The Falsification Of The History Of Macedonia

THE FALSIFICATION OF THE HISTORY OF MACEDONIA Original website: http://www.cc.ece.ntua.gr/~conster/ .... discover the truth by yourself ! During the last few years there's been some confusion about the Macedonians, their connection with the Greeks, and as a result, the continuation of the Greek (Hellenic) history. That confusion is artificial and it is:   Generated by FYROM (Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia) and several factors that wish to serve their own interests by creating trouble in the Balkans, and, Conserved by the same factors and other people who have been misled into some weird hypothesis, as a result of a well designed propaganda. This Web Page doesn't have any purpose to act as propaganda, with long and boring documents. The main purpose is to demonstrate the arguments of both sides, along with the facts so that the reader will discover the truth and will be able to distinguish it from the ridiculus theories that are so easily presented, but stand up to no critisism. I promise that you will be amazed by the extent of the distortion of history, and amused by the basis on which that distortion is set upon! . . . 1. What's all the trouble about? 2. Macedonian nation? : Greece's side - FYROM's side 3. What is the area of Macedonia? 4. Maps of Macedonia through the years 5. Archaeological findings 6. The names in ancient Macedonia and their Greek origin 7. The ancient macedonian dialect of the Greek language 8. What the ancient writers say about Macedonia 9. How Greek was the state of Alexandros the Great? 10. Why did Demosthenes refer to Philippos II as a barbarian ? (Olynthiac III) 11. How about some official records? 12. How innocent is the "review" of history by the "historians" of FYROM? 13. Why shouldn't FYROM be recognized as Macedonia ? 14. Proposed names for FYROM 1. WHAT'S ALL THE TROUBLE ABOUT? The issue When it comes to the bottom line, the so called Macedonian Problem is just a problem of definition ?! Macedonia is the name of a geographical area of the Balkans as it is shown in the following map with the blue dashed line. Only a part of FYROM (the southern) is in Macedonia. The rest (northern) is part of ancient Dardania, with capital the town Scupoi (now Skopje), and the Dardanians were enemies of the ancient Macedonians: Nowdays that area is divided among 3 countries: 51.57%: The Southern Part Greece FYROM 38.32%: The N-Western Part (0 km coastline) Bulgaria 10.11%: The N-Eastern Part (0 km coastline) Notice the relation of each part with the Aegean Se