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Originally Posted by Zrinski
I think claiming that Macedonians are Bulgarian tribe is going a bit too far in speculations. Bulgarians were nomadic people who came from the North and absorbed into Slavic populations that lived in Balkans giving them their name. Of course the complicated ethnological process involved high degree of Vlachs and other Thraco-Dacion remenants.
So all this brings us to the conclusion that Macedonians can't be Bulgarian tribe....especially since they don't see themselves as Bulgarians and that is what is important. Also Greece is not the only one who has the right to claim the rich heritage left by Macedonians. These people were not Greeks, were not seen as Greeks by the Greeks, didn't consider themselves Greeks, etc...
I think best would be to abandon chauvinistic viewpoints and to look at this issue more systematically and in more rational manner. After all such chauvinistic disputes never brought anything good and they never will. All Europeans need to learn to work toghether in order to ensure their own survivial.
Also I think Awar said it all anyway...
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Nations don't have to follow linguistic boundaries, because they are as much cultural as linguistic. So take Scotland for instance. The Lowlands have historically been English-speaking, but Scotland is accepted by English people as being a "country". The United Kingdom is held to consist of 3 or 4 countries, depending on whether you count Wales as a country (it was part of the Kingdom of England before the Union). Macedonians are white, and white nationalists should have no axe to grind against any white country that wants to maintain its independence. The only thing wrong with Macedonia is the % of Muslims associated with the Turkish and Albanian minorities, but Macedonia is a powerless small country in a region with a US military presence eg in Kosovo. Macedonia is not in a position to start a civil war between Slavs and Albanians and is trying to muddle through somehow. It has my sympathies anyway.