Comments on: Hard to find map of Macedonia from 1683! http://makedonika.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/hard-to-find-map-of-macedonia-from-1683/ educating the future about the past Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:50:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: john http://makedonika.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/hard-to-find-map-of-macedonia-from-1683/#comment-1212 john Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:10:00 +0000 http://makedonika.wordpress.com/?p=65#comment-1212 Petros. It doesn't mater for how many years Paeonia and Epirus were under Macedonian rule prior to the Roman conquest. What maters is, were they under Macedonian rule when the Romans came?? And the awnser is YES they were. So Ancient Macedonia( before the Roman conquest) includes much bigger part then what the Greeks imply. It means that Republic of Macedonia holds much bigger part of Ancient Macedonia then the Greeks claim. Second, Skopje is the most populous territory but Kumanovo is not the second most populous territory in R.Macedonia. BITOLA( Monastir) is the second most populous territory in R. Macedonia. Furthermore Skopje is the most populous territory for only 80-100 years. Before the 20 century BITOLA( Monastir) was by far more populous territory then Skopje was. And BITOLA is in Ancient Macedonia. Petros.

It doesn’t mater for how many years Paeonia and Epirus were under Macedonian rule prior to the Roman conquest. What maters is, were they under Macedonian rule when the Romans came?? And the awnser is YES they were.
So Ancient Macedonia( before the Roman conquest) includes much bigger part then what the Greeks imply. It means that Republic of Macedonia holds much bigger part of Ancient Macedonia then the Greeks claim.

Second, Skopje is the most populous territory but Kumanovo is not the second most populous territory in R.Macedonia. BITOLA( Monastir) is the second most populous territory in R. Macedonia.
Furthermore Skopje is the most populous territory for only 80-100 years. Before the 20 century BITOLA( Monastir) was by far more populous territory then Skopje was. And BITOLA is in Ancient Macedonia.

]]> By: Petros Houhoulis http://makedonika.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/hard-to-find-map-of-macedonia-from-1683/#comment-115 Petros Houhoulis Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:37:18 +0000 http://makedonika.wordpress.com/?p=65#comment-115 Interesting map, but the inclusion of Paeonia and of the largest chunk of Epirus in Macedonia occured only during the last half of the reign of Phillip V. This time period of less than 20 years before the Roman conquest does NOT imply that the local populations of either Paeonia or Epirus developed a Macedonian consciousness. Furthermore, half of your modern country is still outside that map of Macedonia, especially your most populous and second most populous territories, the one around Skopje, and the other around Kumanovo. Interesting map, but the inclusion of Paeonia and of the largest chunk of Epirus in Macedonia occured only during the last half of the reign of Phillip V. This time period of less than 20 years before the Roman conquest does NOT imply that the local populations of either Paeonia or Epirus developed a Macedonian consciousness.

Furthermore, half of your modern country is still outside that map of Macedonia, especially your most populous and second most populous territories, the one around Skopje, and the other around Kumanovo.

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