Modern Historians about Macedonia – Frederic Harrison

 

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 

 

Modern historians about Macedonia – Kenneth Meyer Setton

 

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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.

 

📖 The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 Vol. 2: The Fifteenth Century By Kenneth Meyer Setton, page 28

 

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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

Modern historians about Macedonia - Robert Morkot

 

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