In a following issue of LIFE magazine a Macedonian sends a letter to the editor in which he protests against the indiscriminate use of the phrase “born killers” as applied to the Macedonians.

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According to the almanac there are Macedonians living in Greece, they constitute 1.8% of the population. Greece also borders to Macedonia.

Source: Taranaki Herald, Friday January 27, 1905, page 6.

Source: “Legislative documents, Volume 20, Issue 50, Part 4″ by New York (State). Legislature, Publisher J.B. Lyon Co., 1921, page 3771.

Macedonians are noted in this document according to their nationality.

Greek original:

Παρασκευή 8 Ιουλίου 1905. «Προ μηνών κατηρτίσθη εις Μοναστήριον υπό της Μακεδονικής Οργανώσεως επιτροπή, ήτις ανέλαβε το έργον να συντάξη γραμματικήν Μακεδονικήν. Η επιτροπή αποτελείται εξ επτά καθηγητών της γλωσσολογίας. Ως βάσις της γραμματικής ταύτης θα ληφθεί η διάλεκτος, η εις το βιλαέτιον Μοναστηρίου ομιλουμένη. Η διάλεκτος αύτη εκηρύχθη ήδη υπό της επιτροπής ως η Μακεδονική γλώσσα. Οι διδάσκαλοι των Σλαυϊκών σχολείων εις την Μακεδονίαν εντέλλονται όπως διδάσκουν την γλώσσαν ταύτην αντί της σερβικής ή της βουλγαρικής και διά μέσου αυτής να τίθεται η βάσις προς την δημιουργίαν ανεξαρτήτου Μακεδονίας. Προσεχώς δε θα τυπωθούν διδακτικά και διάφορα άλλα βιβλία εις την Μακεδονικήν ταύτην γλώσσαν, ευθύς δε κατόπιν σκέπτεται η Οργάνωσις ν’ απαγορεύση την χρήσιν της σερβικής και βουλγαρικής γλώσσης» [σκριπ, 8/7/1905, σ. 1.]

Translation into English provided by an anonymous reader:

Friday 8 July 1905. << A few months ago it was announced in Monastiri* by the Macedonian Organization Committee, that it undertook a project to publish a Macedonian Grammar. The committee consists of seven professors of linguistics. As base for this grammar will be the dialect spoken in the Vilayet of Monastiri*. This dialect has already been proclaimed by the committee as the Macedonian language. The teachers of the Slavic schools in Macedonia are ordered to teach this language instead of the Serbian or Bulgarian and through this to put in place a base for the creation of an independent Macedonia. In the future textbooks and other books will be printed in this Macedonian language, soon after it is thought by the Organization to prohibit the use of the Serbian and Bulgarian languages >>[SKRIP, 8/7/1905, p. 1.]
*Monastiri = Bitola.

Greeks knew about the Macedonian language in 1905 but today in 2009 they pretend that the Macedonian language does not exist.

The Macedonian Truth Organization would like to thank the person that provided us with a correct translation of the above article.

Isocrates was an Attic orator who lived during the 4th century BC, and was a contemporary of Phillip II of Macedon and Demosthenes, another Attic orator. Demosthenes was vehemently opposed to Phillip and Macedonia, as he saw the true intention of the Macedonians and their desire to subjugate the Hellenic city-states and their people. Isocrates, on the other hand, unwittingly thought it more beneficial to the Hellenes if Phillip could be persuaded to treat them as friends. As a result of Macedonian royalty claiming descent from a god (Heracles, no less), a fiction that originates from Herodotus’ story about Alexander ‘Philhellene’ and the Olympic games, Isocrates appealed to the supposed ‘Hellenic’ descent of Phillip, stroking the Macedonian’s ego, who was being likened to a god by this opportunistic old fool.

Here is an example of Isocrates’ false hopes, naivety and flattery:

In the same paragraph, Isocrates goes on to say that persuasion will be helpful in dealing with the Hellenes, clearly hoping to appeal to Phillip’s ‘better’ side, in the hope that the Hellenes will be treated mercifully. Despite the fact that Philip had no genuine interest in ‘Panhellenism’, Isocrates foolishly believed that, were he to draw some apparent ‘ancestral’ links wrapped up in a flattering mythology between the founder of his race (Heracles) and the people (Hellenes) he was preparing to attack, Phillip would listen to reason. The following text being a perfect example:

Unfortunately, Isocrates doesn’t seem to realise that he is giving Phillip all the more confidence to subjugate the Hellenes, and an idea of what is required to meet that objective.

Phillip and his son Alexander would often pull out the ‘revenge at Persia’ card when it suited them, as they did with their mythological ‘ancestry’, but few Hellenes of their day were naive enough to believe the Macedonian kings.

Phillip, Alexander and subsequent Macedonian kings did the exact opposite of what Isocrates was begging for, as is clearly evidenced throughout ancient history. And the flattery continued:

How utterly sweet, all Hellas will be on tiptoe for what Isocrates fancifully describes as a lover of Hellas and one of the blood of Hellas. As it turned out, the Hellenes were on tiptoe while fleeing from imminent death at the hands of the Macedonian soldiers of Phillip, as was the case during the historic Macedonian victory over the Hellenes at Chaeronea and the subsequent subjugation of the Hellenic city-states.

http://www.macedoniantruth.org/forum…read.php?t=681

Of course Phillip was blessed with untrammelled freedom, he was the king of Macedonia, the most powerful state in Europe at the time. And the underlined text highlights Isocrates’ motive for turning to Phillip - His own countrymen did not want to listen to him or his advice, which proved to be entirely inaccurate in any case. Demosthenes was not alone, and his words are reflective of the thoughts of the overwhelming mass of Hellenes during the reign of the Macedonians. Few actually bought the story that the Macedonian kings were ‘Hellenes’, as Demosthenes indicated in his verbal attack against Phillip:

http://www.macedoniantruth.org/forum…ead.php?t=1073

Isocrates speaks against the majority Hellenes represented by Demosthenes, calling their very real concerns about Phillip’s true (and ultimate) intentions mere rubbish, as indicated in the following text:

Phillip was plotting against the Hellenes and he did succeed in subjugating them.

Isocrates’ views of Macedonia and the Macedonian people are markedly different from that of the Macedonian kings.

A clear distinction is made between the (ablest) men in Macedonia on the one hand, and the Hellenes living in Phillip’s country (as colonists) on the other.

The above is clearly in reference to Phillip and his barbarians (Macedonians) making expeditions against the Hellenes.

Macedonia was entirely aloof from Hellenic territory. That cannot be disputed. Below is another clear distinction between Macedonians and Hellenes.

In addition to Herodotus’ story, Isocrates had also allowed for the ‘Hellenic’ appellation to be attached to the Macedonian kings through other means, which could basically apply to any person of the time that had acquired an Attic education and/or had an appreciation for certain cultural characteristics of the Hellenes. Indeed, the Hellenes were no longer even a race, as stated in his Panegyricus:

The basis for Phillip’s false ‘Hellenic’ origins (as proposed by Isocrates) are exposed in several ways, and do not go unnoticed by later scholars that have studied his works. Those that have assessed Isocrates’ works agree that it is little more than flattery and false hope. Peter Green states the following:

Pierre Jouguet states the following:

Ulrich Wilcken wrote:

In conclusion, it is critical to cite the words of Pausanias:

Everything that Isocrates thought Phillip was turned out to be false, and everything he dreaded came true. He died as a result of Phillip going against his wishes and destroying the liberty of the Hellenes. Pausanias confirms it several times:

It is abundantly clear, the Macedonians were never Hellenes.

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Source: “Within the pale, the story of anti-Semitic persecutions in Russia” By Michael Davitt, 1903, pages 91, 124, 199.

Macedonians are clearly noted as a separate ethnicity from the other ethnic identities present in Bessarabia at the time.

Title page.

Page i.

Page 19.

Source: Vol. I. Report of the Conference, Geneva, 24 August - 14 September 1982, United Nations Publication E.83.I.7 (1983), E/CONF.74/3.

Greece never objected to the United Nations when Macedonian was used as a reference for both the language and the alphabet in the Republic. Why do they do this today but never did in 1982?

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Source: Vol. I. Report of the Conference, Athens, 17 August - 7 September 1977, United Nations Publication E.79.I.7 (1979), E/CONF.69/4.

If this is not proof enough then what is?
This “name-game” that Greece is playing with the Republic of Macedonia is nothing more then a Greek LIE!
One must ask oneself, what has happened since 1977?
Why did not Greece object to the use of the term MACEDONIAN and complain to the United Nations?
This conference was even held in the Greek capital of Athens, NO VETO, no nothing.
Both the language and the Cyrillic alphabet are referred to as MACEDONIAN!
Greece why was it a proper name back then but it is not today?

Written in Greek:

Στο υπ’ αριθ. 1023 συμβολαιογραφικό έγγραφο που συντάχθηκε την 18η Σεπτεμβρίου 1916 στο χωριό της Εδεσσας Βλάδοβο (μετονομάσθηκε το 1926 σε Αγρας) βεβαιώνεται επίσημα από τον Ελληνα συμβολαιογράφο Λουκά Βασιλείου, ότι τόσο ο γηγενής πωλητής όσο και ο αγοραστής δεν γνωρίζουν την Ελληνική αλλά την Μακεδονική διάλεκτο

Translated into English:

In No. 1023 notarial document drawn up on 18 September 1916 in the village of Vladovo(renamed in 1926 to Agras*) in the Edessa region, officially certified by the Greek notary Louka Vasileiou, that both natives, seller and the buyer do not know Greek but only the Macedonian dialect.

*Translator’s note.

Here is another Greek official document supporting the Macedonian language from 1916, please do also notice that the original name of the village is used, Vladovo and not the artificial Agras.