Γνωστοί Ιστορικοί γράφουν για την Ελληνικότητα των Αρχαίων Μακεδόνων

(1) Η ΕΘΝΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ ΤΩΝ ΑΡΧΑΙΩΝ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ

Μια σπάνια συλλογή από κείμενα σύγχρονων Ιστορικών που αναφέρονται στην Ελληνικότητα των Αρχαίων Μακεδόνων.

* Bury & Meiggs (1985) “A History of Greece”
page 415

“The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock,
as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine
to testify.”

* H. Bengston (1988) “A History of Greece: from the beginnings to the Byzantine era”
page 186.

Bengston makes the following statement pertaining to the origins of the Macedonians:
“They should be included in the group of North-West Greek tribes”
On the same page he also states that :
the majority of modern historians have correctly argued for
the Hellenic origin of the Macedonians.

* N.G.L Hammond (1986) “A History of Greece to 332 B.C.”
page 651.

“Greece and Macedon were akin in blood and culture.”

* N.G.L Hammond (1992) “The Miracle that was Macedonia”
page 206.

Hammond states:
“As members of the Greek race and speakers of the Greek language,
the Macedonians shared in the ability to initiate
ideas and create political forms.”

* M. Opperman (1996) “The Oxford Classical Dictionary 3rd ed.- Macedonia,Cults”
page 905.

In this prestigious source Opperman states:
“Nowadays historians generally agree that the Macedonians ethnos
form part of the Greek ethnos; hence they also shared in the common religious and cultural features of the Hellenic world“

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