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Originally Posted by Kan Yuvigi Asparukh
Many people talk about Slavic or ancient Macedonian blood in Macedonia, but for me the people of Macedonia are completely the same mixture like the Bulgarians.The Slavonic tribes inhabited Bulgaria and Macedonia in the 6th century. The Bulgarian invasion started at the end of 7th century. Two hordes, lead by two brothers Kan Asparukh (my nickname) settled his people in Eastern Bulgaria and Kan Kuber settled in Macedonia (around Bitola). One of the Asparukh's successors, Kan Krum conquered Macedonian lands in 810. So I think that Bulgarians and Macedonians have the same Slovenian-Bulgarian origins.
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That's history, and this is genetics:
Observe the R1a column. The R1a haplogroup is most common in Slavic speaking countries. It is reported in fairly small frequency in Macedonian people.
Ma=Macedonians
Se=Serbs
Bu=Bulgarians
As you can see from the image, Macedonians are genetically closer to the Serbs that to Bulgarians but they can't be considered as part of those nations. That's because of their culture and already formed national identity. Differences between them and neighbouring Slavic peoples are most likely the result of genetic contribution of indigenous peoples that lived in those certain areas.
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Originally Posted by Galaico
Yes, that's what I said in my first post, but that could only be applied to Southern FYROMians, the other 80% of FYROM doesn't have Macedonian blood.
If you really want to see pretty much unmixed Macedonians, that have kept their language, culture and tradition, go to Northern Greece.
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There is no such thing as
Macedonian blood.
Regarding the culture, you're right. Macedonian culture is different from Greek one. It's unquestionable that today's Macedonian culture is Slavic, and people that are members of the Slavic culture and speak Slavic language are regarded as Slavs.