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“SELECTED PAPERS FOR MACEDONIA” - PART I - BY SLAVE KATIN

“SELECTED PAPERS FOR MACEDONIA” 

PART I

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            INTRODUCTION BY SLAVÉ KATIN


Throughout history, numerous authors have served many lies and caused much controversy regarding the real arguments, facts, and documents about Macedonia. These authors have inflicted immense pain to the Macedonian people. Despite these lies and fabrications, in this book we give the historical facts which are known and give a true picture of the past and present of this country and people. 

According to the records, every citizen of ethnic Macedonia knows that he or she is a direct descendant of the Macedonian people that has existed since the Macedonia, from the time of Philip the Second of Macedonia and his son Alexander the third the Great (of Macedon), up today.

It is also known that the two hundred years of wandering brought the Macedonian to USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South America, European countries, (European Union) Russia, Turkey, South Africa and other countries. But if one believed the stories, they always managed to preserve blood relations with scattered communities. Their uniqueness always remained preserved.

Nevertheless, this time we will stress the direct reason for the publication of “Macedonia”, this reason being the opening up once again of the “Macedonian issue” as a conspiring concept of history, which has not left the daily political world scene for 2,500 years already, thus disturbing the international relations in this very sensitive part of Europe - the Balkans.

Research in this field, as well as the texts concerning “The Aegean Macedonia” and the traveling stories of the author of this book Slave Katin of all parts of Macedonia, aim at contributing to the realization of the historical truth regarding the autochthonous fact of the Macedonian people, their national identity and continuity, as that of Macedonia to the world civilization, but also regarding the Macedonians and their confronting the historical abuse of the Macedonian issue. 

The book “Macedonia” is especially devoted to Macedonia and the Macedonians. It is devoted to the question of whether the separate political entities have the exclusive right to monopoly over the historical heritage, i.e. of whether the young generations of today, born and raised in the two confronted parts of Macedonia, were raised and educated believing that the Macedonians are not sufficiently informed of the historical fact that they are parts of one people and of one land called Macedonia.

The destiny of the Macedonian world has been observed under the rule of Rome and Byzantium during different periods with the role of the Macedonian dynasty and Alexander’s “koine” language. The migration of the Slavs and the establishment of Samuil’s empire, the Slavic language and literacy, and the cultural contribution of the Macedonian Slavs to the world heritage is also very interesting, as is the Ottoman occupation of Macedonia, to its period of the renaissance of Macedonia and afterwards.

How can the modern Greeks be convinced, whose predecessors came to the Balkans in the 11th century B.C. without this name, but in fact came as Doric (Herodotus, I, 56), and were not given this name even 800 years later in Homer’s “Illiad” in the 7th century B.C., but came as Achaians, Aegeans or Danaians, and later as Hellenians, Grekis or Romeians (Mpampiniotis, 1998, 596)? How is one to understand why the name of Macedonia is not immediately connected with what some modern historians wrongly referred to as “Hellenism”? The Hellenians for the first time in their centuries-old history administratively conquered the southern part of Macedonia as late as after the First Balkan War in 1912, i.e. 1913 (Bucharest Agreement, 13 August 1913).

Furthermore, how can the modern-day Macedonians, who also did not “colonize” the Balkans with their own name in the 6th century B.C., accept that in their autonomous process of development the geographical term Macedonia was gradually accepted as a sign of national belonging and creation of a Macedonian national awareness? What about the natives of Macedonia, and the descendants of the biggest world empire of Alexander of Macedon, etc.?.

It is of importance to stress that in order to see the problem better and the inheritor of the traditional Macedonian culture and heritage in general, a number of researches and analyses cover first the period of the most ancient history of the Southern Balkans. They cover the huge role of the natives and the Paleo-Balkan, i.e. “Aegean culture” in this region, the movement of the Hellenians – Achaians with the development of the Michanos state and the migration of the Doric. This is followed by the history of Ancient Macedonia, the Macedonian occupation of Hellas and the creation of a Macedonian world empire and its contribution to the world civilization, the role of the Paleo-Balkan language in the formation of the Ancient Greek language, the Macedonian or Alexander’s “koine”, which is presently the basis of the official language in Greece, etc.      


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Otherwise, the primary sources for studying the ancient history of Macedonia are mostly of Greek, followed by Roman origin, even though recently many historians have shown increasing interest in this matter. Thanks to the advantages that the Hellenic civilization inherited from previous cultures the use of the letters and the bringing of Macedonia to the head of the European cultural world, numerous moments of prehistory have been shed light upon not only through works and remains of the material culture, but also through written information, which are mostly found in Greek literature. 

Macedonians were born and have lived since ancient times in these areas that were in the past the center of the civilized world. Cultures sprang here, and great people were born here who were not only significant to the history of European culture but also for mankind. They aroused awareness of the new generations. It is often said that what took place in Macedonia cannot be compared to anything anywhere else in the world, or at any other time.

Therefore it can be said that the book "Macedoia" is а part of the chronicle of the terms and conditions of the Macedonian people to the historical scene. It is a work for the Macedonians, who have an independent and sovereign state today, and who have confirmed successfully their identity to the world.

How can the modern Greeks be convinced, whose predecessors came to the Balkans in the 11th century B.C. without this name, but in fact came as Doric (Herodotus, I, 56), and were not given this name even 800 years later in Homer’s “Illiad” in the 7th century B.C., but came as Achaians, Aogeans or Danaians, and later as Hellenians, Grekis or Romeians (Mpampiniotis, 1998, 596)? How is one to understand why the name of Macedonia is not immediately connected with what some modern historians wrongly referred to as “Hellenism”? The Hellenians for the first time in their centuries-old history administratively conquered the southern part of Macedonia as late as after the First Balkan War in 1912, i.e. 1913 (Bucharest Agreement, 13 August 1913).

Furthermore, how can the modern-day Macedonians, who also did not “colonize” the Balkans with their own name in the 6th century B.C., accept that in their autonomous process of development the geographical term Macedonia was gradually accepted as a sign of national belonging and creation of a Macedonian national aware-ness? What about the natives of Macedonia, and the descendants of the biggest world empire of Alexander of Macedon, etc.?.

It is of importance to stress that in order to see the problem better and the inheritor of the traditional Macedonian culture and heritage in general, a number of researches and analyses cover first the period of the most ancient history of the Southern Balkans. They cover the huge role of the natives and the Paleo-Balkan, i.e. “Aegean culture” in this region, the movement of the Hellenians – Achaians with the development of the Michanos state and the migration of the Doric. This is followed by the history of Ancient Macedonia, the Macedonian occupation of Hellas and the creation of a Macedonian world empire and its contribution to the world civilization, the role of the Paleo-Balkan language in the formation of the Ancient Greek language, the Macedonian or Alexander’s “koine”, which is presently the basis of the official language in Greece, etc.  


To be continued

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