Macedonia History

 The first Neolithic settlements in Europe were located in the area of ​​geographical Macedonia, that is the conclusion of the authors Naumov from the Goce Delčev University in Štip and Agathe Reingruber from the Free University of Berlin in a new scientific work. The earliest appearance of Neolithic settlements in Europe takes place in geographical Macedonia, as pointed out in the scientific work “ Dating the Early Neolithic in Pelagonia: closing a chronological gap in Balkan prehistory ” by authors Goce Naumov and Agathe Reingruber. The research was recently published in the prestigious world journal of archaeology "Documenta Praehistorica" ​​(link at the end of the article). It is based on long-term field research by the Center for Prehistoric Research (CIP) in Pelagonia, which culminated in chronological modeling of the resulting data at the Einstein Center in Berlin. "This work sublimates the knowledge on the dating of the Neolithic mounds in Pelagonia, obtained thr...

 The old part of Ohrid or ancient Lychnidos on Lake Ohrid in Macedonia was an island in the period from the late Bronze Age to the arrival of the Romans. This is shown by the geological and archaeological research carried out as part of the five-year project "Border studies, identity research and cultural contacts in the border area of ancient Macedonia". The project was led by the Archaeological Museum of Macedonia and the Institute of Classical Studies of Charles University in Prague, in cooperation with the German Archaeological Institute, the Geological Institute in Prague and the South Bohemian University from the Czech Republic and the Institute for Protection of Cultural Heritage and Museum of Ohrid. The head of the project, Pero Ardžanliev from the Archaeological Museum of Macedonia, explains in an interview with MIA that during the geological investigations in the plain, i.e. the part where modern-day Ohrid is located, lake sediments were discovered, this is the proo...

 For the first time in North America, Macedonian archaeological artifacts will be exhibited at the international exhibition “The First Kings of Europe”, presenting artistic excellence in the field of social and religious forms characteristic of various stages of prehistory. The exhibition The First Kings of Europe is the result of the initiative of the Field Museum from Chicago and cooperation with the Institute and Museum - Bitola, the Gevgelija Museum and the Institute and Museum - Prilep. The national coordinator of the exhibition is Goce Naumov, who made a selection of several Neolithic, Neolithic and Iron Age objects found at the Vrbjanska Chuka, Shuplevec and Milci sites. These objects, along with hundreds of other artifacts from 23 Balkan museums, show the gradual social development of prehistoric communities that gradually transformed from egalitarian tribal organizations in the Neolithic to the first European kingdoms in the Balkan Iron Age. – The exhibition is initiated b...

 The people of Galičnik in Macedonia have always been unique in their customs, culture, tradition and genetic code. Galičnik is considered to be one of the oldest villages in the Mijak region, whose specific culture is still the subject of research. Five years ago, a study was made that carried out a genetic analysis of the residents of Galičnik. The research was recently carried out by Dr. Ana Momirovska, a specialist in medical biochemistry, completed a Masters in Pediatrics and Molecular Biology in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana (Institute of Pathology, Department of Molecular Biology). - Similar studies have already been carried out at the institute in several villages in Slovenia, the colleagues have experience in carrying out population analyzes in order to obtain information about the origin. We communicated with our colleagues there and agreed to carry out a project to investigate the genetic origins of the residents of the former Galičnik. The idea...

Originally published by Pollitecon Publications  Governments are not supposed to tell you who you are. That’s a job for your parents. But in Greece the government does tell you who you are, and if you disagree you are in big trouble and can be seen as an enemy of the state. As a person of Macedonian heritage whose family is from the Greek side of the 1912 modern day border between Greece and Macedonia, the Greek government gives me two choices for my identity. I can be Greek and claim direct descendants from the glorious ancient Greeks; or I can be Macedonian, but if I do that then I am not really a Macedonian as I have, according to the government, no connection to the ancient Macedonians and I am really a ‘Slav’, a ‘Slavic speaker’ and a ‘Slavophone’ whose predecessors came from a swamp somewhere in the Ukraine or Belarus, supposedly sometime in the sixth or seventh century. These are my only choices. Just as laughable is that there are academics, some of them self-confessed...

Greeks predecessors came to the Balkans in the 11th century B.C. without this name, but in fact came as doric [1], and were not given this name even 400 years later in the 7th century B.C., but as achaia’s, aegean or dania’s [2, 3], and later appears as helenians or greeks [4]. The basic historical question is why the name of Macedonia is not immediately connected with what some modern historians wrongly referred to as hellenism? The helenians for the first time in their centuries-old history administratively conquered the southern part of Macedonia as late as after the first Balkan War in 1912, by Bucharest agreement, 13 august 1913. The concept of “hellenism” was introduced in historiography by the german historian droysen [5], and later was accepted by other authors such as ferguson [6], heuss, launey [7], Beloch [8] and others. a starting point for these authors was their assumption that Macedonian history and culture belonged to the “hellenic corpus”. These assumptions...

Adam of Macedonia, is a Neolithic sculpture found by archaeologist Milos Bilbija of the Skopje City Museum. More than 7.000 years old, it is the oldest artefact found in the Republic of Macedonia and among the oldest in the world. At the world archaeological symposium in Croatia in 2002, archaeologists declared the sculpture one of the world's ten most important archaeological finds. It dates from the 6th millennium BC. The sculpture represents a male body sitting and shows remarkable details in the spine, ribs and navel, and erect phallus. Adam of Macedonia At the beginning there was the Earth. And it turned into clay. Then it shaped into a figurine, the hands which created it – divined it, and gave it a name – Adam. A small ceramic figurine of a male torso, in a seated position, has been creating a real turmoil in the scientific community since a couple of years ago. This figurine was excavated at the turn of the millennium, from the archeological site of Govrlevo (...