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27. "'''The Macedonians were Greeks. Their language was Greek''', to judge by their personal names and by the names of the months of the calendar; Macedonian ambassadors could appear before the Athenian assembly without needing interpreters; in all Demosthenes' sneers about their civilization '''there is no hint that Macedonians spoke other than Greek'''" ("Philip of Macedon", Faber & Faber, London, 1978, p. 22)
* ''[[w:George Cawkwell|George Cawkwell]], Emeritus Fellow, [[w:University College Oxford|Oxford University College]]'' [[Χρήστης:Dragao2004|Dragao2004]] ([[Συζήτηση χρήστη:Dragao2004|συζήτηση]]) 15:38, 23 Οκτωβρίου 2018 (UTC)
28. "Philip II, at least from the time of his victory over Phocis, Athens, and their allies in 346, prepared to proclaim himself the champion of '''a United Greece against the barbarians'''"
* ''[[w:Ernst Badian|Ernst Badian]], "Cambridge history of Iran", p. 421''
29. "...'''the Macedonians, our conviction is strengthened that they were a Greek race and akin to the Dorians'''. Having stayed behind in the extreme north, they were unable to participate in the progressive civilization of the tribes which went further south..."
29. "To his ancestors (to a Persian's ancestors) Macedonians were only known as 'Yona takabara', the 'Greeks who wear shields on their heads', an allusion to their broad-brimmed hats" ▼* ''[[w:Ulrich Wilcken|Ulrich Wilcken]], "Alexander the Great", p. 22''
▲2930. "To his ancestors (to a Persian's ancestors) Macedonians were only known as 'Yona takabara', the 'Greeks who wear shields on their heads', an allusion to their broad-brimmed hats"
* ''[[w:Robin Lane Fox|Robin Lane Fox]], "Alexander the Great", p.104''[[Χρήστης:Dragao2004|Dragao2004]] ([[Συζήτηση χρήστη:Dragao2004|συζήτηση]]) 19:34, 22 Οκτωβρίου 2018 (UTC)
3031. "...King Philip of '''the northern Greek kingdom of Macedon''' perfected this system, and his son, Alexander the Great...
* ''Archer Jones, American historian, "The Art of War in Western World" (University of Illinois Press, 2000), p. 21''
3132. "The idea of the city-state was first challenged by the ideal of pan-Hellenic unity supported by some writers and orators, among which the Athenian Isocrates became a leading proponent with his Panegyrics of 380 suggesting a Greek holy war against Persia. However, '''only the rise of Macedonia made the realization of panHellenic unity possible'''..."
* ''[[w:Vilho Harle|Vilho Harle]], Professor of International Relations at University of Lapland in Finland, "Ideas of Social Order in the Ancient World", p. 24''
3233. "The king [of macedon] was chief in the first instance of a race of plain-dwellers, '''who held themselves to be, like him, of Hellenic stock'''"
* ''[[w:David George Hogarth|David George Hogarth]], "Philip and Alexander of Macedon", p. 8''
3334. "Macedonia (or Macedon) was an ancient, somewhat backward kingdom in northern Greece. Its emergence as a Hellenic (Greek) power was due to a resourceful king, Philip II (359-336), whose career has been unjustly overshadowed by the deeds of his son, Alexander the Great"
* ''Mortimer Chambers, Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles, "The Western Experience", p. 79, Mortimer Chambers et al, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2nd edition, 1997''
3435. "Soon after Athens had reached the height of its glory under Pericles in the Fifth Century, B. C., and had started on its decline, '''the rise of Macedon''' under Philip carried '''Greek''' influence into new regions. The glory of Athens had been based upon sea power, but the conquests of Macedon were the work of land armies— Philip invented the invincible phalanx. Upon Philip's death his son, Alexander the Great, set forth to conquer the whole of the then known world, and as that world in his day lay to the east, his marches were in that direction. In a few years he had overrun the fertile plains and opulent cities of Asia Minor, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Persia, and had carried his conquests to the gates of Delhi. In all the cities in the intervening countries he left large garrisons of '''Greek soldiers'''. In many of these countries he founded flourishing new cities. In every place his soldiers were followed by large colonies of Greek civilians. The result was that the whole of western Asia, and of what we call the Near East, including Asia Minor Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Babylonia, Mesopotamia, Persia, and northwestern India, was saturated with the '''Greek''' influence and with '''Greek''' colonies"
* ''[[w:Henry Morgenthau, Sr.|Henry Morgenthau]], "I was sent to Athens", Doubleday, Doran & Company, inc (1929)''
''SLAVIC SOURCES'':
3536. "'''We are [[w:Slavs|Slavs]]''', we came to this area in the sixth century (AD), '''we have no connection with [[w:Alexander the Great|Alexander the Great]]'''"
* ''[[w:Kiro Gligorov|Kiro Gligorov]], [[w:Tirana|Tirana, Albania]], 03.06.1992''
3637. "From a historical point of view the term Macedonia had no clear ethnic meaning (it is because of thousands of years of mixing of various tribes and peoples), although it is clear that '''in ancient times Macedonia was considered a Greek state and Macedonians [were] Greeks living in Macedonia...'''".
* ''Slavenko Terzić, "Stara Srbija: Drama of a European Civilization", Moscow 2015, p. 38''
3738. "When Athens falls, when '''spreading of Greeks beyond the area of Greece starts''', as many know, after the conquests of Alexander of Macedonia, new '''Greek states''' are established and '''Egypt becomes the main centre of Greek civilization, with the centre in Alexandria. Greeks winning over Asia, that is the main idea of Alexander'''"
* ''Nikolaj Pavlovič Grincer, professor at the Institute of Eastern Cultures and Antiquity (IVKA), Moscow, Lecture “Literature and politics in European antiquity", 2014''
3839. "...Certain proto-populations occupying distinct areas of the Balkans could be distinguished on the territories of the cultural groups: in western part of the Balkans the proto-Illyrians, in the east the proto Thracians, in the south the '''Hellenes''' (i.e: '''Greeks'''), in the northern part of the Balkans the proto Daco-Mysians and in the southwest of the Central Balkans the proto Bryges"
* ''"Arheologija" magazine, No 1, Skopje 1995, "Bryges on the central Balkans in the 2nd and 1st millennium b.c." (summary)''
3940. "Paeonians, a people who during the first millennium BC inhabited the border area between the three great Paleobalkanic peoples - Illyrians, Thracians and '''Hellenes'''. (i.e:'''Greeks''')"
* ''Fanica Veljanovska, FYROMian anthropologist, "An Attempt at Anthropological Definition of the Paeonians", Skopje, 1994''
4041. "Philip V (220-178 BCE), carried a struggle against Romans trying to halt their penetration into Balkans, but he was defeated in the battle of Cynoscephalae, after which he was forced to renounce all '''Greek lands, with the exception of Macedonia...'''"
* ''Enciklopedija Prosveta, "Filip V", Vol. 2, Beograd, 1968, p. 869''
4142. "'''Greek epigraphic monuments created before definitive Roman domination of our area''' are to be found in modest quantity"
* ''Vera Bitrakova Grozdanova, ethnic Macedonian archaeologist, "Hellenistic Monuments in S.R.Macedonia", Skopje, 1987, p. 130''.[[Χρήστης:Dragao2004|Dragao2004]] ([[Συζήτηση χρήστη:Dragao2004|συζήτηση]]) 10:03, 21 Οκτωβρίου 2018 (UTC)
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