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Some Slavic speakers in Greek Macedonia will also use the term "Macedonians" or "Slavomacedonians", though in a regional rather than an ethnic sense. [citation needed] People of Greek persuasion are sometimes called by the pejorative term "Grecomans" by the other side. Greek sources, which usually avoid the identification of the group with the ...
Attempts to classify Ancient Macedonian are hindered by the lack of surviving Ancient Macedonian texts; it was a mainly oral language and most archaeological inscriptions indicate that in Macedonia there was no dominant written language besides Attic and later Koine Greek. [195]
The name Macedonia (Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonía) comes from the ethnonym Μακεδόνες (Makedónes), which itself is derived from the ancient Greek adjective μακεδνός (makednós), meaning "tall, slim", also the name of a people related to the Dorians (), and possibly descriptive of Ancient Macedonians. [11]
[192] [193] [194] In 1933 the Communist Party of Greece, in a series of articles published in its official newspaper, the Rizospastis, criticizing Greek minority policy towards Slavic-speakers in Greek Macedonia, recognized the Slavs of the entire region of Macedonia as forming a distinct Macedonian ethnicity and their language as Macedonian. [195]
Ancient Macedonian, whether it was a Greek dialect [8] [9] probably of the Northwestern Doric group in particular, [10] [11] [12] as findings such as Pella curse tablet indicate, [13] or a separate Hellenic language, [14] was gradually replaced by Attic Greek; the latter came in use from the times of Philip II of Macedon and later evolved into ...
Nicaea of Macedonia daughter of Antipater, wife of Lysimachus; Nicesipolis wife of Philip, mother of Thessalonica; Olympias mother of Alexander; Phila, daughter of Antipater, wife of Demetrius Poliorcetes and mother of Antigonus II Gonatas; Philinna of Larissa, wife of Philip, mother of Philip III of Macedon; Stratonice of Macedonia wife of ...
No more Bulgarians in Greek Macedonia." [52] [54] The remaining Bulgarians threatened by use of force were made to become Greeks and to sign a declaration stating that they had been Greek since ancient times, but by the influence of komitadji they became Bulgarians only fifteen years ago, but nevertheless there was no real change in consciousness.
The Kingdom of Macedonia (in dark orange) in c. 336 BC, at the end of the reign of Philip II of Macedon; other territories include Macedonian dependent states (light orange), the Molossians of Epirus (light red), Thessaly (desert sand color), the allied League of Corinth (yellow), neutral states of Sparta and Crete, and the western territories of the Achaemenid Empire in Anatolia (violet purple).