Alexander unified all the seven primordial Greek tribes:
Macedonians, Ionians, Dorians, Acheans, Aeolians, Magnetians, and Graecians.
Before him we were a divided nation.
After him one people.
__________________ "We are Macedonians but we are Slav Macedonians. That's who we are! We have no connection to Alexander the Greek and his Macedonia." From Kiro Gligorov President of FYROM at Toronto Star newspaper, March 15, 1992 "We are Slavs who came to this area in the sixth century ... we are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians." From Kiro Gligorov President of FYROM at the Foreign Information Service Daily Report, Eastern Europe, February 26, 1992, p. 35 |