""...I'm from Macedonia and I really support Obama"

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"Macedonia is derived from 2 ancient Greek words. "Mekos" and "Adonis" or "Makednos" meaning "the tall one" reffering to the stature of the peoples of this ancient Greek tribe.

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia's territory was named “Macedonia” during the Ottoman Empire in the19th century identifying a GEOGRAPHICAL region NOT the ancient KINGDOM OF MACEDON. FYROM occupies 1/10 of the ancient Kingdom of Macedon, while authentic Macedonia (now a Greek province) in Greece occupies 9/10 of the ancient Kingdom of Macedon.

FYROM, a very new state in the Balkans with citizens mainly of Slavic and Albanian origin decided to monopolize the Greek terms Macedonia which was given to them by General Tito in 1944, despite the fact that those terms have been in use for 2800 years describing the ancient Macedonian Kingdom, part of the Greek World and the actual Macedonians, a Greek people (Dorians).

The name "macedonia" was given to the Southern Yugoslavian providence by General Tito aiming to create conflict in the region and to obtain Greek and Bulgarian territories. Before the 2nd World War FYROM was called Vardarska.

Extremely interesting is the U.S. State Dep. Foreign Relations Vol. VII, Circular Airgram [868.014], which was sent by then Secretary of State E. Stettinius, December 26th 1944, to all consular officials, informing them of the act to create a separate "Macedonia," as a "cloak for aggression against Greece." "......................................This Government considers talk of "Macedonian Nation", "Macedonian Fatherland", or "Macedonian National Consciousness" to be unjustified demagoguery representing no ethnic or political reality, and sees in its present revival a possible cloak for aggressive intentions against Greece".

So, good on ya Oboma! You obviously know and respect history!
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"Hmmm, actually no that is incorrect.

Demosthenes, an Athenian orator and politician in various speeches of his and most notably in Olynthiakos G' and later, when it was very clear to him that the power of Athens was fading away and Macedonia (anothet Greek state) was the new power in the Hellenic world, accused Philippos II of many things including that of being barbarian. This is not surprising for Demosthenes who spent his whole life advocating the superiority of Athens over the other Hellenic states, even if that required that some Greek city-states were to be destroyed or to suffer for Athens to remain the leader of Greece.

Petar, you should visit Pella in Greece which is the ancient capital of The Kingdom of Macedonia. You might actually learn somethng. Take along a Greek dictionary so that you can understand what is written on the ancient Macedonian artefacts.

This entire thread is a bit of a red herring. Not really much to do with Obama to be honest.
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"You keep saying let's talk about Obama so talk about it. What do you think of Obama??? "

"Hmmm, actually no that is incorrect.

Demosthenes, an Athenian orator and politician in various speeches of his and most notably in Olynthiakos G' and later, when it was very clear to him that the power of Athens was fading away and Macedonia (anothet Greek state) was the new power in the Hellenic world, accused Philippos II of many things including that of being barbarian. This is not surprising for Demosthenes who spent his whole life advocating the superiority of Athens over the other Hellenic states, even if that required that some Greek city-states were to be destroyed or to suffer for Athens to remain the leader of Greece.

Petar, you should visit Pella in Greece which is the ancient capital of The Kingdom of Macedonia. You might actually learn somethng. Take along a Greek dictionary so that you can understand what is written on the ancient Macedonian artefacts.

This entire thread is a bit of a red herring. Not really much to do with Obama to be honest.
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