikácii! Gréci boli pobavení komickými aspektami toho všetkého, avšak zaznamenali aj seriózne následky. Pokiaľ ide o podnecovanie neúcty, nebolo prekvapením, že v tomto prostredí etnickej nenávisti a intolerancie, ktorú vytvára Gruevského strana VMRO, boli začiatkom tohto leta napadnuté dva autobusy starých dôchodcov macedónskych Grékov z Thessalonik na ceste do byzantského mesta Ochrid počas kongresu strany VMRO fanatickými výtržníkmi. Zbili tiež zopár starých ľudí a ich autobusy boli zámerne zničené „ Zjednoteným Macedónskom“, na ktorých zanechali grafitové nápisy ako „ Alexander Veľký“ a „F..k Greece.“ (http://www.mia.com.mk/default.aspx?vId=62541707&lId=2). „Zjednotené Macedónsko“ je iredentistický slogan, ktorým ultra-nacionalisti zo Skopje propagujú svoje plány pripojiť k územiu severné Grécko a juhozápadné Bulharsko. Väčšina slovanského obyvateľstva žijúceho v bývalej juhoslovanskej republike Macedónsko vrátane akademika Blažeho Ristovskeho, sú prehláseniami vlády z júna 2009 a ich historickými publikáciami označení ako Neslovania, ako potomkovia starovekých Macedóncov s nepatrným primiešaním menšinových Slovanov(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCB4PJhhb_U&feature=channel)
To pripomína mnoho fašistov z hnutia Anteho Pavelića počas druhej svetovej vojny tzv. Ustašovcov, ktorí prehlasovali, že Chorváti sú potomkovia Gótov, ktorí na svojej ceste pohltili niekoľko Slovanov. Pre niektorých ľudí, Bulharsku- príbuzný slovanský dialekt nemá v sebe žiadne staroveké grécke, alebo latinské slová okrem moderných slov a tvrdenie, že pôvod, dokonca aj vzťah k starovekým Macedóncom, ktorí nám nechali tisícky gréckych nápisov a ktorí šírením svojho jazyka od Egypta po Indiu spravili Gréčtinu medzinárodným jazykom staroveku, je prinajmenšom nepodloženým. Intelektuáli zo Skopje, ktorí majú jasné názory a predstavy vytvorili sarkastické pomenovanie pre túto šialenú fascináciu Alexandrom Macedónskym: volajú to bucefalizmus, pomenovanie podľa Alexandrovho koňa Bucephalusa. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4XlFSctgbg&feature=channel_page). Akademici z najlepších univerzít sveta napísali v máji 2009 list Obamovi, ktorý je vyjadrením sklamania z hrubého potláčania historickej pravdy propagandou bývalej juhoslovanskej republiky Macedónsko. (http://macedonia-evidence.org/obama-letter.html) Ich návrh je staroveké pomenovanie krajiny Paionia,. Pre mnoho praktických dôvodov nie je bývalá juhoslovanská republika Macedónsko národným štátom ale multinárodnou jednotkou, “mini Juhoslávia“. V krajine žije okolo 60-65 percent kresťanských Slovanov, ďalej Albánci, Turci, Valasi, Gréci, moslimskí Slovania, Rómovia a ďalší. Ani Macedónci nie sú homogénnou etnickou skupinou. Mnohí z nich označujú samých seba za Srbov alebo Bulharov, a aj iných, no najmä na juhu v blízkosti historického Macedónska sa nachádzajú skutoční slovanskí Macedónci. Titov plán z roku 1944 vytvoriť “Narod” z obyvateľov Vadarskej Banoviny bol len z polovice hotový. Ozbrojené sily môžu rozmnožovať nejednotnosť a rozdelenie, ako si myslela Juhoslávia. Útek v mytologicky nehistorickej minulosti s Alexandrom jazdiacom na Bucephalusovi pomedzi ulice v Skopje nie je potrebný pre dlhotrvajúcu stabilitu v tomto multietnickom štáte, pretože je nebezpečný pre jeho jednotnosť a existenciu. Albánci majú čas a znovu ukázali svoju nespokojnosť s fanatickým postojom Skopje proti Grécku a otázky názvu: „ Volajte to Coca Cola“, ktorá bola nedávno vykríknutá znechuteným Albánskym politikom, „ Len nás dostaň do NATO a EÚ!“
Namiesto snahy o násilné vnucovanie falošnej jednotnosti pod falošnou odslovanštenou identitou a pritlačiť k zemi kohokoľvek, kto sa prizná k slovanskému pôvodu proti tejto paródii, by postupnými krokmi mohli navrhnúť otvorenú spoločnosť, ktorá by akceptovala multikultularizmmus a prekvitali by v ňom. Štát, kde moslimský Slovania alebo Albánci sa môžu cítiť ako súčasť spoločnosti ako Bulhar, Srb, Valach alebo Slavomacedonian. Namiesto snahy o vytvorenie represívneho režimu aký je v Turkménsku pod ”žiarivým vodením” “večného otca Macedóncov“, skutočne vynaliezavý vodca, rozhodne viacej kultúrny, by mohol ľahko pretransformovať túto malú krajinu na balkánske Švajčiarsko.
Pseudo-macedonizmus, dominantná politická ideológia v Skopije, a názov Macedónsko sú dôvody, ktoré stoja v ceste pokroku bývalej juhoslovanskej republike Macedónsko a jej chodníčkom európskej integrácie. Znepríjemňujú vzťahy FYROMu s jej susedmi, rovnako ako vnútorne etnické vzťahy v krajine, vytvárajúc oddiely vo vnútri jednotiek, stavajú Slovanov proti Albáncom, kresťanov proti moslimom, Bulharov proti slovanským Macedóncom, a bývalú juhoslovanskú republiku Macedónsko proti celému svetu,
pseudomacedonizmus a provinčná obmedzenosť prospechárskej politickej nomenklatúry, nezvratne zachytenej vo svojich „titoistických koreňoch“, ponecháva FYROM zamrznutou, neschopnou spraviť ďalší krok.

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Further reading or viewing:
• Is there a Rift between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of "Macedonia" on Alexander?
• http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/112014
• A brief overview of the Macedonian name issue. http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/109817
• The alleged differences between the Macedonians and the other ancient Greeks
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/101463
• Ali Ahmeti Demands a Solution to the Name Dispute Between Skoplje and Athens [06-V-2009]
http://www.youtube.com/user/Srbolog#play/uploads/31/wzetna28Ek8
• Delirious Pseudomacedonism: Fascist Official Video of the FYROMian Government, on State TV [Full version]
http://www.youtube.com/user/Srbolog#play/uploads/77/9ITEdiSBl3Y
• Ljubčo Georgievski Denounces Historical Revisionism at a TV Debate [17-VI-2009]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSPPRoNIdfg&feature=channel
• Letter to President Barack Obama
http://macedonia-evidence.org/obama-letter.html
• I am an Indigenous Macedonian I am Greek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmr_Wbg0QG4&eurl=http://taxalia.blogspot.com/2009/08/ee.html&feature=player_embedded#t=401
• Slavic Philhellenic Network - Vardaraxios
http://vardaraxios.wordpress.com/
• Vasko Gligorijević's Videos in YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/Srbolog