Macedonia History

 Again and again, one hears false theories that the Macedonian language was "invented after the Second World War by Josip Broz Tito and the Comintern". Greek and Bulgarian propaganda in particular is keen to spread such theories and present them as fact.  These theories are often based on the late political recognition of the Macedonians and their language. However, there are evidences which refutes such theories. Because political recognition of a language does not mean that this language existed and is in use from then on. In addition to many other documents on our blog that refute such theories, today's article is devoted to a work published in 1767 entitled "New Slavic and German Grammar".  The work was written by the Croatian pedagogue and Habsburg military officer Antun Relković. This book was printed more than a century before Tito's birth and the founding of the Comintern. New Slavic and German Grammar Macedonia is one of the areas that the author me...

 Another testimony in the ongoing debate about the Macedonian language and its origins. Attempts are made again and again to negate the Macedonian language or to construct a descent from Bulgarian. But this is logically not possible. Before a Bulgarian language ever existed from which the Macedonian language could have descended, there was already a dialect that was similar to or close to today's Macedonian. Generally, it is referred to as Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic. And this dialect was the first Slavic dialect that served as the basis for the first translations of the Bible into Slavic! There are also two short excerpts or quotations from History of the Christian Church. from the Election of Pope Gregory the Great to the Concordat of Worms by James Craigie Robertson. Second volume. St. Cyril either invented the Slavonic alphabet, or improved that which had before existed …the translations were in the Macedonian dialect of the Slavonic… Source: History of the Christian Church...

  With genotyping, which we will publish soon, we managed to prove whether our ancestors were Slavs or ancient Macedonians. You can change history, but not your genes! You can, with various agreements, change the history textbooks, change the books, force historians to write according to the government's demands to change history, but you cannot change the genes and the blood that flows in our veins! Literally, the history of Macedonia flows in our veins. After the announcement of the results, all hypotheses about the origin of the Macedonian people should be closed and what we will claim should be made official. Even what we have so far as a result, will cause an earthquake among the Macedonian public, geneticist Dzundev says in an exclusive interview for Macedonian newspaper VEČER. Who is Dimitar Dzundev, the man the world knows about, but few in his native Macedonia? I was born in Gevgelija, where I completed my primary education, and then continued to secondary school in Skopje...

 Taken from Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine The Macedonian Minority of Northern Greece June 1995, Author: Loring M. Danforth During the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia, world attention has focused quite understandably on the horrors of the killing and the ethnic cleansing which have been taking place in Croatia and Bosnia. By contrast, relatively little attention has been paid to Macedonia; in large part, I suspect, because the situation there has, until now at least, remained so peaceful. Historically, however, Macedonia has often been a major source of conflict and instability in the Balkans. Even now, it lies at the center of a bitter dispute between Greeks and Macedonians over which group has the right to identify itself as Macedonians. This latest phase of the Macedonian Question involves two major issues: the human rights of the Macedonian minority in northern Greece, and the international recognition of the Republic of Macedonia. This controversy, in many ways...

 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...

  In 1539 Theseus Ambrosius Albonese already mentioned the Macedonian language in one of his works. Several words and passages (translations) we can find in his work. Theseus Ambrosius Albonese (1469-1540) was an Italian humanist from the Italian Renaissance period, a representative of Christian Kabbalah and a pioneer of Orientalism, born in Pavia in 1469, he probably died in the same city in late 1540 or early 1541. Ambrosius also has the nickname Albonese, but not because he came from Albania but one of the Albonese family from a northern region in Italy. One of his best-known and most important works is " Introductio in Chaldaicam linguam, Syriacam, atque Armenicam and decem alias lingua " from 1539.  In this work, Ambrose translates several ecclesiastical psalms into various translations and languages, it also provided an overview of the languages of that time Alphabets. From a Macedonian point of view and for Macedonian history, this work represents an important testimon...

 "Guide to the Slavonic Languages" is the name of the work we are going to take a closer look here, precisely the section on the Macedonian language. Reginald George Arthur De Bray , born in Russia and died in Australia, is the author of the work. The excerpt is from the 1951 edition, distributed by M. Dent & Sons LTD in London and E.P. Dutton & Co Inc in New York . Professor Reginald de Bray has held chairs at Monash University, the University of London and the Australian National University. His "Guide to the Slavic Languages" was a standard reference for four decades. He was one of the most respected academics of the Slavic language. Guide to the Slavonic Languages As the title of the work suggests, this is a manual which gives an insight into the Slavic languages. On page 243 de Bray introduces the Macedonian language to the readers, but we only delve into the introduction that the author made. So we see (on the screenshot below) that de Bray writes ...

Petar Bogdanov or Albanized Pjetër Bogdani (Italian Pietro Bogdano, born around 1630 in Gur i Hasit near Kukës; died December 1689 in Pristina) was a Catholic Bishop of Shkodra and Archbishop of Skopje and an important author of early Albanian literature. Pjetër Bogdani - Pietro Bogdano - Petar Bogdanov His book Cuneus Prophetarum, written in 1685, is regarded as the first significant prose work in Albanian language. The fact that generally receives no attention, on the title page of this work the author calls himself: Petro Bogdano - Macedone . According to the ' official historiography ', Pjetër Bogdani's family belonged to the "narrow elite of the Catholic Albanians", but perhaps one should consider, rather, he was simply a Catholic from Albania. The young Bogdani received his first training in the Franciscan monastery of Tschiprowzi in northwestern Bulgaria. Later he studied at the Illyrian (= Slavic) seminar in Loreto in Italy. From 1651 to 1654 he worked as ...

  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...