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30 Facts about the Greekness of Macedonian Kingdom, Alexander The Great and his

people.
1)The Whole Alexander's linage was greek, 26 kings before alexander, all with gr
eek names like amyntas, argaios,krateros,karanos and so on (can write the full l
ist).
2)His mother was mollosian not illyrian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molossians
3)The Macedonians didn't conquered the greeks, the wanted to win the superpower
of the greece at that time Athens and the athenian leauge, he didn't concuer the
spartans and the laconians or the cretans but they help them to his panhellenic
dream.
4)Alexanders grandfather (alexander the first) was the first macedonian who take
d place to the athenian olympic games telling that his ancestors where from argo
s, the judgement's found him telling the truth.
5)Demosthenes says not that the macedonians are barbarians but that the king phi
llip act like a barbarian cuz he want to see the people who made a contract long
time ago (means the athenians and all the other states including ylliria cuz at
that time they where greek) under him.
6)The Macedonian people gene tree - including only greek people = Hercules + Dih
neira -> Yllos --> Kleodeos --> Aristomachos --> Timenos --> Karanos (karanos th
e 1st macedonian king) - (i go from father to son except dihneira one of woman o
f hercules.
7)The Macedonians were speaking the doric dialect (having some diffrences like ?
???? was called d???? ?=d)as the spartans and the west cretans, as a cretan i st
ill understand 3 of 4 dialects of ancient people (doric, ionic(give modern greek
), achaic).
8)People Of Iran and other east countries called the macedonians Yuna, meaning i
wnes (???e?) or simply what you call Greek.
9)Alexander's commander called Philwtas (F???ta?), was to a trial, he said "i am
not gonna apologize about my mistake cuz among us are other greeks and the can
understand us perfectly".
10)macedonians taked their name from the word a?ed??? or macednos and meaning tal
l, as a cretan i have the same work ???? instead of the athinian modern and ancie
nt ???? (we use both as cretans).
11)Macedonian historians and astronomers like aristotelis and dimokritus have gr
eek names that today can easily understand them (??????t?? = From ???? + ???t?? the one who judge the crowd) and ???st?t???? = From 'A??st? meaning perfect and
????? meaning end.
12)"sUN" of vergina was a panhellenic symbol of unity and strenght of the people
that where from the argead dynasty (remember karanos), cretans had the same wit
hout "macedonians" haved concuered or ben to their island. http://symboldictiona
ry.net/?p=4553
13)Isocrates refering in "?? ?????? t?? ???????" meaning all the greeks, without
seperating the macedonians from them, when he told about the panhellenic idea o
f unity.
14)First capital of the macedonian kingdom was a city called aiges (???e?) the g
reek name of the animal goats, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caranus_of_Macedon (
read view of historians section).
15)The First macedonians where called ??e?de? (see 14 fact) and had many more na
mes that are only greek like --) argeads, cadmeians, dorians, ageads, macedonian
s, timenids, herculeans.
16)Sister of Alexander and the capital of modern macedonia (the greek i mean of
course) called thessalwnnikh meaning (Tessa??? ????), from a great battle betwee
n the greek kingdoms of thessaly and macedonia.
17)When King Dusan the serb concuered the macedonians started call himself "King
of Serbs and Greeks" - If serb see this tell us is truth?
18)Strabon (St?a??) http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AC%CE%B2%C
F%89%CE%BD say ?st?? e ??? ????? ?a? ? ?a?ed???a, ???? ??t?? t? f?se? t?? t?p?? a?
????????te? ?a? t? s??at? ????? ????e? ap? t?? ????? ????d?? t??a? ?a? s????a? p??
? ????? a?t?? T????? i bet modern greeks can understand this, but is about the slav

ic people so here what this historian say (The macedons are greeks from doric an
chestry like the spartans and corithians from the same country but the spartans
call it doric but the macedons call it ?a?ed??.
19)Appolondwros (?p?????d????), say that the greek dorians from an oldest time (
ancient time at the time of ancient greek era - hellenistic or homeric) are the
argeiads (son called argos) and the pellasgeians (son called pelasgo) sons of ni
obh (???? meaning ??? = Young and ?? from life).
20)The persian knew that a greek called (??t?as???a?) - a macedonian was show res
pect to the "barbarian king" as today cretans do ,and many other ancient greeks
at that time.
21)The roman titus livius stating this << ??t????, ?? ??a??a??? ?a? ?? ?a?ed??e?
, ??d?e? ???a? ???ss??, e?????? ? ????s???? ???? as?a?t?? a?t??? ?? ?p??e? efa?????ta
? ap? ?a???? e?? ?a????>> (this looks like today greek 99%) translation "aetolia
ns, akarnians and macedons people of the same language fighting over things with
out power from time to time and other times united. http://history-of-macedonia.
com/2007/03/18/ancient-writers-about-macedonia-titus-livius-2/
22)All the greeks were speaking the ????? the common greek language without the
minimal diffrences between them and the macedonians where no exception.
23)Macedonians had allies barbaric tried that before had bee greek like chaones
and illyrians, that's a plus to ( not respect them) other greeks like the thraci
an (T????d?d??) to call them greeks but again don't fully respect them.
24)Lycimachos was a macedonian bodyguard of alexander and after his death the th
racian king (after alexanders death his kingdom got seperated). (Lysimachos = ??
s?? <-- modern greek as well as ancient and ???? <-- the same. greeks know him fr
om the battle of kouropediou (?????ped??? <-- 100% greek name).
25)Herodotus states that alexander <<was from an old greek generation and he wou
ldn't like to see the greeks concuered from anyone>>.
26)The macedonians, the spartans and the cretans had andra (??d?? or ??d?e?a or
??s?e?) groups that educated the youngsters, those where the grandfather ideas o
f the athenian education, when u see spartans we see laconic words (a non-greek
can't understand what that means).
27)All the macedonian winners of the olympic games (olympic sports had more than
one city) are all greeks with greeks name like --> ??t??????, ??as??,??e?ta?,???
??a??, ?e?d?????.
28)The ptolemeans had a 'queen' of egypt her name kleopatra, phillipos had also
a daughter called kleopatra besides thessalonikh (Kleopatra - ??e?p?t?a from ???
? meaning glory and pat?? meaning father).
29)alexanders name comes from ????? <-> ???? and a??? meaning the one who protec
t his men and not the one who push men as some greeks believe >.<
30)And something modern, modern cretans had send 3000men instead of 50 when the
greeks macedonians wanted 50cretan men to defend bulgarians at 1912, also us (th
e cretan) at that time we didn't had crete or been united with the other greek p
arts (athens and pelloponesus).
If someone want to change or correct something please do that without be hostile
and prove facts or sourses also i am not gonna allow dog-fights in my comment s
ection.
Thanks. >.<

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