So, just calm down, try to look and discuss things with people without prejudice. Or even better, go read some Plato or Aristotle, and don’t just be proud with the history of Greece, but try to get something from those great people. Greek or Macedonian or Slav or whatever… doesn’t count for much when the person doesn’t have any qualities.

I’m afraid for that to be true Tito would have to go back in time from 1946. Because there are people like Пулески, Мисирков, Чуповски, and revolutionary organizations that seek establishing of Macedonia as separate entity before WWII (starting from the end of 19th century). It is true that communist party and Tito had big deal in the realization and recognition of this separate entity, but partisan movement in Macedonia was formed and took part in anti-fascistic war, with among other things realizing of the idea of forming independent republic.

And I don’t know where this idea comes that we were raised in our schools with the idea of big Macedonian nation. What I tell you, that is what they taught us in schools, and what they teach the kids those days. (I know because my kid now goes to school). They are also thought the history of Macedonia as a region, along the history of Athens and Sparta, Iliric states etc.

As far as I know it is generally accepted that we are Slavs in origin (and not Paionians), and that our ancestors came here around 600AD.

And I still don’t get this problem with the name. One name can be used to name different entities. Why is that so problematic? The geographical region is called Macedonia, and is not same as Republic of Macedonia. Neither is Republic of Macedonia – ancient Macedonia. Neither is Macedonia, Ohio same as geographical region. If you are worried that somebody will mistake us for ancient Macedonians, we should probably give some announcement to the world, that we are not those people, and be done with it.

Anyway, that quote taken from historical document by people who were thinking about independence in those certain times, can’t be taken as any way to show the position we have towards Greece today. For sure there is some animosity because of the steps Greece has taken which really hurt our country like the economic embargo in the 90s, but I guess you know lot of people hurl into Greece on summer holidays, shop there etc… If we really felt that “Greeks are our enemies”, do you think that would happen? They probably also talked about Turks as enemies, does it mean that we now feel that Turks are our enemies? Neither of those.

Thanks for the good wishes :)

2.While it is not 1946, it is true that the forming of Macedonian nation started to happen in historical terms recently – around the end of 19th century, and it ended up “properly” with the creation of the republic after the WWII. But that doesn’t have anything to do with using the name, or rewriting the history. As I said, so it happened that those people was in specific circumstances, started differentiating themselves from the Bulgarians, Greeks or Serbs, and ended up being called and calling themselves Macedonians. Where is that “rewriting the history” there?

3.Nobody is denying that Macedonia as territory is bigger than the territory of the Republic of Macedonia, which yes, territorially is called “Vardarska”, and distinguished from “Egejska” (the part of Macedonia in Greece) and “Pirinska” (the part of Macedonia in Bulgaria). But, I’ve never heard anybody calling themselves “Vardarec” or something similar.

And just you don’t say that I avoided to answer your question about people using ‘Macedonians’ before 1946, you can check:
“A Dictionary of Three languages – Macedonian, Albanian and Turkish” (Georgi Puleski in 1875).
And this which I could find with the text translated on the net:
“Macedonian Nationalism” and The self-determination of the Macedonians” (Krste Petkov Misirkov in 1925)

Anyway, I hope this gets more civilized, and you don’t keep ignoring my answers, and repeating that we are on some mission to rewrite the history, just because we want to use the name as our parents and grandparents used. BTW, my grandparent was born before 1946 (1917 I think), and he also told me that his father also discussed how they are different from Bulgarians, Serbs and Greeks.

Again, the name issue is not same there as the identity issue here, at least not when the identity of people who are not related to us, like ancient Macedonians and todays Greek Macedonians. Two things can share same name, without being the same thing. So, we are not same as ancient Macedonians, nor we are same with today Greeks which live in Macedonia, North Greece. So, I don’t feel like I’m forging any identity by just using the name which my parents and grandparents used to refer to themselves. It is that identity which is of importance to us – the relation to the people who fought in WW2, WW1 and against the Ottoman empire before that, and which also didn’t think of the ancient Macedonians when they were fighting for having nation of their own.

BTW, as for the Wii games, I found that the Greek company Germanos actually sells few titles for it in it’s stores.

First, what is wrong with two different people sharing same name? Like, there are lot of people that share the same name, e.g. John in the world. We happen to be Slavs that get to settle on a territory called Macedonia, and ended up calling ourselves Macedonians. So, what is the problem with that? What is the problem same name being shared by two or more entities? And there is also a city called Macedonia, in Ohio, US. That two people use the same name, doesn’t mean that they are the same person. So, we are not of course the same folks as the ancient Macedonians, nor with current Greeks that live in Macedonia, Greece, nor we are the same people who live in that city in Ohio, USA. But it so happens that we use the same name.

Secondly, not sure what is the issue with there not being Macedonian ethnicity. Surely if there are people that feel like belonging to specific ethnicity, who speak language with its own grammatic and words (people here have problems understanding Bulgarian for example, though of course, they can easily learn the language as they have same root), and if this folks have a separate history from other nations for a few centuries, than what more is needed? People here don’t feel neither Bulgarian, nor Greek, nor Serbian. And for the record, I did have grandparents, and they didn’t feel neither of those either.

BTW, Amazon does ship to Macedonia, but just books.

Just to repeat, please just comments which are respectful to others.