[Cronos]

Alex was born in Pella which is in Greece

However he was ethnically Greek - his family was from Greece proper and they ruled over a mixed-"race" empire of Greeks and Dacians/Thracians

He was not Slavic like the majority of people in North Macedonia - the Slavs came in the 6th century with the collapse of the Avar Khaganate (Avars were Mongol-ic people) and the Graeco-Romans moved south, depopulating the lands

It would be like the English claiming King Arthur (a Briton ruler who fought against the Anglo-Saxons) as their own

[Jonty30]

Thank you for that.
If he’s Greek, that’s who should be celebrating his history.
I agree with you in principle, that if a person doesn’t have anything to do with your history than you shouldn’t be building statues in their honour.

[vladimir998]

You might find this interesting: https://www.mpg.de/18495750/0330-evan-origins-of-the-avars-elucidated-with-ancient-dna-150495-x