Archive for March 2007

The Argead sun of Vergina

March 31, 2007

This symbol known as the Argead sun of Vergina (with the 16 rays) is the same symbol as is the one with the 8 rays, but it has 8 additional smaller rays (reflections) in order to emphasize the brightness of the sun, since the 8 smaller rays do not touch the central circle of the [...]

Ancient writers about Macedonia – Justin

March 31, 2007

Quote: Caranus also came to Emathia with a large band of Greeks, being instructed by an oracle to seek a home in Macedonia. Hero, following a herd of goats running from a downpour, he seized the city of Edessa, the inhabitants being taken unawares because of heavy rain and dense fog. Remembering the oracle’s command [...]

FYROM’S History Books and propaganda: Facts

March 31, 2007

FYROM’S History Books: Facts The Ambassador of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Mr. Dimitrov during a recent briefing in Washington D.C. tried to convince a few congressional staffers not to support HR 521 and 306. Regarding the history books of the FYROM public education, where the propaganda against Greece emanates, he stated: “Even though [...]

Free Archbishop Jovan from prison in FYRO Macedonia

March 30, 2007

To:  U.S. Senate, Congress, U.S. State Dept., White House, E.U., Rep. of MacedoniaP E T I T I O N We, the below signed Orthodox Christians, citizens of the United States of America, and of many countries of the western world, direct this petition, at the same time as a voice of plea, and of [...]

Justin sources – Marsyas of Macedon

March 30, 2007

Quote: Caranus also came to Emathia with a large band of Greeks, being instructed by an oracle to seek a home in Macedonia. Hero, following a herd of goats running from a downpour, he seized the city of Edessa, the inhabitants being taken unawares because of heavy rain and dense fog. Remembering the oracle’s command [...]

Ancient/Modern Sources about Thessalonica

March 27, 2007

Quote: and in his own name and that of the people of Thessalonica he offered the city to the Venetian signoria, asking only that it should be governed “according to its usages and statutes”; that the orthodox metropolitan of Thessalonica be confirmed in his ecclesiastical charge; that the greek inhabitants should retain their local rights [...]

History Channel Verifies ancient Macedonians were Greeks

March 23, 2007

Diplomatic Sources on Ilinden – a Bulgarian Uprising

March 22, 2007

NOTAM by the Imperial Ottoman Embassy in Paris to the French Foreign Office Paris, August 10, 1903 Source: French Foreign Office Archives, AMAE/NS Turquie-Macedoine, vol 35, p. 230r The BULGARIANS gathered in large numbers at Kleisoura and its suburbs have occupied the villages of Djivarek in the Kesrie administrative region, have assasinated all the Muslim [...]

FALLACIES AND FACTS ON THE MACEDONIAN ISSUE – Marcus Templar

March 22, 2007

FALLACIES AND FACTS ON THE MACEDONIAN ISSUE BY MARCUS A TEMPLAR There have been certain fallacies circulating for the past few years due to ignorance on the “Macedonian Issue”. It is exacerbated by systematic propaganda emanating from AVNOJ, or communist Yugoslavia and present-day FYROM, and their intransigent ultra-nationalist Diaspora. Fallacy #1 The inhabitants of The [...]

The misuse of the term Philhellene during Antiquity

March 21, 2007

Quote: ..Herodotus, the Father of History, relates how the Macedonian king Alexander I (498-454 BC), a Philhellene (that is “a friend of the Greeks” and logically a non-Greek),… It is currently wide-spread, mainly to modern Fyrom’s propaganda (see quote above), a misuse of the term Philhellene as having a meaning of non-Greek.  During antiquity, Philhellene certainly didnt mean [...]


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