who were the (original) Slavs?

Why is it inaccurate regarding Macedonia?

The communists have done their trick. Greater Macedonia and a Greter Thrace were always their dream thanks to dear old mamma Russia.
What I find equally interesting beside the block bold capitals in the names mentioned is that the ONLY city mentioned is that of Thessaloniki. Looks alot like some of the propaganda maps I've seen promoted by the FYROMians right after they issued the bank notes with the "White Tower" of Thessaloniki on them. 

Originally posted by Menippos I don't find the map inaccurate. I find it rather peculiar. All other regions are noted with plain, italic capitals, whereas Macedonia and Thrace are in block bold capitals. Why is there special interest shown for these regions? I wonder...

I think that has a logic explanation: all names in italics are names of peoples like Finns, Lithuanians or Bulgarians, while Macedonia and Thrace are names of geographical regions. Why did the author only name those regions and not others? That's another story. But for the sake of the topic I would try not to be so much nitty-picky.

Sharrukin saves the day!

If you were looking at this map compared to other maps in the entire atlas, you would probably not even notice the labeling, to draw such conclusions.  The atlas is concerned with the entire scope of world history, and it does an awesome job of doing that, with beautiful colored and detailed maps.   That particular map is so minor, compared to other maps in the atlas, some of which take two facing pages, that it's virtually ignorable!!!  It's really one of a handful of maps of the smallest scale in the entire atlas.  With that perspective, no one who casually uses this atlas, can draw such conclusions.  There is no conspiracy here.

The author chose to label regions using Slavic tribal names instead of place-names.  So what?  When it comes to Macedonia and Thrace, there really were not any major Slavic tribal group.  The historic sources simply called those Slavic groups in those two regions, Sclavini, "Slavs".  Yes, we read of such groups as the Melingi and the Ezerites, but they were so minor compared to the major tribal groups further north, that, on a map of this small scale their mention would have been very disproportionate to the regions they actually inhabited.