Giorgos

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w.../12/2006_78322

I think this is just a disgrace.
If Greece does not act on this, I will be extremely angry about it.

Its like Thessaloniki renaming its airport "Julius Caesar Intl." or "Leonardo Da Vinci Airport".

Very insane and Greece MUST NOT let this go ahead.

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skylinearth

Does FYROM know that things will get worse after this? Why they made such an action?

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Rev

FYROM is a joke. The people have no idea of their real national identity.
Everything they think they "know", is actually a fabrication since the end of ww2, thanks to Yugoslavias then dictator Tito who renamed the region among other things which the effects of are being felt today.

Up until what, 1991/2, Alexander the Great, Macedonia and all the history, was Greek. It still is. But since then, we have these "people" to our north, claiming that its their history?
Do they not realise that they are Slavs?
Slavs were not even in the southern balkans/greece in the 4th century bc, let alone the 4th century ad.

Here for anyone who has any doubt as to the identity of these confused people who are trying to fill some pretty big shoes, that are already filled..

The first part is from a former president of FYROM.

gm2263

ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ = ΤΟ ΜΑΚΕΔΝΟΝ ΕΘΝΟΣ = The nation of tall people.

It is really strange how they can claim that they are descendants of the Aristotle and Alexander the Great. They don't speak Greek, and they established themselves in the area in 800 A.D., some 1100 years after Alexander died.

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ALL OUT FOR A TALL ATHENS

MetroGuardian

I think this is a bad example. I don't believe anyone would have a problem with that. Probably it would seem hilarious to the Italians. As it seems now to Greeks and to the rest of the well informed people - and to the decision making people.

Do you really think the governments of Europe and the US don't possess the truth or the historical facts? But the game is not played with them. Who cares in the end what happened 2000 years ago.

The question is this:
Are those people trying to get a grip on Greek Macedonia?
OR
Are they just trying to use history as propaganda (as every well-respected nation, including ours) to unite its extremely diverse ethnicities (Albanians-Bulgarians-Slavs with a language that is more Bulgarian than Slavic)?

I believe, trying to answer, to any provocative action like that with arguments (Greek language, writing, religion, heritage, Olympic games, tradition common in southern Greeks and Macedonians) is ludicrous. They don't ****ing care and it doesn't matter in the end.

The best way to assess this dispute is by conquering them. By no means of arms, that will have unstable and short term results, but by culture and economy. Make fast interconnections with their nation and enable the Greek industrialists finish them.
In the end we will have both happy nations richer and with more to lose than to gain in a possible armed dispute.

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