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impressive book on the differences between the two ancient
nations - Macedonians and Greeks. "To understand the history of
the ancient Macedonians, their ethnogenesis and their innermost
drives as people, we need to analyze and comprehend, first and
foremost, their deeply rooted material culture. Only by sifting
meticulously through the thick layered strata of their rich
culture can we discover and appreciate who this ancient people
were. The rare glimpses into their intricate and deeply carved
traditions afford us a window of luxury through which the
plumage of their race emerges and becomes recognizable. Coupled
with numerous anecdotes recorded and preserved through time and
epitaphs that are impervious to politics and change, we now have
a sizeable body of truth to know and believe that ancient
Macedonians were, what they said they were—Macedonians" (from
the publisher). "It is an illusion to think that ancient
Macedonians were Greeks" (synopsis).
PREFACE
The aim of this paper is to acquaint students with the basic
differences between ancient Macedonians and the ancient Greeks.
For too many years it was an accepted practice to view the
ancient Macedonians as Greeks. Little attention was paid to the
fact that, ancient biographers and chroniclers left us with no
impression that these two dissimilar people were of the same
ethnicity or nationality. On the contrary, their reporting is
clear and unambiguously explicit and leaves little room for
subsequent second-guessing and interpretation. To them, ancient
Macedonians constituted people, and a nation quite separate, and
in stark contrast, to the Greeks. They militarily subdued the
Greeks and subsequently treated them as conquered people; albeit
more favorably then the rest of the people in the empire, but
conquered subject they were, nevertheless. Roman and Greek
biographers, like Curtius Rufus, Polybius, Plutarch, Arrian,
Diodorus, Justin and Herodotus described the ancient Macedonians
as being a people quite distinct and separate from the ancient
Greeks. Neither from an historical point of view, nor from a
philosophical or military one, were these people ever regarded
as one and the same with the ancient Greeks. Their neighborly
discourse, as destiny will have it, was regularly embroidered
with constant hostility and mutual antipathy (Borza 1990).
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By J.S. Gandeto
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Albanians in the Republic of
Macedonia, According to the 2002 Census |
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Albanians (Shqiptare in Albanian, Албанци/Albanci in Macedonian)
are the largest ethnic minority in the Republic of Macedonia.
The largest Albanian communities live in the regions of Tetovo (Tetova),
Skopje (Shkupi), Gostivar (Gostivari), Debar (Dibra), Kicevo (Kerçova),
Struga and Kumanovo (Kumanova)...
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Albanian
Second Largest City in Macedonia Tetovo Tetovo is located at the foothills of the
Shar Mountain in north-western Macedonia, 468 m above the
sea level, on the edge of the Polog Valley. The city is
separated by the river Pena, which flows from the Shar
mountain.
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The
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