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Old Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
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Default Re: Macedonians Won’t Give Up Name for NATO

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Originally Posted by agamemnon View Post
Can you please tell us what teachers teach , and history books say about the history of FYROM at your scools?
There were no Alexander the Great claims from FYROM before 1991. When I was at school in the 80's, we were never told that we were descendants from Alexander. This attempt to establish a link to ancient Macedonians has only happened since Greece started objecting to the name.


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Originally Posted by agamemnon View Post
The vast majority of the Greek population had no idea that there was an area in Jugoslavia called Macedonia.
I seriously doubt that. Even back in the Jugoslavian era, I saw plenty of Greek tourists visit my country and nobody complained. I'm sure that most Greek households had television from at least the 1970's so most people would have been at least aware. But again, the Greeks said nothing until the Jugoslavia breakup.
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