What's Going on in MACEDONIA in 2023| Is it Cheap? Is it Safe?
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Today we take a deep dive in the controversies, the ups and downs of Macedonia, aka Northern Macedonia. I take to the streets of Skopje to explain the sheer craziness that this country is!
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Correction: The Paeonians were a proto Thracian/Illyrian tribe, but have some ancient Greek connections.
FYROM stupid
I indeed respect the way you want to remain neutral.The history is very complexed.I will just add few things for you to be aware of.North Macedonians are not pure slavs they are mixed with many ethnicities yet not Slavs.The Slav propaganda was introduced in order Greece to gain credit being the eldest in the region.Greeks are not native on their land.They came after us.We belong to the Vincan culture/genetics.Vincans are resposible for culture in Turkey ,Greece,entire Balkans as well as reaching Germany.Vincans( Serbians,Bulgarians, North Macedonians,Bosnians,Monte Negrans and Croatians ) proved they r closely related to Vincan DNA.To add 4500bc when Vincans had alphabet Greeks were not on their current land.Big fat lie is that Greeks based their alphabet on Phonecians.The truth is they based it on our Vincan alphabet.You can google the alphabet.Many words that Greeks use today are taken from Vincan.The influence of Vincan culture goes as far as North India where part of our tribe will immigrate there known as Jat tribe.Thus we have many sanskrit words in our language even today.For the above statement check the DNA haplogoups.Greeks have Hellenized our culture and claimed as theirs.Refer to ancient Greek author Strabo who clearly states Greeks are non native on their land and describes our culture.When it comes to the usage of name Macedonia the right to carry the name is justified.Firstly Alexandars kingdom included 1/3 of current south west Macedonia.Second when Romans occupied Greece they expanded the region uncluding entire current Macedonia or North Macedonia as renamed now.Thus locals share history with Greeks as much as they have stolen history from us as being genetically close to Vincans.Serbians know this very well but they wont ruin good friendship with Greece although they are aware they/us were prior to Greeks on these lands.Check Xsanthos obelisk in Turkey who was decoded and clearly talks about our tribe.
A nice country..... looking for an identity.....
...they wish. This country needs to find its own identity and stop pretending is someone else.
@@dimitrispvoice133 And whats your identity? Greek? A non native to your land?Serbians wanna keep good relations with you and dont wanna ruin ur delusion that your culture is Greek.Macedonians as now people call them north were settled on those lands way prior to Greeks on their current land.So north macedonians,Srbians,monte negrains ,Bosnians Croatians and Bulgarians belong to same DNA haplogroup closely related to Vincans.Thus your Greek alphabet is based on our Vincan.Dont even try to fool us that your alphabet is based on Phonecian as They based theirs on Vincan whos 2500 years older.In 4500BC Vincans had alphabet already.Compare Greek and Vincan alphabet and have a laugh.Thank Vatican and Germany for setting u on a pedestal as most influental culture in Europe and erasing all that Vincans have left in Greece ,Turkey and entire Balkans.Your ancient Strabo clearly states Hellinisation of our culture.So get ur identity first prior to lecturing someone.
Thanks for highlighting my favorite country outside of the USA. Macedonia is complicated but extremely beautiful and has the most mountains than any other countries, although most are smaller. Every region is known for growing something special. Figs, pomegranates, Peppers, tomatoes and onions in the south. Apples are grown in the west. Rice in Kicevo. Macedonian cooks are known for homemade bread, ajvar (roasted pepper spread), kebabs, and beans. Macedonians are generous to a fault, extremely proud, and make you feel welcome, even to strangers. Macedonians are proud of who they are and you can find many living in Australia and the US. You spent too much time on Skopje as there is so much more than just the capital. It’s the beauty, the nature, and the beautiful souls of traditional, ethnic Macedonians. Nice video my friend!
dude you know that the macedonians live in n.macedonians are actually bulgarians and albanians right? the real macedonians live in the region of greece
@@someonethatlikesyou7713 really there's Macedonians in Greece what a suprise
There's also a large Macedonian minority in Bulgaria. Real Macedonians.
@@someonethatlikesyou7713 so you don’t think there’s Macedonians in Macedonia idjotu
@@someonethatlikesyou7713 I'm from Macedonia and I live in N. Macedonia and I've never seen a Macedonian in the region of Greece named macedonia
Macedonia: Most complicated country in the balkans by far
Bosnia and Herzegovina: hold my beer
Why? Bosnians are just muslim Serbo-Croats who converted under the Turks? What's complicated about that?
Beer? Exuse md
@@draganavramovski296 haha
We are not slavs.
Ours Origin came from Aristotle philosopher And Alexander the great.
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Споделе този ЛиНК на всеки Македонец ruclips.net/video/HVn3U9cvVoo/видео.html !!!
I am a native Macedonian, I have been living there since I was born and I can tell you that it is both safe and 100% cheap.
I m coming to visit in next week
I am a native Macedonian too! What a surprise! Do you happen to live in Thessaloniki ?
So you are Greek
@@CMR10500 how amazing! Macedonians in Greece! What a small world! Hello brother /sister!
Show some love
Do you speak greek to be native...?
Regarding mixing Macedonians with Bulgarians it is not true. Bulgarians are Tatar-Mongolian tribe who came from Tatarstan on the Balkans and mixed with Slavs. Macedonians are mix of Ancient Macedonians and the Slavs. This is difference between Macedonians and Bulgarians.
Kuber's Bulgars settled in Macedonia.
@@BulgarianForever2 you and Kuber in..... / / /.
@@tatjanavelkova5814 The Kumans settled in Kumanovo. The Gagauz Turks, who are Christians, still live there.
@@BulgarianForever2 you in.... / / /.
MACEDONIANS 25 CENTURIES IN MAKEDONIJA.
Not only did you get Macedonian history wrong, but you also got Greek and Bulgarian history wrong. Incredible.
You are Wrong my friend!!!
@@patriotm.4117 no you are wrong
@@jt4495 Are you live in Another World?
@@patriotm.4117 no but I think you are
@@jt4495 I hope..ode day , God Help you to see the truth....
I really appreciate the moment that you put so much effort your viewers to get some info about Macedonia.
Just a small thing that i dont like in your video is that you call us rasist. Rasism is a global issue that no one is really trying to fix it, but you can not generalized to all macedonians.
Take care bro and make more videos :)
We've been traveling around the Balkans for 2 Months. We were recently in Skopje Macedonia and really enjoyed it. The weather is great and there are beautiful sights like Matka Canyon and Vodno Mountain. Great video!
FYROM stupid
The Bulgarian army was welcomed in Skopje as a liberator in 1941, and not as an occupier, as it is written in the textbooks of the then Socialist Federal Republic of Macedonia and the now Republic of North Macedonia!
A few details:
Immediately after the establishment of the Bulgarian administration in the already free Vardar Macedonia, it immediately opened the schools and churches closed by the Serbs, amid unprecedented popular enthusiasm that gripped the local population.
In the same year, Bulgaria invested 18% of its GDP in the revival of Serb-enslaved Macedonia. The Bulgarians began immediately with the construction of railways and tunnels, which are still used by the people of North Macedonia.
At that time, for the Skopje region and the surrounding area, which had a total population of 265,000, the Bulgarian administration appointed only 123 police officers to take care for the security and tranquility of the locals.
This only shows how much trust there was between the Macedonian Bulgarians and the Bulgarians of the Principality, who appointed only locals in the management of all local institutions!
Link:
ruclips.net/video/l7mQXKpYqqA/видео.html
In Bulgaria to be a Macedonian and Bulgarian have always meant the same thing!
Only in North Macedonia are these still two different things and mutually exclusive!
And all this is because of the policies and ideologies of Serbian Chauvinism, Anti-Bulgarian Macedonianism and Yugoslav Communism and Titoism, all of them very nasty policies and ideologies pursued for decades in then Yugoslavia.
PS:
There is no real Macedonian nation and language, and there never was!
Everything was created in the years after 1944 and within the borders of the then Yugoslavia, the greatest work of the Comintern after Belarus and Moldova!
God created them Bulgarians, Tito made them Macedonians!
Only the truth makes us FREE!
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@@user-gg3ex4ld9e beacuse Macedonia was a kingdom in Greece and not a Slav country stupid
Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr.
United States Secretary of State 1944-1945
Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., in a Circular Airgram No. 868.014(Dec. 26, 1944) stated:
“This Government considers talk of Macedonian ‘nation,’ Macedonian ‘Fatherland,’ or Macedonian ‘national consciousness’ to be unjustified demagoguery representing no ethnic nor political reality."
The more you read the literature of Yugoslavia in Macedonia, the more you sink into the deep waters of Macedonianism, but nevertheless, you begin to understand something more about yourself and the fact that you are Bulgarian!
And when you go to Bulgaria on vacation/во Бугариjа на одмор, the picture becomes completely clear to you, because inside you, something trembles so much that it becomes so dear to your soul, even though you understand once again the cruel truth that you have been lied to all these years in Yugoslavia of Josip Tito and Slobodan Milosevic!
PS:
There are no Bulgarian Macedonians, but there are Macedonian Bulgarians everywhere and they are plenty!
Only truth makes us free!
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Its FYROM Vardarska or North Macedonia and not Macedonia. Macedonia is in Greece.
MAKEDONIJA 25 CENTURIES IN SOUTH EVROPA ! ! !
I have been visiting Macedonia for 6 years and this is the most information packed video I have seen so far
Hey man, I appreciate the fact, that you are trying to introduce the beautiful Balkans, but history isn't just a few wikipedia articles. Either way great video with great intend!
What was wrong in his story? He just say the thinks that are knows worldwide... Macedonia is in huge problem related to history! They basically steal all their history from Bulgaria and Greece.
You can’t expect a casual traveler to become a scholar of Balkans history where even it’s own ppl can’t agree what day of the week it is. I myself appreciate his curiosity and willingness to understand its intricacies much more than the vast majority of visitors in this weird but wonderful part of Europe.
@@aureliogj7966 Then he must stop doing videos! If you want to create something you need to be informed!!
@@ivohristov425 I am informed.
He is informed and he is right about 99% of the stuff he said. i dont understand why on EVERY single video about our "beautiful" country has to carry a ton of bad and confusing comments. just chill out and watch the video for once, pls, chill.
Where is the fact as to when the Slavs inhabited the regions of Paeonia and Macedonia?
When did that invasion happen and who did they fight against?
Alexander and Phillip spoke a different language from the greeks this is fact.
24 veka od FILIP KRAL do 1913 TERITORIJA NA MAKEDONIJA
Kavala-----------Solun-----------Halkidiki----------Panonia so Egejsko more .
Awesome content dude. I'm in Bulgaria now and heading to Macedonia soon. Really glad to find this vid.
i live in macedonia and its really cool in the centre
I was born in Yugoslavia. In the books, Alekxander and Samoil were Macedonians even then. So it is just unfortunate situation that the union fall apart and we are not a big player anymore. History is written by the strongest influencer.
just look at ur name u r 100% bulgarian
@@vasilgeorgiev5686 just look at ur eys u 100% tatar
Let me correct the last sentence for you:
History is written by Jews.
Sorry sweethear, there was no Macedonians in 11th century. Samuil is historically preserved as a Tsar of Bulgaria and every single historian knows him as such. Only N. Macedonia writes bulshit about how he was a tsar of country that didn't exist in 1014 when he died.
@@M.Georgiev8527 MACEDONIANS 25 CENTURIES from KING FILIP.
before 25 centuries FILIP KING, ALEXANDER TSAR ON MAKEDONIJA.
Forget the history lesson your facts are all wrong!
Can you please point out the facts of was he wrong about?
Just curious!
@@valentinogeorgievski that the paeonians were greek
His controversy part was spot on though it seems (given your reply )
@@progamerbufovi No, the ancient macedonians were relatives of thracians, just like dacians, illirians, moesians... Read some ancient greek historians like Strabo or Ptolemeus.
MAKEDONSKI NAROD POSTOI 25 VEKA.
od FILIP KRAL NA MAKEDONIJA IV vek pred ovaa era i denes XXI vek.
If you from USA, Your Welcome in our Hospitality County, live among us you will see how goos people we are. I hope you will visit us again 💪
thanks for saying my country is beautiful
Love this video bro. I'm irish I'm planning to visit Skopje November so just found your video. Brilliantly informative. I look forward to checking out your other vids.
I am Hungarian, independent in this question. But I don't understand: I have an old ethinc map from 1906 on Balkan. There was a long ethnic border between Albanians és Bulgarians. And wasn't a third peopl between them.
Also there wasn`t a Hungarian nation between Slavic nations but there is now
Oh and they are connected with the ancient Hellenic Makedonian Kingdom that existed 2700 years before their very existence 😅😅😅
MAKEDONIJA ---- 25 CENTURIES from FILIP KING ON MAKEDONIJA.
germans make Blgaria before 140 years. Greece before 190 years.
@@tatjanavelkova5814 hahahahahaha 🤣 yeah, Tatjana is exactly like you said 😅 told you before. Makedonia is 2800 years old, and it's Greek
@@tatjanavelkova5814 that's the only thing you ever say 😅 do you know anything else??
Coming from an information junkie, I have to admit to being pretty impressed by how much you cram in to these 22 short minutes on here. You are very well-spoken (although you could take the tempo down just a notch as I am from the Southern USA), and what makes it even more impressive is that you remain well-spoken in sentences fairly complex for expository delivery, committing hardly any errors, and, moreover, this is at the same time as walking!
I have long had curiosity about the Balkans in general (chiefly Romania, although my interest in various parts of the former Yugoslavia has been increasing as of late), and the only things I knew at all about Macedonia were that Skopje is the capital and it's the place from which Alexander the Great hailed. You managed to broaden this a good bit, as well as pique my interest somewhat.
alexandedr the great was from pella in greece. He was a greek. Ancient macedonians were doric greeks
ALEXANDER THE GREAT IS MACEDONIAN.
before 25 centuries ALEXANDER TSAR ON MAKEDONIJA ! ! !
I visited Macedonia for two weeks in 2009. I had a great time. So much history, nice people, and good food. Safe ? Yes it was
History??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@ronprose5969 what history;the stolen one from Greece 🇬🇷. Greece Macedonia.
Thank you for packing so much information into 22 minutes. I would love to visit.
Macedonia its got a lot of history even in the bible
Macedonia does have a complex history, but honestly most of the complexity comes from misinformation. I disagree that modern Macedonians are Slavic people. Although we speak a Slavic language that does not mean we are Slavic by blood. By all means there could be some Slavic in us but overall I think modern Macedonians are related to the ancient people of the land such as Ancient Macedonians and Paeonians. Glad you enjoyed Macedonia and thanks for the video, I can’t wait to go back after all this pandemic stuff is over!
Well said
Absolutely, it seems to me that this new nation now called Northern Macedonia are ashamed of their slavic heritage lol..
"Macedonia does have a complex history, but honestly most of the complexity comes from misinformation."
Indeed. And you are one of those spreading it. Most of your ancestor self identified as ethnic Bulgarians prior to Yugoslav communists. As for DNA, the largest DNA study every conducted on your DNA, conducted by scientists in your own country, indicates your DNA is indistinguishable from Bulgarians. You have also confused ancient place names with modern, Alexander's homeland of Macedonia is located in Greece not Skopje. By trying to link yourself to ancient Macedonians, who were self-determined Greeks that identified with Hellenic culture and language, you are effectively, unwittingly, claiming to be the "real" Greeks.
I thought ....the language is..... Bulgarian....
Ethnicity today is categorised by culture and language, not by DNA as we know that there have been lots of mixes over the centuries.
You can't call yourself decentants of Alexander the Great when you speak a Slavic language, then why you don't start speaking Ancient Greek language? or Simply Greek or Latin?
Nice video and very informative!You make some people sad because they prefer to believe in propaganda and lies.
Truth
Sounds a bit nutty. Maybe call it Macadamia. Or Mace. Seriously, I'm interested in the Lake Ohrid area. Have you been there?
Great video. Going there next month, can't wait !
My friend is North Macedonia..if u travel south ,how are u going to call the geographical area surrounding Thessaloniki,kavala etc.in Greece ?is also Macedonia..Use the term North Macedonia to distinguish..is the formal name.
My friend for us Macedonians in Macedonia we call it Macedonia so his in Macedonia 🇲🇰 why should he not say Macedonia 🇲🇰 and the Geeks 🇬🇷 can say Grease 🇬🇷
@@danielvelevski9166 i explained in my previous comment.The comparison shld be in-between similar things..
@@traveler9283 if he goes Thessaloniki he will say Thessaloniki I was there and I called it Solun.
@@danielvelevski9166 every country is divided in prefectures, districts etc.Thessaloniki as Kavala belongs to the geografical prefucture of central and west Macedonia in greece.Is very simple as west Macedonia in Greece is bordered to eastern Thrace(another geographical district)in Greece.If u dont like your country's name change your prime minister as a first step and then cancel by law your constitutional name.As i saw in the last elections a few months back,the majority voted the prime minister who signed the Prespa agreement.Os like voting in favour of the formal name , North Macedonia.
who cares. he will say if he's in greece. that's how we would distinguish
Nice video!
Just some small comments from me:
1. Turks don’t actually live there since 500 years. They are mostly, if not all, natives, especially Albanians, who have been assimilated into Turkish. That happened mostly during Yugoslavia regime. They followed a state policy to assimilate Albanians into Turks and deport them to Turkey (Russia-Turkey agreement). They deported a large number of them, but failed to deport all. Numerous DNA tests done from them prove that.
2. Macedonians don’t all descend from Slavs. Actually, a large amount of them seem to have native DNA, extremely similar to the Albanian one, which means they were Slavicized.
Actually a large percentage of the the people from the balkans are related with vlachs, albanians, romanians and old greeks. There are some areas also with some slavic and old turkik influences(like in some parts of Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia).
Analbanians were and always would be Turks! You accept it or not. Macedonians do not have Turkish DNA, actually many of you Turks have Macedonian DNA.
@@duskojowcewski643 OK. And you were and always would be a fascist.
I am from Hawaii and WOW the capital is so beautiful it does not look like a developing country at all! I know people say the Balkans are one of the poorest regions in Europe but I am sure every country has its slums but this capital is just beautiful! As a Star Wars fan there is a Naboo feel to it! Not rich but very comfortable!
I was born in Greek Macedonia of a Greek mother and Macedonian father.
My mother was a descendent of Aulius Gellius ( Gellios in Greek ) the first Roman govenor of Greece following the Roman conquest. Thus, I am Greek, Macedonian and Roman.
ρε κακομοιρη ο πατερας σου ειναι σλαβομακεδονας. Η μανα σου αν ειναι απο εκει ειναι καεδονιτισσα
Yeah, I'm sure you've even got the documents to prove it. 😀😃😄😁😆😂🤣
Nice one, informative and neutral. I only meant to check out and ended up watching all of it. Any video on North Macedonia is bound to become a battlefield for nationalists. You can never be balanced enough. There is an excellent channel for the history of the region - Samuel's Fortress - by a Macedonian guy who grew up in the US and did his own research for those interested. This is a really good travel video.
Thanks Vladislav. I appreciate your comment. Best one I've had on this channel/
what's his channels name
@@TalesFromTheRoad No, that's a propaganda channel.
Other videos dub Macedonia as "the poorest country in Europe", so why spend precious money on statues..??...Be that as it may, it is the only Balkan country north of Greece mentioned by name in the entire bible, so that says something....
idk what do you mean, but i think its poor because of the Politicians. They changed the name in 2018 without the allowance of the citizens. And today they change the history overnight and tell us in the news Tomorrow. Theres gonna be a big riot soon because even our only politicians work against us. We recieve a bigger jail sentence than the Albanians in Macedonia. Its some real sh*t
wrong country. the macedonia in the bible is the ancient greek kingdom of macedonia. in the region of this slavic country there used to live a people called paeonians. The macedonism of the north "macedonians" who are slavs is the result of greek and bulgarian as well as yugo propaganda
this people you stop on tea and call macedonians are Albanians actually, some of them don't even know the Macedonian language, and you tell so many mistakes i cannot even count em, but appriciate you visiting our country. Kind regards :L)
Monkeydonia
That Macedonia in today Greece is ours territory but the Greek take when turkey have atact Macedonia
So your name and surname say it all so stop to try to steal the history of other countrys
I don't know what is you. You are not Greek and no Macedonian, so what are you won of the history of us or you like we Macedonian and Greek to fight or something
Look territory there in Ireland not in Greece. You and Germany don't look territory in Balkan
I honestly love you for combining travel and Sociology
"they" were not "under" the bulgarian empire. they WERE the Bulgarian empire for a while. Under Tsar Samuel the Bulgarian empire's nexus and capital is in what is now Macedonia. the second seat of the patriarchate was in Ohrid and then became primary seat of the Patriarch in late 10th early 11th century when Preslav fell.
Today they can call themselves whatever they want. Eskimo for example also is fine. But changing history to fit a narrative is absurd.
What next? George Washington was a Washingtonian? Because that is what essentially is being attempted in skopje these days.
Ouuu Bulgarian?? U were Tatars from Asia u know? u come 2 centuries on the balkan after Macedonian slavs, with KANS for rullers.. U ocupated the balkan in one short period of history ! but that not mean the balkan is Bulgarian because of that. Macedonia was to India, in one short period of history, indians arent Macedonians because of that! Rome empire was entire europe! Europe arent Italians because of that. So calm your TATAR tits for a while WE are MACEDONIANS AND NOTHING ELSE
My suggestion is stop calling them "Macedonia" and "Macedoinans" .. .as Greek originally argued... and the issue will eventually be resolved. Otherwise they will harass Bulgarians as they do Greeks in perpetuity.
All you need to do is everyone (including Bulgarians) treated Greeks when Greeks objected to the name to figure out how the rest of the world will treat Bulgarians. Bulgarians will will be political isolated and demonized by the ret world for arguing to protect your own history and identity. Everyone is more interesting in hiding their mistake of supporting obvious propagandists in Skopje than they ethics they claim to have.
@@mydogsbutler Oh no bulgarians know this for much longer than greeks do. The Serb and later Tito-commie anti-bulgarian propaganda started a long time ago in Macedonia - early 20th century and was quite obvious after the occupation of Macedonia in 1913.
The bulgarians have never changed their view on this ever. Macedonians are Bulgarians although now brainwashed. The greeks made a mistake to ally with the serbs thinking that the Bulgarians are too strong and the Servs are the natural ally.
Well this is what you get now. Instead of a peaceful Bulgarian community in Macedonia you get a bunch of crazy semi-nazis who culturally appropriate you. You reap what you sow.
@@thatisme3thatisme38
Cypriots admit their Greek identity they don't hide it like Bulgarian IMRO did... aka conscious nationalist propaganda by Bulgarians..
While true Yugoslav communists later oppressed Bulgarian identity in Yugoslavia it was still Bulgarian nationalists t that started the propaganda by hiding their ethnic Bulgarian identity and pretending to be purely "Macedonian" separate from Bulgarians (under IMRO)
And at least some Bulgarians, like you, still haven't learned by your past nationalist mistakes.. including taking the side of axis forces. You still reference them as "Macedonia" rather than work with Greeks to resolve this issue.
In an ironic twist of history the Bulgarians in denial in Skopje are trying to erase Bulgarian identity in an attempt to erase Greeks. Since they have no history they reframe Bulgarians history as "Macedonian". And as this thread shows, that will continue for as long as you call them "Macedonians".
Greeks are responsible for the mess we made our government finances. We most certainly not responsible for mistakes of others. Take ownership for your national mistakes don't unfairly blame them on Greeks.. That's not patriotism. That's nationalist fanaticism.
@@mydogsbutler "We all fought for a piece". The problem is some fought for a land that is populated by their own nation predominantly. Others fought for a land grab - like servs and greeks. And in the process perpetrated genocide.
As for the assertion that Bulgarians promoted a Macedonian self-identity distinct from Bulgaria -that is patently untrue. Bulgarians considered them Bulgarian and they considered themselves bulgarian and there were no games it was just a regional name during that time. just like bulgarians in Moesia are called moesians, thracians in Thrace and dobrudjeans in Dobrudja, rhodopchani in the Rhodope mountains etc.
The Macedonians as separate entity from Bulgaria became a thing after the invasion and occupation by Serbia. It's all detailed in the Carnegie report. It was promoted primarily because the serbians found its impossible to convince them they are Servs so they found it easier to try to create a separate ethnicity through propaganda that continued on through Tito communist times.
This issue has nothing to do with Bulgaria but everything to do with Serbia nationalists and Yugoslavian and TIto communists.
Very good video. I like the way how you tried to be balanced but did not shy away from controversial topics. I would just hope all Balkans would just focus in the present and the great people and countries they are. Imagine all this joyful people in the Balkans being able to appreciate each other without wasting time and energy trying to hate each other because of some dodgy historic account.
Untill 1991 Greece did not have Macedonia region named. After we declared independence. They named it. They have this land after 1912. Before modern Greek state 1833 founded. Did not have this part. And also Modern Greece is not related to Hellenic people. Genome sequence will say they have a lot of genes from North Africa.
Hey Bulgar,if you had a brain & could read/understand History,
You would find that your fake CIA /Communist invented state was South Serbian Vardaska Yugoslavia & is now More Bulgarian than Bulgaria.
The Real Macedonia has been the heart of Hellas for over 3000 years now & you use our History Emblems Symbols etc to create your fake state North "OF" Macedonia (Anove Macedonia).
@@AndroPi-h8z what;
Never the less Macedonia is a safe country, a beautiful nature with lots of great food and friendly people. What other country can say that and not lie? I wish I could move back because the country I have been living in the past 50 years have turned into the wild wild west....
Macedonians today are not descendants of Ancient Macedonians, Paeonians, Greeks, Slavs, Albanians, Turks, or Romani - we are a mix of everyone and the perfect representation of the Balkans :)
And I think that's the way your country should be promoted!
Petaree se kade te ima kopele
Pukni be ama makedonci sme
@@gangster_mkd_ nikogas ne rekov deka ne sme
Ancient Paonians, Illyrians, Thracians and Macedonians were the same people and the Slav migration theory is a Russian hoax. These people never migrated south, they were already there for thousands of years.
No. the vlachs and albanians are native to Macedonia. Slavs no!
Great video! I love the way you make your videos, very educating. Macedonia is for sure on my list of countries to visit!😉
Macedonia is not a country. It is a region in Greece. If you are refering to Former Yugoslav North Macedonia, then say so... You need to respect the proud history of Macedonia which is Greek.
@@sakisgr1396 before 190 years Oto german make Greece.
MAKEDONIJA EXIST 25 CENTURIES from --- KING FILIP.
Yeah that's all very good and well my friend but you didn't say whether it was cheap or safe!
I was born in Skopje and I can confirm that it is indeed cheap, and relatively safe.
I live in Australia. I've visited and I can confirm it is cheap and safe.
Macedonia is Cheap but foreigners don‘t get much money when they exchange it. So it‘s gone really fast
I’m sorry for the hate u get from (like u said Macedonian community ) , I get it that u are trying to be neutral but u were not. U took the Greeks and Bulgarian point of view on Macedonia. Yes , it’s true that Macedonians are mostly Slavic but what do u think happened to all the ppl on that territory after the Slavs arrived ? They mixed up with the Slavs , we are talking of process that took 1500+ years. So u can’t say that the modern Macedonian nation doesn’t have anything to do with the past on the land they live on. Especially about Samuel who is local , domestic ruler who took the title king of Bulgaria but that doesn’t mean anything, how many of the European kings are from the British Royal family? My family is originally from Greece but we are not Greeks , we are Macedonians. I get it, things on the Balkans are very complicated for outsiders.
All the best !!
Well maybe you are from Greece, but your ancestors maybe slavic, I agree that there are some mixtures between races and I can handle people who live in the area of Acient Macedonia can call their country North Macedonia but telling the whole world that all Macedonians are one race forced to live under deferent nation (like Greece or Bulgaria) is unacceptable!! I was born macedonian near Thessaloniki and my ancestors were Macedonians and we speak greeks we are Greeks just like Athenians, Spartains, Cretans and Cypriots !! For us what your saying sounds like people from Skopie are different race than people from Bittola !!
@@YiakosAntonios96 I agree nationalists in what is today Republic Of N. Macedonia are saying a lot of BS, how we are exactly the same as Alexander and Philip . Any educated person knows that Alexander was champion of Hellenic culture, he has nothing to do with south Slavs , I agree with that 100%. But my grandma was telling me that when she went to school ( in Kastoria before 1948 when they were forced to leave everything they had behind and leave never to return) it was the Greek State official policy to tell this kids that they are the descendants of Alexander, that they are Macedonians, that they are slavicized Helens. It was the Greek Government propaganda after 1912 that started the story that the Slavic population living on the area called Macedonia are descendants of ancient Macedonians so therefore all this region belongs to Greece .
I think the name issue is stupid and ppl living on both sides of the borders are very similar, and from the moment South Slavs arrived at the Balkan’s they were impressed with Hellenic culture and took and learned a lot of stuff from it.
Let's see USA point of view.
Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr.
United States Secretary of State 1944-1945
Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., in a Circular Airgram No. 868.014(Dec. 26, 1944) stated:
“This Government considers talk of Macedonian ‘nation,’ Macedonian ‘Fatherland,’ or Macedonian ‘national consciousness’ to be unjustified demagoguery representing no ethnic nor political reality."
and one more
Дарко Митревски
" Нема Охрид да стане бугарски град ако признаеме дека Самуил носел бугарска круна, ниту пак Прилеп ќе се посрби ако се согласиме дека Крале Марко бил српски феудалец. Доколку раскрстиме со својата митоманија, доколку ги прифатиме фактите за сопственото минато, доколку престанеме да фантазираме за некакваси „древна античка империја“ - тогаш имаме шанса да станеме зрела и модерна нација.
Доколку не, ќе останеме тоа што сме: исфрустриран народ, раскаран со сите соседи и самиот со себе, кој своите комплекси ги лекува градејќи си измислена слава од стиропор. На таквиот народ нема да му треба историја, туку психијатрија".
I can present a lot of statements and documents but because you are brainwashed nothing can help.
The lack of brain is a lack 😊😊😊
@@rossemmanuel6545 Yes, let's see......
Becoming Bulgarian : the articulation of Bulgarian identity in the nineteenth century in its international context: an intellectual history by J.A. Sampimo
"A century previously, the very concept of ‘Bulgarian’ was practically unheard-of. If the name of ‘Bulgaria’ was known at all, it was as the name of a medieval realm which had disappeared; ‘Bulgarians’ were a tribe of uncertain identity and origin, like other shady ethnicities from an undocumented past such as Thracians, Sarmathians, Huns, Magyars or Turks. The name had survived as byword for a heresy, and as a term of abuse (Bugomil, bougre, bugger). The population was identified only as subjects of the Ottoman Empire, ruled by a Greek-Orthodox (and Greek-speaking) church hierarchy under Ottoman auspices, and at best speaking (in the private sphere) some obscure dialect which was not even generally recognized yet as belonging to the Slavic language family.
In the nineteenth century, then, this amorphous group was constituted into a Bulgarian nation."
@@Alexander17777 I am sorry for what happened to your grandmother, yes there were population exchanges that began even in balkan wars and the bulk of the population in greek Macedonia is today people from Asia Minor. Sad as it was, thiw exchange brought peace in the Balkans. We now have 80 years without war between Bulgaria and Greece, for the first time in history. I think you live in a better country than mine, life in Greece is horrible, squalor and crime everywhere, we can't live our house after 9 because of 100% increase of illegal imigration from middle east, africa etc.
Warning : DO NOT read the comments.
It's horrible right?
Ох, на които дедо Санде Великиот унучето.🤣🤣🤣
Што се плашиш од ВИСТИНАТА 🙄🙄🙄
@@rossemmanuel6545.............................
IDIOT.
@@rossemmanuel6545.........
pred 25 veka ALEKSANDAR ---- CAR NA MAKEDONIJA.
Its Macedon Empire
There are alot of original "Greek" buildings from Ancient Greece in Macedonia Today, that doesent mean they are "greek style" but thats how its known by the world today, they are alot more famous of a country, identity, culture than us. So people are brainwashed and dont know the truth because we are attacked by every neighbour except Serbia
dislike just because it is "North Macedonia" and not Macedonia.
Macedonia is in Greece
Macedonia is NOT Greek my friend.
@@peternagy-im4be i respect your opinion but we have a different one..
@@mariosathens1 It's not an opinion, he's just wrong.
Yes wrong opinion is not opinion they are bulgarians
@@Euro.Patriot correct actually mate.
@Tales From The Road You may be informed about some other field, but what you said here about Macedonia is extremely misinformed and false, plus insulting to Macedonians, let me use an analogy to describe what you did, not because of malice though, I don't blame you, anti-Macedonian propaganda is top level and even the westerners who fancy themselves generally informed people fall victim to it.
Macedonians aren't slavs, Macedonians are majority Ancient Macedonian descendants, some part Slavs, and some part mixed slavs and Ancient Macedonian descendants. The slavs arrived to Macedonia in 9th century but they didn't genocided the Macedonians already, they mixed with them, so the group of mixed Macedonians remains, the group of just slavo Macedonians remains and the group of Ancient Macedonians remains and the last group is the largest.
Also Ancient Macedonians were not Helenic/Greeks, nor was Alex the Great nor his pop Philip, they all were genetically different people, and they identified as different people, not Greeks, but Macedonians. Ancient Greeks too knew this and admitted in countless of their own sources such as for instant the Philipics. The modern Greeks are treacherous to the knowledge of the Ancient Greeks and do something the Ancient Greeks turn in their graves for, they claim their occupants (The Macedonians who occupied them) as their own people, which is not only nonsensical but treasonous to Ancient Greece.
The reason they did do this is because in 1913 they stole a part from Macedonia which was given a go by the world powers as a part of a treaty that expires after 100 years, called Aegean Macedonia and changed the names of over 20.000 locations in it as well as changed the name of the part to just Macedonia so when the treaty expires in 2013 they dont have to return it and instead negate great part of Macedonian identity so they can be like "well we dont recognize this country we are actually that country so we dont owe anything to anyone" about returning Aegean Macedonia back.to Macedonia. To top this off they vetoed Macedonia for.entrance in.EU and NATO until they made treasonous now modern Macedonian politicians to change their country's name, unconstitutionally, to North Macedonia.
Now for Bulgaria, Macedonia has occupied Bulgaria far more than Bulgaria Macedonia and Tsar Samuil was Macedonian (slavo-Macedonian), not Bulgarian. Macedonian is the oldest slavic language in the world and a father to old Slavonic which is father to ALL SLAVIC languages, so Macedonian, a language far older than Bulgarian and literal creator of Bulgarian, cannot be a dialect of Bulgarian, only the other way around, Bulgarian is a dialect of Macedonian, and very broken one at that, much closer to Russian than to Macedonian. The difference between Macedonian and Portuguese isn't like Portuguese and Spanish, but like English and German.
Now for the Albanians. Macedonians love Albanians from Albania, which are very different from the Albanians in Macedonia, the Albanians in Macedonia are an 18% minority with extreme nationalistic and religious pretensions, they are different type of muslim, an esoteric type that is seen as sect by Albanian muslims from Albania and heavily rejected by them. Their nationalistic pretentsions are also very different and hostile to Macedonia, while the Albanians from Albania share zero hostile pretensions to Macedonia, but only to Serbia.
Now for Yugoslavia. Serbia and Bulgaria killed each other as well as countless of Macedonians in their war of influence over Macedonia, the Serbians won and Macedonia became a part of Yugoslavia.
The only country in the world that refuses to call their country by its name.
It's still looking for a name
@@entenhausen1224 Macedonia for us is Macedonia and always will be.
@@AndrejNikolov-xw2gi it didn't exist before the end of World War 2 and was part of Tito's dissinformation campaign in an effort to steal the Greeks identity of the historical region and falsely claim it as a Slavic heritage. In other words: the reason you call it Macedonia originates in "Fake News." If the legal solution agreed upon to call it North Macedonia isn't working, and is still disputed by the people of your country, maybe the best thing would be to rename your country to something entirely different? I mean, the Greek word, Macedonia, has nothing to do with your history and language anyway, so why are you so attached to it?
@@AndrejNikolov-xw2gi I do not deny it... But it is not representative for this (lovely) country. It sounds ....strange... Irrealistic...(like south Lichtenstein)
@@themangospy8288 Really?
How is it weird that Macedonia has statues of Tzar Samuil, Philip, Alexander, etc... when there are literally archeological remenants tying those ancient people to cities in the country? If a Native American mixed with a modern day American and doesnt speak the old lagauge anymore, does that mean they cant celebrate their native heritage, history, etc....? Why not?
macedonia got divided up into 4 parts 1913 , greece occupied southern macedonia . ! million Turkish christians settled into southern Macedonia from turkey , they were not macedonian . Macedonia was never part of greece before that .
There is no Macedonian nation, no Macedonian language, no Macedonian culture. There is Macedonian state, a Macedonian citizen is either Bulgarian , Albanian, Romano, Turkish or Greek
Just as there is no Swiss language there is spoken German, French or Italian. There is a Swiss state, but not a Swiss nation. More examples there was a Yugoslav state, but not a Yugoslav nation.
People in the old Yugoslavia had many nationalities, languages, and cultures.
Macedonians have fought for independence for centuries, your comment on youtube isn't going to prove anything about Macedonia
@@lazarsimonov1166 Mostly Bulgarians fought for the independence of that land called Macedonia.
@@vassilraytchev4736 Along with Albanians which were a majority of them!
@@fluz2222 Not at that time. Also Albanians did not want liberation anyway.
@@fluz2222 Albanians in Macedonia are there, because the serbs cut them from Kosovo and Macedonia. Yes, they are a quarter of them now, but bulgarians fought for independand Bulgaria with all the bulgarians inside it. Bulgarians outside it also fought for independance. In the Second Balkan war bulgarians and albanians definetly fought against the serbs in Macedonia (Kryengritjes së Ohrit dhe Dibrës), but before that I don't think that the bulgarians wanted to do anything for or against the albanians, except fighting the turks in the First Balkan war
So you visited Northern Greece? Because this doesn't look like Greece at all!
No, he visited MACEDONIA
@@gecevicius6588 yes, so Northen Greece. Hmm, indeed it doesn't look like Greece at all 🤔🤔
North Macedonia, the country.
Yes it looks much better 🤣🤣
@@gecevicius6588 SEKOE DOBRO ! ! ! Tatjana od MAKEDONIJA
As a half Macedonian (other half Bosnian Serb), I love the county of my mothers birthplace. However, you nailed it with the corruption and also the recent architecture/statues in Skopje. While I think Skopje in the vicinity of Kamen most looks awesome (I don’t want to think about how much it cost), I personally do not see my history in the architecture nor do I feel a connection with the neo classical architecture with my ancestry. Maybe as a half/half, I am too connected to my Slavic roots to be anything else.
We are not slavs.
Ours Origin came from Aristotle philosopher And Alexander the great.
Macedonia has been Slavic for almost 2k years. USA had been Anglo British for centuries, just like Australia has been white Anglo British for 200 odd years??. But where are the native red Indians of the Americas today, what happened to the native indigenous peoples of Australia??. You cleansed them ethnically didn't you, bit by bit??. Same with the Macedonians today, ethnically cleansed by the Greeks, the Albanians & Bulgarians. Greek you are Greek, Albanian you are Albanian, Bulgarian you are Bulgarian, & Macedonian you are Macedonian!!. Macedonians are the indigenous peoples of the Balkans, we've been under greek rule, under Ottoman Empire (Turks) rule, under Bulgarian empire etc. But today the indigenous Macedonian line is Slavic for the past 2 K years almost. Slava Makedonija 🇲🇰.
@@ysti6552 you are not Slav, but we macedonians are all Slav today & for the last 2k years, thank you!!. Like we need you to tell us who we are, do you know how silly & foolish you sound telling people who they are??. Obviously not!!.
@@ysti6552 Your originas are from Bulgarians and proto-Bulgarians. Aristotle and Alexander the Great were Greek
@@JapanMonAmourTheJapanHouse.....
ALEXANDER THE GREAT IS MACEDONIAN ! ! !
1. "North" Macedonia is official name of the country, the ppl and the culture are called Macedonian and Macedonians. Political state doesn't always equal a nation. 2. Ancient Macedonians were not Greek. 3. When the Macedonian Slavs (Berziti, Vajuniti, Dragoviti, Rinhini, Sagudati, Smoljani and Strumyani) populated Macedonia, they mixed up with the ancient Macedonians, because 70% of them continue to live in Macedonia, and Macedonian Slavic tribes took their name for their own, as sing of respect..... And not only that, but our ancestors fought for that name. Literally every Macedonian organization who fought for creation of Macedonian United State from Ottoman Empire and than Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Serbia), Grecee, and Bulgaria had Macedonia or Macedonian in their're name. 4. The Greek region named "Macedonia" is fake thing, created in 1989, to "protect" Northern Grecee, and old Macedonia - Aegean Macedonia, since it was occupied in 1913, changing all toponyms of all Macedonian cities and villages and Macedonian names and surnames. Also they have also banned our language back then, and even now that's problem. And assimilating and chasing our people, out of their land. Even the man who built those monuments originates from that part (Aegean Macedonia). And in his village, for his grandfather writes that he has died bravely for the Greek state, and have Greek name and surname due to as I said the assimilation mission of Greece... 5. I tried to be brief, but this topic is very long, if anyone has questions feel free to ask. And you have a dislike from me, because you didn't tell the Macedonian side of the story, but the Greek side.
You are delusional 🤣
Lol wtf are you talking about. According the agreement ancient macedonians were Greeks. Take your theory and put it in your ass . Ancient macedonians were Greeks. The only language they spoke were ancient Greek.
@@dimitrispvoice133 not very delusional. he got a lot of it right.
greek macedonia was ethnically cleansed of bulgarians in early 20th century
macedonia.kroraina.com/en/carnegie/chapter2_3.html
then resettled with greek speakers.
@@Jovan_Jarkarane they technically spoke a different language. alexander was known to have spoken in a different language to his soldiers. that being said neither modern greeks nor modern macedonian slavs have anything to do with ancient macedons other than perhaps alexander was an ardent grecophile and proponent of the culture. that being said he later adopted the persian culture and promoted it to his soldiers. so you are also wrong about it.
@@thatisme3thatisme38 Well ancient macedonians spoke at the beginning an ancient macedonian language which was basically an ancient Greek dialect before they adopted the Attic Greek. Pontiac dialect is a Greek dialect from Anatolia but when they speak I barely understanding 20- 30% percent when they talk and that if they talk slowly.
what month is this ?
What is known about the ancient Macedonians?
1) They spoke a Greek dialect
2) They had Greek personal names
3) They had Greek Royal names
4) They had Greek place names (e.g Pella, Aegae, Thessaloniki, Amphipolis etc
5) They worshipped Greek gods
6) they proudly proclaimed that they were Greeks
7)They had Greek names for the months of the year
8) They participated in the Olympic games where only Greeks were allowed to participate
9) The cultural milieu of the Macedonians was Greek
10) The coins they minted in their millions was Greek
11) The Temples they built were Greek
12) The legacy they left from Egypt to India was Greek.
Which language do the greeks speak then, if Macedonians speak greek. Sooner or later you'll get caught yourself in the knot you tie.
@@eternal8886 You have stolen part of Greek history in order to create a national identity. You are a Yugoslavian region called Vardaska! In Thessaloniki and all Northern Greece they speak Greek ! All the tombs of the greek Kingdom of Macedonia are found in Greece!!! The tombs have greek letters on the walls as you see in the tomb of king Philip.
@@eternal8886 You are a Slavic nation! It is very offensive to think that you have relations with ancient Macedonians. All around the world know that Alexander the Great is Greek from the Kingdom of Macedonia. Even his name its Greek !!!!! Can you do the etymology of his name with your language? I don't think so...
@@dimariolis
You said one thing right, it was found in Macedonia/ and only since the second Balkan War Greece.
The old people still remember the genocide, how they had to change the names of people, towns, churches in Greek, how the new orthodox turkish immigrants stole their land and moved for free without repayments.
Fashism at its best
@@historybasedonfacts6343 Please find a true national identity and leave Alexander the Great alone!!!
Great video as I sit and watch in my hotel on Skopje. Thank you
Great video, thanks for presenting Macedonia 🇲🇰❤️
Regarding of some your words why there are different statues of tsar Samoil or Alexander the Great in Macedonia it is normal to be there because they are all born and lived in Macedonia. Second thing is that modern Macedonians that use Macedonian language with Slavs origin are different from ancient Macedonians. Today's modern Macedonians are mix of Ancient Macedonians who lived before coming of Slavs. Ancient Macedonians took the language of the Slavs and together they built todays Modern Macedonian nation.
Nah
ALL STATUES in MAKEDONIJA REPREZENT -- M A C E D O N I A N S ! ! !
Thank you for the video. Very informative about history of this place.
Great video, very informative.
Amazing video glad you enjoyed it too
How are you doing
@@kelvinpeters1047 well, im good thank you. How are you?
Yeah we are corrupt but you're country is beautiful because we don't know what to expect when you come in Macedonia
PAEONIAN IS NOT A SLAVIC WORD NOR NAME BUT A GREEK WORD AND NAME.
They did not speak slavic but Greek.
What does mean on Greek?
Paeonians weren't greek
@@progamerbufovi Yes, they wern't... and also relatives to Macedonians.
PELLA -- PANONIA 25 CENTURIES MACEDONIAN LAND.
FILIP and ALEXANDER are born in M A K E D O N I J A ! !
How to offend everyone everyone in 22 minutes or less. Verry nice. Nice video still
I do my best
@@TalesFromTheRoad Btw, Macedonians call themselves ethnicly macedonian, not etnicly slav. Mostly. It's complicated. Feel free to as how to offend more efficiently (balkans at least)
north macedonians are an ethno state created through contoversy i.e. the antiquisation from greece and bulgaria. They have alot of confusion because they hate being called bulgarian , the most confused pepple in Europe.
@@johnhatzis5300 NM was created bc they wanted independance. They are a mix of all. 25% are albenian, the rest are mostly slavic, some might be Greek if they are closer to the border. From the slavs the majority are bulgarian slavs, eto-linguisticly. Did I offend everyone? To the ones I haven't: ur mom gay >:(
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Very informative video.
Peonians were not a Greek tribe , but Illyrian . Alexander the Great was Macedonian and learned Greek when he was given a Greek teacher at 13 and he became fluent at 17 years old. Macedonians were a deferent nation from Greeks and got assimilated After the Slavic invasion of that area and there is no more real Macedonian nation since then. The true Macedonia stood in today’s north Greece. Alexander’s mother was an Illyrian princess. All that area was Illyrian land ( read Plutarch who called all those areas barbarian lands. Greeks called barbarian anyone who’s not Greek) . Alexander went to conquer all of Greece and used Macedonian, Illyrian and Greek troops for his other conquests.
Paionians were Thracian friend, not Illyirian. And Alexander's mother was Epirote, who were closer to the Brygians, not Illyrians. Is there any scientific evidence to support the Albanian claim of Illyria that I can read about, preferably not written by Albanians?
Paeonian were tracian , so macedonian tribe
Alexander the great was macedonian and spoke macedonian language as mother tongue! Koine language as second language
So called "slavs" invaded all the balkans, including albania and greece. In all the balkans there is same dna !
People mixed.
Ancient macedonians didnt disappeared when slavs came lol.
We were under ottoman empire 500 years and we didnt disappear , so how is possibile that ancient macedonians disappeared from little people of "slavs"?
Modern macedonians as modern albanians, greeks ecc are all mixed from autochton people and people who came in the balkans including romans, slavs, avars, goths, turks ecc
There is not a true Macedonia.
The first king of macedonia was from pella to heraclea. Then macedonia continue to became Bigger united all the macedonian tribes as paeonians and tracians ecc.
Modern macedonia was called Macedonia secunda in roman empire , and in ottoman empire modern macedonia was the northern part of all the region of macedonia.
In the census in ottoman empire of all the region of macedonia, the majority was macedonians! Greeks were only on the coasts !
@@Makedon9 if you you are descendent of the old Macedonians then how is it that you speak Slavic language? Below is from Wikipedia.:
What language do they speak in Macedonia?
Macedonian (македонски јазик, makedonski jazik) is a South Slavic language , spoken as a first language by approximately 1.4-2.5 million people principally in North Macedonia and the Macedonian diaspora. It is the official language in North Macedonia and a recognized minority language in parts of Albania , Romania and Serbia.
Reference
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_Republic_of_Macedonia
@@OldWatermill Paionians lived east of Illyrians , south of Dardanians ( Illyrian tribe ) , west of Thracians and north of Macedonians. Olympia was from Molossian tribe ( one of the three Epirian tribes ) . The tradition and culture of the Molossians and Paionians were the same as the other Illyrian tribes. Quintus Curtius Rufus a Roman historian of the first century who wrote the most famous book about Alexander writes that when Alexander escaped from Macedonia with his mother he sheltered at the court of his uncle the king of Illyria . That clears the origin of Alexander’s mother. You live north of the old Macedonia ( look at all the old Balkan maps) . You speak a Slavic language ( just google Wikipedia) .
@@mariokruja1910
Ahhaha
And what wss the lamguage of ancient macedonians ?? Was greek ??
Little words of ancient macedonian language were found and are similar to modern macedonian language.
You sent me a link of what languages are speaking in one country, i am speak about macedonians that live in macedonia and in agean macedonia and pirin macedonia!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Albania
Macedonia is Macedonia,the name is big,everyone wants to take it....that is true.
True love macedonia🇲🇰
Северна македонска митоманија 🤣🤣🤣
@@DAVID-yn1je
Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr.
United States Secretary of State 1944-1945
Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., in a Circular Airgram No. 868.014(Dec. 26, 1944) stated:
“This Government considers talk of Macedonian ‘nation,’ Macedonian ‘Fatherland,’ or Macedonian ‘national consciousness’ to be unjustified demagoguery representing no ethnic nor political reality."
North
@@Βασίλης45 I am from South Macedonia.
This is a difficult subject for somebody that has not studied the Balkans for years.
The easy explanation is that the Macedonians are Bulgarians. SINCE WW2, an artificial alphabet, a variation of the Bulgarian, was created for them and a lot of Serbian vocabulary has been included. The grammar however remained Bulgarian, which is why the language remained Bulgarian.
The Macedonians themselves self-identified as Bulgarians with in the Ottoman empire, when they were given a choice to Join the Bulgarian or the Greek Church. The Serbs were not even in the competition. A Macedonian minority joined the Greek church for economic reasons.
MACEDONIANS 25 CENTURIES speak Macedonian language ! ! !
There is an interesting philosophical question in all this. Namely, do you have to have a certain pedigree to have the corresponding cultural identity?
All cultural identities are ever-evolving. No current culture/identity corresponds directly with any in antiquity.
That is a great question. But what many dont know is, its not actually a question of cultural identity. There is absolutely no doubt in any Macedonian's heart what our identity is and that its different from that of our neighbors and our neighbors know that. Rather, it's a matter of fact that all of our neighbors have exploited our land and people at some point in time. Greece even went as far as to launch a full blown genocide against the Macedonians in Nothern greece (that's why there are not many there left, most fled to other countries, a large portion ended up in Australia many still alive to tell their grabdparents stories ). Recognizing Macedonian's as its own people would mean that greece would have to finally answer for those atrocities and pay reparations (potentially including questions of land). That's what it is really about. This is well documented and available to read online.
Since Alexander was greek, I guess that he belongs to greek people but also to anybody who embraces greek language and culture, regadrless of dna. He was the greatest hellenist of all. So, short answer is not really, and you have to have more than dna connections, like language, culture, shelf-definition etc. to be considered greek.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT IS M A C E D O N I A N.
before 25 centuries ALEXANDER TSAR ON MAKEDONIJA ! ! !
What ever is going on in Macedonia got you there , so someting must have worked . ancient ruins, art , disney world , free entry , safe ,good food and its cheaper than thialand . Enjoy . I wish i could say the same about the other half of the world .
I recently became email friends with a young woman who lives in Macedonia ( or, North Macedonia) and looked the country up on Wikipedia and you are definitely not kidding! They have a very complex history that is still rapidly evolving to this day.
Don't read Wikipedia - that "source of misinformation" as stated by Romanian, Professor Curta. Greek and Bulgarian nationalist control these pages and have no qualms about writing distortions and even outright lies.
Select your sources carefully, though most are written by Greek and Bulgarian ultranationalists, occasionally, you stumble across an honest one. Here's a start (about one of the countries which falsifies Macedonian history).
*“Modern Greece is by no means related either genetically or culturally to the ancient cosmos* and the people who once occupied this land. The modern *Greeks are just an intermixture of Balkan tribes (Albanians/Arvanites, Slavs, Vlachs) which in the process of time mingled with northern Africans, Armenians and other tribes of Anatolia,* not to mention the francs and the venetians who were also dominantly present in this land.” THE SOCIO-CULTURAL ROOTS OF THE Greek ECONOMIC CRISIS Dimitris Epikouris *(a Greek - of the honest variety)*
How did the Former Yugoslav Republic of North Macedonia get its name???
Every body knows that the original ancient Kingdom of Macedonia of Alexander the Great is in northern Greece and is the northern Greek prefecture of Macedonia, so how did the the modern country of Republic of North Macedonia (formerly Vardar Banovina of Yugoslavia) get to be called Macedonia???
Well the former Yugoslav Republic of North Macedonia was in fact formally created in 1944 under Marshall Tito's government. The name "Macedonia" was never applied to that part of the map of Yugoslavia at any date prior to 1944. Tito had in mind a purpose in creating this state, Tito wanted to annex the northern Greek region of Macedonia and acquire the port of Thessaloniki, so Tito clandestinely invented the name "Macedonia" for that region which had never existed before - it was originally the 'Vardar Banovina' region of southern Serbia. Its population is 60% slavs related to Bulgarians/Serbians, 30% Albanians, and 10% Vlachs, Turks, Roma-Gypsies etc
You can preach whatever the hell you want and call Macedonia whatever the hell you want to call it, but that would never change the fact that Macedonians feel Macedonian and nothing but Macedonian in Macedonia speaking Macedonian. End of story for all of you vultures out there.
@@charleybrown5713 I'm not preaching anything. I'm just stating a simple historic fact
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колку има made in Северна македонија нуклеарна подморница толку има и македонци, македонска нација, јазик, историја ... Everything is fake and stolen from Bulgaria and Greece.
Macedonians are bulgars
it's a region that was called that in most of middle ages. whether alexander the great was there or "northern greece" is irrelevant.
they are bulgarian however historically.
Great effort but next time try to go more in depth with the research and try a diffrent source (not Wikipedia)
I never only use Wikipedia for research
@@TalesFromTheRoad doesn't seem like it
Thank you for this information. I found it really educational and makes me wish to visit the area.
North Macedonians are composed of essentially four ethnic groups, the Majority are of Bulgarian stock (54%), Serbs (10%), Albanias (29%) and the rest are Turks and Roma Gypsies. The Bulgarian population refer to themselves as "Macedonians" in a regional sense since the late 19th century, because they live in what was the Ottoman Turkish administrative region of Macedonia. Before the 19th century they still referred to themselves as Bulgarians. There is NO CONNECTION whatsoever with the real original ancient Macedonia of Alexander the Great in northern Greece or the ancient Macedonians wwho were a northern Greek tribe.
IN MAKEDONIJA ---- MACEDONIANS. another country ? .... c'ao.
I live in Macedonia
NORTH MACEDONIA
@@marioglory8528 VIOLETA LIVE IN MAKEDONIJA.
goodbye.
Philip 2nd it’s Greek ????? 😳😱?????
You got wrong information buddy , you should do more research before you give wrong information. If you do more research you will know king Philip ancient city ruins it’s still exist in Bitola the second biggest city in Macedonia, and Alexander Makedonski ( the great ) the son of Philip he was born in Pela , back that time the ancient Macedonia. They don’t have nothing with Greece . And the ancient Macedonians the blod trace still untill today they leave in village Bukovo what it’s very close by the ancient city of king Philip 2nd Heraklea.
But you got right about the corruption
Is called North Macedonia not Macedonia.
Thank you, no one asked.
@V V No
MACEDONIA YOU CAN CALL IT NORTH, WEST, SOUTH, EAST , ITS OLDER THEN THE BIBLE, ITS IN THE BIBLE ! THAT LONG HISTORY PUT A LOT OF SPEARS THRUGH HER HEART AND MANY KNIFES IN HER BACK , BUT ITS STILL HOLDING THERE TODAY , AND THE NAIGHBORS SHOUUD BE PROUD, HAPPY AND HONORED BEING NEXT TO A COUNRY WITH SUCH A HISTORY AND TRADITION !
BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY WONDERFUL PEOPLE !
THANKS FOR THE GREAT VIDEO AND YOUR HONEST OPINION!
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MAKEDONIJA vo BIBLIJA SPOMNATA 33 PATI. pred 20 veka
avtori na BIBLIJA -- ISUSOVI Apostoli. Apostol Pavle ima Poslanie
kade toj zboruva za Lidija Makedonka.
Thank you for letting your followers travel with you... very informative 👏🙏🕊GREAT VIDEO. LOVE 🤍❤ AND SUPPORT FROM HOUSTON, TEXAS. USA
Great video and it's well detailed. How is your weekend going? great i guess
Hello again:)
@@naumonix1571 again?... I don't think so. But anyway. Thank you.🕊🕊🙏
It's frustrating for the Macedonian identifying diaspora trying to decipher the states revisionism and the outside suppression.
You are perfectly correct historically, although Paeonians were reputedly a Thraco/Illyrian people some scholars today believe that the Paeonians may have been a people of Greek stock.
macedonia is macedonia
NORTH MACEDONIA IS NORTH MACEDONIA
@@marioglory8528 MAKEDONIJA IS ALWAYS MAKEDONIJA !!!
Really really high quality job...thank you...
This video is big mistake, you need to make a correction on the whole video and put the truth for MACEDONIA 🇲🇰 that once upon a time was a big Country till 1913 when she was destroyed from a Nazi friends on a so called Bucharest peace meeting Circus.
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We will never leave our Bulgarian brothers on the other side of the border, his"Holyness" northmacedonian PM may talk day and night, macedonia is just southwest Bulgaria and everybody knows that but you. The serbs did you great, thats why you are Alone on this world becouse you want everything everywhere, nonsense brainwashed!
NORTH MACEDONIA
@@marioglory8528.... go in...... Kopaonik.
the place in greece thats called macedonia was it greek teritory before the english and the frech helped them to kick us out and made a peas treaty to take that part of our land hello there rewriting history and thessaloniki as you know it now was called solun so half of the history that comes from greece is from the macedonian land that they have taken but no one seems to talk about that and care same as it is whit california usa and mexico its all chill now right
North Macedonia, get this fake countries name right my friend. I didn’t make the rules.
Republic of Macedonia
@@sebomk6198 say it as you wish, you are recognized as North Macedonia. North Macedonia ( Slavic ) and Macedonia ( Greek ).
@@FLN62 MAKEDONIJA IS MAKEDONIJA.
hello do you know website of real estates from Macedonia ?
NORTH MACEDONIA?
@@marioglory8528 stupid ??
YES.
@@marioglory8528.............
sds glupaci.
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[Professor Toni Deskoski, Professor of Law, Cyril and Methodius University, Republic of North Macedonia]
*_"From 2006 onwards started a complete process of trying to change our identity - to insert ancient DNA, so change our collective memory, memory of a slavic nation, to create us into something that was ancient Macedonian which was Greek, a very crazy attempt to change a slavic nation into an ancient Greek nation, and this caused great confusion within the state"_*
And your point is?
@@charleybrown5713 I think the point is crystal clear in the statement by Prof Toni Deskoski.
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Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr.
United States Secretary of State 1944-1945
Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., in a Circular Airgram No. 868.014(Dec. 26, 1944) stated:
“This Government considers talk of Macedonian ‘nation,’ Macedonian ‘Fatherland,’ or Macedonian ‘national consciousness’ to be unjustified demagoguery representing no ethnic nor political reality."
Greek Professor Dimitris Hristopoulos,2018
“ The Macedonian irredentism is not a real problem the real problem is the Greek genoside over Macedonians in Aegean Macedonia and violent assimilation.”
💯 Correct .
@@jordand1043 Which Macedonians?? Slav Macedonians (Bulgaro-Serbians) or Greek Macedonians??
Your videos are well shot and fun to follow as always, but I have to say this one didn't feel unbiased or neutral. Trying to answer the identity of a people from Wikipedia articles and a multicultural capital city would have your high school English Language Arts teacher cringe and no doubt give you a zero for choosing valid research sources. There's a whole lot of history you left out, particularly the modern era when the Macedonians fought for an independent Macedonia in 1903 and what the people had to endure later as a result of the Balkan Wars, being torn apart as their homeland was forcefully partitioned between Greece, Bulgaria, and Serbia.
You want to know who the Macedonians are today? It's simple really, ask someone that identifies themself as a Macedonian... "We are not Slavs, Greeks, or Bulgarians, we are Macedonians."
So if they are not slavs then why do they speak a slavic language? They should swich to the oldest minority language in the country, the aromanian/vlah language instead.
i agree with some of what you said but uhhh how are we not slavs?
@@dacicus090 Mexicans are not European but they speak a European language. Colombians are not Europeans but speak a European language. etc, etc, etc...........................
Person who speaks a Slavic language: “I’m not a Slav”. What are you trans? 😂
@@mellake7052 Mexicans know they are a Latin people. You’re literally claiming that you’re not Slavs😂
Another travel video in which the number one thng we see on the screen is ... the face of the narrator! The very first scene ... he's walking away frmm the old railroad station. Half-destroyed building. Clock stopped at the moment of the great earthquake. Do we see it? No, we see him.
Macedonia never north and never Greek! Macedonia for the MACEDONIANS!
@briggite ddaria but they live in Macedonia, since several generations, so Macedonians they are. Pretty simple.
@briggite ddaria depends, the more southern region of "north macedonia" has more Hellenic genes mixed in with the civilians than the northern region which is more likely filled with illyrians and Slavic ppl
@briggite ddaria not to mention some greeks or greek tribes liked to breed outside of Greece during Alexander or Phillips era so some ppl, although not most are connected to what used to be ancient macedonia
@briggite ddaria paeonians themselves were also greek tribes so let's not forget that. Another bonus is if you're greek there's an offchance of you being my distant cousin cause of how long time has passed and how much mix breeding and genetics have been passed down, frankly the southern Balkan region is more likely to be related to Alexander's empire than the northern region
@briggite ddaria just like how 1/3 of Americans are related to king John of England or majority of Europeans are related to Charlemagne
Rosseta stone has Egyptian, Greek and Old Macedonian Dorian written on it. Macedonians not part of the Greek city polis states.
pred 25 veka ALEKSANDAR govorel Makedonski jazik Koine.
vo EGIPET ima "spomenik na Rozeta" so Makedonski jazik Koine.
"spomenik Rozeta" e od pred 23 veka.
It’s very misinformed to say that Bulgarian was an umbrella term because it never was. Macedonians in the 19th century until 1944 called themselves Bulgarian. Read a little dude. Every revolutionary and poet called their language and national identity Bulgarian. The modern Macedonian identity was created in Moscow and Belgrade as a tool to weaken Bulgaria’s influence in the region and to move the people closer to Serbs.
calm down Ross
@@TalesFromTheRoad He is right though. The notion that Bulgarian does not mean Bulgarian is old Yugoslav propaganda back from the 1950s dude. You should of done just a quick google search before doing this video. Why spread communist yugoslav propaganda in 2021 ?
@@TalesFromTheRoad I’m not the one spreading misinformation to hundreds of people and entertaining a communist narrative that destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people through assimilation, forced migration and ethnic cleansing. A narrative that even today spreads racial hatred towards people that have the same culture, language, traditions and DNA
@@sleeper7271 he probably asked the locals lol so he doesn’t “offend” anyone
@@sleeper7271 look up Stojan Novakovic and what he said about Macedonia. Then you will realize what plan the Serbs have been working towards for the last 150 years. Your comment towards me to calm down says a lot. You’re a joke dude
If I read only the comments here, I wouldn't want to visit (North) Macedonia. It sounds like the south side of Chicago, with gangs disputing territory.
Minus the shootings. This thing is just nationalism and politics. The every-day people here are far different from the degenerates in this comment section.
I live in Macedonia Skopje and i am a Macedonian
Macedonia looks like a fairy tale .Great!