So what determines being Macedończykiem?

Risto Stefov - Macedonian journalist with roots in northern Greece, living in Canada. Author of numerous articles and several books on the Macedonian and Balkan. Leading portal dedicated www.maknews.com affairs of Macedonia and Macedonians, including the diaspora.

Macedonia, a country, the land defines the way they are Macedonians. Modern Macedonians are a mixture of all nations, including ancient Macedonians, who ever after the last phase of glacier osiedlały here.

For the sake of clarity, Macedonia and the Macedonians have no problem with defining their identity. This problem is Greece, entering the slushy ground of Hellenism, which has little in common. As a result of hostilities, after the Balkan wars of the years 1912 and 1913 Greece has acquired considerable tracts of territory inhabited by the Macedonians. Rather than assume the role of administrator, Greece simply trying to take over these territories by force wynarodowić and assimilate the local population, in practice, condemned to erase the identity of the Macedonian. Of course, many Macedonians opposed to assimilation, as a result were expelled and their property confiscated. That's why so many of us today live abroad. In Greece, lives a fairly large Macedonian minority, which requires only recognition of their own existence and respect due to her rights. Greece refuses, explaining that its territory is not dead, no minorities, while piling more problems.

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I hope and pray that lithuanian and Polish academics and scholars put him right, they should explain to him that Slavs have no connection to Alexander the Great and the ancient Macedonians, they were Greek, everybody knows that except fyroms Slavic youth.