[Endovelicus]

In my opinion, Macedonia is as much Greek as Sparta. The catastrophe of 1453 (The Fall of Constatinople) is something that we, as Europeans, should be ashamed of. Were it not for it, this question would not exist.

I take on the occasion to add some facts and lores about the sad event. The Sultan Mehmed II triumphed only for two reasons:
1. The Europeans built him a super-cannon.
2. The Byzantine (Greeks) generals were involved in discussing the sex of the angels.

This latter gave origin to the know expression 'to discuss the sex of the angels', well known today, and that means "to discuss about useless and futile things, while the importance of the world flows past you"