05-07-2005, 08:20 PM
Quote:Thanks for the reply. The sites i look, had indeed more modern politic than any clear answers.
Verify in the net what I answer to your question.
MAKEDNOS in ancient Greek means tall person. D pronounced like TH in article THE.
Southern Greeks conciderd Makedonians country bumkins.
Extremistic localism unfortuantly still plagues our country!
They might question that you are not Greek if you do not live in the same neigborhood with them!!!
Before 146 BC rule of the thump says that if you were allowed to participate in Olympic Games it means that the other Greeks considered you Greek.
King Sitalkes(Strong Grain in Greek) horses won in Olympia.
Philip found out about the birth of his son the day that his horses won in Olympia. In Dispilio-Kastoria in modern day Macedonia a a plaque was found with Grammic script A (Bronze age Greek alphabet) Monuments in Ancient Aigae the ancint capital of Macedonia are all in Greek.
Professor M. Andronicos who found the royal Makedonian tomps and had DNA test done on the bones says there is no differance between that of the tomps in south Greece.
http://www.ancientgr.com/ (The dispilio picture)
HOPLITE14GR (aka Stefanos)
Phokean Ekdromos
http://hetairoi.de/
http://hoplomachia.gr
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com
Phokean Ekdromos
http://hetairoi.de/
http://hoplomachia.gr
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com