MAKEDONIA - HISTORICAL SOURCES

**Manuel I Komnenos** · July 10, 2013, 08:17 PM

Funny, I've been away for so long and these futile threads are still thriving!

**iRich** · August 12, 2013, 08:51 AM

I know I'm ridiculously late to the party on this thread and I don't want to be accused of bumping a dead thread but I'd just like to give my thanks to the OP for a really well researched and informative post on the subject.

At the risk of waking the dragon from its slumber I'd also like to say that it was both very funny and extremely sad reading the posts of Ferrets. It's a sobering thought that he may have 57,000+ posts of similar nonsense and disingenuous arguments.

**Abdülmecid I** · September 07, 2014, 07:51 AM

Originally Posted by perifanosEllinas

I'm sure that you didn't bother reading the whole post,so go to the link I gave you and read all the sources.I have included sources there that clearly describe how the Makedonians were a Dorian Hellenic tribe that came from Argos and went to the area around Pindos and named it "Makedonia".I will not answer further to this propaganda

According to your own sources, the Temenides, coming from Argos, settled in Macedonia where they subdued the local population. Fine, but the Temenides are not the Macedonians. It's just a dynasty that ruled over them. The motto of foreign dynasty ruling over native people is very frequent on Greek sources and usually inaccurate. But the point here is not to test if the myth is accurate or not. The myth is irrelevant as we are talking about the people that were called Macedonians and not the guys who established a kingdom. You see the difference? And finally what do you mean by propaganda? Did I claim that the Macedonians were Slavs, Turks or Maorii? I just doubted their Argos descedance.