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Postcard with a Greek Macedonian revolutionary (Macedonomachos) during the Macedonian Struggle. Ion Dragoumis, whose family descended from Vogatsiko, Kastoria. On the eve of the 20th century, Greek Macedonians were a minority population in a number of areas inside the multiethnic region of Macedonia, more so away from the
The ethnic Macedonians in Greece have faced difficulties from the Greek government in their ability to self-declare as members of a "Macedonian minority" and to refer to their native language as "Macedonian". [261] Since the late 1980s there has been an ethnic Macedonian revival in Northern Greece, mostly centering on the region of Florina. [264]
With Philip's conquest of Greece, Greeks and Macedonians enjoyed privileges at the royal court, and there was no social distinction among his court hetairoi, although Philip's armies were only ever led by Macedonians. The process of Greek and Macedonian syncretism culminated during the reign of Alexander the Great, and he allowed other Greeks ...
There is a historical controversy surrounding a Greek minority within North Macedonia, that stems from the late 19th and early 20th century Ottoman era statistical treatment of Aromanian and Slavic-speaking population groups in the area, which partially used to identify themselves as Greeks as part of the Rum millet. [7]
The region of present-day North Macedonia has been inhabited since Paleolithic times. It occupies most of the ancient kingdom of Paionia and part of the territory of, what was in antiquity, Upper Macedonia (which coincides with some parts of today's southern Republic of North Macedonia), the region which became part of the kingdom of Macedon in the early 4th century BC. [2]
The ethnicity of Cleopatra VII, the last active Hellenistic ruler of the Macedonian-led Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, has caused debate in some circles. [2] [3] There is a general consensus among scholars that she was predominantly of Macedonian Greek ancestry and minorly of Iranian descent (Sogdian and Persian). Others, including some scholars ...
Ethnic Macedonian DSE remembers remained excluded from the terms of this legislation. On August 20, 2003, the Rainbow Party hosted a reception for the "child refugees", ethnic Macedonian children who fled their homes during the Greek Civil War who were permitted to enter Greece for a maximum of 20 days. Now elderly, this was the first time many ...
Macedonian Greek or Greek Macedonian may refer to: Something of, from, or related to Macedonia (Greece), a region in Greece; Macedonians (Greeks), the Greek people of Macedonia; Greeks in North Macedonia, those living as a minority in the neighbouring country; Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia, a Macedonian language-speaking minority in ...