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Pan-Macedonian Association USA, founded in 1947 in New York City by Greek Americans whose origins were from Macedonia to unite all the Macedonian communities of the United States, works to collect and distribute information on the land and people of Macedonia, organize lectures, scientific discussions, art exhibitions, educational and ...
[336] [337] Carol J. King elaborates that finding the reason why "ancient Greeks themselves differentiated between Greeks and Macedonians" is limited by the fact that "if one seeks historical truth about an ancient people who have left no definitive record, one may have to let go of the hope for a definitive answer" especially considering that ...
This is a list of ancient Macedonians, an ancient Greek tribe inhabiting the northeastern part of the Greek peninsula. Mythology. Makednos; Kings ...
The ethnic Macedonians in Greece have faced difficulties from the Greek government in their ability to self-declare as members of a "Macedonian minority" and to refer to their native language as "Macedonian". [261] Since the late 1980s there has been an ethnic Macedonian revival in Northern Greece, mostly centering on the region of Florina. [264]
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. [10]
In this period, it has been claimed by Macedonian scholars [59] that there exist large and oppressed ethnic Macedonian minorities in the region of Macedonia, located in neighboring Albania (up to 5,000 people), Bulgaria (up to 20,000, mainly in Blagoevgrad Province), Greece and Serbia (about 20,000 in Pčinja District).
Macedonian Greek or Greek Macedonian may refer to: Something of, from, or related to Macedonia (Greece), a region in Greece; Macedonians (Greeks), the Greek people of Macedonia; Greeks in North Macedonia, those living as a minority in the neighbouring country; Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia, a Macedonian language-speaking minority in ...
Also see Macedonia (Roman province)#Citizens. Sopater, (Veria 1st century BC), saint, accompanied by Paulos; Antipater of Thessalonica (late 1st century BC), epigrammatic poet and governor of the city; Philippus of Thessalonica (late 1st century AD), epigrammatic poet and compiler of the Greek Anthology; Saint Hermes, (Thessaloniki, Rome 120 AD)