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The overwhelming majority of the Greek Macedonians speak a variant of Greek, called Macedonian (Μακεδονίτικα, Makedonitika). It belongs to the northern dialect group, with phonological and few syntactical differences distinguishing it from standard Greek which is spoken in southern Greece.
Ernst Badian notes that nearly all surviving references to antagonisms and differences between Greeks and Macedonians exist in the written speeches of Arrian, who lived during a period (i.e. the Roman Empire) in which any notion of an ethnic disparity between Macedonians and other Greeks was incomprehensible. [232]
Ernst Badian notes however that nearly all surviving references to antagonisms and differences between Greeks and Macedonians exist in the written speeches of Arrian, who lived at the time of the Roman Empire, when any notion of an ethnic disparity between Macedonians and other Greeks was incomprehensible. [314]
Macedonians (Greek: Μακεδόνες, Makedónes [makeˈðones]) is the term by which ethnic Greeks originating from the region are known. [109] [110] Macedonians came to be of particular importance prior to the Balkan Wars, during the Macedonian Struggle, when they were a minority population inside the multiethnic Ottoman Macedonia.
In 1999 the Greek Helsinki Monitor estimated that the number of people identifying as ethnic Macedonians numbered somewhere between 10,000 and 30,000, [12] [262] Macedonian sources generally claim the number of ethnic Macedonians living in Greece at somewhere between 200,000 and 350,000. [263]
Macedonians (Greeks) c. 2.6 million plus diaspora [352] An ethnic Greek regional group, also referred to as Greek Macedonians. Ancient Macedonians: Unknown: A tribe of antiquity on the periphery of the Greek world Macedonians (Bulgarians) c. 320,000: A Bulgarian regional group; [348] also referred to as Piriners. Macedo-Romanians: c. 0.3 ...
An ethnic Greek regional group, also referred to as Greek Macedonians: Macedonians (unknown population) A group of antiquity, also referred to as Ancient Macedonians. Macedonians c. 0.3 million: A Bulgarian regional group, [53] also referred to as Piriners: Macedo-Romanians c. 0.3 million: An alternative name for Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians
Many of the Slavic speaking Macedonians who lived in Greece either chose to emigrate to Communist countries (especially Yugoslavia) to avoid prosecution for fighting on the side of the Greek communists. Although there was some liberalization between 1959 and 1967, the Greek military dictatorship re-imposed harsh restrictions.