[Defiant]

Good Lord, maybe Greeks ARE the world's biggest crybabies. It's a name! It describes a region. We still call it Indiana, even though all the Indians are gone, and whether or not the people who live in present day Macedonia are descendents of the people who lived there in Alexander's time, it's still Macedonia. I think Greece has bigger problems than what their neighbor slavs choose to call themselves--like being the most anti-American European country around, and having just barely emerged from the third world economically.

Place names are one of the things that survive conquest and that tell us of the one time existence of people long since gone. Place names in Italy tell us of an Etruscan past, and in Britain of a Celtic one. In southern Russia, place names have Iranian origins, and in Anatolia, many have Greek origins. Sicily was a Greek colony. Is it ok to call it Sicily still? Thanks.

Give it a rest.

[DTA]

>>>>>>>and whether or not the people who live in present day Macedonia are descendents of the people who lived there in Alexander's time, it's still Macedonia.<<<<<

You have answered your own question. Macedonia of ALEXANDER the Great has nothing to do with the territory of present day "Macedonia". They are different geographical entities. That's why this is fraud.

Imagine the sctipt: Cuban province Matanzas breaks out from Cuba, declared independence and call itself FLORIDA, using the Star Spnghled Banner and U.S. Coat of Arms as state symbols, claiming Jorge Washington was their president usurped by Americans and claiming Florida panhandle as their territory? Imagine Chicoms recognize Matanzas under name Florida.

How would State Department react?