Was Alexander an ethnic greek?

What is racist and facist is the Greek behavior of monopolizing Macedonian Heritage and cultivating a culture of Balkan supremacy.

What is racist and facist is the occupation of Aegean Macedonia and its ethnic cleansing from all the slavic Macedonians.

What is racist and facist is the imposition of an economic blockade and the threats of invasion of a country just because of its name.

There is no country in the entire world throughout the whole of history but Greece that would refuse to recognize, impose economic embargoes and actively lobby against a country just because of its name. I know of no single precedent to such a racist and facist behavior.

In the future I would like to ask you to refrain from such ridiculous statements (including the ones that I have never met greeks).

I have been to Skopie briefly, but I was not referring to Skopie, but to Ohrid and Bitola and Manastir, when I was saying that churches and mosques stand side by side.

In the future you must be more carefull regarding my national (and specially my Macedonian heritage). And as about the other cities Monastiri and Bitola are the same cities!!!! 

hahahaha!!!!!!!!

You bring a map from the FYROMian nationalistic website

http://faq.macedonia.org/images/car.samuil.mapa.jpg

The same site that said Basil I and Samuel were Slavmacedonians!!!!

But you Didn't answer Bulgarian or Slavmacedonian ?

 I suppose this sight is also making "FYROMian propaganda" (for those of you who do not understand, "FYROM" is what Greeks call the Republic of Macedonia)

http://kodeks.uni-bamberg.de/Bulgaria/BulgariaHistMaps.htm

Slavic Macedonians were part of the Bulgarian Empire at the time, which also included Serbia. Most SlavoMacedonians probably considered themselves to be Bulgarian, in the same way as GrecoMacedonians considered themselves to be Byzantine.

You use harsh words with much ease and I think an apology is in irder here.

What you say above are your words and in no way the reality. I myself do not agree with Greek policies on the matter but on:

1. Why don't you see it in the way that Slavomacedonians are misappropriating Greek/Macedonian heritage?

2. The area was "ethnically cleansed" in the beginning of the 20th century, as a result of the Greek/Bulgarian effort to dominate in the area. True, the Greeks were victorious and the result was that most Bulgarians left the area, same as did the Greeks in Bulgaria.

3. The embargo was in response of a clause of the FYROM constitution that was mentioning that FYROM represented also Slavomacedonians out of FYROM borders and their obligation to "liberate" them, thus implying territorial claims to Greece and Bulgaria. It's now over for more than 5 years and has lasted less than 2. Furthermore, Greece is the biggest investor in FYROMacedonia, it's donating free arms and economic support to the country and is politically guaranteeing FYROM independence and territorial integrity. Numerous citizens of the neighboring country are working in Greece and have only the best feelings towards Greece.

I have met with some in Athens and they laugh at these claims of them being anything different than Slavs.

Paul which Hellenes do you speak for the ancients or  moderns ?

If you speak for the moderns your thaughts is similar with Fellemeyer and if you speak for ancient is closed enouph to Bernal

St. Francis of Assisi,

since we have gone off topic anyway, I believe I can answer your  post here.

First of all, I am sure many Bulgarians would welcome a unification between Macedonia and Bulgaria, but most of the Slavic Macedonians, and most importantly the Albanians, would never accept such an act. So I do not expect anything like that to happen in the near future.

By saying that Macedonia has no reason to exist in the first place you seem to suggest that only monoethnic states have the right to exist, whereas countries like Macedonia which consists of several ethnic groups should not exist.

In fact I strongly disagree with that. I believe the worst plague for the Balkans was the introduction of European Nationalism and the idea of creating nation states. As a result of such policies and the creation of states that supposedly belong to one nationality millions have found themselves on the wrong side of the border, have been ethnically cleansed, or even worse massacred.

If multiethnic states were created that would be the shared homes of their inhabitants, without any reference to ethnicity, such as Macedonia for instance, I believe we could have avoided a lot of bloodshed in the Balkans.

If we had learnt how to build multiethnic socieites and unite people around the concepts of equality, democracy and freedom, rather than those of ethnic origin or religion, we would have never seen the exile of Greeks from Asia Minor and Constantionple, Turks from Aegean Macedonia (mainly Selanik) and Bulgaria, the massacre against Armenians, or the Srebrenica massacres.

Most of the Balkans have failed this objective, and I hope the Republic of Macedonia will achieve being a true democracy. Unfortunately the attitude displayed by Greek nationalists (and Bulgarian nationalists for that matter) is not helpful at all.

Where are you going to draw the borders? No matter how you do it, you are eventually going to cause bloodshed and ethnic cleansing. People in the Balkans are intermixed, there is no geographic seperation, you cannot draw clear cut borders like those in Western Europe.

Besides why stop with Macedonia? If you do it with Macedonia, why not do it with Bosnia too? Why not let the Serbs there join Serbia? Or Cyprus, why cant you partition Cyprus between the Turks and the Greeks?  Why not let Bulgarians in Easter Serbia join Bulgaria too? Why not let Hungarians in Romania join Hungary? or Turks in the Rhodopes and Thrace join Turkey?

The whole region will become defragmented again. This may be in accordance with the interests of western nations to keep the region under submission and weak by constantly fueling intercommunal violance and defragmenting it, but it is hardly in accordance with the best interests of the people in the Balkans.

What the people of the Balkans need is one strong multiethnic Balkan state for all ethnicities, which will be able to stand up to western imperialism. Of course Balkan people have been manipulted for too long, brainwashed for too long by nationalist propaganda, and clearly such wishes of a strong multiethnic state are just detached and unrealistic idealism. But maybe this can one day be achieved within the European Union.