Macedonia History

 In the ongoing debate about whether the ancient Macedonians or Alexander the Great were Greeks, we would like to recall the Lexicon of Lost Peoples. There we find a concrete reference to this question. But first, let's look at a short bio about the author of the work. About Harald Haarmann Harald Haarmann (born April 16, 1946 in Braunschweig) is a German linguist, cultural scientist and author. He studied general linguistics, various individual philological disciplines and prehistory at the universities of Hamburg, Bonn, Coimbra and Bangor. Haarmann received his doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1970 and completed his habilitation at the University of Trier in 1979. He has taught and researched at various German and Japanese universities and is a member of the research team at the Research Centre on Multilingualism (Brussels). Since 2003 he has been Vice President of the Institute of Archaeomythology (headquarters in Sebastopol (California), USA) and Director of its Europea...

 What was the Mother Tongue of Alexander the Great? by Anthony Ambrozic, 8 Lafayette Place, Thornhill , Ontario L3T 1G5, CANADA Preface It was not until the 1970s that serious work on Phrygian inscriptions began. With the exception of American excavations at Gordium in the 1950s and a publication in 1966 of an adventurous work by Otto Haas (Phrygische Sprachdenkmäler), there had been little progress until the decade of the 70s. It was the advent on the scene of a giant that broke the lull. Aided by the Asia-Minor-inscription terrain expert, Claude Brixhe, it was Michel Lejeune who brought his genius and expertise to bear on the subject matter. Having organized the cooperation of the French Institute of Archeology at Istanbul, the University of Pennsylvania excavation team at Gordium, and a variety of museums in Turkey, they systematically proceeded to prepare, examine, and review each inscription individually. By joint accord they established a definitive redaction which in 1984 wa...

  What is at least "sensational" for many who are not from the Kičevo area, is everyday life and tradition for the people of the town and surroundings. Various legends relating to Alexander the Great king of Macedon have been translated throughout Kičevo's generation, so that children will know who he is from an early age. Which kept his routes, what he said, where he drank water, whom he met, what they spoke ... legends. Where there is smoke, there is a fire - they say in Macedonian vernacular. This is the house of the Višovci family in the village of Velmevci on the road from Kičevo to Demir Hisar. It's in the centre of the village. Nice, domestic, conspicuous. The house was completed on June 13, 1911 after the facade was completed. This great wall painting of the Macedonian king was drawn in one section. Not only that he was sung about in poems and songs, our ancestors also dedicated a representative painting to the revered king of Macedon from the old days even in...

 In his work "History of Greece Vol. 12" (published 1875) Georg Grote wrote, that "The basis of Philip’s character was Macedonian, not Greek!" Who was Georg Grote? George Grote (born November 17, 1794 in Clay Hill near Beckenham, now London, † June 18, 1871 in London) was an English ancient historian. ... Elected to Parliament for London in December 1832, he joined the radical party and surrendered. especially the introduction of the secret ballot for the task, which he proposed every year. However, since he did not succeed in defeating the resistance of the Conservatives and a large part of the Whigs, he resigned his mandate in 1841 and resigned from banking a year and a half later, only to concentrate on drafting his History of Greece (London 1846 -56, 12 vols. Plus 2nd vol. Excursions; 5th ed. 1883, 12 vols .; German, 2nd ed., Berlin 1880, 4 vols .; the sections mythology and antiquities specially translated from it by T. Fischer, Leipzig 1856-60, 4 vols.), Which...

  We found an very interesting article published by a German speaking Polish Blog, named Universumskristall ( Universe crystal ). We thought, it is worth translating and of course for You, it is much worth to read it... Alexander the Slav by Universumskristall Blog Alexander the Great is an ancient ruler who we believe we have a thorough knowledge of. Hardly anyone has exercised such a fascination on people as he and despite many reports and testimonies, one fact has not been sufficiently taken into account until today, namely that the people from which Alexander was descended actually had little to do with the Greeks. Generations of historians tried to convince people that Alexander was a Greek. It was mentioned here and there that he was a Macedonian ruler, but Western historiography has always considered him and his people to be part of a Greek culture. That is of course not true. The ancient Macedonians and Greeks share a common past, but at the time of Alexander the difference...

 The famous mosaic with the battle scene of Alexander the Great vs Darius from the legendary Pompeii is now being spruced up in a seven-month restoration in Naples. Pompeii's famous mosaic of the victory of Alexander III of Macedon over King Darius III. of Persia is to undergo a major restoration project at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN). The restoration of the monumental and quite famous Alexander mosaic begins at the end of this month and is expected to be completed in July. The 'Alexander mosaic' was rediscovered in 1831 in the House of the Faun in Pompeii. The floor mosaic dates from around 100 BC. And is said to have struck the battle of Issus in southern Anatolia on November 5, 333 BC. Represent the second great battle of Alexander's Persian campaign. The mosaic measures 5.82 x 3.13 meters and is one of the most famous works of the ancient Roman city, which was buried under volcanic ash after the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. The upcoming res...

A podcast published on Bavarian state run Radio "Bayrischer Rundfunk" talks about Alexander the Great. "The Macedonian who conquered the world" is the title of the podcast. The podcast was part of the series called "Radiowissen" (Radio Knowledge) and was broadcasted online and via the broadcasters radio channel "Bayern 2" in october 2018. Part of the podcast is German historian Dr. Alexander Free from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. First of all he explains in the introduction, that authentic sources are hard to find, when we talk about the "Great Macedonian King". As Free says:  The main reason why the world-storming Macedonian king is so difficult to grasp is that unfortunately not a single authentic source has been preserved from the days of Alexander. All ancient evidence of his life and work dates from the Roman Empire. Historians like Arrian, Plutarch, Diodor, Curtius Rufus or Iustin used original sources that were st...

by Charles Bryant-Abraham, Ph. D. Fellow, The Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies and Research Jerusalem, Israel After submission of my review of VENETI to Sir Rodney Hartwell in June 1998, I came across a book in Athens of potential interest to the subject of Proto - (West) Slavic presence in the Balkans He Glossa tes Makedonias, he Archaia Makedonike kai he Pseudonyme Glossa ton Skopion, "The Language of Macedonia, Old Macedonian and the so-called Language of the Skopljites" (written in modern Greek with citations in classical Greek and in Latin), by G. Khatsidakis, et al. (Athens, Greece: Olkos, 1993). I will not review the book at this time for our Greek-reading Augustans, other than to indicate broadly my impression that the seven contributing writers have built a well-reasoned argument for the essential Hellenism of Alexander the Great. One cannot, however, avoid suspicion of a hidden political agenda to head off any future South Slavic irredentism for...

A forgotten sculpture of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great was discovered in the storehouses of a Greek Museum. Busted: "The thieve has buried his theft - and forgot it there", we Macedonians would say! An ancient sculpture of Alexander III of Macedon, or The Great, was discovered after years in a storage room of a Greek museum "by accident", a Greek archaeologist revealed in August on Facebook. Angeliki Kottaridi, "a greek leading archaeologist", wrote the post. “ A ‘brand new’ Portrait of Alexander, still unknown to archaeologists and art lovers…For decades lost in a dark corner of the warehouse of the archaeological museum of Veria between crates with ceramic, half under old mortars and pollutants ,” Kottaridi stated. The forgoten sculpture, which was initially found decades ago underneath rubble near the North-Greek town of Veria, was rediscovered as staffers were cleaning out a storage room. The sculpture of the Macedonian k...

In this very interesting book which is kept in the National Library “Saint Clement from Ohrid” Prof. Vinko Pribojevic, using a great number of quotes from Greek and Latin writers, claims that the Macedonians had always spoken the language they spoke in 1525, at the time of writing the book. According to him, the Macedonians lived in this region in the 16th century, as well as all the preceding centuries. Vinko Pribojevic was a very educated man for his time, a great connoisseur of the ancient, classic history. He was born on the island of Hvar, where he finished elementary school. He started studying theology and went on specialization in Italy and later became one of the most prominent theology professors at the time. As he knew the history of the Balkan Peninsula, which he called Macedonian Peninsula, very well, in his book Pribojevic used a great number of source information that he collected in libraries, archives and Dominican monasteries. That is why, in his introduct...

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the paradoxical figure of Alexander continues to emerge in Book Three. I wanted to look a little at Alexander’s relationship with the Greeks, leading to the dismissal of Greek troops at Ecbatana (3.19.5-8) and the burning of the royal palace of Persepolis (3.18.10-12). The relationship between Alexander and the Greeks proved to be a combination of admiration and distrust, a balancing act aiming for gentle subjugation—Appendix M by James Romm provides a great summary of the relationship over time. Alexander did more to spread Greek culture to the world, yet he was also responsible for the slaughter of a tremendous number of Greek civilians and troops in addition to undermining liberty in many of the city/states. The Theban revolt (1.7-9) laid bare the feelings of some Greek leaders. Footnote 1.7.11b highlights the divergence between the histories of Arrian and Diodorus, although according to Diodorus the Thebans did more than hurl` insults a...

The Macedonian Connection January 22, 1981 Peter Green The Search For Alexander November 16, 1980 to April 5, 1981  an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC,  The Search For Alexander: An Exhibition  with essays by Nikolaos Yalouris, by Manolis Andronikos, by Katerina Rhomiopoulou New York Graphic Society, 192 pp., $10.95 (paper)  The Search for Alexander  by Robin Lane Fox  Little Brown, 451 pp., $24.95  After Tutankhamun, Alexander. With an explosion of publicity, yet another spectacular venture in museum promotion has been launched: how fitting that Time Inc. and the National Bank of Greece, co-sponsors of this new exhibition, should have patented as its trade mark the royal Macedonian starburst. “The Search for Alexander” has arrived at the National Gallery of Art in Washington—en route for Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, and New York—regally packaged and presented. There were black-tie...