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Just now, Jan Linha said:

 

This one I did not get. What the hell in North Macedonia? I guess I missed some world political changes? :-D Am aware of just Macedonie :-D 

 

It's a complicated political thing involving the Greeks.  They don't want to have a Slavonic country called simply Macedonia because Macedonia was part of Ancient Greece and I think it is a local region in Greece as well. 

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Just now, Grassmarket said:

 

It's a complicated political thing involving the Greeks.  They don't want to have a Slavonic country called simply Macedonia because Macedonia was part of Ancient Greece and I think it is a local region in Greece as well. 

 

It's a historical land with majority of it within modern Greece borders.

 

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Just now, Grassmarket said:

 

 

Yes, I know. The irony is that the Ancient Greeks themselves thought the Macedonians were barbarian non-Greeks. 

 

Macedonia wasn't even drawn into classical Greek matters until 4th century BC. They were outsiders to begin with ;)

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