The
Macedonians were of the same stock as the Greeks.Their language probably did
not differ from Greek more than French does from Italian.
The New Calendar of Great Men: Biographies of the 558 Worthies of All Ages & Nations in the Positivist Calendar of Auguste Comte,Frederic Harrison,page 182
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...and in his own name and that of the people of Thessalonica he offered the city to the Venetian Signoria, asking only that it should be governed “according to its usages and statutes”; that the Orthodox metropolitan of Thessalonica be confirmed in his ecclesiastical charge; that the greek inhabitants should retain their local rights of jurisdiction…
📖“The
Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 Vol. 2: The Fifteenth Century” By Kenneth
Meyer Setton, pages 19-20
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In Thessalonica the churches of S. Demetrius and the holy wisdom were bestowed upon the latin clergy. Boniface is declared to have been severe in his exactions of money from the greek natives of Thessalonica and in his commandeering of the best houses in the city as quarters for his men.
He wanted to create a strong, compact state comprising Macedonia, central Greece, and the northeastern Peloponnesus.
He set up a regency in his new capital under his wife Margaret of Hungary, the widow of Isaac Angelus, whom he had married but shortly before, as we have seen, to establish a connection with the dynasty of Angeli, and to win such support among the Greeks as this association might bring him.
📖“The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571” by Kenneth Meyer Setton , page 21
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On 14 July 1429, the Senate gave formal replies to a detailed petition presented by an embassy representing the Greek population of Thessalonica, showing that the inhabitants had become disenchanted with Venetian rule as they years had passed.
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He
[Vatatzes] pushed on into the far northwest, taking Velbuzd (Kustendil) on the
upper Strymon; moved south taking skopje and Stip in the vardar region then
through Veles, Prilep and Pelagonia in the plains of Monastir; and eastward
again to the Vardar where he took Prosek.
I was a
triumphant progress from beginning to end, but the end was not yet, In less
than three months Vatatzes had overrun all southwestern Bulgaria.
📖“The
Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571” by Kenneth Meyer Setton,page 62
In the years of Macedonian expansion under Philip II (359-336) BC the Athenian orator Demosthenes referred to Greece’s northern neighbors as “barbarians”, claiming that they had only recently ceased to be shepherds. Certainly the Thracians and Illyrians were non - Greek speakers, but in the northwest, the peoples of Molossis, Orestis and Lynkestis spoke west Greek and although they absorbed other groups into their territory, they were essentially “Greeks”.
The main difference between Macedonia and the city states of the south was that it was ruled by a king and powerful nobility.
Robert Morkot,The Penguin Historical Atlas of ancient Greece,page70
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‘’… Philip
of Macedon,the father of our hero; nor is this the bad place in the history of Greece,for
with Alexander, the stage of Greek influence spread across the world.’’
John Pentland Mahaffy,“Alexander’s Empire”,page 2
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The classical scholar J. P. Mahaffy (1839-1919) is known equally for his work on Greek texts and Egyptian papyri (his edition of The Flinders Petrie Papyri is reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and spent the rest of his working life there, ultimately as provost from 1914 until his death.
In this illustrated 1887 work, Mahaffy
describes Alexander's extraordinary conquest of territories in Europe, Africa
and Asia, the collapse of his empire after his death, and the later subjugation
of the successor kingdoms to the power of Rome. With his American collaborator
Arthur Gilman (1837-1909), Mahaffy discusses Alexander's place in history
before giving a close account of his career and death. The successor dynasties,
and dominant rulers such as Demetrius II and Pyrrhus, their feuds and their
attempted resistance to the rise of Rome, are depicted in an engaging and
dramatic narrative.
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His
Macedonians murmured at his Oriental dress and manners, but Alexander was
always a Greek at heart, the lines of Homer always rang in his ears, and he
fancied himself a reincarnation of Achilles pursuing his Phrygian Hectors over
the dusty plains of Troy.
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Oriental
life and language continued, but in the towns and for purposes of government
both the language and the civilisation were Greek. Thus Alexander had done his
work. He had actually added the whole of Asia Minor, Phœnicia, and Egypt to the
Greek world. Curious traces of Hellenism are found even in distant India.
The Glory that was Greece: A Survey of Hellenic Culture & Civilisation by Stobart, J. C. Lippincott ,1911
Macedonian
Kings were proud of their Greek blood and it was only jaundiced opponents
like Demosthenes the Athenian who ventured to call them ‘’barbarians’’.
Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic world. by A. R. Burn,page 4
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King Philip of the northern Greek kingdom of Macedon
perfected this system,and his son,Alexander the Great, used it to conquer
Greece and Persian Empire.
Archer
Jones, The Art of War in the Western World,page 21
ABOUT THE BOOK
The magnum
opus of one of America's most respected military historians, The Art of War in
the Western World has earned its place as the standard work on how the three
major operational components of war--tactics, logistics, and strategy--have
evolved and changed over time. This monumental work encompasses 2,500 years of
military history, from infantry combat in ancient Greece through the
dissolution of the Roman Empire to the Thirty Years' War and from the
Napoleonic campaigns through World War II, which Jones sees as the culmination
of modern warfare, to the Israeli-Egyptian War of 1973.
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he believed
himself to be the son of Zeus, the king of the Greek gods
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He made
Egypt and the middle east parts of the greek world, and he initiated the spread
of Greek ideas and philosophy far beyong Greece
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Where as
the Athenians governed themselves as a democracy, Macedon was still ruled by a
type of monarchy that had dissapeared from other greek city-states centuries
before
page 10
Alexander
the Great: Macedonian King and Conqueror
Ancient
Leaders Series
Leaders of
ancient Greece
Bernard
Randall
Professor Paul Cartledge of the University of Cambridge asserts that ancient Macedonian was a Greek dialect not easily understood by other Greeks
Alexander the Great
At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty-six he had made himself master of the once mighty Persian Empire. By the time of his death, aged only thirty-three, in 323 BCE he was ruler of the known world and was being worshipped as a god by the Greeks, both at Babylon, where he died, and further west, among the Greek cities of the Asiatic seaboard. The fruit of a lifetime's scholarship and meticulous research, this is an outstanding biography of one of the most remarkable rulers in history.
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If the
Ptolemies did not found cities in Egypt the way the Seleukids did in Asia and
Asia Minor, they did settle tens of thousands of Greco-Macedonians and other
settlers.
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Mainly it
was Greek Macedonians who were settled.
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An important
feature of Ptolemaic history and historiography has been the dichotomy between Greek and Egyptian cultures.
Modern
scholarship has intimately linked Hellenistic colonization with the Greek side,
with Greek culture. We might then expect new settlements to reflect this
greekness. The city of Alexandria provides a good example. It was a settlement
with a Greek-Macedonian origin.
Its
founder, Alexander the Great, was a Greek-speaking Macedonian, its second
founder Ptolemy I, a Greek Macedonian general; its architects Deinokrates and Sostratos
of Knidos were both Greeks.
The city’s
grid plan was Greek Hippodamian. Ptolemaic colonization which followed might
thus be viewed as a Greek phenomenon owning its origin and structure to Greek
town planning.
Settlementsof the Ptolemies:City Foundations and New Settlement in the Hellenistic World,
Katja Mueller (2006)
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