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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 ...
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]
At first place it was an umbrella term to designate all the inhabitants of the region of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic origin. [4] " Macedonians" as an umbrella term covered Greeks, Bulgarians, Turks, Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians, Albanians, Serbs, etc. [5] Simultaneously a political concept was created, to encompass all these "Macedonians" in the area, into a separate ...
Hatzopoulos argues that there was no real ethnic difference between Macedonians and Greeks, only a political distinction contrived after the creation of the League of Corinth in 337 BC (which was led by Macedonia through the league's elected hegemon Philip II, despite him not being a member of the league itself). [316]
Many Macedonians entered the Netherlands during the 1960s and 1970s. [citation needed] Most of these returned to Macedonia while a minority remained. They were joined by business migrants and students after the breakup of Yugoslavia. [citation needed] It is estimated that over between 10,000 and 15,000 Macedonians can be found in the ...
One of these Greek approaches was the spread of the myth of the origin from Alexander the Great and Ancient Macedonians. Greek priests and academics tried to convince the local Orthodox Slavic-speaking population that they were Macedonians, directly related to Alexander the Great, and, as a result, Greeks.
His views and skepticism on the ethnicity of the ancient Macedonians, rejected by the Greek government, led to the Greek refusal to allow him to film with British historian Michael Wood for the 1998 BBC television series In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great inside Greece. [8] In 2008, he received a festschrift published in his honor. [9]
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]