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cla04@seq1.keele.ac.uk (A.T. Fear) writes:

>The Greeks seem to be the
>only party to the quarrel who insist on this and since their claim is
>based on weak arguments from a questionable reading of ancient history
>it might be wise for them to abandon it.

 The only questionable thing is your stupidity.  Better, this isn't 
 questionable, it's a fact.  The question is what's behind your stupidity,
 i.e. what are your motives.

 The historical arguments are not weak.  In the contrary, these are well
 established.  And there is a continuity in the history of Greeks in
 Macedonia.

>As another poster is
>fond of saying there are mant kinds of Macedonians.  I agree with him. 

 Well, let's assume that he is correct.  Likewise, we can argue that there
 are many kinds of Europeans, Germans, French, Italians, Greeks, Spanish
 e.t.c. (but exclude Brits).  Let's assume that a new group in central
 Europe appears, which claims to be Europeans, and wants to establish an
 independent state "Republic of Europe."  What do you think would hapen?

 Therefore, the argument that there are many kinds of Macedonians, although
 it is incorrect, says that there should not be one state with the name
 "Republic of Macedonia."  What it says is that there should be a name
 like: "Republic of SOMETHING Macedonia," where the SOMETHING could be
 Slavic, Vardar, e.t.c. The omission of the SOMETHING would be outrageous.

 If the word Slavic would create problems with the large Albanian minority,
 then a name like Salvoalbanian Macedonia should be used.  Then, the name
 would indicate that there are Slavic and Albanian people in Macedonia.
 
 As I've said in the past, the above would be O.K. with me.  Then, it is the
 internal concern of each state to believe anything.  There nothing I could
 do for this latter matter.

 However, the insistence of Skopje to the name "Republic of Macedonia" is
 outrageous.  The reason for their insistence is because they want to claim
 the history and ethnicity of Macedonians for themselves, and to make 
 teritorial claims against Greece in the future.  They have already stated
 that there are "1,000,000 Macedonians in Greece," which is a fabrication
 of enormous proportion.  Have you missed it?  Have you missed people saying
 that Macedonia has never been Greek before 1920s?

 Thus, the position of Greece is rightful and clear.  The objective is
 long term stability in the region.  It is very convenient for someone
 who is an outsider to exress opinions like yours, but you are not the
 one who is going to face the consequences.

>Andy
>A Lancastrian from Lancaster

 Panos Tamamidis
 A Macedonian from Macedonia
 Macedonia is Greek