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“… I am Macedonian and proud of it, I know my roots - My Macedonian soul ALWAYS LIVES FREE….”
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Корисник:Hi878/Random and Today's MotD
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Ahh, Our good old friend Demosthenes:
"... not only no Greek, nor related to the Greeks, but not even a barbarian from any place that can be named with honors, but a pestilent knave from Macedonia, whence it was never yet possible to buy a decent slave" - Demosthenes, (Third Philippic, 31). .
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The famous words that this Greek orator from Athens used to describe the Macedonian king Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great, prior to Philip’s conquest of Greece
Genetic Research on the Macedonians, Greeks and other nations
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In 2001 it was researched by a scientific team from Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, H. 12 de Octubre, at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain, that the ancient Macedonians and the ancient Greeks were two separate and distinct nations.
See the research here
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