Just a brief passage from a book from the SFRJesque era

[Vasiliye]

"Two basic elements are determining the character of the Central Balkan area: its central position, which makes it a link between the Graeco-Macedonian south, Illyrian west and the Thracian east, and the great line which, by joining the Danubian with thye souuth of the Balkan peninsula cuts it precisely through its middle area"

Taken and translated from Serbian from the "Introduction" chapter of the book "Srednjobalkanska plemena u predrimsko doba" (Central Balkan Tribes in Pre-Roman Times),page 5., by Fanula Papazoglu (late classicist, born in Monastiri/Bitolj), published in Sarajevo, 1969 by the "Centre for Balkanologic Research" (Centar za Balkanoloska Ispitivanja).

Just a quote............................................. ...........

[pankration]

What is it that you are trying to tell us with this quote?

[Slayer]

I think he is trying to illustrate how Hellenic the southern Balkans is by outlining the Greco-Macedoinian south, being one and the same entity...?

[PhiliptheUniterchaeronea]

No freaking Greco-Macedoinian, we are all Hellenes. If we take that route you have to distinguish between all the Greek tribes.

[Vasiliye]

The expression "Graeco-Macedonian" was wisely promulgated by Papazoglu, in order to establish the Greekness of Macedonia,in the context of outling who the neigbours of the "Central Balkanoids" were.If she just used "Hellenes" she could estrange much of her audience (and she was one of the two dozens Classicists and Paleobalkanists from the former SFRJ whose work was respected outside), taking into consideration that in the 1950's/1960's "Hellenes" more or lest means an ethnos south and east to the Olympus.

By mentioning "Graeco-Macedonians", especially in that order-again, taking into consederation that her narration starts with the Central Balkan area from within towards outside (roughly Serbia and Bosnia in ancient times) she was endorsing the Greek ethnicity of the Macedonians, not excluding their pecularity to be organized within a special type of organization-a Kingdom, which is precisely the entity with which the Central Balkan tribes-Tribals, Dardanians had most of their contact.

[PhiliptheUniterchaeronea]

I didn't mean to get on your case friend. It certaily was not my intent. My apologies for my less than refined response. However, I prefer other names.

[Vasiliye]

It is OK.It is just a technical term given in a specific context.Likewise, "Anglo-American 'gun culture'" could be used to make a distinction to the more all-embracing (although still denoting a group which is European by origin, at least in the core) term "American
'gun culture'", while "English/Anglo-Saxon 'gun culture' would be too embracing and not appropriate, since there is nothing truly comparable to this phenomenon in New Zealand or Canada, for example.