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Originally Posted by Bardyllis
But the genetic evidence suggests that Macedonians are similar to Slavs and different from Greeks.
How is that possible then?
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I agree. Macedonian slavs are closer to Slavs then to Greeks. I view the claims made by Slavo-Macedonians that they're connected to alexander's Macedonia to be ludicrous claims. What I said was that there was a historic Slav population in what is now Greek Macedonia (the actual Macedonia) and that there is a Greek dialect known as Slavophone Greek heavily influcenced by Slavic. One of the first mention of Serbs in the Balkans is in the ealry 7th century when under Empreror Heraclius settled them around Thessaloniki (city in northern Greece, in Greek Macedonia, called Solun by Slavs). Not only that but given that Tsar Dušans empire stretched to Athens and that Tsar Tsimeon (Bulgarian emperor) also had an empire of similar size, it is clear the Slavs arrive in northern Greece. Not only that but at times when Greeks were uprising against the Ottomans the Turks moved in Slavs into what is Macedonia in Greece. The second Balkan war started because of competing claims on Macedonia by Greece and Bulgaria.