Talk:Greeceball/@comment-31512320-20180703111318/@comment-31512320-20180909200129

>So define me what an "ancient Macedonian" is. Because I think Alexander the Great could be considered an Ancient Macedonian, no?

Ancient Macedonians are their own group of people. It's known that they accepted Hellenic culture, but their culture didn't have only Greek elements, but Illyrian and Thracian elements as well.

>I did mention Polefsky......

Well, who is that? I only know Pulevski.

>So by proxy you are claiming the kingdom of Macedon was Slav too even though I you have said Alexander the Great was not Slav. Plus you do realise that the Athenians called anyone a barbarian because they weren't Athenian. THEY CALLED SPARTANS BARBARIANS but that doesnt mean they are not Greek. Slavs immigrated in that area during the reigns of the Bulgarian and Serbian Empires. When the Ottomans came they fucked everything up by creating a big ass province (which covers modern day Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Albania) and called it Macedonia. That is where all this population scuffle originated from. BTW Metaxas not only expelled the Slavs just because they were Slavic, they were also partisans (and would later fight for Communism during the Greek Civil War). Whilst tragic the Greeks still had a reason

Where did I say that Macedon Kingdom is Slav? I've never said that. Don't distort my words. If I said that they were not Greeks, I didn't mean that they were Slavs. Also they were not called barbarians only by Athenians, but by all other Greeks as well. Slavs immigrated the area in 6th century, which was way before Serbs and Bulgarians made their own countries. Ottomans never made a thing such as Macedonian province (vilayet/eyalet). Macedonia was divided into three vilayets during Ottoman rule: Salonica, Manastir and Kosovo Vilayets. Also the last statement does not justify the expelling of Slavs. They were not all partisans, less than 2000 of them were actually, and of course they would support communism in Greek Revolution since Yugoslavia was under Tito at that time and Yugoslavia and Bulgaria supported Greek Communists as well.

>Oh buddy old pal you should see the Macedonian Nationalists I talk to. One asshole thought the Macedonian Army could "march on Athens and enslave these "animals"" because the Greek fires had ravaged the lands killing 91 people.

I know a lot of Macedonians, a lot of them are also nationalists, but I've never met a Macedonian that claimed this. But people like this exist among every nationality, even between our ethnicities, Bosniaks and Greeks, that think they can actualize irredentism, although it's impossible since some countries that own lands of their 'wet dream' are stronger than themselves.