Macedonian names and makeDonski pseudo-linguistics: The case of the name Lyka.

Miltiades Elia Bolaris

Το παρόν άρθρο είχε πρωτοεμφανιστεί στο Αμέρικαν Κρόνικλ στις 15 Αυγούστο του 2009. This article first appeared in the "American Chronicle", on August 15, 2009.
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/114302

"Lyka. This female Macedonian name, which exists in the present day language, is possibly derived from the noun "lika" (a face, pretty face). The name Lika is present in today's Macedonian onomasticon." Quote was taken from: "Similarities between ancient Macedonian and today's' Macedonian Culture (Linguistics and Onomastics)" by Aleksandar Donski, celebrity "historian" and propagandist from FYROM.

Lyka/Λύκα

Lykos/Λύκος in Greek means wolf. In Greek the substitution of the -os/ος ending of masculine names by the -e/-η and -a/-α endings signifies the female equivalent of the same noun or adjective. Therefore, to the uninitiated, Lyka obviously sounds like female wolf in Greek. Under certain conditions it could be, but properly it is not. The female wolf in standard modern Greek, is Lykaina (G.Babiniotis, Athens, 2002). Lyka/Λύκα is also understood, but it does not sound proper.

The modern Slavic name Lika/Лика, (wherever it is not a simple cut-off derivative of Angelika) can possibly be a survival of the ancient Greek name Λύκα/Lyka, since many Greek rural populations lived side by side with Slavic ones and some were probably assimilated into the Slavic populations of later times, post 7th century Ad. But since this name is found also in other Slavic languages, who never came into contact with the local Greek speaking populations of the Balkans, then this hypothesis is probably unsupported.

Personally, I would would tend to think that if, and that is a big if, the Slavic female name Lika/Лика is related to Greek, then it is most probably a modern loan name that could in fact be derived from the Greek Lykos/ Λύκος=wolf. In a dialectical format in some parts of modern Greece the she-wolf may indeed also be called Lyka/λύκα, though personally I cannot attest to it, nor deny its posibility. In ancient Greek the word to describe her was either Lyko/Λυκώ or Lykaina/Λύκαινα(Stamatakos, Athens, 1972). The commonly used word to describe the the she-wolf now, in Modern Greek, is also Lykaina/Λύκαινα, the "Wolfette" . For the record, Lykos/ Λύκος is derived from the common Indo-European word for the wolf *wlkwos, which is found in numerous other Indo-European languages, besides Greek: Latin "Lupus", Sanskrit "Vrka", Tocharian B "Walwa", Lithuanian "Vilkas", Albanian "Ujk", English and German "Wolf", Russian "Volk", etc. (Oxford Introduction to Indo-European, Oxford 2006).

Professor Donski may actually be correct in pointing out that the modern Slavomacedonian name Lika/Лика "is possibly derived from the noun "lika" (a face, pretty face)". Indeed, "face" in Russian is "Litso/лицо", and when speaking of a Saint's face the Russians use the word "лик святого" (lik svyatogo). In Serbian and Croatian it is "Lice/лице" and in Bulgarian it is "Litse/лице" or "Lik/лик" so it seems probable that Donski may actually be partially right on this one, on the derivation of the modern Slavonic name Lika.

Regardless and completely independent of where the modern Slavic female Lika/Лика is derived from, the ancient Macedonian name Λύκα/Lyka is unquestionably Greek. Unlike the modern version, though, it is for sure not derived from Λύκος/Lykos, the wolf. Linguistically the two words are totally unrelated.

We must go to the ancient sources and look at what the ancient epigraphy can reveal to us, in order to find out why.

The first inscription is from the Macedonian city of Amphipolis/Ἀμφίπολις, not far from the city of Serres:

Regions : Northern Greece (IG X) : Macedonia
SEG 35:712
Makedonia (Edonis) — Amphipolis — Portraita se Taphika Mnemeia (1983) 194,
127 — Grabdenkmäler mit Porträts (1998) 104,135

Ζώσιμος καὶ Χρη-
σίμα Λύκᾳ τῷ τέ-
κνῳ μνήμης
χάριν.

Zesimos and Chre-
sima to Lyka their
child in memory's
Grace.

A second inscription from Macedonia comes from Beroia:

Regions : Northern Greece (IG X) : Macedonia
EKM 1. Beroia 341
Makedonia (Bottiaia) — Beroia — 2nd/3rd c. AD

Ἡλιοφῶν Λύκαν τὴν γυ-
νε̑κα μνήμης χάριν κὲ Οὐα-
λέριν τὸν υἱὸν ἥρωα.

Heliophon to Lyka his
wife in memory's Grace and to Oua-
lerios his son the Hero.

A third inscription, this one from Thessalonike mentions yet another Lyka:

Regions : Northern Greece (IG X) : Macedonia
IG X,2 1 326
Makedonia (Mygdonia) — Thessalonike — 2nd c. AD

Σεραπιακὸς καὶ
Λύκα Λευκίππ[ῃ]
καὶ Ἀθηνοδώρῳ
τοῖς τέκνοις μνεί-
ας χάριν.

Serapiakos and
Lyka to Leukipe
and Athenodoros
their children, in me-
mory's Grace

Then, on an inscription, from the Paionian city of Stoboi, now in Central FYROM, the name appears in its masculine form, Lykas/Λύκας.

Regions : Northern Greece (IG X) : Macedonia
SEG 16:406
Makedonia (Paionia) — Stoboi — Sirkovo — Roman period — ZAnt 3 (1953) 237, 7

Κλυμένη Λύ-
κᾳ τῇ θυγατρὶ
καὶ Πουπλίῳ
τῷ ἀνδρὶ ἐποίει
μνήμης χάριν καὶ
ἑαυτῇ ζῶσα.

Klynene, daughter of Ly-
kas to her daughter
and to her husband
Pouplios she made
(and dedicated this monument)
in memory's grace and
to herself, while still alive.

Τhe Paeonians were an ancient ethnic group that lived in the Amphaxitis, in what is now Central Macedonia,Greece, in southern ex-Yugoslavia (what is now southern and central FYROM), and in SW Bulgaria. They were squeezed between the Macedonians and the Thracians. The Paionians are thought to have been a cousin nation to the Greeks, the closest ethnolinguistic relatives of the Greeks in the ancient Balkans. Precious few of their words are known to us. Only some toponyms, hydronyms, animal names ethnic and personal names have passed down to us. They never had their language written down and what has been written is all in proper Greek. Paionia became completely Hellenized after it became a client state of the Macedonians, retaining only nominal independence. It is generally accepted that they were also closely related to the Phrygians, who were originally neighbors of both the Paionians and the Northwestern Greeks, according to Herodotus and others, and the linguistic affinity of the Phrygian language to Greek has recently been well established (Claude Brixhe, Vladimir Orel, Panayiotou, Diakonov, etc) beyond doubt.Revealingly, most of the Paionian names were either unmistakably Greek (Agis/Άγης, a Royal name shared with several kings of Sparta, Ariston/Αρίστων, Audoleon/Αυδολέων, Leon/Λέων, etc) or Greek-related (almost completely Greek with only slight dialectical differences with classical Greek, like Patraos/Πατράος, Eupolemenos/Ευπολεμένος, etc). At any rate all of their names are easily decipherable using Greek. One of the Paionian names was that of a Paionian κing, named Lycceios/Λύκκειος (356BC - 340BC).
We see that there are plenty of inscriptions in Macedonia, which indicates that the name Lyka and apparently Lykas too were quite common in Macedonia, and apparently in Paionia too. In fact there was a city known from Hellenistic times called Lyka, on the island of St Achileios in the Prespa Lake, which has been recently identified by Roman and Hellenistic fragments under Byzantine archaeological strata, and of course the epigraphy found at the spot:

EAM 149
Macedonia : Lynkestis: Lyke (Agios Achilleios)

Λυ]καίων ἡ πολειτεία
Κ(όιντον) v Ἰούλιον Κρίσπον

The city of the Lykaioi
to Kointos Ioulios Krispos (a Latin name written in Greek)

SEG 47:910
Macedonia : Lynkestis: Lyke (Agios Achilleios)

θε]οῖς Σεβαστοῖς καὶ τῇ Λυκαίων
πό]λει Λ(εύκιος) Φλαούιος Φαβρικιανὸς

to the Respected Gods to the city of the
Lykaioi Leukios Flauios Fabrikianos

The St. Achileios island inscriptions, besides the identification of Lyka, the city of the Lykaoi, it also gives us a good hint of the language spoken in this macedonian city during the Roman times.

But was the name Lyka/Λύκα exclusive to Macedonia? Apparently not, as the epigraphic record will easily prove.

An Athenian man, sometime in the early 5th c BC inscribed his name in ancient graffiti form, for posterity:

SEG 40:47 Attica
Att. — Würzburg: Martin-v.-Wagner — c. 480-470 bc
graffito:}²

Λύκας.

Lykas

In the Attic town of Eleusis, in Athens we read:

Regions : Attica (IG I-III) : Eleusis
SEG 45:188
Att. — Eleusis — AD 47.1992[1997].B.42

Λύκα Θρέπτου ἐγ Μελιτέων

Lyka daughter of Threpsis from Meliteoi.

A woman's funerary dedication on her father's tomb, tells us that the name Lyka was also in use in the island of Crete.

Regions : Aegean Islands, incl. Crete (IG XI-[XIII]) : Crete
IC II v 43
Crete, W. — Axos — IIp.

Λύκα Μυ̣-
στίκωι
τῷ πατρὶ
μνήμης
χά̣[ριν].

Lyka to My-
stikos
her father
in memory's
grace.

The name Lyka appears twice on a long list of about 270 names from the Torre Nova area of Rome, the vast majority of which are Greek, with some Latin ones, which indicates that this was a Greek religious cult or mystic order, since such religious titles as ἱέρεια/Hiereia, μύσται/mystai, ἥρως/hero, δᾳδοῦχος/dadouchos, ἱεροφάντης/hierophantes, βουκόλοι ἱεροί boukoloi hieroi, πυρφόροι/pyrphoroi and of course a φαλλοφόρος/phalophoros are mentioned, all by name:

Regions : Sicily, Italy, and the West (IG XIV) : Italy, incl. Magna Graecia
IGUR I 160
Italia — Roma: Torre Nova, area of — ca. mid. 2nd c. AD — cf. IGUR IV, p. 148, 160

βάκχαι/bacchae
Τύχη/Tyche
Ἐρώτιον/Erotion
Σεουέρα/Seouera
Λύκα/Lyka
etc
and further down:
Στρατηγία/Strategia
Οὐαλερία Ἀριστεῖνα/Oualeria Aristeina
Μυγδονίς/Mygdonis
Νεμεσίλλα/Nemesilla
Φηλείκιτας/Phelikitas
Λύκα/Lyka
Σέμνη/Semne
etc

Finally, in the Greek city of Knidos, in Caria of Asia Minor, at the base of a statue we read:

Regions : Asia Minor : Caria
IK Knidos I 165
Karien — Knidos (Tekir) — 180-170 v.Chr. — AJA 77.1973.422 Anm.37

Κλέαρχον Ἀναξιδώρου
Τιμόξενος Ἀριστοκλεῦς
καὶ Λύκα Ἀναξιππίδα
τὸν αὐτᾶς πάππον

To Clearchos son of Anaxidoros
Timoxenos son of Aristocleus

and Lyka daughter of Anaxipidas
to her grandfather

The epigraphic record, therefore, amply proves, as we said earlier, that Lyka/Λύκα is not only a Macedonian, but a Panhellenic name; all the Greeks used it, in every part of the Greek speaking word.

Let us now go to two inscriptions from Central Greece, with the name Lyka/Λύκα. They are from the oracle of Delphi, where Apollo was worshiped. Both inscriptions very similar, I would say almost identical, which seems to indicate that they followed a ritual pattern for this type of sacred dedicatory texts, where only the names of the persons, the names of the months and the amounts of money involved in the sacred sale were changing. They are dedications to the Pythian Apollo of Delphi.

1 ἄρχοντος Δαμοσθένεος μηνὸς Δαιδαφορίου, ἐπὶ τοῖσδε
ἀπέδοτο Διόδωρος Μνασιθέου Δελφὸς τῶι Ἀπόλλωνι
τῶι Πυθίωι σῶμα γυναικεῖον ἇι ὄνομα Λύκα, τιμᾶς ἀργυ-
ρίου μνᾶν τεσσάρων ἡμιμναίου, καθὼς ἐπίστευσε
5 Λύκα τῶι θεῶι τὰν ὠνάν, ἐφ´ ὧιτε ἐλευθέρα εἶμεν

which translated into English will give us:

1 during the archonship of Damosthenes in the month of Daidaphorios right here
Diodoros son of Mnasitheos, a Delphian offered to Apollon
the Pythian a body of a woman whose name is Lyka worthy
four and a half silver mnas since she
5 Lyka has accepted the sale to the Gods

Regions: Central Greece (IG VII-IX) : Delphi
SGDI II 1963 SGDI II 1962 SGDI II 1964
Phokis — Delphi — 182 bc

Now the second Inscription:

ἄρχοντος Κράτωνος μηνὸς Θεοξενίου, ἐπὶ τοῖσ-
δε ἀπέδοτο Λύκα Δώρου τῶι Ἀπόλλωνι τῶι
Πυθίωι σῶμα γυναικεῖον ἇι ὄνομα Εὔπρα-
ξις. τιμᾶς ἀργυρίου μνᾶν τριῶν, καθὼς ἐπί-
(στευσε)..................................

and in approximate translation:

during the archonship of Kraton in the month of Theoxenios right
here Lyka daughter of Doros offered to Apollon
the Pythian a body of a woman whose name is
Eupraxis worthy three silver mnas since she be-
(lieved)..................................

Regions: Central Greece (IG VII-IX) : Delphi
SGDI II 1961
Phokis — Delphi — 183 bc

In both of these texts we notice the mention of two women named Lyka. They are obviously unrelated, which seems to indicate that this was probably a common name in the area of Delphi. In fact I found a total of seven inscriptions from Delphi (SGDI II 1741 Delphi, SGDI II 1833, Delphi, SGDI II 1876 Delphi, SGDI II 1961 Delphi, SGDI II 1963 Delphi, SGDI II 1975 Delphi, SGDI II 2243 Delphi) where the name Lyka is mentioned no less than 13 times.

The reason is simple: One of the names of the Pythian Apollon is Lycaios Apollon / Λυκαίος Ἀπόλλων or Lyceios Apollon /Λύκειος Ἀπόλλων. To know the meaning of this adjective we go to other words in the Greek language: Lykauges/Λυκαυγές (from Lyke/λύκη, meaning bright light+auge/αὐγή meaning dawn) is the light of the early dawn, when darkness breaks into day.

The same meaning is also found in the Greek word Lykophos/Λυκόφως (λύκη + φώς) for twilight. In ancient Greek we also encounter the word Lykabas/Λυκάβας (Λύκη+βαίνω) which means the going, the traveling, the departure of light, and it signified the time of day that still has light – before it gets dark, but also alternatively the solar year. Therefore, Lyke is a word that means light, and it is related to the word Lychnos which is the oil lamp the ancients used at night. Therefore Lycaios Apollon/Λυκαίος Ἀπόλλων means Apollo the illuminating one, which makes perfect sense considering that Apollon is a Solar God, a God of Light. Homer calls Apollon Lykegenes/Λυκηγενής=born of light, offspring of the light (and not wolf-born as popular etymology would assume, that would have been: Lykogenes/Λυκογενής).

In Arcadia in central Peloponnese we find the worship of Lycaios Zeus/Λυκαίος Ζεύς and indeed the toponym (one of many throughout Greece, from Macedonia to the Peloponnese) of Lycaeon/Lykaion/Λυκαίον Oros/Lycaeon mountain and on that mountain we also find the temple of Apollon at Bassae, in Phigaleia, a work of the celebrated architect Iktinos, one of the most magnificent temples in all of Greece. There is also a town called Lycaia, in Arcadia ("Λύκαια, πόλις Αρκαδίας"/Lycaia, a city of Arcadia - Stephanus Byzantius), adn yet another one, called Lycoa/Λυκόα ("Λυκόα, πόλις Αρκαδίας"/Lycοa, a city of Arcadia - Stephanus Byzantius, referencing Pausanias).

On top of the mountain Lycaeon/Lykaion the Arcadians celebrated the festival of Lycaea/Lykaia/Λυκαία in Honor of Lycaios Zeus/Λυκαίος Ζεύς.

An inscription from the town of Tegea, in Arcadia, enumerates the career victories of a Tegaean athlete, a native son, Damatrios/Δαμάτριος (Doric form of Demetrios), son of Aristippos/Ἀρίστιππος, and we read that among his numerous victories he had also won four times the Javelin throw prize in the Lykaian Games, the Lykaia/Λύκαια, held in his native Arcadia:

IG V,2 142 Arkadia (IG V,2) Arkadia — Tegea — late 3rd c. BC

Δαμάτριος Ἀριστίππου Damatrios son of Aristippos
Ὀλύμπια παῖδας στάδιον, Olympic Games children, Stadion run
Νέμεα παῖδας δόλιχον, Nemean Games children, Javelin
Ἀσκληπίεια παῖδας δόλιχον, Asclepieian Games, children, Javelin
Ἀλέαια παῖδας δόλιχον, Aleaian Gamnes, children, javelin
Λύκαια ἄνδρας δόλιχον τετράκις, Lykaian Games, men, Javelin, four times
Νέμεα ἄνδρας δόλιχον τρίς, Nemean Games, men, Javelin, thrice
Ἑκατόμβοια ἄνδρας δόλιχον ἵππιον δίς, Ecatomboia Games, men, Javelin, twice
Ἴσθμια ἄνδρας δόλιχον δίς, Isthmian Games, men, Javelin, twice
Ἀλέαια ἄνδρας δόλιχον τρίς, Aleaian Games, men, Javelin, thrice
Πύθια ἄνδρας δόλιχον δίς, Pythgian Games, in Delphi, men, Javelin, twice
Ὀλύμπια ἄνδρας δόλιχον ἅπαξ, Olympic Games, in Olympia, men, Javelin, once
Βασίλεια ἄνδρας δόλιχον δίς. Basileian Games, men, Javelin, twice

In the center of Athens, across the Acropolis, there is the white capped hill of Lycabetus/Λυκαβητός, a name it has had since prehistoric times. Then there is Lykeion/Λύκειον, the neighborhood by the temple of Lyceios Apollon, where Aristotle established his school of philosophy appropriately named the Lyceion/Λύκειον, in Latin transliterated as Lyceum. Τhe archaeological site has already been identified several years ago, in modern Athens. Now schools worldwide are called Lyceum/Lyceo/Lycee' due of Aristotle's random choice of that neighborhood as a good place to locate his school.

An inscription found in Athens actually mentions Lyceion/Λύκειον as an Athenian neighborhood landmark location:

IG II² 457 Attica

το τό τε στάδιον τὸ Παναθην]αϊκὸν καὶ τὸ γυμνάσιον τ-
ὸ κατὰ τὸ Λύκειον κατεσκεύ]ασεν καὶ ἄλλαις δὲ πολλαῖ-
ς κατασκευαῖς ἐκόσμησεν] ὅλην τὴν πόλιν·

and the stadion known as Panathenaikon and the gymnasion (a place for exercise),
the one next to Lykeion (Lyceion/Λύκειον) he built and other numerous
structures he decorated throughout the city.

Stephanos Byzantios mentions it too, in his "Ethnica": Λυκείον, τό γυμνάσιον. καί Λύκειος ό Απόλλων, λέγεται καί Λυκήιον / Lyceion, the gymnasium. and Lyceios Apollon, it is also called Lyceeion.

Finally in ancient Greece we encounter the names Lycaon/Λυκαων of Arcadia, Lykastes/ Λυκαστης of Crete, Lycarios/Λυκαριος the Spartan, Lycaonides/Λυκαονιδης the Arcadian, Lycanthos/Λυκανθος the Athenian, Lycainion/Λυκαινιον as a name for a woman from Athens Lycaros/Λυκάροs (IG X,2 2 327) in Macedonia : Derriopos: Styberra (Cepigovo), and Lycaretos/Λυκάρητος (Lebedos 6) from Ionia. We find Lyka/Λυκα a name very popular in Delphi and also Lyca/Λύκα (I.Apollonia 115) from Epeiros, and Lyca/Λύκα ( SEG 36:1156) from Bithynia, Lyca/Λύκα (IC I xviii 95) from Crete, Ctr.: Lyttos and Lyca/Λύκα (SEG 37:450) from Thessaly (IG IX,2): Magnesia: Demetrias. Lycaon/Λυκάων (IvO 91) from Elis in the Peloponnese, Lycaon/Λυκάων (MAMA 10 244) also from Phrygia, Lycaon/Λυκάων (FD III 1:478) from Delphi but also from (Spomenik 98 (1941-48) 48,101) Macedonian Paionia: Idomene? (Isar-Marvinci). Lykaios/Λυκαῖος (Epigr. tou Oropou 353) from Megaris in Boiotia (IG VII), Λυκάδας (Brunšmid, Inschriften 2-14) Epeiros, Illyria, and Dalmatia : Dalmatia, IG IV²,1 188, Λύκαιθος (IG IV²,1) from Epidauros in the Peloponnese, Lycades/Λυκάδης (ID 338) from the Cycladic island of Delos (IG XI and ID), Lycarion/Λυκαρίων (IGUR II 756) from Magna Graecia, in Southern Italy but also Lycarion/Λυκαρίων (SEG 40:1568) from Egypt. Lycandros/Λύκανδρος ( Graffites d'Abydos 91) from Egypt, Lycaris/Λυκάρις (IK Klaudiu polis 15) from Bithynia, Lycaithion/Λυκαίθιον (IK Knidos I 73) from Caria : Knidos. Lycaithos/Λύκαιθος Chios 152) from the island of Chios, and Lycaithos/Λύκαιθος (Iscr. di Cos ED 81) from Cos and Calymna : Kos.

Lyc/Luk-/Λυκ- derived Greek names, are all over the map of the ancient Hellenic world, they are obviously Pan-Hellenic and certainly not exclusive to the Macedonians.

Lyka-/Λυκα- is derived from Lyke/Λυκη meaning "bright light", which is also distantly related to Leukos/Λευκος which means "bright white, shiny, clear, bright" in Greek, and both are directly derived from the original Indo-European word *leukos which meant light, shiny, clear and bright, and related to the Indo-European noun *loukes for light. The Germanic-derived English word "light", the Old Irish "Loch" (glowing white), Hittite "Lukke", Sanskrit "Roki", Tocharian B "Lyuke", Lithuanian "Laukas" for blazing white, as well the Latin words "Lux" for light and "Luceo" for kindle, are all linguistically related to the Greek words "Leukos/Λευκός" the bright white, and Lyke/Λύκη" and of course to the ancient Macedonian, therefore Greek name "Lyka/Λύκα".

If we had the white she-wolf, shown in the photograph above, and had named her Lyka, she would have been Lyka/Λύκα, the lyceia/λυκεία-leuce/λευκή lykaina/λύκαινα:

In ancient Greek:

Λύκα ἠ λυκάλευκη λύκαινα - Lyka he lykaleyke Lykaina: Lyka the brightly white - shiny white she-wolf.

Come to think of it, it almost sounds like the title for a beautiful children's fable, like one of those professor Donski could be writing, once he stops wasting his great talent with words in fake nationalist fables for politically delusional adults of the type that belongs to the VMRO-DPMNE party; fables that try to promote an imaginary Ancient Macedonian Greek past for those with an uncertain and confused identity who happen to live in the lands of ancient Paionia and Dardania.


NOTES:

The photographs from Amphipolis, Lycabetos and Stoboi, as well as the Ancient Greek to English translations are by the author.

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Μιλτιάδης Η. Μπόλαρης

Στο άρθρο του "Ο κ. Γκρουέβσκι και η παρέα του" που τυπώθηκε στον Κόσμο του Επενδυτή το Σαββατοκύριακο 3-4 Ιουλίου, ο κ. Νίκος Φελέκης έβαλε τον πολύ πετυχημένο υπότιτλο: "Ο "Μακεδονισμός" εξάντλησε τα όριά του και πλέον αποτελεί τροχοπέδη για την ανάπτυξη των Σκοπίων".

Ο συγγραφέας του άρθρου εύλογα απορεί για την "εκνευριστική κολυσιεργία" που επιδεικνύει η "άλλη πλευρά" στην εξεύρεση λύσης: "Ο Νίκολα Γκρουέβσκι και η "παρέα" του κάνουν οτιδήποτε περνά από το χέρι τους προκειμένου το πρόβλημα να διαιωνίζεται". Σωστά τονίζεται πως "Κι αν μέχρι πρότινος αυτό μπορούσε να λειτουργεί υπέρ των Σκοπίων, δεν είναι σίγουρο ότι και σήμερα τους ωφελεί", επειδή κινδυνεύουν "Να παραμείνουν "μαύρη τρύπα" στα Βαλκάνια, με ότι αυτό συνεπάγεται για το μέλλον της FYROM".

Το σίγουρο είναι, και το άρθρο το αναφέρει αυτό, πως η "εκνευριστική κολυσιεργία" των Σκοπίων έσπασε πράγματι τα νεύρα των εν Αθήναις παρακοιμώμενων διπλωματών και είχε το θεμιτό για το Σκοπιανό προτεκτοράτο αποτέλεσμα:

"...η Ελλάδα συνεχώς αναμορφώνει επί το ρεαλιστικότερον τις θέσεις της. Από το "ούτε Μακεδονία ούτε παράγωγά της" ή το "Μακεδονία είναι μία και είναι Ελληνική" έχουμε φτάσει στο έσχατο για τα καθ' υμάς σημαίο υποχώρησης που συνοψίζεται στη λεγόμενη "κόκκινη γραμμή": Σύνθετη ονομασία με γεωγραφικό προσδιορισμό και για κάθε χρήση (erga omnes)".

Δύο σημειώσεις να προσυνάψουμε εδώ. Το να λέμε πως "η Μακεδονία είναι μία, και είναι Ελληνική" δεν είναι εθνικιστική αλλά επιστημονικά στηριγμένη ιστορική άποψη. Άλλο πράγμα είναι η κοιτίδα των Μακεδόνων, πρίν την κατακτητική επέκταση του Φιλίππου και του Αλεξάνδρου, και άλλο πράγμα η ευρύτερη Μακεδονία, από την Αδριατική έως το Ινδικό Πουντζάμπ. Οι κατεκτημένες περιοχές δεν μπορουν να θεωρούνται "Μακεδονία". Και γιά να γίνουμε πιό συγκεκριμένοι θα πρέπει να αναφέρουμε το εξής αυτονόητο:

"Η εν λόγω περιοχή, με τη σύγχρονη πρωτεύουσά της τα Σκόπια, ονομαζόταν στην αρχαιότητα Παιονία. Τα όρη Βαρνούς και Όρβηλος (που σχηματίζουν σήμερα τα βόρεια σύνορα της Ελλάδας) αποτελούν ένα φυσικό όριο που χώριζε και χωρίζει τη Μακεδονία από τη βόρεια γείτονά της. Η μόνη πραγματική σύνδεση βρίσκεται κατά μήκος του Αξιού/Βαρδάρη ποταμού αλλά ακόμα και αυτή η κοιλάδα "δε σχηματίζει μία δίοδο επικοινωνίας γιατί τέμνεται από χαράδρες.
Αν και είναι αλήθεια ότι οι Παίονες υποτάχθηκαν στο Φίλιππο Β΄, πατέρα του Μέγα Αλέξανδρου, το 358 π.Χ., δεν ήταν Μακεδόνες και δεν ζούσαν στη Μακεδονία. Παρομοίως, για παράδειγμα, οι Αιγύπτιοι που κατακτήθηκαν από τον Αλέξανδρο, μπορεί μεν να κυβερνούνταν από τους Μακεδόνες, συμπεριλαμβανομένης και της γνωστής Κλεοπάτρας, αλλά δεν υπήρξαν ποτέ οι ίδιοι Μακεδόνες και η Αίγυπτος δεν ονομάστηκε ποτέ Μακεδονία."
http://macedonia-evidence.org/obama-letter-gr.html

Προς θεού, δεν τα λέω εγώ αυτά. Οι μέχρι στιγμής 364 υπογράψαντες ανά τον κόσμο Πανεπιστημιακοί καθηγητές Ιστορίας και Κλασσικών σπουδών τα λένε και τα προσυπογράφουν στο γράμμα που έστειλαν στον πρόεδρο Ομπάμα, αλλά και στην Ντόρα και στον Κωστάκη και σε όλους τους σημαίνοντες στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση. Το να επιμένουμε επομένως στο "Μακεδονία είναι μία και είναι Ελληνική" δεν είναι καθόλου δείγμα εθνικιστικής επαρχιώτικης χοντροκεφαλιάς αλλά υπεράσπιση της Ιστορικής αλήθειας. Άλλο Λωζάνη και άλλο Κοζάνη, και άς με συγχωρούν οι Λωζανίτες.

Το να φτάνουμε αντίθετα στο "έσχατο για τα καθ' υμάς σημαίο υποχώρησης" σημαίνει ένα απλό πράγμα για την κατάντια των επιτελίκών της Ελληνικής διπλωματία, αυτό που άκουσα χρόνια πριν, από κάποιον που γνώριζε: στην βέλτιστη περίπτωση, ο καλύτερος (διπλωμάτης) στο υπουργείο εξωτερικών είναι (ίσως) "φιλλέληνας". Αλλιώς πώς να εξηγήσει κανείς το αδιανόητο της δουλικότητας, ευκαμψίας και υποχωρητικότητας της διπλωματικής εκπροσώπησης της χώρας μας όταν αντί να χρησιμοποιεί τα ιστορικά υποστηρίγματα που μας προσφέρουν οι Άριστοι ανά την Υφήλιο Ακαδημαϊκοί αφήνουμε το πεδίο ελεύθερο στους ψευδολόγους γιαλαντζί καλπικο-μακεντόντσι. Μας δίνουν οι φίλοι μας οπλοπολυβόλα και εμείς πάμε στην μάχη με πλαστικά νεροπίστολα. Πώς να μην φτάσουμε λοιπόν στο "έσχατο για τα καθ' υμάς σημείο υποχώρησης";

Η δεύτερη σημείωση αφορά στη λεγόμενη "κόκκινη γραμμή", που από κόκκινη μας έγινε ρόζ-πουάν. Η λεγόμενη "Σύνθετη ονομασία με γεωγραφικό προσδιορισμό και για κάθε χρήση (erga omnes)", όσον αφορά το δεύτερο σκέλος ("για κάθε χρήση (erga omnes)") είναι φυσικά πολύ σωστή: και φυσικά "για κάθε χρήση (erga omnes)"!...ΑΣΥΖΗΤΙΤΙ! Οτιδήποτε άλλο θα είναι επιοικώς αυτο-εμπαιγμός και ΚΟΡΟΙΔΙΑ!

Οσον αφορα στη λεγόμενη "Σύνθετη ονομασία με γεωγραφικό προσδιορισμό", το σύνθετη δεν μπορεί να είναι ΔΗΘΕΝ "σύνθετη", αλλά ΣΥΝΘΕΤΗ, με όλη την καθαρή ένοια της λέξης! Μην κοροϊδεύουμε και τον εαυτό μας δηλαδή. Όταν λέμε σύνθετο όνομα δεν ενοούμε ούτε Κωνσταντίνος Μήτσου ούτε Κωνσταντίνος Τάκη αλλα ενοούμε Κωνσταντίνος Μητσοτάκης που προέρχεται από το ΣΥΝΘΕΤΟ Μητσος+Τακης. Το "Κωνσταντίνος" είναι απλά προσδιοριστικό του Μητσοτάκης, που μας λέγει απλώς για ποιόν Μητσοτάκη μιλάμε, τον Κωνσταντίνο και όχι τον Κυριάκο, πχ, αλλά το ΣΥΝΘΕΤΟ ΟΝΟΜΑ είναι το "Μητσοτάκης". Άλλο Σύνθετο όνομα είναι πχ το Βλαχογιάννης από το Βλάχος+Γιάννης, ή επίσης το "Σλαβομακεδόνας" από το Σλάβος+Μακεδόνας. Υπάρχουν Σλαβομακεδόνες, και είναι όρος δόκιμος και αποδεκτός στην Μακεδονία. Σλαβομακεδόνας μπορεί να προσδιοριστεί όποιος έχει μερική τουλάχιστον καταγωγή Σλαβική, μιλάει Σλαβικά σαν πρώτη γλώσσα, είτε είναι Ελληνικής είτε Βουλγαρικής συνείδησης (πρώην Πατριαρχικοί και Εξαρχικοί). Σλαβομακεδόνες είναι επίσης όσοι Σλαβόφωνοι διαμένουν στην περιοχή Μοναστηρίου, Περλεπέ, Γευγελής και Στρώμνιτσας. Είναι Σλάβοι και κατοικούν στην Μακεδονία. Γλωσσογεωγραφικά είναι σωστός ο όρος.

Εάν θελήσουμε να βρούμε μία "Σύνθετη ονομασία με γεωγραφικό προσδιορισμό", αυτο θα απέριπτε τα όσα επίθετα πχ Νέα, Νόβα, κλπ δεν είναι γεωγραφικά. Για ποιόν λόγο τα απορίπτουμε αυτά; Υπάρχει λόγος; Όχι! Άρα άχρηστο το "Γεωγραφικό" του προσδιορισμού, το οποίο το αναγάγαμε σε "κόκκινη" ή ότι άλλη γραμμή, αλλά έστω...

Επιθετικοί "Γεωγραφικοί προσδιορισμοί" θα μπορούσαν να είναι τα Βαρδαρική, Παιωνική, Βόρεια, Άνω, Κεντροβαλκανική, Ορεινή, κλπ. Το Εάν μας συμφέρουν αυτά είναι ΠΟΛΥ ΑΜΦΙΒΟΛΟ, εάν και εφόσον τονίζουν το ΑΔΙΑΙΡΕΤΟ ΜΙΑΣ και ΕΝΙΑΙΑΣ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑΣ, κάτι που διακαώς επιθυμούν οι Σκοπιανοί για ιδίους αλλυτρωτικούς λόγους. Εμείς για ποιον λόγο να τους σιγοντάρουμε σ΄αυτό; Ποιός ο λόγος του Γεωγραφικού επομένως, που και αυτόν τον αναγάγαμε σε ιερή αγελάδα;

Είναι να απορεί κανείς! Κάθησε κάποιος σοβαρός αναλυτής να τα κοιτάξει τα θέματα αυτά ή απλώς ό,τι μας έστειλε ο Σόρος τα τυλίξαμε σε δική μας λαδόκολλα και τα παρουσιάζουμε σαν δική μας, περήφανη και αδιαπραγμάτευτη "κόκκινη γραμμή";

Αφήνουμε το ερωτημαυικό και προχωρούμε να δούμε την περίφημη "Σύνθετη":
Σύνθετη, είπαμε, άν δεν πρέπει να πετάξουμε τον "μπαμπινιώτη" μας, και όλα τα υπόλοιπα Νεοελληνικά λεξικά, πρέπει να είναι λέξη συντεθημένη από δύο τουλάχιστον άλλες λέξεις. Όπως είπαμε Βλάχος+Γιάννης, Μήτσος+Τάκης, Σλάβος+Μακεδόνας, κλπ.

Σύνθετη, που θα μπορούσε να περιλαμβάνει και το μακεντόνιγια, για να είναι ευκολόπεπτο από τους βορεινούς και που να τους ξεχωρίζει από τα εξ ανατολών άσπονδα εκ Βουλγαρίας εξαδέλφια τους, θα μπορούσε να θεωρηθεί πχ το το Γκορνομακεντόνιγια, το Νοβαμακεντόνιγια, το Σλαβομακεντόνιγια, και άλλα συναφή διάφορα.

Σύνθετη ονομασία με γεωγραφικό προσδιοροσμό θα μπορούσε αίφνης να είναι το όνομα:

Βαρντάρσκα Σλαβομακεντόνιγια - Vardarska Slavomakedonija

Είναι Σύνθετο, έχει Γεωγραφικό προσδιορισμό, και πιστεύω πως είναι και αποδεκτό, μιάς και ξεχωρίζει τον λαό αυτό από τους Βουλγάρους χωρίς να υπεισέρχεται στα δικά μας αμπέλια με άσχετους αλλυτρωτισμούς και, κυρίως, προσδιορίζει γλώσσα και εθνότητα Σλαβομακεδονική, και ΟΧΙ "εθνικά Μακεδονική", κάτι που το οποιοδήποτε ΜΗ ΣΥΝΘΕΤΟ Βαρδαρική Μακεδονία ΔΕΝ ΤΟ ΕΠΙΛΥΕΙ!

Άς μην γελιόμαστε πλέον! Θέλουμε να λύσουμε το πρόβλημα, και να γίνουμε φίλοι με τον γείτονα λαό, με τον οποίο ΤΙΠΟΤΑ δεν μας χωρίζει (κακόμοιρος κόσμος είναι, σαν κι εμάς τωρα τελευταία) γιά πάντα; Aν ναι, τότε θα πρέπει να σπάσουμε τα δόντια του ψευδομακεδονισμού ΜΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΛΗ! Να τελειώνουμε με τους Γκρουέβσκιδες και με τους κάλπικους Σλαβομεγαλέξανδρους, και με τα εικοσάμετρα αγάλματα του "Αλεκσάνταρ Βελίκιοτ Μακεντόνσκι" στο κέντρο των Σκοπίων και τους άκαιρους (εξαρχικής έμπνευσης) αλυτρωτισμούς!

Η ευκαιρία είναι ΤΩΡΑ, που ο Γκρουέβσκι είναι στην γωνία και τα Σκόπια κινδυνεύνουν να μείνουν στην Ευρωπαϊκή κατάψυξη για άλλα 20 χρόνια, ΤΩΡΑ που τα Σκόπια ταράσσονται από διαδηλώσεις κατά του ΒΜΡΟ και του ψευδομακεδονισμού!

Να πούμε και κάτι άλλο, αυτονόητο μεν αλλά στην χώρα του Νεοελληνικού παραλόγου, μάλλον διευκρινιστέο: Όταν μπαίνει στην αρένα ένας παλαίμαχος παλαιστής και έχει απέναντί του ένα καχεκτικό δεκατριάχρονο αγόρι, το πρόβλημά του παλαιστή δεν θα πρέπει να είναι το πως να αποφύγει να μην φάει πολύ ξύλο, αλλά το πως να μην ποδοπατήσει τον νεαρό! Γιατί το λέω αυτό; Eπειδή σωστά το λέει ο Νίκος Φελέκης πως "καμιά κυβέρνηση και κανένας πολιτικός δεν μπορεί να κάνει οπιαδήποτε άλλη έκπτωση" στο Μακεδονικό (ΑΥΤΟ μας έλειπε!), επειδή "Μιά τέτοια εξέλιξη θα ήταν η ρωγμή στο ηφαίστιο για να ξεχυθεί η λάβα που σιγοβράζει στα έγκατά του".

Όπως καταλαβαίνουμε όλοι, το ζήτημα είναι απλό: Στην Νιμίτσια και γεμάτη αλυτρωτισμό και Βουκεφαλικό ψευδομακεδονικό οίστρο "Βαρντάρσκα Μακεντόνιγια", αντιτάσουμε και αντιπροτείνουμε την "Σύνθετη και με Γεωγραφικό προσδιορισμό":

Βαρντάρσκα Σλαβομακεντόνιγια - Vardarska Slavomakedonija

Όποιος θέλει, παιδιά, η πρότασή μας εδώ είναι, όποιος δεν θέλει, περάστε μετά από είκοσι χρόνια που θα αρχίσει και πάλι η ΕΕ να κουβεντιάζει για νέα μέλη. Άντε με το καλό...!

Eνας Γρουέβσκι μόνον μπορεί να σώσει την Μακεδονία

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5 Ιουλίου 2010
Μιλτιάδης Μπόλαρης

"Κρίσιμος Ιούλιος, για λύση στο πρόβλημα ΠΓΔΜ", μας βεβαιώνει η Χριστίνα Πουλίδου, στο άρθρο της στον "Κόσμο του Επενδυτή", του Σαββατοκύριακου 3-4 Ιουλίου 2010.
Αλλά όμως, "Αγκάθι ο Γκρουέβσκι", μας προειδοποιεί η δημοσιογράφος, στην λύση της "Δημοκρατίας της Βαρδαρικής Μακεδονίας"!
Κρίμα, μεγάλο κρίμα, θα έλεγε κανείς, μιά τέτοια μεγάλη ευκαιρία, που συνδέεται χρονικά άμεσα με την Σύνοδο Κορυφής του ΝΑΤΟ τον Νοέμβριο, όπου "θα μπορούσε να ενταχθεί η ΠΓΔΜ, άν είχε λύσει προηγουμένως το θέμα του ονόματος" να κινδυνεύει να χαθεί. Υπαίτιος ο Ν. Γκρουέβσκι, που εθεωρείται ένας "αστάθμητος παράγοντας".
Κρίμα όμως γιά ποιόν; Για την Ελλάδα, γιά την ΠΓΔΜ, γιά το ΝΑΤΟ;
To να έρχεται ασθμαίνων ο Ματθαίος Νιμιτς εσπευσμένα στα Βαλκάνια κατακαλόκαιρα σημαίναι οτι γιά το ΝΑΤΟ μάλλον σημαντικό πρέπει να είναι.
Eίναι λόγος αυτός να κάνει η Αθήνα πίσω και να βάλει ενέχυρο στα Σκόπια το όνομα ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ, προσφέροντας το πολυπόθητο αντικείμενο του πόθου στους Σκοπιανούς υπερεθνικιστές του Γκρουέβσκι, για τα μάτια και μόνο του ΝΑΤΟ;
Όχι φυσικά!
"Τρία πιθανά οφέλη" θα απέφερε στον Γιώργο Παπανδρέου, μας βεβαιώνει το άρθρο, "μιά τέτοια εξέλιξη", ονομάζοντας έτσι την πρό των πυλών Νιμίτσια "συμβιβαστική διευθέτηση".
Πρίν να αναφέρω τα πιθανά αυτά οφέλη που θα επέφερε στον πρωθυπουργό κ. Γιώργο Παπανδρέου, η όποια συμβιβαστική διευθέτηση, μας ρώτησε η καλή δημοσιογράφος εάν μας ενδιαφέρει, εμάς, τους Έλληνες πολίτες, το τί "όφελος" θα μπορούσε να έχει ο ΟΠΟΙΟΣΔΗΠΟΤΕ πολιτικός ηγέτης από "μιά τέτοια εξέλιξη"; Να το πω πιό χύμα και να αντιστρέψω την λογική του σκεπτικού, ώστε να γίνω πιό κατανοητός:
Μας ενδιαφέρει το τι εκβιασμούς θα κάνουν οι όποιοι άσπονδοι φίλοι και σύμμαχοι στον Έλληνα πρωθυπουργό, ακόμη και με κατευθυνόμενα άρθρα σαν το προκείμενο στον Κόσμο του Επενδυτή, για να δεχτεί πιεζόμενος την ΟΠΟΙΑ συμβιβαστική μέχρι μειοδοσίας λύση;
Άς δούμε όμως ένα-ένα τα "τρία πιθανά οφέλη":

"1) θα απάλασσε την εξωτερική πολιτική από μιά ομηρία, στην οποία συχνά εμπλέκονται άλλοι σχεδιασμοί της Ελληνικής εξωτερικής πολιτικής".
Συμφωνούμε και επαυξάνουμε, στο ότι πράγματι όσο πιό πολλά ανοικτά θέματα έχει μιά μικρή χώρα σαν την Ελλάδα, τόσο πιό εύκολα γίνεται έρμαιο των ασφυκτικών πιέσεων, των άσπονδων φίλων και συμμάχων της. Άρα καλό είναι και ευκταίο να τα συμμαζεύει ένα ένα.
Είναι όμως επιχείρημα αυτό, το να κλείνεις δηλαδή τα ζητήματα όπως όπως, εάν η προτεινόμενη σαν "λύση του προβλήματος" είναι εις βάρος σου; Μπορεί να ισχυριστεί κανείς πως θεωρηθούνται λύση του Κυπριακού οι επάρατες συνθήκες της Ζυρίχης και του Λονδίνου, συνθήκες που "έλυσαν" το Κυπριακό πρόβλημα; Το έλυσαν σίγουρα...γιά την Αγγλική αποικιοκρατία, που απεγκλωβίστηκε από έναν ασύμφορο πλέον αποικιοκρατικό εναγκαλισμό, αποκτώντας στρατιωτικές βάσεις στην μεγαλόνησο και δημιουργώντας τις συνθήκες χαλιναγώγησης του νέου κράτους με την δημιουργία εκ του ων ουκ άνευ πρόβλημα μεταξύ των δύο θρησκευτικών κοινοτήτων (κατά την δοκιμασμένη στην Ινδία τακτική διαμελισμού, μέσω χαλιναγώγησης των Μουσουλμάνων και δημιουγίας του Πακιστάν) και την εισδοχή από την πίσω πόρτα της Τουρκίας, με δικαίωμα επέμβασης!
Σίγουρα ήταν λύση του Κυπριακού προβλήματος οι συνθήκες της Ζυρίχης και του Λονδίνου, για τους Άγγλους...και για τους Τούρκους! Ήταν όμως καταστροφή γιά τους Κύπριους, Χριστιανούς και Μουσουλμάνους, που και οι δυό το 1974 και μετά ανδραποδήθησαν γιά να ανοίξει ο δρόμος στους εξ Ανατολίας έποικους.
Μπορεί κανείς να πεί, πενηνταπέντε χρόνια μετά, πως η τότε διατυμπανισμένη "λύση του Κυπριακού ζητήματος" απάλαξε την Ελληνική εξωτερική πολιτική από την ομηρία στην οποία οποία είχε επιπέσει λόγω του Κυπριακού;
Θα ήθελε ο σημερινός πρωθυπουργός να συνδέσει το όνομά του με μία τέτοια λύση, όπως αίφνης ο λεγόμενος Εθνάρχης Κωνσταντίνος Καραμανλής, που χρόνια μετά, και βλέποντας τις κατκλυσμιαία καταστροφικές επιπτώσεις της υπογραφής του στις συνθήκες αυτές, θα προτιμούσε να του είχε κοπεί το δεξί του χέρι παρά να θυμάται πως το όνομά του συνδέθηκε με την χειρότερη, αναμφισβήτητα, συμφωνία του μεταπολεμικού νεοελληνικού κράτους;
Έστω, συνεχίζει η Χριστίνα Πουλίδου:

"2) θα μπορούσε να αναπτύξει μια στρατηγική ανοικτής συνεργασίας με όλους τους γείτονες και άρα σταδιακά, η Ελλάδα θα μπορούσε να αναπτύξει το πολιτικό προβάδισμα στα Βαλκάνια.
Σωστά! Μπήκε η Αλβανία πέρυσι στο ΝΑΤΟ και μόλις μπήκε υπέγραψε συμφωνητικό ενοικίασης του Υποβρυχιοστάθμου Αυλώνος στην Τουρκία (αφού η Ντόρα απαξιώθηκε να απαντήσει σε σχετικό αίτημα των Αλβανών για επισκευές στον εν λόγω Ναύσταθμο, άρα πήραν το αίτημά τους αλλού). Από εφέτος το Τουρκικό ναυτικό ανεβοκατεβαίνει στο Ιόνιο, για πρώτη φορά μετά το 1912! Απο το "θα μπορούσε" μέχρι το "να αναπτύξει" μια στρατηγική ανοικτής συνεργασίας με τους γείτονες, και απο το "θα μπορούσε" μέχρι το "να αναπτύξει το πολιτικό προβάδισμα στα Βαλκάνια", υπάρχει άβυσσος. Μία εχθρική προς την Ελλάδα ΝΑΤΟϊκή κυβέρνηση των Σκοπίων, πχ του κυρίου Νίκολα Γκρουέβσκι, θα μπορούσε ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΑ να δωρίσει ή έστω να ενοικιάσει μερικά στρέμματα γής έξω από τη Γευγελή γιά να στρατωνιστούν πχ μιά-δυό Τουρκικές μεραρχίες τεθωρακισμένων και άλλη μία μηχανοκίνητου πεζικού, έτσι γιά να βλέπουν την Σαλονίκη με τα κυάλια, μιά ώρα μακρυά. Θα πείς, τώρα, τι δουλεία έχουν τζάνεμ οι Τούρκοι στη Γευγελή; Αν είναι δυνατόν! Σαν να λέμε...τι δουλειά έχουν οι Τούρκοι στο Ιόνιο και Τούρκικος Ναύσταθμος Υποβρυχίων στην Αυλώνα της Αλβανίας!
Δεν γίνονται τέτοια πράγματα σήμερα, εν έτει 2010...γίνονται;

Θα έλεγα: βάλτε το πιό λυσσαλέο ανθελληνικό κοπρόσκυλο που γέννησσαν ποτέ τα Σκόπια, πρωθυπουργό μέσα στο ΝΑΤΟ, και μετά βλέπουμε τι θα έχουν να δούν τα μάτια μας! Και δεν μιλώ απλώς για το εικοσάμετρο ορειχάλκινο άγαλμα του Μεγαλέξανδρου, του Αλεκσάνταρ Βελίκιοτ, στην κεντρική πλατεία των Σκοπίων...που μουλωχτά το ετοιμάζουν, αλλά περιμένουν πρώτα να κλείσουν το "θέμα" και μετά να το αποκαλύψουν πανηγυρικά!

Τέλος, "3) στις συνθήκες της κρίσης που περνά η χώρα μας, στο εσωτερικό θα διαχεόταν μια αίσθηση εθνικής ανάτασης, οτι η χώρα δεν έχασε την ικανότητα να διευθετεί τα προβλήματά της, και στο εξωτερικό θα εκπεμπόταν το μήνυμα πως η Ελλάδα είναι ένας αξιόλογος και δημιουργικός συνομιλητής."
Σωστά! Αφού δεν υπάρχει ψωμί, δώστε αφιόνι εθνικιστικό...μόνο που "το φάρμακο", όπως έλεγε και η προγιαγιά μου η Ευδοκία στον πατέρα μου, "είναι και φαρμάκι"! Σε λάθος δοσολογία είναι δηλητήριο. Και αντί γιά "εθνική ανάταση", θα μπορούσε κάλλιστα η κυβέρνηση να βρεθεί αντιμέτωπη με την λαϊκή αγανάκτηση. Αγανάκτηση με αφορμή μιά εξώφθαλμα λάθος επιλογή στο Μακεδονικό, επιλογή που θα μπορούσε να ληφθεί σαν σήμα υποταγής και εθνικού εξευτελισμού, αγανάκτηση που, προστιθέμενη στά όσα άλλα δικαίως ή αδίκως της καταμαρτυρούν, να φέρει την κατάσταση στο αμήν της ανοχής και να γυρίσει το πολιτικό σύμπαν απο άνω κάτω. Άλλο πράγμα η πολιτική γεναιότητα και άλλο η πολιτική αυτοκτονία.
Τώρα, "Σε ότι αφορά το σκέλος που αναφέρεται στο όνομα, που πολλές πλευρές σημειώνεται ότι η νέα εκδοχή είναι εύστοχη, καθώς ορίζει γεωγραφικά τη χώρα υποδεικνύοντας ταυτόχρονα ότι πρόκειται για μέρος του συνόλου." Ναί, πράγματι το "Δημοκρατία της Βαρδαρικής Μακεδονίας" σαν όνομα "ορίζει γεωγραφικά τη χώρα υποδεικνύοντας ταυτόχρονα ότι πρόκειται για μέρος του συνόλου". Δηλαδή σαν να λέμε το σύνολο είναι η Μακεντόνιγια, και τα τέσσερα υποσύνολα είναι τα εξής: Βαρντάρσκα Μακεντόνιγια, ήγουν "Δημοκρατία της Βαρδαρικής Μακεδονίας", Πίρινσκα Μακεντόνιγια, που αόίκει στην Βουλγαρία, Μάλα Πρέσπα που ανοίκει στην Αλβανία, και τέλος, η Γιεγκέισκα Μακεντόνιγια, η Αιγαιακή Μακεδονία, που στενάζει κάτω από τον Μακεδονοκτόνο και γενοκτόνο ζυγό των μισητών Γρίτσι, των αυτοαποκαλούμενων και Ελλήνων! Πράγματι από "πολλές πλευρές σημειώνεται ότι η νέα εκδοχή είναι εύστοχη", πράγματι, η προπαγάνδα τη Ντίμιταρ Βλάχωβ και του Τέμπο και του Μακεντόνσκικου Γιουγκοσλάβικου αλλυτρωτισμού και των ρατσιστικών ΒΜΡΟνίτικων κραυγών σήμερα περί ΜΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΝΙΑΙΑΣ ΓΕΩΓΡΑΦΙΚΗς ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑΣ, βρίσκουν στη νέα εκδοχή την ολοκληρωμένη τους έκφραση.(1)
Αναμφίβολα το "Δημοκρατία της Βαρδαρικής Μακεδονίας" σαν όνομα "ορίζει γεωγραφικά τη χώρα" σαν Μακεδονία, άρα και τους κατοίκους της σαν (εθνικά) Μαακεδόνες, αλλά προς θεού, όχι ολόκληρη την χώρα, παρά μόνον το ΜΕΧΡΙ ΣΤΙΓΜΗΣ ΑΠΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΜΕΝΟ τμήμα της Μακεντόνιγια, αφού το ίδιο το όνομα της χώρας "υποδεικνύει ταυτόχρονα ότι πρόκειται για μέρος του συνόλου", της Μίας και Αδιαίρετης, και Ενιαίας Μακεδονίας, του γνωστού σε όλους τους Σλαβο-Μακεντόντσι αλυτρωτικό σύνθημα, την Ενιαία Μακεδονία, την United Macedonia / Обединета Македонија / Ομπεντινέτα Μακεντόνιγια)! Πράγματι, "η νέα εκδοχή είναι εύστοχη"! Αξιος ο μισθός σου δημοσιογράφα μου...
Συνεχίζουμε όμως, με την (προφανώς αδικαιολόγητη, κατά την συμπαθή δημοσιογράφο) "εδραιωμένη εθνική καχυποψία της κοινωνίας της ΠΓΔΜ, όπου το 80% των Σλαβομακεδόνων πιστεύει ότι μέσω του ονόματος η Ελλάδα επιδιώκει απεμπόληση της εθνικής ταυτότητας των γειτόνων"! Άλλο πάλι κι ετούτο! Αυτό κι άν είναι "εδραιωμένη εθνική καχυποψία"!
Για να πού με όμως και του στραβού το δίκιο, "η Ελλάδα ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΙ επιδιώκει απεμπόληση της ΠΛΑΣΤΗΣ εθνικής ταυτότητας των γειτόνων", της λεγόμενης Μακεντόνσκατα, στα Ελληνικά: "Μακεδονικής" ταυτότητας των λεγόμενων "εθνικά Μακεδόνων"...! Αυτούς, ναι, θέλουμε να τους αλλάξουμε όχι την εθνική ταυτότητα, (ποιός την έχασε γιά να την βρούν αυτοί;) αλλά τα Βουλγαρομακεντόνσκατα φτασίδια τους και τον κάλπικο Αντικομακεντόνσκατο Βουκεφαλισμό τους, που ούτε οι ίδιοι δεν τον πιστεύουν!
Όσο γιά τους Σλαβομακεδόνες, από ότι γνωρίζω, οι Έλληνες και τους αγαπάμε και τους εκτιμούμε γιά τις Σλάβικες εθνικές, γλωσσικές αλλά και Βυζαντινές πολιτιστικές και ιστυορικές καταβολές τους, και από ελάχιστα έως τίποτα δεν έχουμε να χωρίσουμε μαζί τους. Είναι αυτοί που πλημμύρισαν τους δρόμους και τις πλατείες των Σκοπίων την περασμένη εβδομάδα και εξέφράσαν την οργή και αγανάκτησή τους εναντίων της κλίκας των μαφιόζων του ΒΜΡΟ και του Γκρουέβσκι που λυμαίνεται την φτωχή γείτονα χώρα.
Με αυτούς θα τα βρούμε! Και πολύ εύκολα μάλιστα. Με μία προυπόθεση: να έλθει ο Ματθαίος Νίμιτς με το καλό, να φάει γαρίδα, τσιπούρα και αστακό απο την Γιεγκέϊσκα θάλασσα, να φάει και μπούκοβο πιππέρι από την Βαρντάρσκα, και να γυρίσει ωραίος και καλός από εκεί που ήλθε, αλλά άπρακτος. Να πάρει ο Γρούγιος το δεύτερο βέτο του να το χαρεί, και μετα, στις εκλογές του Νοεμβρίου να μαυρίσει η μίαρη κομιτατζίδικη ψυχή του, να γίνει το έλα να δείς από την έκφραση οργής των κολασμένων και άνεργων και στην ανέχεια καταδικασμένων στα Σκόπια, να σαρωθεί από προσώπου γής η Μαφία του ΒΜΡΟ, να έλθουν οι άλλοι, και βλέπουμε τότε στα πότε βρίσκεται ανάμεσα σ΄εμάς και τους Σλαβομακεδόνες η σωστή λύση!
Μέχρι τότε, σε ένα-δυό πράγματα προσβλέπουμε: Στο αλάνθαστο ένστικτο πολιτικής επιβίωσης του σημερινού πρωθυπουργού, αφ΄ενός, και στην χοντρογκλάβα του Γκρούγιου αφ εταίρου, που ελπίζουμε πως θα αρνηθεί να κάνει έστω κι ενα μικρό βήμα πίσω στις διαπραγματεύσεις, ποντάροντας στον φανατικά αχαλίνωτο ανθελληνισμό του.
Μέ άλλα λόγια:
Eνας Γρουέβσκι μπορεί να σώσει την Μακεδονία!

(1) Ο χάρτης της Ενιαίας Μακεδονίας της "Ομπεντινέτα Μακεντόνιγια", με πάνω πάνω την "Βαρντάρσκα Μακεντόνιγια" και πιό κάτω την Γιεγκέισκα, την Αιγαιακή Μακεντόνιγια. Το μόνο που μας ζητούν να προσθέσουμε είναι το "Δημοκρατία της" (κατά τα άλλα φανατικά ανθελληνικής και καθ΄όλα ΑΛΥΤΡΩΤΙΚΗΣ) "Βαρδαρικής Μακεδονίας"! Οι ενθουσιώδεις θιασώτες της "εύστοχης νέας εκδοχής" της Βαρδαριακής Μακεδονίας με τους "Εθνικά Μακεδόνες", ας δουν καθαρά στον χάρτη πως στον αλυτρωτικό σχεδιασμό των Σκοπιανών "μέρος του συνόλου" είναι πράγματι η "Δημοκρατία της Βαρδαριακής Μακεδονίας" όπως επίσης και η Αιγαιακή, η Γιεγκέισκα Μακεντόνιγια. Κομμάτια και μέρη αναπόσπαστα και οι δύο του ενιαίου συνόλου της Ομπεντινέτα, της Ενιαίας Μακεντόνιγια. Και εάν μείνει χρόνος άς προσέξουν το έως που φτάνουν τα σύνορα της μισητής Γκρτσιγια...κάπου εκεί στο 1897...

FYROM and Greece: Preconditions for an agreement of lasting peace and good neighborly relations.

Mιλτιάδης Η. Μπόλαρης
Το παρών άρθρο δημοσιεύθηκε ταυτόχρονα και στο Αμέρικαν Κρόνικλ:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/166406




Todor Petrov (pictured above between a medieval Bulgarian lion and an ancient Greek sun) is the self-proclaimed "President of the World (Slavo-)macedonian Congress. He wants us all to believe that he is a reasonable man, a man of Peace and reconciliation.
In an article in the Skopje daily Vreme (1)we read that he is asking for nothing less than for the presidents of Greece Carolos Papoulias and the president of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Makedonija (FYROM) Georgi Ivanov to sign a statement of reconciliation. Not just a statement, in fact, but "a joint presidential declaration between (Slavo-)makedonija and Greece on the (Slavo-)makedonijan-Greek historical reconciliation". This will have to be followed by a proposed suggestion that "both governments must conclude an agreement on a lasting peace and good neighborly relations between (Slavo-)makedonija and Greece, which will replace the Interim Agreement".
Greece and FYROM have been butting heads ever since the Former Yugoslav People´s Republic split off its mother country Yugoslavia and declared independence, back in 1991. The problem, as Greeks saw it, was the Slavomacedonians´ ultra-nationalism and unbridled irredentism, typical of most nationalities that cut themselves off Yugoslavia at some point or another during the 1990's. The Skopje ultra-nationalists gleefully and in all seriousness demanded annexation of large chunks of Greek territory, including Greece´s second largest city, Thessaloniki. Maps of United Makedonija were widely distributed and propagated, from Melbourne and Toronto to Skopje and the internet:

These attitudes were expressed most vividly in the name and the symbols of the new country: Makedonija, a Slavic rendition of Macedonia, which happens to be the northernmost and largest province of Greece, home of Aristotle and Alexander the Great, among other Greek notables. By 1995, an interim agreement, to which Mr. Petrov makes mention was reached, and some changes were agreed, like dropping the most offensive of FYROM´s constitutional articles that were seemed directed against Greece, and the changing of both the flag and the name. The name for international use was accepted to be FYROM, and it was seen as a transitional name to be replaced later on by a permanent one to be agreed in negotiations between the two countries.
Todor Petkov´s proposals, in other words, sound too good to be true! Finally, someone would think, the most extreme Slavomakedonci groups seem to be putting water in their deleteriously ultra-nationalist positions. It is these expatriate organizations, centered in Melbourne, Australia and Toronto, Canada that ever since the 1940´s seem to be the carriers of the most uncompromising anti-Hellenism. These are the ones who have poisoned the political agenda inside Skopje itself, forcing the "Antiquization" campaign, also known sarcastically as "Bucephalism" from Bucephalas, the name of the horse of Alexander the Great into the political arena. They have forced the revision of this multi-ethnic state´s history, making a two prong attack. First they try to deny the Hellenic nature of the ancient Macedonians, whose name they wish to assume. Secondly, they want to convince the Slavonic inhabitants of FYROM feel that they are not Slavs, and that the Slavic invasion of the 7th and 8th century AD never happened. That these Slavonic people are supposedly indigenous to the area since time immemorial and they are, therefore, the true descendants of the ancient Macedonians. A new official version of a so-called "History of the Macedonian Nation" has been published in 2009, making all these un-historical and outlandish claims official national dogma, something for which a Joseph Goebbels or a Lavrenti Beria would be proud of.
Hearing the president of this group, which started it all, proclaiming reconciliation with "the enemy" is a thunder in sunshine…we rightfully wonder: what happened?
Vreme´s article is thankfully not keeping us in tension for too long. Todor Petrov is forthcoming with a few minor preconditions:

A. "Great Britain must apologize for her agreement with Russia to assist the Greek government defeat the (Communist Party-led) partisan movement during the (1946-1949)Greek Civil War, in which the (Slavo-)macedonians, took active part".

It is true that the Churchill and Stalin made an agreement during the famous Yalta conference, by which Stalin relinquished any interest in Greece, being content with control of Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia, and practical as he was, left Greece and Turkey to the British (later, after 1946, American) sphere of interest. The British, he was heard saying, will not let Greece go, and we have no navy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qch1f8MBJCo&feature=related

B. "Greece must recognize the associations of the child refugees from Greek Macedonia".

These are the now grown up Greek children, over 30,000 of whom had been taken from their own villages by the retreating Democratic Army partisans and most were raised in orphanages in Tito´s Yugoslavia. Greece at the time raised hell internationally and several United Nations resolutions were passed against Yugoslavia for this crime against humanity, but of the 30,000 who left, less than 1000 were ever returned. The rest of them grew up in a system that taught them a new, recently formed language, teaching them that they are not Greeks but (Slavo-)Macedonians, effectively making rabidly anti-Greek Janissaries out of them.

http://www.youtube.com/user/rempetisa#p/u/14/j30oc2DCdd8
The Yugoslav propaganda painted this tragedy in totally different colors: They named it the EXODUS of the "Macedonian" children, giving it biblical overtones, as if the children made their own decision about where they were being led. More on them later.

C. "Macedonians from "Aegean Macedonia" (originally a Bulgarian but later also Slavomacedonian misnomer for Historic Macedonia of Northern Greece) individually and united must act to exercise their rights of citizenship and property rights and inheritance rights and to claims their seized property".

At the end of the civil war, there were winners and there were losers. The ones who lost had to filter into Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, and they were then spread, being divided between the Warsaw pact countries, many staying in Yugoslavia´s southernmost province, the so called Socialist People´s Republica Makedonija, while others were relocated everywhere from Hungary´s Beloyiannis village to Poland, and from Uzbekistan´s Tashkent to Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania; anywhere, in other words, as long as they were far from Stalin´s Moscow who wanted to have nothing to do with them. Many who were caught inside Greece, or trying to cross the frontiers, were executed or thrown into prisons and exile in deserted islands. Thousands of ex-partisans lingered in prison and exile for anywhere from 1 to 15 years or more, most of them with death or life sentences on their head. The ones who left Greece lost all their civil and political rights. Their homes and property were passed to their closest in kin. Although almost everyone built a new life in their respective host countries, some married and made new families, many having left another wife and children back in Greece, but as years went by, they started lobbying their host governments to ask the Greek state to allow their repatriation. Some, especially the ones living in Yugoslavia eventually emigrated and some, very few, ended up in the USA; having to sign the US immigration petition that "you are not now or have not in the past been affiliated with the Communist Party", did not help. Most of them found a new home in Canada or Australia.
More than twenty five years later, post 1975, some of the old partisans of the "Democratic Army" started trickling back into Greece. Then in 1981 Andreas Papandreou´s Socialist PASOK government came to power on a platform of civil war reconciliation and he allowed anyone who had taken up arms in the 1940´s on the side of the partisans but wished to return to do so. There was only one condition to repatriation: Even if you or your children and been born abroad, you had to declare that you are a Greek national. If you were naïve enough to write in your petition: Sovietski, Bulgarski, Makedonski, Slavomakedonski, etc, etc, your petition was summarily dismissed. The road to Greece was open only to the ones who felt and declared themselves to be Greek. Anyone who had collaborated with the occupation of the Nazi-allied Bulgarians (part of Greek Macedonia and most of Greek Thrace had been ceded by Hitler to Bulgaria) or participated in the civil war under Nikos Zachariades´ catastrophic leadership which (in exchange for diplomatic and military support from Tito) advocated that historic Macedonia of Greece be ceded to Tito´s Yugoslavia, and continued to harbor such notions was simply not welcome back, blocking their chances of return to Greece.
No state organizations accepts its voluntary dismemberment without a fight. The Americans fought a bitter civil war to avoid just that in the 19th century and they succeeded, and so did the Yugoslavs unsuccessfully in the 1990's. Speaking of the Americans, to the best of my knowledge, once you take up arms against the American state, like some American born Islamic activists have done so lately, American citizen or not, you are considered an enemy combatant and if caught, in Pakistan, Afghanistan or in New York, you are brought in front of a judge to face death sentence or life imprisonment without parole. I would never equate the Islamic fundamentalists with the Greek partisans of the 1940´s, and I am not advocating the death penalty or state terror against anyone, far from it, but I am trying to keep things in perspective, and take a view from the side of the State´s self preservation.
Some, of the ones we were refused re-entry included many who had emigrated to Canada and Australia, organized themselves in Slavomacedonian organizations and habitually demonstrated outside Greek consular offices. Many of them were in fact the children of the so called "paidomazoma" / the "child abduction" children of the civil war, grown up and full of hatred against Greece by now. Obviously, their names joined the list of undesirables, and the Greek customs officers refused entry to them, especially when they tried to enter Northern Greece in busloads through Skopje.
Who are these children of abduction, the children of the so called Paidomazoma, or Exodus if you like?
During the fiercest battles, towards the end of the Greek civil war, men and women were being forced from both sides to join either the rebel partisans or the national army. The children were being left behind in bombed out villages to fend for themselves. Both sides took realized the problem and both sides took action, to take these children under their control and protection. The royalists created the Paidoupoleis (Παιδουπόλεις / children's cities) in other parts of Greece, away from the fighting, under the auspices of Queen Frederica who saw them as first class propaganda opportunity, to prop up her royal presence. The partisans did exactly the same, taking the children in areas of their control and shipping them off to friendly Eastern European countries, mostly, but not only, in Yugoslavia. Eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia and others took in many of these Greek children too.



Many of these innocent Greek children that were taken abroad were homeless and orphaned, and many lost their parents either because they were eventually killed or arrested, sent off to prison or exile or finally lost in the confusion of the times and were never re-united. Even in cases when the mother was at home, the pressure to get a child out of a war zone where Greek and American planes were bombing every village suspected of cooperation with the Democratic Army guerrillas, was sufficient to persuade the parent, grandparent or other guardian to let the child be taken away, in safety. Whether the children were taken forcefully (it may have happened, and for sure there are documented cases that it did) or taken out willingly from cooperating relatives, the issue is really secondary as to what happened to them later on. The children that remained in Greece or were sent off to other countries, remained Greek. A different fate awaited those who were settled in Yugoslavia. Makedonski indoctrination set in. You are "Macedonians", "Makedonci", "Ethnic Makedonci", they were told. Greeks are your parents' enemies, Greece is your enemy, Makedonija and Yugoslavia is your new country and Marshal Tito is your savior.
http://www.youtube.com/user/rempetisa#p/u/19/RY-j5O-Ynng
A tag of diplomatic and propaganda flared up between Greece and Yugoslavia. The innocent children of the civil war became a point of contention and Greece fought in the United Nations and in the international fora to take them back, throughout the late 1940´s and early 1950´s.

Once they grew up though, they became the unwanted ones, having grown into Yugoslav Jenissaries. The Greek state reacted by rejecting them, not allowing their return, as long as they proclaimed another ethnicity. It is as if someone removes several cells from your body, treats them with poison and then attempts to infuse them back into you: No sane person would accept such transfusion.
The most famous -or infamous- of these expatriate Janissaries is the current prime minister of FYROM, Nikola Gruevski whose grandfather Νικόλαος Γρούιος / Nikolaos Grouios(1911-1940) was a hero of the Greek army, who joined the Greek army and died during the 1940 Greco-Italian war, resisting the Italian invasion of Greece. He died in the Florina military hospital on November 19, 1940 having been mortally wounded by an Italian shrapnel days earlier, and his name is prominently scribed on a marble Heroon in his native village, Αχλάδα/Achlada of the Φλώρινα/Florina district. His son, Gruevski's father himself is one of the so called "Deca Belgaci" children. Gruevski, whose own mother is a Greek Vlach-turned fanatical Makedonka, has become the most virulent enemy of anything and everything Greek.
Now, Todor Petrov is proposing that all of the expatriates "individually and united must act to exercise their rights of citizenship and property rights and inheritance rights and to claims their seized property." (3)
The Greek government has recently declared that it is open to discuss repatriation, and even restitution. Restitution from whom though? Who is tilling their parents´ or grandparents´ land? It is obvious that they will have to sue their own cousins.
If you abandon your land in Greece for over twenty years, anyone who has used it for that time without paying you rent has acquired property rights over it, according to the law. Assuming that Todor Perov´s mates return, a can of worms will be opened, attorneys will be happy, and old family ties will now break up and flare into intra-familial hatred.
But this is not all of it. Todor Petrov has more aces up his sleeve. The civil war issues are only the beginning. The main course come immediately after:

D. For what Mr. Petrov calls "persecutions of the (Slavo-)macedonians during the Balkan wars" of 1912-1913, which today, according to Mr. Petrov, are "defined" (by whom?) as "genocide" there "must be a request for reparation of war damages from the occupation and the division of Macedonia and the genocide against the Macedonian people" - said Petrov.

Where can we start from, now? It is a fact that there were no Slavomakedonci during the 1912 war of liberation against the Ottoman empire. Tito´s so called "Makedonci" nation had to wait until 1944 to be invented. At that time the Bulgarophile Slavs of Macedonia were still Bulgarians. They were calling themselves "Bugari". Todor Petrov is speaking of persecutions but somehow he is forgetting about Serres. My hometown is Serres, which the Bulgarian army burned down completely ninety sever years ago to the date, on June 29, 1913, during its hasty retreat, because its population, Greek and Muslim with a few Jewish and Armenian families, was not deemed friendly to Bulgarian occupation. Is this burning down of a major Macedonian city (Doxato in Drama province was the next town to suffer the same fate), plus the summary executions of Greek notables also considered genocide?

Can I and my family sue the Bulgarian state, almost a hundred years later for reparations? But wait, Petrov, is not saying anything about Bulgarians, he almost forgot all about his Bugari / Bulgarski grandparents. True enough, he is a Makedonski now! So, now, it is definitely getting definitely a bit confusing here. Whom should I have to sue? Should I forget about the original Bulgarians and direct my lawsuit against the FYROMian government in Skopje instead, and demand reparations for their "genocide against the Macedonian Greeks of Serres" and the "war damages" inflicted upon my own family´s property, for the Bulgarian occupation of Serres?
No division between the two existed at the time, and the grandparents of today's Slavomacedonians were proud Bugari being separated by the Bulgarians by a mere "l" (BuLgari) not Makedonci. Therefore, I suppose that I have every right to sue either of them or better yet, both of them! I will find an attorney in Sofia and sue the descendants of both the Bulgari who burned down my hometown, and another attorney in Skopje and sue the descendants of the Bugari – the Slavomacedonians who did the same and whomever wins (I think both will) I will be happy. Me and my brother, and all of our children will now be rich! Victims of Genocide that we are, we will win so much money for the war reparations of our torched down city of Serres that the next step will be to hire yet two more attorneys and send them off to the next mission: Reparations for war damages from the Bulgarian (must I call it "Bugarian/(Slavo-)macedonski"?) occupation and division of Macedonia during the first world war. Speaking of genocide, should we maybe remember the 70,000 Eastern Macedonian Greeks that were taken by the Bulgarian army as "hostages" during the 1916-1917 years of WWI, and only 12,000 of them returned alive? But we are not done yet! What about the second world war? The same week that the Nazi Germans broke through the Thessaloniki – Central Macedonian front, the Bulgarian army followed suit and occupied our province FOR A THIRD TIME IN AS MANY DECADES! Our province was split in half, and the western pat remained with Nazi – occupied Greece, while the Eastern part, including my hometown Serres, and further east the rest of Eastern Macedonia and Western Thrace were given by Hitler to Bulgaria. Talk about "the occupation and the division of Macedonia", indeed!
Hitler also gave Skopje and Vardarska, to the Bulgarians of Sofia. Vardarska, you guessed it, is southern Yugoslavia, which post 1991 is an independent country that now calls itself "Makedonija" but the rest of the world FYROM. Skopje´s Bulgarophile population went frantic and joyous out in the streets to welcome Hitler´s troops and the Bulgarian King they brought along with them.
The Greek Macedonians were now openly persecuted. All the Greek priests had to leave their churches on a day´s notice and all the Greek teachers were thrown out of the schools. Both were replaced by Bulgarians who were brought in from Bulgaria that same week. Greek doctors and attorneys had to sign off their property and were expelled, and so was the case with any and all elected officials. The best homes were all confiscated and given to Bulgarians who were brought in by the thousands to stay.

Within a week´s notice, all the Greek street and commercial signs everywhere had to be with Cyrillic and no Greek sign could stay up anywhere. Food became scarce; the economy collapsed and food coupons became the only means of acquiring foodstuffs. Opportunities opened up for the occupational authorities. If you declared yourself a Bulgarian, you were given twice the coupons, twice the rations. New words were invented and entered the Greek language, words immediately forgotten after WWII:
Ντουρντουβάκια / Dourdouvakia: the Greek youth of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace that were summarily rounded up and taken into Bulgaria to work as unpaid slave laborers for the benefit of the Bulgarian state.
Βουλγαρογραμμένος / Boulgarogrammenos was someone who had become "written down" / declared as a Bulgarian".
Λαδοβούλγαρος / Ladoboulgaros: literally an "oily-Bulgarian", someone that became a Bulgarian in order to get olive oil rations in return and avoid starvation.
I know this is not "genocide" in the literal meaning of the word, but it is a hell of a lot harsher than any bogus "genocide" the Greeks are being accused of by the likes of Todor Petrov and his group. But using hunger to change someone´s ethnic identity, really hits the borderline, if you ask me. On another note, the word Genocide has a very particular meaning: Killing off the genes, killing off the procreated future of a nation. Is this what happened to the Bulgarians / Slavomacedonians after Macedonia´s liberation from the Ottomans? Some, several thousand actually, left, especially from the Kilkis area and relocated to Bulgaria. But so did several thousand Greeks who felt trapped into Serbia and Bulgaria, especially from the Monastir district, Stromnista or Philippoupolis. Was that a Genocide too? We need to remain serious. The Greeks from Bulgaria and south Serbia (later renamed Vardarska and now calls itself Makedonija, or FYROM) left because they felt unwelcome, and so did the Bulgarians of Kilkis, but nobody was massacred or suffered the fate of the Pontian and Asia Minor Greeks, Christian Assyrians and Armenians in the hands of the Turks during and after WWI. THAT was genocide.

So, now we return to Todor Petrov´s proposal in Vreme. The article is titled:
"Aegeans require a signature for reconciliation". By "Aegeans" the article means the descendants of the defeated Slavomacedonian partisans who left Greece and relocated to Skopje after the Greek civil war, as if Florina has anything to do with Aegean (it is like saying the "Pacifics", as in the Pacific Ocean, speaking of the people who live in Colorado).
"The presidents of (Slavo-)macedonia and Greece, George Ivanov and Carlos Papoulias, must sign a statement of reconciliation of the two countries". Indeed, the President of the World (Slavo-)macedonian Congress / Светскиот македонски конгрес, Todor Petrov / Тодор Петров, announces that he will encourage the process of reconciliation and unity…!

So, then, where do we start from? I propose that we start from "A":
"Great Britain must apologize for her agreement with Russia to assist the Greek government defeat the (Communist Party-led) partisan movement during the 1946-1949 Greek Civil War, in which the (Slavo-)macedonians, took active part."
But, i wonder, why only the British? The British after all gave up on their presence in Greece by the time the civil war got serious, in 1946, ceding their position of dominance in the Greek political and military events to the Americans.
I propose that Todor Petrov and the World Congress of the (Slavo-)macedonians take steps to amend this slight oversight and immediately send a forceful demand to president Barack Obama insisting that the "US must apologize for her agreement with Great Britain and Russia to assist the Greek government to defeat the (Communist Party-led) partisan movement during the 1946-1949 Greek Civil War, in which the (Slavo-)macedonians took active part!"
I just want to see Obama's face when Светскиот македонски конгрес / Svetsiot Makedonski Kongres president Тодор Петров / Todor Petrov presents him with his group's demands for the expected US apology!

Now, since "reconciliation precondition" A and B are already assigned, we can call this one: "Todor Petrov's reconciliation precondition A-1".

Once this is done, and Great Britain and the USA move expediently to conform with Todor Petrov's and Svetsiot Makedonski Kongres' very reasonable demands for British and American apologies, I am sure that presidents Carolos Papoulias and Georgi Ivanov can then hastily move to the next step and tackle "reconciliation precondition B"...

What else can I say...Good Luck!



PS1: The damage that the Slavomacedonian expatriate community has done, comfortably sitting in their Toronto, Indiana or Melbourne suburbs, to their home country, FYROM over the years, idiotically demanding an ever harder position against Greece is beyond measure. Skopje's body politic has for years been hijacked by the kinds of Nikola Gruevski and Todor Petrov who have been imposing their criminally self-defeating ultra-nationalist policies on the young nation, leading it from one blind alley to another and from one humiliating defeat to another.
Todor Petrov's latest proposal, as published in Vreme and exposed here for what it's worth it, is indicative of the narrow corner into which they have squeezed themselves.
Lasting Peace, good neighborly relations and reconciliation are indeed needed, but it takes two to tango and they obviously cannot be achieved by people who make ludicrously unsupported claims of "genocide" or "exodus" and demand "apology" and "war reparations" for the war of the Greeks against the Turks and Bulgarians during the first and second Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913. Every nation, even the Turks, at some point or another like to pretend that they have been the victim of everyone else. The problem with Nikola Gruevski, Todor Petrov and VMRO-DPMN is that they have overstretched the net of their ultra-nationalist mythology and ethnic hatred against the Greeks just a little bit too far and they are now trapped in it!

PS2: I may or may not agree with everything said on the videos above but I think that they are well-researched and very informative. M.E.B.

(1) http://www.vreme.com.mk/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=5&tabid=1&EditionID=2055&ArticleID=143490
(2)http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2008/07/11/skopjan-myth-about-deca-belgaci-exposed-testimony-of-irene-damopoulou-part-ii/
(3)http://echedoros-a.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-post_5191.html

Macedonian names and makeDonski pseudo-linguistics: The case of the name Heracles Arotos

Το παρών άρθρο πρωτοεμφανίστηκε στο περιοδικό Αμέρικαν Κρόνικλ, στις 2 Ιουνίου του 1009.
Μιλτιάδης Ηλία Μπόλαρης
www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/104432

Balkan Illusion - phantasia archaica:

"...it is very interesting to note that many of the authentic ancient Macedonian words, according to their etymology and pronunciation, have a striking resemblance to the appropriate words used in the modern Macedonian language (and other so called "Slav"[sic] languages)." "A very good example is the word "Arotos" which ancient Macedonians used as an epithet to the god Heracles). Its etymology is undetermined to-date, however if the suffix "s" is deleted this word is practically identical with the adjective "aroto" - "the old one" (archaism to a degree) from the present Macedonian language. According to a legend Heracles was considered to be the oldest ascendant of the Macedonians. Can the answer for the etymology of the word "arotos" be located in this legend, by referring to Heracles as "the old one" or "aroto(s)"? "
From: "Similarities between ancient Macedonian and today's Macedonian Culture (Linguistics and Onomastics)" by Aleksandar Donski, celebrity folk "historian" from FYROM.


Heracles Arotos / Ηρακλής Άροτος

When I first entered the gates of the "Center", just outside the picturesque town of Nauplion/Ναύπλιον, I had no idea what was in store for me. The "Basic Training Center"/Κέντρον Βασικής Εκπαιδεύσεως is the main training camp for the Hellenic Army Engineering Corps. What followed was a forty day training in the basics of military drilling. Forty days where you are not allowed to get out of the base, where everyone around you is in their late teens and early twenties, and you see no women, children or older people, you only see people dressed in army fatigues and the predominant colors are army gray, khaki and army green.

Two or four months later the newly trained soldiers are sent to the Tagmata, the frontier battalions by the Turkish border. I also took the train, crossed the Peloponnese, changed train in Athens then crossed central Greece, Thessaly, Macedonia and finally the Thracian town of Xanthe/Ξάνθη was awaiting for me. When you enter the barracks, in my case the Fourth Army Corps headquarters, you bring along a huge army carry-on bag with your uniforms and private items in, and you are immediately identifiable from a mile as the "New one" the "Neos"! You present your papers and you report to an officer who then shows you to your company's building. It is there that you first hear of your new position in life: You may have thought that you are a University educated person, with a degree from an American University...sorry, but here you are just a "psari"! Psari/ψάρι in Greek is a fish! Ok, you put one and one together, you eventually get it: a new soldier is a fish out of water, quite vulnerable: He has to follow the orders of the palioi, the old ones in the company, till other, fresh Neoi show up in two months. But then, college educated and all, you are not ready for the next word describing your new order in society:

Eh, Arouri!, someone calls you. Pause and puzzlement:

Eh...what was it exactly that you called me?

I said "Arouri!" comes the reply.

And...what is an "Arouri"?

Man, you really ARE an Arouri! You have no clue...do you? Don't you have arouria in your village?! Listen: arouri is a field rat!

It took a couple seconds, being a town boy and all, but at last I made the connection...arouri is the neuter form of arouraios/αρουραίος. This is how I knew it being called, anyway. The realization finally struck me: he had just called me a field rat!

It was all clear now: my new position in army life as the Newbie, "o Neous", in 40ME, where I was to stay for the next eight months, before my next transfer, was that of the little abominable creature, the field rat, which any older/palios soldier could sort of step on...pretty graphic!

Let us talk about rats: there is a word in Greek describing all rats: mus/μύς. It is derived from the PIE word *mus. In Greek, Latin and Sanskrit the mouse remains the same: mus. The modern English "mouse" is also derived from that same PIE word: *mus.

Modern Greeks have two more words for the diminutive mammal: one for the urban mouse: pontiki/ποντίκι or pontikos/ποντικός, and a more specific to the field mouse: arouraios/αρουραίος.

Pontikos/ ποντικός in ancient Greek means marine, someone of the sea. Greece being a marine country, always sent and received and exchanged things with other places. One unwelcome product that eventually found its way to Greece was the ship rat (ratus ratus) originally a pest from India. The ship rat in Greek is not surprisingly called a marine rat: mus pontikos/ μύς ποντικός. Οver time the noun mus/μύς=the mouse was dropped and the adjective pontikos/ποντικός=the marine, the one of the sea took its position. The mouse was now called the marine! Writing this, I finally realize that I myself was once among the few, the not so proud, the marines...and I am not talking here of the ones who cross the valleys of modern Bactria/Afganistan or the fertile land of Mesopotamia/Iraq either...you know which "marines/pontikoi" I mean!

Let us now look at our Liddel & Scott Greek English Lexicon under arouraios:

Ἀρουραίος, α, ον, of or from the country, rural, rustic, μύς α. field vole, etc

And in the abridged Liddell & Scott, we read:

Ἀρουραίος, α, ον, belonging to corn land, rustic; μύς Ἀρουραίος a field-mouse.

As we can see, arouraios, the field mouse, had a similar story, linguistically speaking, to the marine mouse: the noun was dropped, becoming irrelevant through constant usage and the adjective took over its meaning. Mus arouraios, the mouse of the fields, became simply arouraios, the fieldmouse.

A related to Ἀρουραίος/arouraios word is arosmos/αροσμός, also written in the female as arosis/ἄροσις, and it means "arable land" but also "ploughing/plowing". Another word for arable land in Greek is Aroura/Ἀρουρα. Τhe original common Indo-European word is *h2e'rh3wr, according to "The Oxford Instroduction to Proro-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World", J.P. Mallory and D.Q. Adams, Oxford University Press, 2006 and 2007. In the same book we read that related words are arbor for "seed" in Old Irish, arvum for "ploughed field" in Latin, aroura/άρουρα meaning "field" in Greek, haravunk in Armenian for "field"and probably urva'ra for "fertile soil" in Sanskrit.

The word arosis is still used in modern Greek and with the same meaning, and on a quick internet someone can find a company producing and packaging organic beans of Western Macedonia (not FYROM), by the town of Kastoria/Καστοριά, in Greece named Arosis/Αροσις:
www.arosis.gr

The word arotron/ἄροτρον meaning the plough/plow (it is derived from the PIE word *h2e'rh3w- for "plow") is the tool the arotes/αρότης uses to do the plowing. It is one of those Greek words that appear in Homer and Hesiod, Plato and Aristophanes, among others, and are still in daily usage today. In one of the the Aesop fables, coming to us from Hellenic antiquity we find all three words, arotes/αρότης, aroura/άρουρα and

arotron/ἄροτρον:

Ἀρότης καὶ λύκος

Ἀρότης [arotes] λύσας τὸ ζεῦγος ἐπὶ ποτὸν ἀπῆγε· λύκος δὲ λιμώττων καὶ τροφὴν ζητῶν, ὡς περιέτυχε τῷ ἀρότρῳ, τὸ μὲν πρῶτον τὰς τῶν ταύρων ζεύγλας περιέλειχε, λαθὼν δὲ κατὰ μικρόν, ἐπειδὴ καθῆκε τὸν αὐχένα, ἀνασπᾶν μὴ δυνάμενος, ἐπὶ τὴν ἄρουραν τὸ ἄροτρον [to arotron] ἔσυρεν. Ὁ δὲ ἀρότης ἐπανελθὼν καὶ θεασάμενος αὐτὸν ἔλεγεν· Εἴθε γὰρ, ὦ κακὴ κεφαλή, καταλιπὼν τὰς ἁρπαγὰς καὶ τὸ ἀδικεῖν ἐπὶ τὸ γεωπονεῖν τραπείης.

Οὕτως οἱ πονηροὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, κἂν χρηστότητα ἐπαγγέλλωνται, διὰ τὸν τρόπον οὐ πιστεύονται.

The plowman, and the wolf

A plowman loosed his oxen from the yoke and led them away to be watered. Meanwhile, a hungry wolf, who was looking for something to eat, discovered the plow and started to lick the yoke straps where the oxen had been tied. The unsuspecting wolf slowly but surely slipped his neck beneath the yoke, until he was not able to pull it back out. He then started dragging the plow along the furrow. When the plowman came back and saw what had happened, he said, 'O you wicked creature, if only you would give up your life of theft and crime in order to devote yourself entirely to farming!'

The same is true of wicked people: even when they promise to be on their good behavior, no one believes them because of their bad habits.

Although Aesop/Αίσωπος could never have imagined this in his time, it so happens that his tale fits like a glove some people in Skopje who try to steal the history and culture of others, further south. What instead they achieve is to simply lick off some traces of the taste of that culture, escaping the true essence of it. What started as a simple lie, for internal consumption, to help bring some pride to their people in the attempt to redirect their "false" ethnic identity (Serb, Bulgarian, Greek, Vlach, etc) they ended up like Aesop's wolf, traped in the yoke of their own lies, trying to defend the usurption of a culture that belongs to the Greek Macedonians, in Historic Macedonia. What would the world think is some Caucasian Turkmen would claim Dostojevski and Tolstoy and Alexander Nevski as being their countrymen, and not being Russian? This is precisely the case with the so called "makedonski Macedonians of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Makedonija, FYROM: they are fast achieving world wide ridicule by claiming that Alexander the Great and Aristotle and Homer were Makedonski Slavs. They end up with "empty" names, words whose meaning is alien to them, words like Arotos that have absolutely zero connection to their Slavic dialect, no matter how much tongue twisting professor Donski applies to them trying to make Staro/Старo=old to fit into a pseudolinguistic mold of Arotos/Ἀρoτoς.

Let us keep these two words from Aesop for now:

Ἀρότης / Arotes = the plowman τὸ ἄροτρον / to arotron = the plow

The word arotes, the plowman, was also used as a first name in ancient Greece. Here is an example from an incription from some PanHellenic games held in the Thessalian city of Larissa:

Regions : Central Greece (IG VII-IX) : Thessaly (IG IX,2)

IG IX,2 526 IG IX,2 525 IG IX,2 526a

Pelasgiotis — Larisa — after 196 BC

Ἀ]ρότης Ἀρότου Θάσιος.

ἀγενείους·

Ἰσίδικος Μνασικλέους Κυμαῖος.

ἄνδρας·

5

Διονύσιος Ἡροφίλου Μάγνης ἀπὸ Μαιάνδρου.

παῖδας πανκρατίου·

Δημήτριος Δημητρίου Συρακόσιος.

ἀγενείους·

Ἀριστόδημος Νικομένους Θ{ι}ηβαῖος {²⁶Θηβαῖος}²⁶.

10

ἄνδρας·

etc

Arotes son of Arotos, from Thassos

teenagers

isidikos son of Mnasikles, from Cyme.

men

5

Dionysios son of Herophilos a Magnetan from Maiandros

children, pangration (boxing)

Demetrios son of Demetrios, from Syracuse

teenagers

Aristodemos son of Nikodemos from Thebes.

10

men

etc

We see two different forms of essentially the same name: Arotes/Ἀρότης and his patronym (in genitive form) Arotou/Ἀρότου=Arotos.

The very same name appears inscribed on a handle of an amphora jug, from the Greek city of Histria/Ιστρίη, in today's Romania. The amphora's owner made sure nobody steals it from him, so he scratched his name on the handle: Ἀρ|ότεω/Aroteou (Belonging to Arotos)

Regions : Thrace and the Lower Danube (IG X) : Scythia Minor

Histria VIII,1 558

Stamp of the eponym Arotes. Thasian amphora handle.

Scythia Minor [Thasos] — Istros-Histria — Histria Pod — ca. 329-326 BC

Ἀρότεω. Aroteou.

The word arotron for plow is also encountered in the original text of the Christian bible. When a man told Christ in Luke (9.61-62) that he is ready to follow him, Jesus replied that he should be looking ahead, not back: a complete and immediate break with his past what was expected of him:

Εἶπε δὲ καὶ ἕτερος· Ἀκολουθήσω σοι, Κύριε· πρῶτον δὲ ἐπίτρεψόν μοι ἀποτάξασθαι τοῖς εἰς τὸν οἶκόν μου. 62 εἶπε δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς πρὸς αὐτόν· Οὐδεὶς ἐπιβαλὼν τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ἐπ´ ἄροτρον [arotron] καὶ βλέπων εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω εὔθετός ἐστιν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ.
Κατἀ Λουκάν 9.61-62

And another also said, Lord, I will follow you; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. And Jesus said to him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Luke 9.61-62

ἄροτρον/arotron=plough, plow

If anyone is wondering how why the New Testament was written in Greek and how Greek ended up being the lingua Franca of the ancient world, especially in the near and middle East, it is the Macedonians that made it so. They exported their Greek language and culture and made them part of the Asian and African cultural landscape, starting from the European river shores of the Danube to the river shores of the Indus and the Nile. This is how the Christian religion ended up adopting Greek as its language of propagation, since most Jews had already adopted it in the Hellenistic times, becoming deficient by then in their native Aramaic or Hebrew. Palestine, Judea, Syria, Egypt and Asia Minor became Greek speaking territories after Alexander conquered them, in the same way Gallia/France and Hispania/Espana/Spain became Latin speaking territories after the Latin-speaking Romans conquered them.
The Slavs had to wait for another 950 years before two Greek monks Constantinos-Cyrillos and Methodios from Thessalonike, on an official mission from Byzantium had to be sent to Moravia (now the Czech republic) and translate the bible from Koine Greek/Κοινή Ελληνική into Old Church Slavonic/Cтарославянский Язык.
Aρόω/arroo is a verb (future tense αρόσω/aroso, spelled also as: αρώσω and αρόσσω, aor. ἤροσα and it means to plough, to till, occasionally also: to sow. Metaphorically it can also be used of a man, meaning the impregnator, as in the example given in our dictionary: ten tekousan erosen/τήν τεκούσαν ἤροσεν:

τί γὰρ κακῶν ἄπεστι; τὸν πατέρα πατὴρ
ὑμῶν ἔπεφνε: τὴν τεκοῦσαν ἤροσεν[erosen],
ὅθεν περ αὐτὸς ἐσπάρη,
Σοφοκλέους, Οιδίπους Τύραννος 1485
Is any evil missing? Your father his father
killed: he tilled the one who gave birth
where he himself was sown.
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1485


Oedipus, as we remember was a man who unknowingly had killed his father and married his own mother.

From Aroo/Aρόω to plow, we have the word Αroter/Ἀρoτήρ meaning the plowman, whose synonym we encountered earlier as Ἀρότης/Arotes. The same word is also found as:

Ἀροτος/Arotοs.

This is the word which professor Aleksandar Donski reminds us the "ancient Macedonians used as an epithet to the god Heracles". So far so good. He then continues: "Its etymology is undetermined to-date...": here now we must disagree, since what might be unintelligible to a Serb and/or Bulgarian speaking professor from FYROM who has no training in the classics, is fairly easily understood by even an untrained in the Classics average Greek Macedonian farmer who goes to the market to buy an arotron/άροτρον to pull behind his tractor. For a locally produced arotron/plow, this same farmer can go to a dealer of the largest company in Greece producing them whose factory is located right there in historic Macedonia, in northern Greece; more specifically at the village Lakoma, in Chalkidice, very close to Thessalonike:
Biomechania Αrotron Afoi Sarapanoi O.E. is the (transliterated into Latin) name of the arotra producing company in Greek:
Plaughs IndustrySarapanis Bros, S.A. http://www.sarapanis.gr/

But professor Donski is not aware of this, all he wants to "prove" is that the Slavs and the Albanians, the Turks and the Bulgarians and Serbs who live in FYROM are actually direct descendants of the ancient Macedonians, and that the Greek Macedonians do not belong in Macedonia. To him, as to all the apologists of the pseudo-makedonist regime in Skopje, the Macedonian Greeks are the "intruders" that need to be pushed out of northern Greece, the historic land of the ancient Macedonians.

So he continues: "however if the suffix "s" [He means the ending "s" in Arotos] is deleted this word is practically identical with the adjective "aroto" - "the old one" (archaism to a degree) from the present Macedonian language."
We need make note of the contents in parenthesis: "(archaism to a degree)", tells us Aleksandar Donski. This is the falsifier's disclaimer: He cannot prove it, therefore he tells us that it is an "archaism"..."to a degree".
I will not even argue to what degree. All I want to know is, IF it is an archaism, I need to see the proof: where is it written on a Slavonic text, not just on a Slavomacedonian text, a language or a dialect which has only been codified into a language in 1945, but in ANY Slavonic text, of ANY Slavonic language, in ANY area, ANY historic era, ANY text where "aroto", in Slavonic, EVEN as an archaism, means "old".
It is getting very tiring for us to hear all sorts of outrageous and outlandish claims coming out of Skopian falsifiers of legitimate Macedonian history who casually make these pronouncements without any grain of documentation to back them up.

We are not expecting professor Donski or any Skopjan propagandist to come up with the documentation, for if they had it they would have produced it. We need to find the truth or falacity of his claims ourselves. Let us look briefly for what is the word for "old" in the modern Slavic languages:

Belarusian: стары (stari) and as старо (staro) within a larger word, such as: старобелорусскими/starobeloruskimi: Old Belorussian.

Bosnian: star

Bulgarian: стар (star) but also старо- (staro-) within a larger word.

Czech: starý and staro- within a larger word.

Croatian: star and staro- within a larger word.

Polish: stary, and staro- within a larger word.

Russian: старый (starie) and старо (staro) within a larger word.

Serbian: стар (star)

Slavomacedonian: стар (star) but also старо- (staro-) within a larger word.

Slovak: starý and also (staro-) within a larger word

Slovene: star and also(staro-) within a larger word

Ukrainian: старий (Starie) but also старо (staro)within a larger word.

This is strange: the word for "old" in ALL the Slavic languages is everywhere старо/staro or a close derivative of it. It changes only slightly from one language to another. So, then, where does professor Donski find his "aroto"? While many Slavic languages do not use an article, the Slavomacedonians do, and it is the same as in Greek: "to", the difference being that while Greeks use the article in the beginning of the word, and it is a separate word, in Slavomacedonian it is attached at the end of the noun:

Where a Greek would say:

palaio: old

to palaio: the old

a Slavomacedonians will say:

staro: old,

staroto: old the (meaning: "the old")

Staro-to, is not Arotos though. How can we be so sure? Because if professor Donski was right, and "aroto" - "the old one"" was simply an "(archaism to a degree)", then it would have appeared as such in one or more other Slavic languages. As we saw though, they all use "staro" for old, without changes. Words do not usually drop from the sky: they develop, or sometimes they are borrowed. None of above is true with "staro", as we see: it has remained unchanged from Old Church Slavonic (OCL) to today, in ALL the Slavic languages.

When A.Donski tells us that "this word is practically identical with the adjective "aroto" - "the old one" (archaism to a degree) from the present Macedonian language" he has to explain how and why it is an "archaism", what was the original form from which the later developed and how this "archaism" relates to what he calls "the present Macedonian language". We hear none of that. Yet he wrote a whole book trying to convince his receptive readers of the alleged "Similarities between ancient Macedonian and today's Macedonian Culture (Linguistics and Onomastics)". He even had willing accomplices who gleefully translated the professors pronouncements into English for the American, Canadian and Australian Slavomacedonian expatriate community's second generation.

Unfortunately for them, absolutely no connection can be made between "staroto" and Arotos: the nut does not match the bolt, as even professor Dosnki agrees with us: "According to a legend Heracles was considered to be the oldest ascendant of the Macedonians. Can the answer for the etymology of the word "arotos" be located in this legend, by referring to Heracles as "the old one" or "aroto(s)?"". When you are certain of something you do not put a question mark at the end of such a statement. But when you know that you are treading on very thin ice, and your task is to simply create a nationalistic mythology, for your Balkan nation in search of a new identity, then you use a question mark, to salvage some of your professorial self worth.

Ἀροτήρ besides plougher/plower and husbandman has a second, metaphorical meaning as "begeter, father" according to Liddell & Scott Greek English Lexicon.

We remember Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, 1485:

ten tekousan erosen/τήν τεκούσαν ἤροσεν/he tilled the one who gave birth

Now Sophocles' poetry makes a lot more sense: In a less poetic way, Sophocles could have also said more plainly: He fathered children from the one whom he got pregnant.

Let us now take a closer look at the word "arotos". We open the Liddell & Scott Greek English Lexicon and we read:

Ἀρoτoς [ᾶ], o, corn field,... 2. crop,...3. tillage, ploughing,... 4. metaph., procreation of children, ὀ ἀροτος ο εν γυναικί Pl. cra.406b;παίδων ἐπ΄ἀρότωι γνησίων, in Athen. marriage-contracts, etc.

Explanation number four is what catches our attention: Arotos, metaphorically means "the one who procreates children", who impregnates the woman, who fathers his own genuine children (παίδων ἐπ΄ἀρότωι γνησίων/paidon ep' arotoi gnesion, i.e. the woman has not slept with another man that same time, these are his own children, carrying his seed and genes).

On a funerary inscription from Rome of the 3rd c AD, we read the dedication the children of a man named Eutonios wrote in honor of their father:

Regions : Sicily, Italy, and the West (IG XIV) :

Italy, incl. Magna Graecia IGUR III 1218

Italia — Roma — 3rd c. AD — IG XIV 1615 — GVI 2054

τὸν σοφίης προὔχοντα

καὶ εὐτεκνίης ἀροτῆρα,

τὸν πατέρ´ ἡμέτερον

πολλοῖσι χρόνοις γεγαῶτα,

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τὸν τρὶς ἀριστεύσαντα

σὺν ἐντείμοισι φίλοισι

Εὐτόνιοι παῖδες πατέρ´

Εὐτόνιον τεθνεῶτα

πολλάκις ὑμνήσωμεν

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ἐναὶ στήλαισι γραφέντα.

To the one who always offered wisdom

and begeter of a multitude of children

(καὶ εὐτεκνίης ἀροτῆρα / kai euteknies arotera)

our father

who lived many years

who thrice won the highest price

among honorable friends

we, Eutonios' children to our father

Eutonios whom we will

praise multiple times

inscribing his image on the stela

The Macedonian dynasty descended from Argos. The first Macedonian king was Caranos the son of the king of Argos Temenos. Temenos in turn was the son of Aristomachos, Herakles´ great-grandson. Aristomachos was the one who led the Heraclidae and the Dorians (Herodotus tells us that the Dorians were originally part of the Macedonian tribes) when the Dorians invaded the Peloponnese. This is the reasons the Macedonian kings claimed to be Temenidae, and Argaeadae, but also Heraclidae. Alexander the Great named his firstborn son, by the beautiful Persian Barsine, Heracles.

It has been said that one of Alexander's great motives and one of the driving forces behind all his actions, was the attempt to surpass the deeds and the glory of his two divine progenitors: Achilles from his mother's side and Heracles from his father's side. The capture of Aornos Petra, an impossibly strong fortified position on a mountaintop now called Pir-Sar, in northern Pakistan, was a case in point, where Alexander surpasses his own progenitor for this was a rock that even Heracles did not succeed in capturing:

ἀπολιπόντες τὰς πόλεις ξύμπαντες ἔφευγον ἐς τὴν πέτραν τὴν ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ τὴν Ἄορνον καλουμένην. Μέγα γάρ τι τοῦτο χρῆμα πέτρας ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ ταύτῃ ἐστί, καὶ λόγος ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς κατέχει οὐδὲ Ἡρακλεῖ τῷ Διὸς ἁλωτὸν γενέσθαι τὴν πέτραν.

For all the inhabitants deserted the cities and began to flee to the rock which is in their land, and is called Aornus. For stupendous is this rock in this land, about which the current report is, that it was found impregnable even by Heracles, the son of Zeus.

Arrian, Alexander Anabasis,

As it turns out, Aornus was associated in local tradition with Krishna, and the Greeks immediately made the identification with his Greek counterpart, Heracles. As it was proven in Aornus, what was impossible to Heracles was now possible to Alexandros:

εἴχετό τε Ἀλεξάνδρῳ ἡ πέτρα ἡ τῷ Ἡρακλεῖ ἄπορος γενομένη

and thus the rock which had been inexpugnable to Heracles was occupied by Alexander.

Arrian, Alexander Anabasis, XXVIII

The coin decorating the begining of this article is a Macedonian Hemiobolos/Ημιόβολος, issued by Alexandros III/Αλέξανδρος Γ', Alexander the Great. He is portrayed as a young Heracles, wearing the characteristic lion skin cup, made of the hide of the lion of Nemea, as worn by Heracles. On the reverse side we see Heracles' weapons: his club and his bow and quiver of arrows, as well as Zeus's thunderbolt. Between Heracles' club and his quiver we see the inscription in Greek: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ-ALEXANDROY (Alexander's name in genitive form): belonging to Alexandros. This imagery of Alexander as another Heracles was part of an orchestrated deification propaganda on the part of Alexander. Alexander's attempt at deification, while he was still alive (Greeks had no qualms about deifying someone after his death) had already started by the grateful Greek cities of Ionia, whom Alexander had liberated from the Persians. On the other hand, it truly irritated some other descendants of Heracles, the Dorian cousins of the Macedonians, the Spartans. When in 324 BC word from Babylon got to the Spartans that Alexander was asking of the Greek city states to pass a formal decree on the deification of king Alexandros, son of Zeus, the Spartans were not amused. Damis, a Spartan , spitefully declared:

"Συγχωρώμεν Αλεξάνδρω, εάν θέλει, Θεός καλείσθαι!" Πλουτάρχου, Ηθικά

"We grand to Alexandros, if he so wishes, to call himself a God." Plutarch, Moralia

Whether the Spartans liked it or not, they knew they shared the common descent from Heracles with all other Dorians and the Macedonians. Heracles, was considered to be the divine progenitor of Dorians and Macedonians and this was accepted in the common mythology of all the all other Greeks too.

To the Greek speaking Macedonians Heracles was the Tiller-Begeter, Heracles the Founding Father, Heracles the γενάρχης/Genarch of their Makedne tribe. He was Heracles the Progenitor-Father-Procreator of the Macedonians.
He was: Ἠρακλής Ἀροτος - Heracles Arotos!