European maps of Macedonia before the 19th century

It was common practice in the Soviet Union and its satellites to condemn democratic countries as fascistic and to extol the virtues of one party "peoples democracies". In the mindframe of the Macedonists of FYROM, anyone who may have supported the Greekness of Macedonia is a "lier" and a "propagandist". That includes apparently also the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment and the intellectuals who promoted Greek studies. Among them were the philhellenes Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, George Byron, Percy Byshe Shelley, Eugene Delacroix and many others, many indeed who even died for Greece during the war of independence.

Left with a big void between themselves and the Macedonians who lived 2500 years ago, the FYROMacedonian campaigners, rather than reform their extreme viewpoint, have decided to disprove that Greece has existed. The reasoning is that if it can be proven that Greece never existed and that the Greeks have assumed this name out of the blue because it is presumably nice, then the Slavs of FYROM can assume for themselves the nice name of Macedonia. So according to their proposals, everything Greek was invented either by the modern Greeks or by everyone else, eg. various professors and the philhellenes. These are the views one finds in FYROMacedonian nationalistic websites, such as MakNews. The European intellectuals and the European universities along with the Greeks have conspired to invent history. In an effort to persuade everybody that Greece was an idea thought about by some idle Europeans at the time of the early 1800´s, Stefov and others have recently "challenged" Greeks to show maps of Greece printed before the 19th century:

"And no, the Philhellenes did not have access to a time machine to connect the Modern Greeks to the ancients; they just falsified history to do it. If you don´t believe us then show us a map made before the 19th century showing "Greece" or "Hellas"!


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