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If macedonia is obviously greece why are greeks trying so hard to prove it. I bet their head’s are sweating of overthinking.

Half truth a big lie, modern greeks promote only the half trurh about ancient macedonians there are de facto historic sources that prove that ancient macedonians are hellenized Thracian tribe . The Athenian leader Demosthenes call macedonians worst barbarians off all thracian tribes and the Athenian citizens approved his proposal to make a city state coalition against macs ( battle of Heronia) King aleksandar call general Filota to confess at Macedonian mother tongue when he asks translator's to confess at hellinistic. Before Phillip II there was 2 macedonian kingdoms having eternal hate and wars . Greeks have about 30 city state colonies at Macedonian kingdom all destroyed by king Phillip . At all thracian common languages the ending -Ia like Macedonia, Illir Ia , peon Ia , pier Ia Imat Ia ext ext means land or country it isn't greek word . The ancient macedonians became hellenophones by adopting the Attic language as official language of their kingdom , is like to call the Americans and Australians english people cause they use the emglish language today . Thats the Hole trurh , please stop the ethnic bullying by the greeks chauvinists against the ethnic macedonians today is tragic cause modern greece is foul of " slavic " names topomyms and hellenized Thracians " slavs" , analyze the term slav you can understand that the term became from the latinic word sclavinus at greek σθλαυοι - σ(κ)λαυοι = slaves was a term for their captivity and not term for nationality .

I am confused. So the Greeks think this is some kind of "brand name infringement"? Those guys can't be Macedonia because we (the Greeks) are the original Macedonia?

Just one note the new president used only Macedonia and not Republic of Macedonia. I don't know if it makes any difference.

It's a name. The Greeks should get over it and stop being so petty and prideful.

Macedonia should be called whatever they want. Ancient history does not only belong to greeks.

The World has too many serious problems. Greeks and Macedonians should grow up, it doesn’t matter if North Macedonia is called Macedonia 🇲🇰 And if we get historical about it, the Greeks regard Macedonians as Barbarians, were not considered Greeks. And the current (North) Macedonians have nothing to do with historical Macedonia but why not, just a fantasy name like East Europeans calling themselves Israelis 🥲

10:37 """She instead used "Republic of Macedonia" """ No, she didn't. She used just "Macedonia".

I saw the thumbnail and I'm stopping the video on 0:01 to answer the question: NO. Unless Canada does a huge 'oopsie' against Quebec, there will never be a good reason and enough people beleiving in it. Independance had some good ideas, but that idea is now dead, and anyone still thinking its doable at some point should just drop it and move on. (oh and yes I'm a french-canadian living in Quebec, and even voted 'Yes' in 1995... but its over!)

It's quite important to mention that when you talk about "the history of Macedonia", it means the history of the region Macedonia (not the country), which includes the territories in North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, potentially in Serbia and Albania as well. Furthermore, President Gordana instead of using "President of the Republic of North Macedonia", she said: "President of Macedonia", which is kinda concerning too.

As a Cuban born American and a former History teacher, I give you a 99% on this wonderful video. The only minor point was the Moncada barracks attack was on July 26, 1953 and not 1956. That is when the Granma landed. I truly appreciated your objectivity and deep knowledge of the subject.

MAcedonia is the ONLY heir the Ancient Macedonian Kingdom of Alexander. Greece was invented in the 19th century and it has nothing to do with the helenic cities of Athenes and Thebes, which even back never managed to form a kingdom and were inslaved by Alexander The MAcedonian!

Its been MAcedonia for 3000 years. it will always be Macedonia. THe fact that some trecherous politicians signed some deal AGAINST the people's will, has no meaning!

Professor, Kosovo is NOT a country recognized by United Nations and UN resolution 1244. It is Serbian province. You should know that because you call yourself a professor.

....its not an easy case for Greece, among north Macedonia neighbours Greece is the only country without any territorial or ethnic claims, and the one with great interest in the territorial integrity of this country.. Tough policies are hard also to be applied like in the past because of heavy investments by major Greek companies in that country....

In different times NM's attitude would result in a war and most likely in a quick occupation given how small and weak they are. EU and NATO that they despise so much are actually the only two reasons they exist. It's that simple. But Skopjans are even simpler. They just don't get it. 😂😂😂😂

This is coming from a country that denies the Srebrenica genocide and celebrates convicted war criminals publicly, yet complain about country defending their borders that has been theirs since the 6th century…. Narcissism at its best

I thinking eventually North Macedonia will divide in four pieces between Greece, Albania,Bulgaria and Serbia and end the instability of this region.

The problem arose when it was the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, after which efforts were made to separate from the Serbs at all costs. Now there is a big problem. They made it themselves. "Northern Macedonia" is actually southern Serbia, which is no longer the case, and that's where the problem started, when they moved away from the Serbs. We have never had a problem with the brothers from Macedonia. Macedonia recognized Kosovo and Metohija.

You have managed to explain the truly labyrinthine machinations of Balkan politics and I am still not all that clear about most of them. I guess being a part of the world where there have been many multi ethnic/religious influences and invasions it is not going to be easy to sort it out. From NZ

It is clear that the Slavs of North Macedonia beleive they are descentants of the ancient Greek Macedonians, although Slavs entered Europe centuries later. They also beleive that parts of today's Greece belong to them. Greece should cancel the agreement, not do any new agreement with this country and leave them outside of NATO and Europe. Greece has nothing to win from any agreement, the only reason is to expand NATO and establish new military basis in Skopje for the US.

"Many states facing calls to accept past atrocities - some committed relatively recently - have little reason to want to condemn another country and thus open themselves up to claims of hypocrisy." Now you understand why Israel does not recognize the Armenian Genocide

Never north,only Macedonia!!🙏👍

So what's the beef here ?! Greeks should be proud that another country wear the name of Macedonia.It's in honor of their history.

Nobody in Luxembourg seems to mind that the southernmost (and largest) Belgian province is also called Luxembourg.

Prof James Ker-Lindsay, what is your prediction for the development of the situation in case the constitutional changes don't become reality? It's been over a year since the French proposal was accepted and...nothing happened since then. And a plethora of other important topics are still waiting to be addressed by NM authorities, such as - measures against the anti-Bulgarian hate speech and repressions, rehabilitation of the Bulgarian victims of communism in NM, the work of the joint historical commission (incl. strict signing of the protocols + establishment of a common interstate cultural calendar + changes in the historical textbooks), removal of the falsifications of the Bulgarian cultural, literary, historical, folklore, and linguistic heritage in the scientific field, the educational system, and textbooks used in educational institutions, removal of the anti-Bulgarian inscriptions from monuments and the falsifications in the Holocaust memorial center in Skopje, etc...

The UK convinced Selesnky with money to not respect the peace agreement in 2022, so NATO knows well how to ignore agreements

Macedonia= Greece Texas= united states 🎉

There's more than a way to skin a cat : Blocking all European funding Eu entry Blocking all European trade deals IMPOSING visas and tariffs Just being a EU member with VETO power. This applies not only to Skopje but in EU tureky relationship or Albania As EU member with VETO power Greece has the upper hand here. As for the rest Cutting energy transfer pipelines by Greece to Skopje And electric grid transfer Blocking the bank system You get the picture... Welcome to aellatha not Greece Btw I'm Macedonian= Greek They are 2/3 bulgarians 1/4 albanians Some Greeks; Serb's and Turk's Greek minority over there is 187,500 people which can be recognised as Greeks with greek passports and EU citizenship. Actually the deal is dead and Greece has no problem to give this country to Bulgaria and Albania 🎉 Welcome to the NEW Greece 🎉 BTW the real name for them Is Under officiall YUGOSLAVIAN maps VARDARSKA-VANOVINA Just saying...

Hey dude, what are you talking about: “North Macedonians are speaking south Slavic language”!?!? The language is Bulgarian, the name of the country is Greek. This country is Soviet communist creation. But “south Slavic language…” Sure, USA and Canada are speaking Western European language, how about that?

Thanks!

Geopolitics aside, Macedonia is a shorter name and easier to say than North Macedonia. Nations with names too long tends to break apart into countries with shorter names Humans are lazy, very lazy.

Macedonia is an occupied state the politicians are corrupt and servants to exterior forces the people are silenced and impoverished and every day more and more are emigrating especially the young the same can be said about Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and the whole Balkan Peninsula

We are in a strange world of fake identities. The people who label themselves "Greek" arenot Greek, and the people who label themselves "Macedonian" are not Macedonian. "Greeks" are Rums of mid and east Türkiye, 95% are migrants from outside, éMacedonians" are simply Bulgar.

Northern Greece is a territory gifted to the Greek state by the British Empire and the French at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, The same powers helped Greece retain it after WW2. All in an effort to weaken Turkey and diminish Russia's influence in the region. How many thousands of Macedonians were forced to flee the territory that is now Northern Greece? Greek refugees from Asia Minor were settled there in their place.

Macedonia has been offered so many false promises by the EU and the west since 1991, in return to making all kinds of allowances that EU and the western interests demanded. In the meantime, all the EU and the western interests have done is gradually destabilize the country, divide the nation, create many political parties with opposing main values and goals, destroy the economy, rewrite the constitution and the laws, and worsen the relationships between Macedonia and all of its neighbors.

What are your thoughts on Tigray getting independence from Ethiopia? They have article 39 in their constitution that allows it, but there’s many complexities with international recognition

THE SO CALLED NORTH MACEDONIA IS A SLAVIC NATION SPEAKING A SOUTH SLAVIC LANGUAGE AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANCIENT MACEDONIA THAT WAS A GREEK KINGDOM WITH GREEK NAMES AND GREEK TOPONYMS.HOWEVER THEY CALL THEMSELF MACEDONIANS WHILE THEIR NAME WAS VARDASKA BANOVIA UNDER YUGOSLAVIA AND 30% OF ITS POPULATION IS ALBANIAN AND ALMOST GOT ANEXED BY ALBANIA A FEW YEARS BEFORE WITHIN A CRISIS SO THEIR NAME SHOWS ONLY THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL PLACE AND IT IS NOT CONNECTED TO ANCIENT TIMES HISTORY

Robin James Lane Fox, is an English classicist, ancient historian. This is what he had to say : " Macedon is a Greek speaking Kingdom in northern Greece populated by people using Greek names, Greek months of the year , worshipping Greek gods. Those who live in Skopje and say that is Macedon and that is Alexanders homeland are as ignorant and outrageous as if someone was to say that Oxford University was really in Belarus" The video of him saying this is still on youtube for anyone wanting to view..

The Balkans never stop providing headlines in the world of international politics, apparently. Despite that, I find the region fascinating, and I can't wait to move to Belgrade shortly. It's less than two months away! :)

When people fail history. Also, when people act like bratty children.

1)Alexander the Great participated in the ancient Olympics, you had to be Greek to do this. 2) He was tutored by Aristotle (another Greek Macedonian) in Greek. 3) The House of Macedon claimed to be descendants of the Argead Dynasty 4) Macedonians had Greek names and spoke a dialect of Greek, spread Greek culture NOT slavic or bulgarian.. All of you who claim the Ancient Macedonians were anything but Greek make HOLLOW and TRIVIAL claims!

Bulgari vs Modolva are the same nation but different countries similar to Russia vs Ukraine - The same nation but different countries.

Unless russia gets to Odessa i don,t think they will do anything with this. Russia also know that overstretching yourself is dangerous and also coming close to a NATO and EU member(Romania) is even more dangerous. If russia starts something against Moldova in this context, Romania is almost forced to also act in the view of Moldavan solidarity

2:20 this is not their history. they have nothing to do with the real macedonia.

If these guys are so obsessed with claiming the heritage of Alexander and ancient Macedonia then they should just stop speaking Slavic and adopt Greek, they are only ridiculing themselves by their weird claims.

Slovakia has the right to determine its relationship with Russia since it is a sovereign country. But they also have to realise that the invasion of ukraine by Russia is a red line in International law and that the organisation of which they are part of (the EU and NATO) have agreed that sanctions and measures against russia are needed in order to condemn this illegal invasion. If slovakia feels that this against their interest they are free to leave both organisations and go it alone. They cannot have the benefits from being a member but when push comes to shove they want to make up their own mind and actively undermine these organisations.

just go to 8:50 and you will see the real reason of this agreement

Greece means problem with all neigboors in the region.the reason is that they receive unconditional support from eu and nato.because they present themselves civilazation leader of the world.ignorant politicions seems to believe this false story.where is roman history ,old egypt or old Turkish starting from thousands year ago.

European Union and its influence in Western Balkans. Worth NOTHING. 30 years of promises. That is what you get.