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| The term '''Macedonians''' ({{lang-el|Μακεδόνες}}) refers to the inhabitants of the region of ]. In ], the Macedonians were grouped into several tribes, the most famous of which were the ] Macedonians, who occupied the southern part of Macedonia north of the ] mountain and the ], who occupied the South Western part of Macedonia<ref> </ref>. They spoke a variant of the ] dialect and because they were seen as uncouth by their fellow-Greeks to the south, they were referred to as "barbarians" by some authors.<ref>]. ''History of the Peloponnesian War'', Book II.</ref> The neighbors of the ] were the ] to the west, the ] to the north-west, the ] to the east-north and ] to the South. The ] were the most powerful of the Macedonians, and under their king (]) they briefly challenged the power of Athens. | |||
| In the ], Macedonia was under the rule of the ]. During this time, the region flourished and was settled with numerous Orthodox Christian Greeks. The definition of Macedonia came to encompass the entire region from ] and ] mountains to ]. Some of the most important cities in Macedonia, such as ], were founded during this period<ref>Vakalopoulos, Apostolos E. "History of Macedonia 1354-1833", Vanias Press (1984)</ref>. | |||
| The Macedonians played a prominent part in the Greek struggle for independence from the ] and the typical 18th-19th century costume of ] men, the so-called ], went on to become the national costume of Greece<ref>Vakalopoulos, Apostolos E. "Histoire De La Grece Moderne", Horvath Press. ISBN 2-7171-0057-1</ref>. Macedonia was divided between ], ] and ] following the ], with members of all ethnic groups present on every side of the border. After ], the Slavs were expelled from Greece for collaborating with the ], while many Greeks in Northern Macedonia experienced forced ], ] and recently ]. Many churches were damaged or destroyed during this period, and many Greek-language books were banned because of their religious themes or orientation. Yet, as with other communist states, particularly in the Balkans, where measures putatively geared towards the consolidation of political control intersected with the pursuit of national integration, it is often impossible to distinguish sharply between ideological and ethno-cultural bases of repression<ref>In Greek "The Cultural Identity of Greeks in Pelagonia (1912-1930)" Nikolaos Vassiliadis, Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki, 2004 </ref>. It is remarkable that according to the ] army, during the two ] and the two ], ] army killed in total, 450.000 Macedonians (Greeks) in the regions of ] and ]<ref>In Greek "The Greeks of Skopje" Dimitrios Alexandrou, Erodios Editions, Thessaloniki 2008 </ref>. | |||
| Since the end of the ], many Greeks in Northern Macedonia are re-discovering their Greek heritage, while the ethnic "Macedonians" have called for compensation for their lost lands. The current Prime Minister of Greece, ] has origin from ], Macedonia. | |||
| ==Famous Macedonians== | |||
| ''See more in ]'' | |||
| *], King of the Argeades Macedonians and all of ]. | |||
| *], epigrammatic poet and governor of the city | |||
| *] of Thasos (1-2th c. AD) physician | |||
| *], early 4th c. | |||
| *] (5th c. AD) Anthologist of Greek Authors. | |||
| *] ca. 1275—1325 philologist | |||
| *],iconograhers | |||
| *] (1330-1369) Scholastic theologian | |||
| *] (c. 1400 – 1475) Renaissance humanist and translator of Aristotle | |||
| *] (1400 - 1486)Teacher of Greek literature in Bologna, Rome, Florence, Paris and London. | |||
| *] (1624 - 1665)Founder of the first school in ]. | |||
| *] (1572 - 1657)Founder the Kottounian Hellinomouseio | |||
| *Dimitrios Darvaris (1754- 1823) born in ],Kastoria, publisher of a Greek grammar | |||
| *] Born (1734) Physician in Vienna, Larisa, Siatista, Kozani, Bucharest. | |||
| *] (1777-1820), Thessaloniki, writer, founder of "''Ellenoglosson Xenodochion''" | |||
| *], ] from 1909 to 1910. | |||
| *], first leader of the ] | |||
| *], ] from 1955 to 1963 and from 1974 to 1980, ] from 1980 to 1985 and from 1990 to 1995. | |||
| *], the current ]. | |||
| ==Reference List== | |||
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