Meaning of country names.

It is not your history. You have stolen Macedonian history and still deny their identity. The name of the country is Macedonia not FRYM Macedonia. A nation can not be treated as a prioner of history and cannot be victims of Greek inferiority complex.

What Thracians are you talking about? There is not such an identity. They are missed in history thousands years ego. You live in an imaginary word. It seems like your minds have been raped.

I am talking about today my dear. I am talking about just a few day ego. Greek state has closed down a Turkish organization since there was the word "Turk" inside its title in Greece, in West Tharce. It is in Europe, in European Union. They are Turk but they are trying to be assimilated. You have tried to assimilate Karamanlides too. But it seems like many of them still know their identity and their ethnic origin but can not tell freely because of Greek opression.

I. Wtf?! Lets get the facts straight: Ancient Macedonia was a state north of the Dorian Greeks, situated in modern FYROM and north Greece. Macedonias peak was during the reign of king Alexander III the Great, whos father king Filippos II had conquered Greece during his period. After Alexander died his kingdom was split in 4 parts, Greece and Macedonia given to Kassander. Later Macedonia was ruled by the Persians, Romans and Byzantines respectively. During Herakleios III's period the Slavs north of the river Danube were invited to the Balkans, and have lived there eversince. The name of FYROM is taken from the ancient civilisation that lived in that region long ago. So Alparslan, the Greeks haven't stolen anything, and indeed, it is NOT Macedonia, but Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia.

II. There is no need for personal and abusive behaviour.

III. I think this is hypocrite coming from a Turk, since it is internationally admitted that ethnic and religious minorities in Turkey are annihilated and persecuted (Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds.....).

On the actual topic, some country names in my other language, Finnish:

Russia: Ven�j�, named after an ancient name of some tribe, the vendi. Also: Ryss�inmaa, "land of the Rus"(the rootword is ryss�, came via Sweden, -in is the plural genetive suffix, maa means land), but this name is prohibited nowadays, mainly because the name "ryss�" has got a negative feeling after WWII.

Sweden: Ruotsi, named after the area of Rosl*gen(Swedish in Finnish is ruotsalainen), where the first Swedish settlers came from.

Norway: Norja, the word means "slender", "fragile", possibly beacuse the landscape there, or the shape of the country?

Estonia: Viro, named after V�rumaa, with which Finland has had the most active trade connections in Estonia.

Most country names in Finnish are just finnisized (don't know the correct term): England~Englanti, Denmark~Tanska(from Swedish danska), France~Ranska(from Swedish franska), China~Kiina, Japan~Japani, Brasil~Brasilia etc...

After ww1 we had already invaded the Turkish coast, after ww2 we were too bussy fighting a civil war to invade anydoby.

You wouldn't know facts, if they came and smacked you in the face!

you mentioned before that the word "Donia" means land

in Arabic the word Donia means the "World"

Cyrus, some people say that Lisbon was founded by Ulysses, and Britain and France by Trojan survivors. That doesn't mean they're right.

I'm still trying to figure out if you're serious about Alexander coming from Egypt. Could you please give more info?

I always thought that Egypt was a Persian satrapy, and one of the few that was more tightly controlled (according to Herodotus).

As for Kmetu...not to sound racist or anything, but doesn't it mean Black land? In contrast with the white land of the desert? (it does sound odd that the Egyptians should call themselves the Black people, as in contrast to the Nubians who lived in the south. It would be like the English calling themselves the white people, in comparison to the Danes) 

Yes, and it was said that after he died, his empire was split up into Greek Empires, never has it said Macedonian Empires. Ptolomy and his relatives all spoke and acted like greeks. All the cities in the middle east founded by Alexander were trying to be JUST like the cities in Ancient Greece. They  didn't speak Bulgarian as you do, nor did they decent from slavs. These people were who ruled were Hellens. SUch when the historians say when the Greeks were kicked out of India. No where does it say the Macedonians were kicked out of India. Its because the word is interchangible, because they are the same.

Please don't force us to ban you, our friendly forum is not a good place for your battleground!

Ukraine-Ukrayina Russian for 'at the edge' of Russia

Poland-Polska from the Polanie/Poliane tribe that discovered Poland

Canada-Kanada in Ojibwa meaning 'the village'