[Goksiodiffeli]

Greeks.

[Kiliunjubl]

Are those FYROMians and Greeks still going at it?

[HwoRas1]

Well, how can you still be a Greek after 400 years under foreign occupation, nobody knows

[soprofaxel]

Kuci

My view is that Fyr Macedonia and Greece could have easily had good relations if it wasn't for such abnormal claims about ancient Macedonia

[Klavalala]

The Greeks are being way overly touchy on this issue. Lots of cities not within Greece's borders nowadays have cities named after Alexander the Great (including Alexandria, Virginia, across the river from where I live).

If that's acceptable, then why the hell is naming an airport after him not acceptable?

[duceswild]

Good question DanS, but there is a simple answer to it:

It is one thing to name something from a historical figure (some buildings, institutions etc in Greece are named after western europeans for example) and a different one to name it after a specific historical figure which is related to the idea your country is overall trying to portray as a relation with the ancient country that figure was a leader of.
It would not be the same if Poland, Germany etc named an airport as X figure of the hellenistic age, since Poland or Germany do not claim descendance from ancient Macedonia

[rengerts]

Originally posted by LordShiva
And Secunderabad, India. (Sikander = Alexander) so that's where his username is from.

[Kimaamighed]

Originally posted by varwnos
Good question DanS, but there is a simple answer to it:

It is one thing to name something from a historical figure (some buildings, institutions etc in Greece are named after western europeans for example) and a different one to name it after a specific historical figure which is related to the idea your country is overall trying to portray as a relation with the ancient country that figure was a leader of.
It would not be the same if Poland, Germany etc named an airport as X figure of the hellenistic age, since Poland or Germany do not claim descendance from ancient Macedonia The answer is simple for you because you are using circular logic.

[letittbe]

Athens Georgia, OTOH, IS named after Athens Greece.

[Pinkman]

What does it do with the millions of Serbo-Croatian speaking slavs?

[@Aerodyno@]

Bloody FOPOGs...I think the EU should allow them entry just for giving the bird to the Greeks

[JessiPollo]

Originally posted by Sprayber
Didn't the original Greeks consider the Macedonians barbarians no

[allaboutauto.us]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
nope, the City of Alexandria, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, is named after the Alexanders, a family that once owned land in the area. It is NOT named after any city in Egypt or elswhere, or after any conquerors, Greek, Macedonia, or otherwise.

[Illirmpipse]

What do slavs have to do with Alexander the great?

I am totally with greece on this

fyrom should stop distorting history, they are as macedonian as I am sumerian

[Guaranano]

C'mon MarkG, let's hear what you really think.

[bjacogaerllyo]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


Semi-barbarians. Unlike the Greek, the Macedonians didn't mix their wine with water. The Greeks had enough hair on their chests already apparently.

[vNZsk39B]

This is really pathetic.

[Nupbeaupeteew]

If Greece was a man, he would have a really small penis.



I don't remember who it was, but years ago there was a greecian here at the OT that claimed that his people was (sort of) prepositioned to democracy due to their ancient history. Democracy is in their genes or something. Obviously so as they had a junta until the mid 1970s.

[StanWatts]

You know, that was kind of the point.

Now excuse me, I'm going outside to conduct blót with a pig.

[HilaryNidierer]

Odd personal fact of the day

When I was a kid in Brooklyn, I had a friend named Nick Venizelos. He once said that his grandfather (or great grandfather?) had been Prime Minister of Greece. I wasnt sure he was telling the truth, and if he was, figured it was some small time pol. It was only years later when I read more history I realized who Venizelos was.