Comments on the "Macedonian" web sites
I looked to a lot of the "Macedonian" web sites which I found on the WWW and I observed the following :
  • There is great incosistency between them. Arguments which are raised on one site are considered as untrue or Greek propaganda to another.
    Here are some examples:
    • Alexander the Great was not Greek but Macedonian
    • Alexander the Great was Greek rulling over Macedonians
    • Alexander the Great was of Greek descent but after so many generations he became a Macedonian
    • Alexander the Great was of Slavic(!) origin

    • Alexander spoke the Macedonian language
    • Alexander did not speak the Macedonian language because "the Macedonian language of his day was not used as a literary idiom".

    • Only the Macedonian Royal House came from Greece (city of Argos)
    • The tradition in Herodotus that the Macedonian kings were descended from Argos is probably a piece of Macedonian royal propaganda.

    • Ancient Macedonians spoke the "Macedonian language"
    • Ancient Macedonians had their own language but they just "used" the Greek one to communicate.
    • Ancient Macedonians had their own language but they "did not leave any written record of their language" (how strange).
    • Ancient Macedonians had their own language but they "used the Greek alphabet"

    • The philosopher Aristotle was Macedonian"
    • The philosopher Aristotle was Greek but he spoke the "Macedonian language"

    • Their theories on the origin of the "Macedonian language" are also very interesting:
      We a told that the ancient Macedonian language was a pre-Slavic language and its origins were Indo-European,Sanscritic and Phoenician. It was also related to the Ilyrian,Thracian Scythian and Sarmatian languages. However the Macedonians "used the Greek alphabet" and some times they "used the Greek language just to communicate". This was because "the Macedonian language of their days was not used as a literary idiom". Unfortunately the ancient Macedonians "did not leave any written record of their language"

    It is obvious that they interpret history the way they like.
    (If anyone has doubts on the above the URLs are available)

  • Some of them are overdoing it!
    • The Greek mythology was Macedonian
    • The Greek ancient Gods were Macedonian
    • The famous Greek poet Homer was Macedonian
    • The famous Greek phlosopher Aristotle was Macedonian
    • The Olympic games were founded by the Macedonians.
    • and so on ...
    Everything that the whole world knows to be Greek is actually Macedonian!

  • They are refering to "prominent scholars"to support their arguments. However the "prominent scholars" who clearly support that ancient Macedonians were not Greeks are always the same three people (Borza, Badien, Wilcken).

  • They seem to hate Greeks very much. This is probably what they are being taught and they act like that. They also seem to believe that Greeks are very very stupid (!) and ignorants for some strange reason.