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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.
The first Macedonian immigrants to the U.S. arrived in the late 19th century from the Bansko region of what is today Bulgarian Macedonia.These Macedonians had often been educated by American missionaries and were encouraged to migrate to the United States for higher education or to attend missionary schools. [22]
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]
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]
Another meaning of the term is fanatic Greek. [5] The term is considered highly offensive to the Greek people. [ 6 ] The "Grecomans" are regarded as ethnic Greeks in Greece , but as members of originally non-Greek, but subsequently Hellenized minorities, in the neighboring countries.
Macedonians c. 1.3 million plus diaspora: An ethnic group, more rarely referred to as Macedonian Slavs [50] [51] or Slavomacedonians (used mostly by Greek authorities to refer to the ethnic Macedonian minority in Greece [52]) [Note 7] Macedonians c. 2.0 million: Citizens of North Macedonia irrespective of ethnicity: Macedonians c. 2.6 million ...
Macedonians (ethnic group) c. 1.3 million plus diaspora [345] A contemporary ethnic group. In Greece they are usually referred to as Slavomacedonians or Macedonian Slavs [351] or Slavophone Greeks: Macedonians/Citizens of North Macedonia: c. 2.0 million [345] Citizens of the Republic of North Macedonia irrespective of ethnicity Macedonians (Greeks)
Greek ethnographic map of south-eastern Balkans before the population exchanges, 1918. The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) put an end to the traditional Greek policy of the "Great Idea". This allowed the Greek governments of the inter-war years to turn their attention to the country's domestic affairs and to the building of the modern Greek state.