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    German museum man says Alexander the Great was mainly Greek

    German museum man says Alexander the Great was mainly Greek

    Europe News

    Oct 2, 2009, 12:56 GMT

    Mannheim, Germany - The head of a German museum which is set to show an exhibition about Alexander the Great weighed into a dispute between Skopje and Athens on Friday, saying the ancient leader had been predominantly Greek.

    The modern state of Macedonia, where the main language is a Slavic one, claims the heritage of ancient Macedonia.

    'Alexander was predominantly Greek and definitely not an ancestor of contemporary Slavic Macedonians,' said Alfried Wieczorek, head of the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in the southern German city of Mannheim.

    The exhibition devoted to the ancient general and ruler, who lived from 356 to 323 BC, opens on Saturday and runs till February 21.

    For two decades, Athens has been objecting to its northern neighbour calling itself Macedonia. Skopje has named its airport after Alexander and insists on having Alexander's 'star of Vergina' symbol on its coat of arms.

    In an interview with the German Press Agency dpa, Wieczorek said, 'The latest research shows very clearly yet again that the Macedonians in the days of Alexander were closely related to the contemporary Greeks.'

    He added, 'In antiquity, Greeks and Macedonians could interact because they spoke the same language.'

    Athens has been insisting that the name Macedonia can only been applied to a province in its own north.

    The country of Macedonia became independent in 1991 when Yugoslavia split up. The name issue has held up efforts to bring the new country into NATO and into formal assocation with the European Union.

    The museum director referred to findings that its population of 2 million, one quarter of them Albanian speakers and three quarters Slavic speakers, are descended from people who immigrated in the 6th century of the modern era, long after Alexander's death.

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    Re: German museum man says Alexander the Great was mainly Greek

    Originally posted by Alexandros View Post
    German museum man says Alexander the Great was mainly Greek

    Europe News

    Oct 2, 2009, 12:56 GMT

    Mannheim, Germany - The head of a German museum which is set to show an exhibition about Alexander the Great weighed into a dispute between Skopje and Athens on Friday, saying the ancient leader had been predominantly Greek.
    "Weighed into a dispute" What dispute? Who is seriously saying that he was not Greek? A dispute implies there is something that is disputed.
    Plenipotentiary meow!

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      Re: German museum man says Alexander the Great was mainly Greek

      Originally posted by bell-the-cat View Post
      "Weighed into a dispute" What dispute? Who is seriously saying that he was not Greek? A dispute implies there is something that is disputed.
      i wondered that too

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        Re: German museum man says Alexander the Great was mainly Greek

        Originally posted by bell-the-cat View Post
        "Weighed into a dispute" What dispute? Who is seriously saying that he was not Greek? A dispute implies there is something that is disputed.


        The article is referring to the country FYROM(Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia) or "Macedonia" as they want their country to be called.FYROM thinks that Alex the Great was not a Greek Macedon but only a "Macedon".FYROM thinks that they are descendants to Alex the Great which is of course wrong.They are a slavic-Bulgarian people - but according to themselves they say that they have no relation to the Bulgarians which is also wrong because it`s pretty much the same people.The slavs in FYROM and the Bulgarians speaks the same language, share the same culture and have the same national hero Goce Delcev.The thing is that FYROM says that Goce Delcev is a "Macedonian" while Bulgaria say he`s a Bulgarian.

        It has even gone so far that FYROM at one point started to print the monument White Tower in Thessaloniki, Greece on their bills but after protests from Greece they withdrew their bills.In FYROM they teach their pupils about a "Great Macedonia" wich even covers the Greek part of Macedonia.It`s a way to brainwash their own people.FYROM has renamed their airport, streets to "Alexander the Great".

        FYROM thinks they can steal a part of Greece`s heritage and history but the more desperate they become, the more it will backfire on them.

        I wish FYROM good luck to join the EU and NATO where Greece could veto them - which they already did in NATO.
        Last edited by Alexandros; 10-02-2009, 08:03 AM.

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          Re: German museum man says Alexander the Great was mainly Greek

          He was actually african-american. Realize the importance of culture and tradition.... these fascist types will take every opportunity they get to manipulate and erase history.
          "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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            Re: German museum man says Alexander the Great was mainly Greek

            Originally posted by KanadaHye View Post
            He was actually african-american. Realize the importance of culture and tradition.... these fascist types will take every opportunity they get to manipulate and erase history.
            Maybe a J'ew.

            BTW its Macedonia, not FYROM.

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              Re: German museum man says Alexander the Great was mainly Greek

              I tend to call it Fyrom, they are not Hellenic, they have no reason to call themselves Macedonia, its falsifying history

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                Re: German museum man says Alexander the Great was mainly Greek

                FYROM also has the word "Macedonia". Also is not it "Upper Macedonia" so what is wrong with it.

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                  Re: German museum man says Alexander the Great was mainly Greek

                  The fact that they are slavic people and have no relations with greeks,they live in part of ancient macedonia part of greece.
                  Dose that give them the right to call themselfs Macedonians since the real descendents exist and live in the other part of macedonia?

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                    Re: German museum man says Alexander the Great was mainly Greek

                    Originally posted by Alexandros View Post


                    The article is referring to the country FYROM(Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia) or "Macedonia" as they want their country to be called.FYROM thinks that Alex the Great was not a Greek Macedon but only a "Macedon".FYROM thinks that they are descendants to Alex the Great which is of course wrong.They are a slavic-Bulgarian people - but according to themselves they say that they have no relation to the Bulgarians which is also wrong because it`s pretty much the same people.The slavs in FYROM and the Bulgarians speaks the same language, share the same culture and have the same national hero Goce Delcev.The thing is that FYROM says that Goce Delcev is a "Macedonian" while Bulgaria say he`s a Bulgarian.

                    It has even gone so far that FYROM at one point started to print the monument White Tower in Thessaloniki, Greece on their bills but after protests from Greece they withdrew their bills.In FYROM they teach their pupils about a "Great Macedonia" wich even covers the Greek part of Macedonia.It`s a way to brainwash their own people.FYROM has renamed their airport, streets to "Alexander the Great".

                    FYROM thinks they can steal a part of Greece`s heritage and history but the more desperate they become, the more it will backfire on them.
                    All that silliness is just a reaction to the Greek silliness. They can call their "country" by whatever name they want. Nations have gone to war over many things, but Greece wants to make a first by going to war just over what a another country calls itself. Some neighbours deserve each other!
                    Plenipotentiary meow!

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