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| '''Slavophone Greeks''' ({{lang-el|Σλαβόφωνοι Έλληνες}}) are a population group in northern ], who traditionally speak ], a dialect of ], along with ]. They are also referred to as '''Dopii''', which means 'locals' in Greek, and the vast majority of them self-identify as ]. They live mostly in ] and ] ] and adhere to the ]. | |||
| ==Slavic presence in Macedonia== | |||
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| {{see|Macedonia (region)}} | |||
| ] started invading ] around the 6th and 7th century. Since then, ] have been spoken alongside Greek. In 598 the Slavic tribes besieged ] and settled its hinterlands in great numbers. These Slavs participated in several assaults against the ], alone or aided by ] or ]. | |||
| Several massive expeditions of ] took place against the Slavs of the Greek peninsula. In the mid-7th century, by the time ], a significant number of Slavs of Macedonia were captured and led to central ], while in the late 7th century, ] captured over 110,000 Slavs and transferred them to ]. There are no records of Slavs, who were called ''Sklavines'' by the Byzantines, after 837, since large numbers of them were expelled from the region and the remainders were absorbed into the ], the political and cultural center of which, at the end of the 10th century, was the region of the modern day ].{{Fact|date=July 2008}} | |||
| Intermittent slavic uprisings continued to occur, often with the support of the ] kingdoms to the north. Since the 12th century, the Serbian kingdom of ] had been taking more and more of Macedonia, considering themselves as liberators of their fellow Slavs. In the 14th century the Serbs had already conquered all of Macedonia, which later came under the ] rule. | |||
| Over the centuries Macedonia had become a multicultural region, inhabited by ], ], ], ], ]s, ] and ]. In the early 20th century the term ''Bulgarians'' was used to refer to all the Slavic-speaking populations of Macedonia, as synonymous to ''Slav-Macedonians'', until the ] identity emerged in the mid-20th century. After the ], after Bulgaria's conversion to communism, some Slav-speakers in Greece who had referred to themselves as "Bulgarians" began to indentify as "Macedonians".<ref>{{cite book | |||
| |title= Denying Ethnic Identity: The Macedonians of Greece | |||
| |last= Watch 1320 Helsinki, Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (Organization : U.S.) | |||
| |first= | |||
| |authorlink= | |||
| |coauthors= Lois Whitman, Jeri Laber | |||
| |year= 1994 | |||
| |publisher= Human Rights Watch | |||
| |location= Toronto | |||
| |isbn= 1564321320 | |||
| |pages= 9}} </ref> To an extent the collaboration of the Slav-speaking peasants was determined by the geopolitical position of each village. Depending upon whether their village was vulnerable to attack by the Greek communist guerrillas or the occupation forces, the peasants would opt to support the side in relation to which they were most vulnerable. In both cases, the attempt was to promise "freedom" (autonomy or independence) to the formerly persecuted Slavic minority as a means of gaining its support.<ref>John S. Koliopoulos. Plundered Loyalties: World War II and Civil War in Greek West Macedonia. Foreword by C. M. Woodhouse. New York: New York University Press. 1999. p. 304. </ref> | |||
| This fact has resulted in the ] between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia, over the name, the language and the main ethnic group of the latter and its claims that the Slavophone Greeks actually form an ethnic Macedonian minority in Greece, although a minority of the Slavophones self-identify as ethnic Macedonians and the vast majority as ].<ref name=GHM>{{cite web | url= http://www.greekhelsinki.gr/pdf/rainbow-english.pdf |format=PDF| title= Greek Helsinki Monitor | work= Greece against its Macedonian minority The "Rainbow" trial | accessdate= 2007-01-02}}</ref><ref>Hill, P. (1999) "Macedonians in Greece and Albania: A Comparative study of recent developments". ''Nationalities Papers'' Volume 27, Number 1, 1 March 1999, pp. 17-30(14)</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Eurominority |work=Macedonians in Greece | accessdate= 2007-01-02 | url= http://www.eurominority.org/version/eng/minority-detail.asp?id_minorites=gr-mace}}</ref><ref>Danforth, L. (1995) ''The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World'' ISBN 0691043574</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=The Guardian |work=Bittersweet return for Greek civil war's lost victims | accessdate= 2007-01-02 | url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1064683,00.html}}</ref> The linguistic classification of their language, ], oscillates between ] and ].{{Fact|date=August 2008}} | |||
| ==Demographics== | |||
| {{see|Minorities in Greece}} | |||
| ==See also== | |||
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| ==References== | |||
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