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Posted By eismakedon 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Political NewsOn the alleged differences between the Macedonians and the other ancient Greeks
May 05, 2009
"[the Slavic]...Macedonians are a newly emergent people in search of a past to help legitimize their precarious present as they attempt to establish their singular identity in a Slavic world dominated historically by Serbs and Bulgarians." "Modern Slavs, both Bulgarians and Macedonians, cannot establish a link with antiquity, as the Slavs entered the Balkans centuries after the demise of the ancient Macedonian kingdom. Only the most radical Slavic factions—mostly émigrés in the United States, Canada, and Australia—even attempt to establish a connection to antiquity." Eugene N. Borza, "Macedonia Redux"
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