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George Nakratzas

Dr. GEORGE NAKRATZAS

Interview with the Anti-Nationalist

Interview by George Stamkos, March 16, 2011

source in GR


Dr. GEORGE NAKRATZAS; "In Greece, I believe that the number of psychiatrists should be doubled, because otherwise I don't see you doing well!"

Nationalists love to hate him. At the mere mention of his name, they act Pavlovian, like a bull in front of a “red flag.” The so-called “progressives” usually have a sour expression on their faces when forced to refute his arguments and positions. On the contrary, he is supported by the “dissident intellectuals” of Greece and all sorts of anti-nationalists, who have managed to escape the nationalist “brainwashing” of the Greek educational system.

Dr. George Nakratzas is considered by many to be a controversial figure, except of course for those who have read his “heretical” books, which refute our “national myths” and the various “self-evident truths” that they cultivate. Dr. George Nakratzas is a writer and publisher (Batavia Publications), who does not live permanently in Greece, although he visits it very often. Specifically, he lives in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where he worked for many years as a pulmonologist, while for a number of years he was also the director of a clinic. He began writing his “heretical” books in the 1980s and the writings caused a “huge uproar”, especially among the intolerant nationalist circles of our country. Today, among other things, he is also a political advisor to the EFA (European Free Alliance), and a collaborator of EBLUL , the European Union's body for the less spoken languages ​​in the old continent. Last September, Batavia Publications republished the infamous ABECEDAR , an alphabet book that the Greek state published in 1925 for the education of the so-called "Macedonian minority" in northern Greece, but then decided to withdraw it. The republishing of this book is sure to cause many reactions, from "well-known circles" and not only. So, on the occasion of the republishing of the "heretical" ABECEDAR , we found Giorgos Nakratzas and "interrogated" him, so that he could publicly state his own opinion to the anxious readers of ZENITH...

First published in Greece as "I steni ethnoloyiki syngenia ton simerinon Ellinon, Voulgaron kai Tourkon, 1988"


Interview by George Stamkos, March 16, 2011

Stamkos: Mr. Nakratzas, what prompted you to study the "forbidden history" of the modern Greek state, and specifically to study the issue of the assimilation/disappearance of "disturbing" minorities from the territory of present-day Greece?

Nakratzas: The first and most important reason for this study is the fact that ideologically I am against any form of forced assimilation and especially against any disappearance of Minorities. This political ideology is not only my own political philosophy, but it is the ideological foundation on which the European Union is based today.

But emotionally equally important is the fact that both my parents were refugees from eastern Thrace and Asia Minor, belonging to the most tragic Greek Minority. This Minority was destroyed by Eleftherios Venizelos, that most capable exponent of the paranoid Great Idea.

Both my parents' families lived in Turkey with a significant fortune, and were transferred to Greek Macedonia, destitute, due to the forced population exchange, which was due to Venizelos and not the Turks as is generally believed.

It is worth noting that the compensations that were generally given for refugees, both from abroad and from the then League of Nations, were robbed by the rodents of the Greek state...


Stamkos: One of your first books – which in fact made you particularly “unpleasant” among nationalists – was entitled The Close Ethnological Affinity of Modern Greeks, Bulgarians and Turks (Batavia Publishing, 1988). Why do you believe that these three neighboring peoples, who have historically been “implacable enemies” of each other, display such a close ethnological affinity?

Nakratzas: Here I must confess that the title of the first edition of my book contains a fundamental error. Specifically, it is not about an ethnological kinship between the peoples of the Balkans, it is simply about a close racial kinship. The national identity of each individual is a cultural concept, on the contrary, racial identity depends not on culture but on the chromosomes of each citizen, provided that these are recognizable.

Both the Greeks and the Turks, Bulgarians or ethnic Macedonians consist of a mosaic of peoples or tribes which of course, depending on the region, consists of very similar chromosomal traits. I analyze this issue in detail in my books, which contradicts the myths we are taught in schools…


Stamkos: What problems did you encounter when you first published a book that said things “forbidden” by Greek nationalist historiography? Has Greek society changed since the 1980s regarding the acceptance of diversity, different points of view, and minorities?

Nakratzas: The problems that were created were quite numerous, because modern Greek society has not yet entered the phase of ideological Renaissance, like Western Europe, but is more or less in a phase between theocracy and modernism. The consequence of this is that the average Modern Greek does not even tolerate discussion on so-called national issues , of course the obscurantist role of the Church being predominant.

So far, nothing has changed in the issues you mention, only the international conditions have changed because the "Cocoons" , i.e. the European Union, will not allow Europe to regress to theocracy. Do not forget that the revolution of 1821 had failed and thanks to the sacrifices of the Europeans, i.e. the English sailors in the naval battle of Navarino and the French soldiers of General Maison's army in the Peloponnese, Greece was liberated, which is almost hidden.


Stamkos: Certain nationalists, having negatively interpreted the books you write and publish as well as your positions regarding the “non-existent” Slavo-Macedonian minority in Greece, have attacked you from time to time and have accused you of serious characterizations, such as “anti-Hellenic”, “janissary”, “agent”, etc. Recently, you even had a legal adventure with a far-right leaflet, which you won. What do you have to answer to all those who accuse you of these accusations?

Nakratzas: The behavior of the nationalists is self-evident because these miserable Modern Greeks are nothing more than the victims of our so-called "noble blindness", as a Greek intellectual expressed it.

Nationalist propaganda, I would rather say "brainwashing", in school, in the army, in the church and elsewhere, has created that reflexive mindset according to which anyone who does not agree with us is a traitor, a sellout, an agent and does not get along...

In Greece, I believe that the number of psychiatrists should be doubled because otherwise I don't see you doing well!


Stamkos: You are, as is known, also a political advisor to EFA and a collaborator of EBLUL , the European Union body for the least spoken languages ​​in the old continent. Why should the EU intervene in issues of “national policy” and press for the rights of “non-existent” minorities in Greece?

Nakratzas: Your question is highly provocative. Mr. Stamkos, Modern Greeks must understand that the era when every state can do whatever it wants with its minorities, both linguistic and cultural, religious or national, is over. This is exactly what the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country of Albanian origin, Mr. Pangalos, said, who now claims to be a direct descendant of Alexander the Great.

Human rights are not issues of national politics, as you say, but are issues that concern the whole of Europe. Anyone who dares to violate them violently will be imprisoned in The Hague, where Milosevic was also "hosted"...


Stamkos: The official position of the Greek state is that in Greece "there are no national minorities", but only one religious one, the Muslim minority of Western Thrace, recognized by the Treaty of Lausanne (1923). Is this really the case? Why does Greece insist on denying the existence of minorities on its territory?

Nakratzas: For the simple reason that those in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs suffer from a kind of autistic syndrome, that is, they live in their own world without being able to perceive what is happening in the outside world. The clock in the brain of these people stopped at the date 1903.


Stamkos: In our country, the dominant view is that in Greek Macedonia there are only Greeks. They say that the Slavic-Macedonian minority is non-existent, that it is a propaganda construct of Tito and the Skopjes, which lacks historical and ethnological basis. What is your view on this?

Nakratzas: This absurd view is very commonly heard, a fact which forms the basis of today's Greek nationalist propaganda. Documents are still preserved today in the archives of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs which state that in the then Ottoman Macedonia there were Greeks, Turks and Macedonians (The Macedonians, according to the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had no relation to the Greek-speaking inhabitants and were known as Makedonski, later they were called Slavo-Macedonians by the KKE).

In 1870, the Bulgarian Exarchate was created, so Greek propaganda, in order to convince the Slavic-speaking Macedonians not to fall under the influence of Bulgarian propaganda, cultivated in them the idea that they were not Bulgarians but descendants of the ancient Macedonians! The worst thing is that both they and we believed the myth, with results that are visible to this day.

The officials of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs either do not know or pretend not to know that the first congress of the then Macedonian intellectuals took place in 1897 in Thessaloniki, in the presence of Delchev. Unfortunately for them, however, these young Macedonians were socialists, and not pro-royalists, which was something of a red flag for the ruling class of Europe at the time. It should be noted that 20 years later the October Revolution broke out, with all the well-known consequences.

The national identity of the Macedonians is therefore not a creation of Tito but existed since that time, at least among that portion of Macedonians who were politically aware.

Now the funny argument that the Macedonians of the Republic of Macedonia lack a historical and ethnological basis should not even be mentioned as an anecdote, because all the peoples of the Balkans, including us Greeks, are made up of a mosaic of peoples and tribes.

Both the inhabitants of the Republic of Macedonia and the current inhabitants of the Republic of Greece have no or little relation to the ancient Macedonians, the medieval Slavs, or the ancient Greeks.

For example, about half of the inhabitants of today's Peloponnese and almost all of the inhabitants of today's Attica-Boeotia are descendants of Albanians who came there in the 14th century AD. A huge percentage of the Greeks of Epirus, central Greece and Pindos are descendants of Slavs, Latin-speaking Vlachs and Albanians who came to these parts after the 6th , 9th and 13th - 14th centuries AD.

This reality, of course, applies to all the peoples of the Balkans and Europe, and the funny anecdote that we are a brotherly people even goes beyond the limits of paranoia.


Stamkos: You, if I remember correctly, are of Asia Minor origin. But why are you so concerned about the rights of the so-called "Macedonian" minority in northern Greece? Why don't you deal, for example, with the rights of the Greeks of Constantinople or the Greeks of Northern Epirus?

Nakratzas: You are making a mistake, Mr. Stamko. My support for the rights of the ethnic Macedonians of our country has more to do with the issue of our democratization. The democratization of any country is measured by how much that country protects the rights of Minorities, whatever they may be. This is the meaning of my actions.

Regarding your second question, the answer is twofold, firstly, I do not deal with any minority unless I am asked by the Minority itself, and secondly, I believe that the issue of Minorities in each country is the exclusive obligation of the enlightened citizens of the countries in which the Minorities live.

In our country, one mainly sees people on the Left, and more specifically the leaders of the Coalition, tearing their clothes for the Kurds of Turkey or the Indians of Mexico. However, these same people act deaf or mute if you talk to them about ethnic Macedonians.

I observed this behavior years ago at a Synaspismos rally in Thessaloniki, specifically at the Aigli cinema, where their then president, Mr. Konstantopoulos, was also present. When I asked in an intervention whether we would give back to the Macedonians what we stole from them, namely their language, then of the approximately 5,000 gathered party supporters, approximately 25% applauded furiously and 75% swallowed their tongues!

Recently, the same theater of the absurd was played out at an open gathering in the square opposite the Acheiropoieto church, where the Secretary of the Coalition, Mr. Hountis, was present. When I publicly asked a question about the ethnic Macedonians, this very clever gentleman, in order to avoid answering, pretended to be an idiot, saying that he did not understand my question, and added that after the gathering he would speak to me personally to explain. Of course, I did not agree to wait and left the gathering…


Stamkos: What is the ABECEDAR reading book , which you just released from Batavia Publications? Why did you decide to publish a book that the Greek state published in 1925 for the Macedonian minority of northern Greece and then decided to withdraw it?

Nakratzas: I have already answered you, but I can add that I consider it the greatest sin to steal from a people their native language. I refer you to Thanasis Triaridis's amazing article "A severed tongue". Because of this article, after the newspaper Makedonia refused to publish it, this amazing young writer interrupted his collaboration with the newspaper.

Many Greeks fear that if, for example, the existence of a Slav-Macedonian minority in Greece is recognized and certain cultural rights are granted, then this will activate separatist and separatist tendencies that may even lead to the secession of Greek territories... Are the Greeks "paranoid" or do they have reason to believe such a thing?

These Greeks are not born paranoid, they are completely normal people, but they have become so due to the constant nationalistic "brainwashing" by the school, the army and the church.


Stamkos: What is your opinion on Greek nationalism in general? What is its qualitative difference compared to other European nationalisms, e.g. French, Italian, etc.?

Nakratzas: We should not associate nationalism with patriotism. Patriotism teaches one to defend one's homeland from dangers, just as one has a duty to defend one's home and family if criminals invade one's home. Nationalism in general is a criminal theory, which teaches intolerance and the destruction of what is different.


Stamkos: What is your opinion about the Greek Church and especially Archbishop Christodoulos?

Nakratzas: What can I say, it would take an entire interview to answer this question about the man who said that to solve the Cyprus problem we need cannons (it is mentioned in detail in Mr. Vasilakis' book The Scourge of God ). For this priest I feel the greatest contempt that any normal person can possibly feel.


Stamkos: You have recently stated that Greece has been experiencing a kind of “spiritual renaissance” in recent years, with groups of dissident democratic intellectuals boldly moving towards the emergence of historical truth away from “national myths” and nationalist ideological blindness. Is this really happening or is it just wishful thinking?

Nakratzas: Of course, this is the case, and I could with great pleasure mention the following Greek authors: Messrs. Nikos Dimou, Thanasis Triaridis, Dionysis Gousetis, Dimitris Lithoxosou, Giorgos Tsiakalos and others whom I do not know personally.


Stamkos: What is the Greece you envision?

Nakratzas: A truly democratic Greece and not semi-fascist, at least when it comes to human rights...


source in GR : Zenith, New İdealistic Cultural Current


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Δρ. ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ ΝΑΚΡΑΤΖΑΣ

Συνέντευξη με τον Αντι-Εθνικιστή

Δρ. ΓΙΩΡΓΟ ΝΑΚΡΑΤΖΑ

«Στην Ελλάδα πιστεύω ότι θα πρέπει να διπλασιαστεί ο αριθμός των ψυχιάτρων, διότι αλλιώς δεν σας βλέπω να την βγάζετε καλά!» Δρ. Γ. Νακρατζάς

Οι εθνικιστές λατρεύουν να τον μισούν. Στο άκουσμα και μόνο του ονόματός του λειτουργούν παβλοφιανά, όπως ένας ταύρος μπροστά σε «κόκκινο πανί». Οι δήθεν «προοδευτικοί» έχουν συνήθως ξινισμένη έκφραση στα πρόσωπα τους, όταν αναγκάζονται να αντικρούσουν τα επιχειρήματα και τις θέσεις του. Αντίθετα τον υποστηρίζουν οι «αντιφρονούντες διανοούμενοι» της Ελλάδας και οι κάθε λογής αντι-εθνικιστές, που έχουν κατορθώσει να ξεφύγουν από την εθνικιστική «πλύση εγκεφάλου» του ελληνικού εκπαιδευτικού συστήματος.

Ο Δρ. Γιώργος Νακρατζάς θεωρείται από πολλούς ένα αμφιλεγόμενο πρόσωπο, εκτός βέβαια από εκείνους που έχουν διαβάσει τα «αιρετικά» βιβλία του, τα οποία καταρρίπτουν τους «εθνικούς μύθους» μας και τις διάφορες «αυταπόδεικτες αλήθειες» που αυτοί καλλιεργούν. Ο Δρ. Γιώργος Νακρατζάς, είναι συγγραφέας και εκδότης (εκδόσεις Μπατάβια), που δεν ζει μόνιμα στην Ελλάδα, αν και την επισκέπτεται πολύ συχνά. Συγκεκριμένα ζει στο Ρότερνταμ της Ολλανδίας, όπου εργάστηκε για πολλά χρόνια ως ιατρός-πνευμονολόγος, ενώ επί σειρά ετών υπήρξε και διευθυντής κλινικής. Ξεκίνησε τη συγγραφή των «αιρετικών» του βιβλίων τη δεκαετία του 1980 και τα συγγράμματα προκάλεσαν «σάλο», ιδιαίτερα ανάμεσα στους μισαλλόδοξους εθνικιστικούς κύκλους της χώρας μας. Σήμερα, ανάμεσα στ’ άλλα, είναι και πολιτικός σύμβουλος της EFA (European Free Alliance), και συνεργάτης της EBLUL, δηλαδή του οργάνου της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης για τις λιγότερο ομιλούμενες γλώσσες στη γηραιά ήπειρο. Τον περασμένο Σεπτέμβριο οι εκδόσεις Μπατάβια επανεκδώσανε το περιβόητο ABECEDAR, ένα αλφαβητάρι που εξέδωσε το 1925 το ελληνικό κράτος για την εκπαίδευση της λεγόμενης «μακεδονικής μειονότητας» στη βόρεια Ελλάδα, αλλά κατόπιν αποφάσισε να το αποσύρει. Η επανέκδοση αυτού του βιβλίου είναι σίγουρο ότι θα προκαλέσει πολλές αντιδράσεις, από «γνωστούς κύκλους» και όχι μόνον. Με αφορμή λοιπόν την επανέκδοση του «αιρετικού» ABECEDAR, βρήκαμε τον Γιώργο Νακρατζά και τον «ανακρίναμε», ώστε να καταθέσει δημοσίως τη δική του άποψη στους ανήσυχους αναγνώστες του ΖΕΝΙΘ …

Συνέντευξη στον Γιώργο Στάμκο

Κύριε Νακρατζά τι ήταν αυτό που σας ώθησε στη μελέτη της «απαγορευμένης ιστορίας» του σύγχρονου ελληνικού κράτους, και συγκεκριμένα στη μελέτη του ζητήματος της αφομοίωσης / εξαφάνισης των «ενοχλητικών» μειονοτήτων από το έδαφος της σημερινής Ελλάδας;

Πρώτη και σημαντική αιτία αυτής της μελέτης αποτελεί το γεγονός ότι ιδεολογικά είμαι εναντίον κάθε μορφής βιαίας αφομοίωσης και ιδιαίτερα εναντίον οποιασδήποτε εξαφάνισης Μειονοτήτων. Η πολιτική αυτή ιδεολογία δεν αποτελεί μόνο δική μου πολιτική φιλοσοφία, αλλά είναι το ιδεολογικό βάθρο πάνω στο οποίο στηρίζεται σήμερα η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση.

Συναισθηματικά όμως εξίσου σημαντικό είναι το γεγονός ότι και οι δύο γονείς μου ήταν πρόσφυγες προερχόμενοι από την ανατολική Θράκη και τη Μικρά Ασία, ανήκοντες στην πιο τραγική ελληνική Μειονότητα. Τη Μειονότητα αυτήν την κατέστρεψε ο Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος, ο ικανότατος αυτός εκφραστής της παρανοϊκής Μεγάλης Ιδέας.

Οι οικογένειες και των δύο γονιών μου ζούσαν στην Τουρκία έχοντας μια σημαντική περιουσία, μεταφέρθηκαν δε πάμφτωχοι στην ελληνική Μακεδονία λόγω της υποχρεωτικής ανταλλαγής των πληθυσμών, η οποία οφείλεται στον Βενιζέλο και όχι στους Τούρκους όπως γενικά πιστεύεται.

Αξίζει δε να σημειωθεί ότι τις αποζημιώσεις που δόθηκαν γενικά για τους πρόσφυγες τόσο από το εξωτερικό όσο και από την τότε Κοινωνία των Εθνών τις λήστεψαν τα τρωκτικά του ελλαδικού κράτους…

Ένα από τα πρώτα βιβλία σας –το οποίο μάλιστα σας έκανε ιδιαίτερα «δυσάρεστο» στους κόλπους των εθνικιστών– είχε τον τίτλο Η Στενή Εθνολογική Συγγένεια των Σημερινών Ελλήνων, Βουλγάρων και Τούρκων (εκδ. Μπατάβια, 1988). Γιατί θεωρείτε πως αυτοί οι τρεις γειτονικοί λαοί, που υπήρξαν ιστορικά και «άσπονδοι εχθροί» μεταξύ τους, παρουσιάζουν τόσο στενή εθνολογική συγγένεια;

Εδώ θα πρέπει να ομολογήσω ότι ο τίτλος της πρώτης έκδοσης του βιβλίου μου αυτού περιέχει ένα βασικό λάθος. Συγκεκριμένα δεν πρόκειται για εθνολογική συγγένεια ανάμεσα στους λαούς των Βαλκανίων, απλώς πρόκειται για μια στενή φυλετική συγγένεια. Η εθνική ταυτότητα κάθε ατόμου αποτελεί μια πολιτιστική έννοια, αντιθέτως η φυλετική ταυτότητα εξαρτάται όχι από τον πολιτισμό αλλά από τα χρωματοσώματα κάθε πολίτη, εφόσον βέβαια αυτά είναι αναγνωρίσιμα.

Τόσο οι Έλληνες όσο και οι Τούρκοι, Βούλγαροι ή εθνικά Μακεδόνες αποτελούνται από ένα μωσαϊκό λαών ή φυλών το οποίο βέβαια, ανάλογα με την περιοχή, αποτελείται από συγγενέστατα χρωματοσωμικά γνωρίσματα. Το θέμα αυτό το αναλύω λεπτομερειακά στα βιβλία μου, πράγμα που έρχεται σε αντίθεση με τους μύθους που μας μαθαίνουν στα σχολεία…

Τι προβλήματα συναντήσατε όταν εκδώσατε για πρώτη φορά ένα βιβλίο, που έλεγε πράγματα «απαγορευμένα» από την ελληνική εθνικιστική ιστοριογραφία; Άλλαξε η ελληνική κοινωνία σε σχέση με τη δεκαετία του 1980 σχετικά με την αποδοχή της διαφορετικότητας, της διαφορετικής άποψης και των μειονοτήτων;

Τα προβλήματα που δημιουργήθηκαν ήταν αρκετά, αυτό διότι η νεοελληνική κοινωνία δεν έχει υπεισέλθει ακόμα στην φάση της ιδεολογικής Αναγέννησης, όπως η Δυτική Ευρώπη, αλλά βρίσκεται περίπου σε μια φάση μεταξύ θεοκρατίας και μοντερνισμού. Συνέπεια αυτού είναι το ότι ο μέσος Νεοέλληνας δεν ανέχεται καν συζήτηση πάνω στα λεγόμενα εθνικά θέματα, προεξάρχοντος βέβαια του σκοταδιστικού ρόλου της Εκκλησίας.

Μέχρι στιγμής δεν άλλαξε τίποτε στα θέματα που αναφέρεσθε, απλώς άλλαξαν οι διεθνείς συνθήκες διότι οι «Κουτόφραγκοι», δηλαδή η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση δεν θα επιτρέψουν την οπισθοδρόμηση της Ευρώπης στη θεοκρατία. Μην ξεχνάτε ότι η επανάσταση του 1821 είχε αποτύχει και χάρη στις θυσίες των Ευρωπαίων, δηλαδή των Άγγλων ναυτών στη ναυμαχία του Ναυαρίνου και των Γάλλων στρατιωτών του στρατού του στρατηγού Μαιζόν στην Πελοπόννησο, η Ελλάδα απελευθερώθηκε, πράγμα το οποίο σχεδόν αποκρύπτεται.

Ορισμένοι εθνικιστές, έχοντας ερμηνεύσει αρνητικά τα βιβλία που γράφετε κι εκδίδετε καθώς και τις θέσεις σας σχετικά με την «ανύπαρκτη» σλαβομακεδονική μειονότητα στην Ελλάδα, σας έχουν επιτεθεί κατά καιρούς και σας έχουν προσάψει βαρείς χαρακτηρισμούς, όπως π.χ. «ανθέλληνας», «γενίτσαρος», «πράκτορας» κλπ. Τελευταία μάλιστα είχατε και μια δικαστική περιπέτεια με μια ακροδεξιά φυλλάδα, την οποία και κερδίσατε. Τι έχετε να απαντήσετε σε όλους αυτούς που σας προσάπτουν αυτές τις κατηγορίες;

Η συμπεριφορά των εθνικιστών είναι αυτονόητη διότι οι ταλαίπωροι αυτοί Νεοέλληνες δεν είναι παρά τα θύματα της λεγόμενης «ευγενούςμας τύφλωσης», όπως ακριβώς εξέφρασε κάποιος Έλληνας διανοούμενος.

Η εθνικιστική προπαγάνδα, μάλλον θα έλεγα η «πλύση εγκεφάλου», στο σχολείο, στο στρατό, στην εκκλησία και αλλαχού, δημιούργησε εκείνο το σκεπτικό αντανακλαστικό σύμφωνα με το οποίο όποιος δεν συμφωνεί μαζί μας είναι προδότης, πουλημένος, πράκτορας και δεν συμμαζεύεται…

Στην Ελλάδα πιστεύω ότι θα πρέπει να διπλασιαστεί ο αριθμός των ψυχιάτρων διότι αλλιώς δεν σας βλέπω να την βγάζετε καλά!

Είστε, ως γνωστόν, και πολιτικός σύμβουλος της EFA και συνεργάτης της EBLUL, δηλαδή του οργάνου της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης για τις λιγότερο ομιλούμενες γλώσσες στη γηραιά ήπειρο. Γιατί η Ε.Ε. πρέπει να παρεμβαίνει σε ζητήματα «εθνικής πολιτικής» και να πιέζει για τα δικαιώματα των «ανύπαρκτων» μειονοτήτων στην Ελλάδα;

Η ερώτησή σας είναι έντονα προβοκατόρικη. Κύριε Στάμκο, πρέπει να καταλάβουν οι Νεοέλληνες ότι πέρασε πια η εποχή που μπορεί κάθε κράτος να κάνει ότι θέλει με τις μειονότητες του, τόσο τις γλωσσικές όσο και τις πολιτιστικές, θρησκευτικές ή εθνικές. Αυτά ακριβώς είπε και ο αρβανίτικης καταγωγής τέως Υπουργός Εξωτερικών της χώρας κύριος Πάγκαλος, ο οποίος τώρα μάλιστα δεν αποκλείεται να ισχυρίζεται ότι είναι και κατευθείαν απόγονος του μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου.

Τα ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα δεν είναι θέματα εθνικής πολιτικής, όπως λέτε, αλλά είναι θέματα που αφορούν σε ολόκληρη την Ευρώπη. Όποιος δε τολμήσει να τα καταπατήσει βιαίως τον περιμένουν οι φυλακές της Χάγης, εκεί δηλαδή που «φιλοξενήθηκε» και ο Μιλόσεβιτς…

Η επίσημη θέση του ελληνικού κράτους είναι ότι στην Ελλάδα «δεν υπάρχουν εθνικές μειονότητες», αλλά μόνο μία θρησκευτική, η μουσουλμανική μειονότητα της Δυτικής Θράκης, αναγνωρισμένη από τη Συνθήκη της Λοζάννης (1923). Είναι έτσι τα πράγματα; Γιατί η Ελλάδα επιμένει να αρνείται την ύπαρξη μειονοτήτων στο έδαφός της;

Για τον απλούστατο λόγο ότι οι υπεύθυνοι του Υπουργείου Εξωτερικών πάσχουν από ένα είδος αυτιστικού συνδρόμου, δηλαδή ζουν στον δικό τους κόσμο χωρίς να μπορούν να αντιληφθούν τι γίνεται στον έξω κόσμο. Το ρολόι του εγκεφάλου των ανθρώπων αυτών σταμάτησε στην ημερομηνία 1903.

Στη χώρα μας η κυρίαρχη άποψη είναι ότι στην ελληνική Μακεδονία υπάρχουν μόνον Έλληνες. Λένε ότι η σλαβομακεδονική μειονότητα είναι ανύπαρκτη, ότι πρόκειται για ένα προπαγανδιστικό κατασκεύασμα του Τίτο και των Σκοπίων, που στερείται ιστορικής και εθνολογικής βάσης. Ποια είναι η άποψη σας πάνω σ’ αυτό;

Αυτή η ανόητη άποψη ακούεται συνηθέστατα, γεγονός το οποίο αποτελεί την βάση της σημερινής ελληνικής εθνικιστικής προπαγάνδας. Διασώζονται και σήμερα ακόμη έγγραφα στα αρχεία του ελληνικού Υπουργείου των Εξωτερικών τα οποία αναφέρουν ότι στην τότε οθωμανική Μακεδονία κατοικούσαν Έλληνες, Τούρκοι και Μακεδόνες (Οι Μακεδόνες κατά το ελληνικό Υπουργείο των Εξωτερικών δεν είχαν σχέση με τους Ελληνόφωνους κατοίκους και ήταν γνωστοί σαν Μακεδόνσκι, αργότερα δε ονομάσθηκαν από το ΚΚΕ Σλαβομακεδόνες).

Το 1870 δημιουργήθηκε η βουλγαρική Εξαρχία, οπότε η ελληνική προπαγάνδα προκειμένου να πείσει τους σλαβόφωνους Μακεδόνες να μην περιέλθουν κάτω από την επιρροή της βουλγαρικής προπαγάνδας τους καλλιέργησε την ιδέα ότι δεν ήταν Βούλγαροι αλλά απόγονοι των αρχαίων Μακεδόνων! Το χειρότερο είναι ότι τον μύθο τον πιστέψαμε τόσο αυτοί όσο και εμείς, με αποτελέσματα που είναι ορατά μέχρι και σήμερα.

Οι αρμόδιοι του ελληνικού Υπουργείου των Εξωτερικών είτε δεν γνωρίζουν είτε κάνουν ότι δεν γνωρίζουν πως το πρώτο συνέδριο των τότε διανοούμενων Μακεδόνων έλαβε χώρα το 1897 στην Θεσσαλονίκη, παρουσία και του Ντέλτσεφ. Προς ατυχία τους όμως οι νεαροί αυτοί Μακεδόνες ήταν σοσιαλιστές, και όχι φιλοβασιλικοί, πράγμα το οποίο αποτελούσε για την άρχουσα τάξη της τότε Ευρώπης κάτι σαν κόκκινο πανί. Σημειωτέον ότι 20 χρόνια αργότερα ξέσπασε και η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση, με όλες τις γνωστές συνέπειες.

Η εθνική λοιπόν ταυτότητα των Μακεδόνων δεν είναι δημιούργημα του Τίτο αλλά υπήρχε από την εποχή ακόμα εκείνη, τουλάχιστον σε εκείνη την μερίδα των Μακεδόνων που ήταν συνειδητοποιημένοι πολιτικά.

Τώρα το αστείο επιχείρημα ότι οι Μακεδόνες της Δημοκρατίας της Μακεδονίας στερούνται ιστορικής και εθνολογικής βάσης δεν θα έπρεπε ούτε καν σαν ανέκδοτο να αναφέρεται, διότι όλοι οι λαοί των Βαλκανίων, συμπεριλαμβανομένων και ημών των Ελλήνων, αποτελούνται από ένα μωσαϊκό λαών και φυλών.

Τόσο οι κάτοικοι της Δημοκρατίας της Μακεδονίας όσο και οι σημερινοί κάτοικοι της Δημοκρατίας της Ελλάδας δεν έχουν καμία ή ελάχιστη σχέση με τους αρχαίους Μακεδόνες, τους μεσαιωνικούς Σλάβους ή τους αρχαίους Έλληνες.

Για παράδειγμα το ήμισυ περίπου των κατοίκων της σημερινής Πελοποννήσου και σχεδόν το σύνολο των κατοίκων της σημερινής Αττικοβοιωτίας είναι απόγονοι Αλβανών που ήρθαν εκεί τον 14ο αιώνα μ.Χ. Ένα τεράστιο ποσοστό των Ελλήνων της Ηπείρου, της κεντρικής Ελλάδας και της Πίνδου είναι απόγονοι Σλάβων, λατινόφωνων Βλάχων και Αλβανών που ήρθαν στα μέρη αυτά μετά τον 6ο τον 9ο και τον 13ο-14ο αιώνα μ.Χ .

Η πραγματικότητα αυτή ισχύει βέβαια για όλους τους λαούς των Βαλκανίων και της Ευρώπης, το δε αστείο ανέκδοτο ότι είμαστε ανάδελφος λαός ξεπερνάει ακόμα και τα όρια της παράνοιας.

Εσείς, αν θυμάμαι καλά, είστε Μικρασιατικής καταγωγής. Γιατί όμως κόπτεστε τόσο πολύ για τα δικαιώματα της λεγόμενης «μακεδονικής» μειονότητας στη βόρεια Ελλάδα; Γιατί δεν ασχολείστε π.χ. με τα δικαιώματα των Ρωμιών της Πόλης ή των Ελλήνων της Βορείου Ηπείρου;

Κάποιο λάθος κάνετε κύριε Στάμκο. Η υποστήριξή εκ μέρους μου των δικαιωμάτων των εθνικά Μακεδόνων της χώρας μας έχει να κάνει περισσότερο με το θέμα του εκδημοκρατισμού μας. Ο εκδημοκρατισμός κάθε χώρας μετριέται από το κατά πόσο η χώρα αυτή προστατεύει τα δικαιώματα των Μειονοτήτων, όποιες και να είναι αυτές. Αυτό είναι και το νόημα των πράξεων μου.

Όσον αφορά την δεύτερη ερώτησή σας η απάντηση είναι διττή, πρώτον δεν ασχολούμαι με οποιαδήποτε μειονότητα εάν δεν ερωτηθώ από την ίδια την Μειονότητα, και δεύτερον πιστεύω ότι το θέμα των Μειονοτήτων κάθε χώρας είναι αποκλειστική υποχρέωση των πεφωτισμένων πολιτών των χωρών στις οποίες οι Μειονότητες ζουν.

Στην χώρα μας βλέπει κανείς κυρίως τους ανθρώπους της Αριστεράς, και πιο συγκεκριμένα τους ιθύνοντες του Συνασπισμού, να σχίζουν τα ενδύματά τους για τους Κούρδους της Τουρκίας ή για τους Ινδιάνους του Μεξικού. Οι ίδιοι όμως αυτοί άνθρωποι παριστάνουν τους κουφούς ή τους βουβούς εάν τους μιλήσεις για τους εθνικά Μακεδόνες.

Την συμπεριφορά αυτή την διαπίστωσα πριν από χρόνια σε μια συγκέντρωση του Συνασπισμού στη Θεσσαλονίκη, συγκεκριμένα στον κινηματόγραφο Αίγλη, όπου ήταν παρόν και ο τότε πρόεδρός τους κύριος Κωνσταντόπουλος. Όταν σε μια παρέμβαση μου ερώτησα εάν θα δώσουμε πίσω στους Μακεδόνες αυτό που τους κλέψαμε, δηλαδή τη γλώσσα τους, τότε από τους 5.000 περίπου συγκεντρωμένους οπαδούς του κόμματος το 25% περίπου χειροκρότησε μανιωδώς και το 75% κατάπιε την γλώσσα του!

Πρόσφατα το ίδιο θέατρο του παραλόγου παίχθηκε σε μια ανοικτή συγκέντρωση στην πλατεία που είναι απέναντι από την εκκλησία Αχειροποίητο, όπου ήταν παρόν ο Γραμματέας του Συνασπισμού κύριος Χουντής. Όταν υπέβαλα δημοσίως μια ερώτηση για τους εθνικά Μακεδόνες ο πανέξυπνος αυτός κύριος για να αποφύγει την απάντηση προσποιήθηκε τον ηλίθιο, λέγοντας ότι δεν κατάλαβε την ερώτησή μου, πρόσθεσε δε ότι μετά την συγκέντρωση θα μου μιλούσε προσωπικά για να μου εξηγήσει. Φυσικά δεν καταδέχθηκα να περιμένω και εγκατέλειψα την συγκέντρωση…

Τι είναι το αναγνωστικό ABECEDAR, που μόλις βγάλατε από τις εκδόσεις Μπατάβια; Γιατί αποφασίσατε να εκδώσετε ένα βιβλίο που έβγαλε το ελληνικό κράτος το 1925 για τη σλαβομακεδονική μειονότητα της βόρειας Ελλάδας και κατόπιν αποφάσισε να το αποσύρει;

Σας έχω ήδη απαντήσει, μπορώ όμως να προσθέσω ότι θεωρώ μέγιστο αμάρτημα το να κλέψεις από ένα λαό την μητρική του γλώσσα. Σας παραπέμπω στο καταπληκτικό άρθρο του Θανάση Τριαρίδη «Μια κομμένη γλώσσα». Λόγω του άρθρου αυτού, μετά την άρνηση της εφημερίδας Μακεδονία να το δημοσιεύσει, διέκοψε ο καταπληκτικός αυτός νεαρός συγγραφέας την συνεργασία του με την εφημερίδα.

Πολλοί Έλληνες φοβούνται ότι αν π.χ. αναγνωριστεί η ύπαρξη σλαβομακεδονικής μειονότητας στην Ελλάδα και δοθούν κάποια πολιτιστικά δικαιώματα, τότε αυτό θα ενεργοποιήσει αυτονομιστικές και αποσχιστικές τάσεις που ίσως οδηγήσουν και στην απόσπαση ελληνικών εδαφών… Είναι οι Έλληνες «παρανοϊκοί» ή έχουν λόγους να πιστεύουν κάτι τέτοιοι;

Αυτοί οι Έλληνες δεν εκ γενετής παρανοϊκοί, είναι εντελώς φυσιολογικοί άνθρωποι αλλά έτσι τους κατάντησε η συνεχής εθνικιστική «πλύση εγκεφάλου» από το σχολείο, τον στρατό και την εκκλησία.

Ποια είναι η άποψη σας για τον ελληνικό εθνικισμό γενικότερα; Ποια είναι η ποιοτική του διαφορά σε σχέση με τους άλλους ευρωπαϊκούς εθνικισμούς π.χ. τον γαλλικό, τον ιταλικό κ.α.;

Δεν πρέπει να συνδέουμε τον εθνικισμό με τον πατριωτισμό. Ο πατριωτισμός διδάσκει να υπερασπίζεται κανείς την πατρίδα του από κινδύνους, όπως και έχει χρέος να υπερασπισθεί κανείς το σπίτι του και την οικογένεια του εάν εισβάλουν στο σπίτι του εγκληματίες. Ο εθνικισμός γενικά είναι μια εγκληματική θεωρία, η οποία διδάσκει την μη ανοχή και την καταστροφή του διαφορετικού.

Ποια είναι η άποψη σας για την Ελλαδική Εκκλησία και ιδιαίτερα για τον αρχιεπίσκοπο Χριστόδουλο;

Τι να απαντήσω, εδώ θα χρειασθεί ολόκληρη συνέντευξη για να απαντήσω σχετικά με τον άνθρωπο αυτό που είπε ότι για την επίλυση του προβλήματος της Κύπρου μας χρειάζονται κανόνια (αναφέρεται λεπτομερειακώς στο βιβλίο του κυρίου Βασιλάκη Η Μάστιγα του Θεού). Για τον παπά αυτόν αισθάνομαι την μεγαλύτερη περιφρόνηση που είναι δυνατόν να αισθάνεται κάθε φυσιολογικός άνθρωπος.

Έχετε πρόσφατα δηλώσει πως η Ελλάδα γνωρίζει τα τελευταία χρόνια ένα είδος «πνευματικής αναγέννησης», με ομάδες αντιφρονούντων δημοκρατών διανοούμενων που προχωρούν τολμηρά προς την κατεύθυνση της ανάδειξης της ιστορικής αλήθειας μακριά από «εθνικούς μύθους», και εθνικιστική ιδεολογική τύφλωση. Συμβαίνει όντως κάτι τέτοιο ή πρόκειται απλώς για ευσεβείς πόθους;

Βεβαίως και συμβαίνει αυτό, θα μπορούσα δε με μεγάλη χαρά να αναφέρω τους εξής Έλληνες συγγραφείς: τους κυρίους Νίκο Δήμου, Θανάση Τριαρίδη, Διονύση Γουσέτη, Δημήτρη Λιθοξόου, Γιώργο Τσιάκαλο και άλλους που δεν τους γνωρίζω προσωπικά.

Ποια είναι η Ελλάδα που οραματίζεστε;

Μία Ελλάδα πραγματικά δημοκρατική και όχι ημιφασιστική, όσον αφορά τουλάχιστον τα ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα…

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4 Aralık 2015 Cuma

Makedonlar Yunan Değildir




Makedonya Aigai Kral Kurganı - 1950
Aigai Makedonya'nın ilk başkenti.
Tiyatrosunda öldürülen Philip II ve MÖ.336'da kral ilan edilen Büyük İskender.
Unesco Dünya Miras listesinde.


"Philip’s Thracian wife, Meda, is buried with him" diyorlar ama,
II. Philip'in iki eşinin adı biliniyor: Audata ve Meda. Philip ile gömülen genç olduğu için Meda, peki bu kadın kimdi? Trakyalı mı?  Çünkü, Getae'den gelme olduğu söyleniyor ve kurganda İskitlere özgü altın sadak (gorytos) bulundu.





Aigai şehrinin sembolü



Aigai şehrinin sembolü
Solda aslan postu içinde Herkül, sağda Kurt.







- Bugün Yunanistan'da nasıl "ben Türküm" demek suç sayılıyorsa, "ben Makedonum" demek de çok büyük bir suçtur.

- Madem Makedonlar Helen'dir, insan kendi halkından , kendi soydaşından ve ırkından korkar mı, bunu Helenizmin en büyük problemi olarak telakki edebilir mi? Demek Makedon diye ayrı bir halk vardır ve bu halk kesinlikle Yunan değildir.

- Büyük İskender ilk savaşını Makedonları hakir gören Atina'ya karşı yapmıştır.

- Keza Yunanistan'ın Atina'dan sorna ikinci büyük şehri olan Selanik'in 20.yüzyıl başlarındaki nüfusu %60 İspanya Yahudisi, % 18 Türk ve % 18 Yunan olarak saptanmıştır. Nüfusunun %78'i Yunan olmayan Makedonya'nın bu ünlü şehrine "Yunan"dır demek nasıl mümkün olabiliyor?
Erdoğan Öznal
Genelkurmay Başkanlığı- Basımevi, 1993 









MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ANTIGONOS MONOPHTALMOS 


IYI - KAYI TAMGALI PARA




Makedonya Cumhuriyeti’nde 2002 yılında yapılan son nüfus sayımı formlarında, Torbeşlerin Makedonya Cumhuriyeti’nde özel milli topluluk olarak algılanmadıklarından dolayı, ayrı bir Torbeş ya da Müslüman Makedon hanesi yoktu. Yine de, sayımlardaki verilerin değerlendirmesinden sonra iç kullanım için açıklanan bilgiler üç ilginç alt grubun olduğunu göstermektedir. Bunlar, Müslüman Makedonlar-8.422 kişi, Müslümanlar- 2.553 kişi ve Makedon Müslümanlar-180 kişi idi. Bu üç Müslüman nüfusu grupları ardında Torbeşler topluluğu mensuplarının olduğu tahmin edilebilir. Tabi ki, bunların belli bir kısmı da üç en büyük topluluklar olan, Makedon, Arnavut ve Türk toplulukları arasında aranmalı. Nihayet olarak, bütün bunlar, daha büyük etnik topluluklardan hiçbirinin kendi kimliğini kabul ettirmeyi başaramadığı, ama aynı şekilde Torbeşlerin de kendi öz kimliklerini geliştirmeyi başaramadıkları Makedonya Cumhuriyeti’ ndeki Torbeş topluluğunun derin bölünmüşlüğünü göstermektedir.

Dr. Dragi Gjorgiev, Ulusal Tarih Kurumu, Makedonya Cumhuriyeti
Osmanlı mirası Makedon Torbeşleri / pdf
(Bazı tarihi ikilemler ve çağdaş uyuşmazlıklar üzerine)










İlgili linkler:
Makedonlar Yunan Değildir! / Macedonians are not Greek!




"Hellenler, Makedonyalıları sevmiyor, barbar olarak görüyorlardı. Hellenlere göre Makedonlar, Hellenlerin düşmanıydı."
"Bugün Yunanistan’da bir slogan haline gelen “Makedonya Yunandır” sözü tam anlamıyla bir aldatmaca, yutturmaca ve büyük bir yalandır. Makedonya, Yunan değildir."
Ahmet Akyol'un makalesi
Alexander the Great is a Macedonian and not Greek





Alexander the Great. 3rd century BC, 
signed "Menas"
İstanbul Archaeological Museum 


MENAS-MEN+AS!?







28 Kasım 2015 Cumartesi

Who are the modern Greeks?


"Of this Homer affords the best evidence; for he, although he lived long after the Trojan War, nowhere uses this name collectively, but confines it to the followers of Achilles from Phthiotis, who were the original Hellenes; when speaking of the entire host he calls them Danaans, or Argives, or Achaeans. Neither is there any mention of Barbarians in his poems, clearly because there were as yet no Hellenes opposed to them by a common distinctive name. Thus the several Hellenic tribes (and I mean by the term Hellenes those who, while forming separate communities, had a common language, and were afterwards called by a common name), owing to their weakness and isolation, were never united in any great enterprise before the Trojan War. And they only made the expedition against Troy after they had gained considerable experience of the sea." - Thucydides







"in 1843, while working in the Ministry of Justice, Paparrigopoulos published his first survey, About the emigration of Slav tribes in Peloponnese, contradicting with robust arguments, Fallmerayer's opinion that modern Greeks are of Slav descent, having no racial relation with the ancient Greeks."


Constantine Paparrigopoulos (1815-1891), History of the Greek Nation, Volume I,
Fallmerayer, Jakob Philipp, 1790-1861.
On the epoikiseos Slavic Certain breeds Peloponnesus. / Under K. Paparrigopoulou.
Περί της εποικήσεως Σλαβικών τινών φυλών εις την Πελοπόννησον. / Υπό Κ. Παπαρρηγοπούλου./link




The Hellenistic period runs, as usually defined, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to the Battle of Actium by which Roman superiority over the Greek world was finally established on 2nd September  31 BC. The period is defined by the world conquest of Alexander the Great, and the consequences of the division of his empire upon his death. The name 'Hellenistic' derives from the German term for the period, coined by J.G.Droysen in the 1830's in his Geschichte des Hellenismus (First edition, Hamburg 1836-1843). For Droysen, who had previously written a seminal study of Alexander the Great, the period of Hellenismus, was characterised by the Hellenisation of the world that Alexander had conquered. This world had largely been encompassed by the Achaemenid Persian Empire, but had comprised many different cultures in Asia Minor, the Near East, Egypt, Mesopotamia, İran and beyond.(the Changing Pattern of Achaemenid Persian Royal Coinage)


But while this picture of the asertion of Greek cultural domination over the barbarian east appealed to the historians and antiquarians of the 19th century, it is not a picture that many modern scholars would endorse. For a generation or more, Greek historians have been paying attention to the work of their collegues on the documentary and archaeological evidence for regions such as Egypt, the Levant and Mesopotamia, and coming to regard the so-called Hellenistic period as one of negotiation between stable indigenous culutres and institutions and a new ruling elite. It is clear that while the successor kingdoms to Alexander's empire may have had Greek or Macedonian rulers and courts, their administrations, legal systems, religious life and languages to a considerable degree continued in or were adapted from their pre-conquest form. For one of the characteristics of the Hellenistic period is the relative dearth of literary accounts of the institions of the new monarchies.


So documents, whether written on stone, clay tablets or papyrus, are one of the major evidentiary bases. These documents have huge potential, of course, for the reconstruction of aspects of the economic regions from which they derive. But the picture they produce is regional, and cannot necessarily lead us to a holistic view of the economy of a given political entity (kingdom). Moreover they are documents. As such they can tell us much about behaviour, but not neccessarily a great deal about intent or theory. Among the literary absences from the Hellenistic period is any surviving treatise concerning the monetary policies of the various states that arose at this time. This, of course, is a major obstacle when it comes to analysis of financial innovation.


Documents and theoretical treatises aside, the other major source at our disposal is the coinage. Coinage is not itself new in the Hellenistic period; it had, as we have seen, come into being in the late 7th century BC in western Asia Minor, and it spread throughout the Greek and non-Greek peoples bordering, the Mediterranean over the next two-and-half centuries.



Greek historiography and exceptionalism

Almost every account of the Greek Revolution, 'Liberation Struggle', or War of Independence, ends by emphasizing not what was achieved by the treaties of 1830 and 1832 but rather the unsatisfactory, provisional nature of the settlement. From the Greek point of view, ever since the early 1830s, the Great Powers had effectively taken away with one hand what they had granted with the other. This was most evident in the decision, in 1832, to restrict the territory of the new Greek state within frontiers that excluded the majority of the nation, and in the notorious client status to which nominally independent Greece would often be reduced in practice, throughout the nineteeth century and wll into the twentieth.


But these are problems that have afflicted small or relatively weak states at all periods of history down to the present, and have unjustly deflected attention from the de jure status as a newly created independent polity that Greece was the first in post-Napoleonic Europe to attain.


A more fundamental distortion derives paradoxically from the very success of the Greek national project. Even before the revolution of 1821, from perhaps as early as the 1790s, the proponents of Greek independence had stablished a powerful and pervasive rhetoric: the present-day inhabitants of the land that had once been known as Hellas were the children (paides) of the Greeks of old (Hellenes); to set them free would be an act not of radical innovation, as in fact it was, but rather the restoration of an ancient and universally beneficial status quo, the very one, indeed, that had bequethed to post-Renaissance Europe everything that its educated elites now valued and enjoyed.


This was the distinctive contribution of the Romantic movement, in the arts and in radical politics, both to the emerging ideology of nationalism and specifically to the cause of Greek emancipation. The argument was expressed in its most extreme form by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, in the preface to his verse drama Hellas, written in immediate response to the outbreak of the revolution in Greece:


"The apathy of the rulers of the civilised world to the astonishing circumstance of the descendants of that nation to which they owe their civilisation, rising as it were from the ashes of their ruin, is something perfectly inexplicable to a mere spectator [...] We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece [...] The modern Greek is the descendant of those glorious beings whom the imagination almost refuses to figure to itself as belonging to our kind, and he inherits much of their sensibility, their rapidity of conception, their enthusiasm, and their courage." (Shelley 1943)


Shelley, of course, was writing from a political position as radical as it was possible to espouse at the time, and his acquaintance with Greeks or the politics of their revolution was slight; but even among conservatives, one should not, perhaps, underestimate the subliminal power of this type of appeal during the decades of 'Restoration', when political elites all over Europe were intent on reviving the semblance of a status quo, perceived as superior, that had been irrevocably upset by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.


It is certainly noteworthy that the signatories to the 1830 Protocol were the conservative governments of the Duke of Wellington, Tsar Nicholas I, and Charles X of France; although two of these would have been swept away by the time of the later version in 1832, and replaced by more liberal administrations that might have been expected to favour the radical aspects of the Greek cause, the changes to the terms of the treaty between 1830 and 1832 do not reflect that shift. Modern Greece came into being, sanctioned, however grudgingly, by the Great Powers of a Europe still dominated by Metternich and allies of the stamp of Wellington. No wonder, therefore, that neither the Greeks themselves nor their reluctant European backers had any reason after 1830, to advertise the radical nature of what had been achieved still less to present it as a precedent that might be followed by other would-be nations.


It would suit conservatives (of whom there were not a few in influential places in Greece by the mid-nineteenth century, as Socrates Petmezas demonstrates in chapter 9), as well as radicals, to pretend that Greece was a special case, uniquely ancient and therefore like no other.


Within a year of the outbreak of the Revolution, in January 1822, at almost the same time as Shelley's Hellas was published in England, the first Provisional Constitution for the embryo state would adopt for its citizens the ancient name of 'Hellenes'; this is how they have been known officially in Greek ever since, while the terms of self-designation in common use up till then, Romios and Graikos, would be consigned over time, in the one case to a popular, unofficial egister, and in the other to oblivion by the early twentieth century. As with the name of the citizens, so with the name of the new state.


This is why Greece, from that time on, uniquely among the nations and states of the world has in certain contexts had to be distinguished by the addition of the prefix 'Modern'. The process that had brought the independent state into being was routinely referred to in Greek as palingenesia (rebirth or regeneration); other terms, such as 'revival', and even 'resurrection', were canvassed during the 1820s as Marios Hatzopoulos documents in chapter 6.


So pervasive, and so effective, did the strategy of invoking ancient history in the Greek cause prove that early as 1830, the only means the Austrian historian Jacob Philipp Fallmerayer could light upon, in order to overturn the hegemony of what he saw as an excessive Philhellenism in his adpoted country of Bavaria, was to expose the historical errors on which it was based.  But Fallmerayer was already a prisoner of the rhetoric that he set out to debunk: it need not have mattered, in Munich in the 1830s, or in Athens in the 1850s, whether or not the racial and cultural line of ancient Hellas had been swept away successively by Romans, Slavs, and Albanians, as Fallermayer sought to prove. But the fact is that it did matter.


Slowly at first, but with devastating and long-lasting impact, Greek intellectuals fought back. No one seems to have thought, in the mid-nineteenth century, of abandoning a calim that could be said to have served its purpose in securing national statehood for Greece against all the odds, and might even have been deemed expendable, once its historical foundations had come under scrutiny and been shown to be vulnerable. On the contrary, the rise of historicism at the mid-century provided the impetus for a subtle shift of ground: the ruptures exposed by Fallmerayer would become precisely the ligatures holding together a construction as new and as daring as it purported to be ancient: the History of the Hellenic Nation.


In the monumental work with this title, published by the historian Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos between 1860 and 1874, as well as in the writings of the antiquary from Corfu, Spyridon Zambelios, during the previous decade, the revivalist rhetoric of the 1820s and 1830s came to be replaced by a rhetoric of continuity, which still holds sway today, and indeed was vividly paraded before the world's TV audiences in the opening ceremony for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Trumping Fallmerayer, Paparrigopoulos projected the term 'Hellenic nation', first formulated in the 1780s, back through almost three thousand years of continuous historical evolution. From the 1860s until at least the 1980s, few within Greece would challenge this basis for defining Greek identity, while those who did so abroad were liable to be branded, along with Fallmerayer, as 'mis-Hellenes', or 'Greek-haters'.


Greek historiography for over a hundred years was therefore trapped within the terms of a discourse that had evolved very rapidly from about 1790 to the 1860s and then stood still. Greek historians had no interest in reminding domestic or foreign readers that the nation state in which they took a justified pride had been the first to be recognized in Europe - in 1830. The stakes had been set infinitely higher by a national rhetoric that traced the continuous history of the Greek nation back to the first Olympiad in 776 BCE (and subsequently, with the discovery of the civilizations of the Greek Bronze Age, from the 1870s onwards, much further back still).


9) Dimitrios Katartzis, in a series of texts written between 1783 and 1791, seems to have been the first to use the Greek term 'ethnos' in the sense that writers of the Enlightenment, such as Rousseau, used 'nation' in French. Particularly revealing for the emergence of Greek nationalist terminology is the following: "I admit that at the present time, we [Greeks] are not a nation such as to form a state, but are rather subject to another that is stronger. [...] [But] we do constitute a nation to the extent that we are bound together by our exxlesiastical authorities [...] (Katartzis 1970 and Politis 1998)
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The Making of Modern Greece: book
Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797-1896)
Professor David Ricks,Professor Roderick



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Let's look from the Macedonian side



Modern Greeks are direct descendents of the Ancient Greeks”
(The greatest victims of Greek lies are the Greeks themselves)



How can a region in the Balkans where modern Greece is located today, which has been open to a multitude of invasions, conquests and settlements, remain homogeneous and untouched for two thousand seven hundred years? Ironically, as the Greeks claim, how can modern Macedonia, a region neighbouring modern Greece be so heterogeneous that it has completely lost its original identity? These are questions that every Greek should be asking! Ever since Philip II of Macedonia conquered the ancient City States at the conclusion of the battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC, the region south of Olympus has been without borders and open to all kinds of invasions and barbarian settlements.


How can one call a people of 2,300 years ago “Ancient Greeks” since the word “Greek” was not coined until after the Roman conquests, approximately 600 years after the establishment of the City States and approximately 150 years after they were conquered by the Macedonians? 



If you were to say “the ancient Canadians living on their lands 2,000 years ago” you would be ridiculed and told “there were no ancient Canadians” and the people to whom you are referring who had once lived on the lands of present Canada had nothing to do with the Canadians of today! Yet, everyday you hear the word “ancient Greeks” and you don’t bat an eye! Why is that?  It is also well known that the ancient City States were never united politically and never established themselves as a single state. In fact they existed politically independent from one another and fought each other for economic dominance of the region.



The name “Greece” was imposed on the modern Greek Kingdom by the Great Powers Britain, France and Russia. Modern Greeks call themselves Hellenes (Ellines) and their state Hellas (Ellas), a name borrowed from the past which neither describes the elements of a nation or those of an ethnicity. By using the name “Greek” to refer to both the ancient and modern people, the Greek state falsely implies descent for the modern Greeks from the ancients. By using the name “Greece” to refer to both the ancient and modern states, the Greek State is falsely implying; 


(1) continuity between the ancient City States and modern Greece, and

(2) that there was some sort of political unity between the ancient City States themselves where one did not exist.


In reality the words “Greece” and “Greek” were popularized by modern 19th century writers. There are no ancient maps or references with the words “Greece”. The Romans may have made some references to the ancient people living in Sicily as “Grecos” but they referred to the region south of Olympus as Achaia. During the Ottoman era the people living south of Olympus called themselves Romeos (Romans). Greece is a newly created state which never existed before the 19th century. The Kingdom of Greece, occupying the region of Morea, present day Peloponnesus, was created for the first time in 1829. Between 1829 and 1912 the Greeks enlarged their territory to present day Greece, by conquering Epirus, Thessaly and 51% of Macedonia.



At its inception Greece started out with a small population of less than one million people, most of whom were Albanians, Slavs and Vlahs with a small minority of other ethnicities. By the time Greece conquered Epirus and Thessaly, its population grew to three times its original size. In 1907 it registered a population of 2,600,000. After it conquered Macedonia and exchanged populations with Turkey, its population tripled. In 1928 Greece registered 6,200,000 people. 1,100,000 of them were Christians, refugees from Asia Minor.



After the Treaty of Lausanne in July 1923, and after the population exchanges with Turkey, Greece declared itself homogenous consisting of 100% pure Greeks with a very small Muslim but ethnically Greek population. It is estimated that after Macedonia was conquered, occupied and had some of its population evicted, more than one million Macedonians still remained and were included among the Greeks.



According to Greece however, there were no non-Greeks left in Macedonia after its population exchanges. Also, according to Greece, the ancient Macedonians were extinct, killed off by the Slavs around the 6th century AD during the so-called Slav invasions. So the question that begs to be asked here is, “What ethnicity were these million or so people who remained in Macedonia and became part of Greece?” Many Greeks would argue that they were Bulgarians! If that were the case, then how can the modern Greeks claim purity and homogeneity if at least 16% of its population in 1928 was non-Greek?



What about its Vlah, Slav, Albanian and Turkish elements? Clearly they are not Greeks, let alone being direct descendents of the so called “ancient Greeks”.  Even this small argument shows that there is something “fishy” about these Greek claims. For over a century and a half, Greek State institutions, organizations and individuals have been making unproven and unfounded allegations that the modern Greeks are direct descendents of the ancients. To this day they have shown no evidence to prove their claims. In fact the opposite is true. There is ample evidence that proves that this particular modern Greek claim is an outright BIG Greek lie.







This exact issue was tackled by Historian John Shea [1]. Among other things, Shea proves that even the ancient people were not homogeneous.  



“It has been estimated that in classical times the number of slaves in Attica was roughly equal to the number of free inhabitants, or around 100,000. In Sparta there was an even greater proportion of slaves, and most of them, the helots, were Messenians. While the slaves of Athens were a wide racial mix and therefore less likely to unite on the basis of a common language, these Messenian helots of Sparta all spoke Greek, and had a kind of group self-consciousness. Thus they presented ‘special problems of security for their Spartan masters, whose numbers were constantly on the decline.’ Changes in the ethnic composition of Greek city-states are illustrated by the comments about the case of Piso. Piso, who had been the recipient of an unhelpful decision by a vote of the Athenian city assembly, ‘made a violent speech in which he said that the latter-day Athenians had no right to identify themselves with the great Athenians of the days of Pericles, Demosthenes, Aeschylus, and Plato. The ancient Athenians had been extirpated by repeated wars and massacres and these were mere mongrels, degenerates, and the descendants of slaves. He said that any Roman who flattered them as if they were the legitimate heirs of those ancient heroes was lowering the dignity of the Roman name.’ Such historical ideas make it clear that even two thousand years ago the notion of ethnic purity amongst the so called Greeks was difficult to sustain. The ethnic mix continued over the next two thousand years. As Nicol has observed, ‘The ancient Greeks were, after all, of very mixed ancestry; and there can be no doubt that the Byzantine Greeks, both before and after the Slav occupation, were even more heterogenous’.” [2] 




And there you have it! 

THE TRUTH
The modern Greeks are not only NOT direct descendents of the ancients, but their Greekness is a myth, a modern 19th century creation. 


“The Greek nation-state was a product of western political intervention-'the fatal idea' as Arnold Toynbee once called it, of exclusive western nationalism impinging upon the multi-national traditions of the eastern world. By extension, therefore, at any rate in theory, it was a child of the Renaissance and of western rationalism...” 



Pelasgians is the name generally given by ancient writers to the peoples before the Hellenes. According to both Heredotus and Thucydided, Pelasgians formed the largest element of the early population of Greece and the Aegean, and most of them were gradually assimilated by the Hellenes. Heredotus saw this transformation as following the invasion by Danaos (the Egyptian) which he took to be around the middle of the second millennium BC. Heredotus stated that the Eygptian Danaids taught the Pelasgians (not the Hellenes) the worship of the gods. The idea that the Pelasgians were the native population, converted to something more "Greek" by the invading Egyptians, also occurs  in the plays of Aischylos and Euripides, written around the same time as Heredotus Histories.

The Ionians were one of the two great tribes of Greece, the other being the Dorians. In classical times the Ionians lived in a band across the Aegean from Attica to "Ionia on the Anatolian shore...Heredotus linked the Pelasgians to the Ionians".

Tiberius Claudius wrote about the movements of some Greek tribes into the Balkan peninsula:

"Among these Celts, if the word is to have any significance (are included) even the Achaen Greeks, who had established themselves for some time in the Upper Danube Valley before pushing southward into Greece. Yes, the Greeks are comparative newcomers to Greece. They displaced the native Pelasgians...This happened not long before the Trojan War; the Dorian Greeks came still later - eighty years after Trojan War. Other Celts of the same race invaded France and Italy at about the same time."

With regard tp what is now called the Dorian İnvasion, Bernal notes that in ancient times this was much more frequently called "the return of the Heraklids." The dorians came from the northwestern fringes of Greece, which had been less affected by the Middle Eastern culture of the Mycenaean palaces which they destroyed. Their use of the name Heraklids was a claim not only to divine descent from Herakles, but also to Egyptian and Phoenician royal ancestors. This is not simply a modern theory. Ancient sources show that the descendants of these conquerors, the Dorian kings of classical and Hellenistic times, believed themselves to be descended from Egyptian and Phoenicians.
"Macedonia and Greece"
the book






 “Greece is an ethnically homogeneous nation”
(To this day there are some Greeks who believe in the myth that they are an ethnically pure race)


To Macedonians it is irrelevant what Greeks believe in as long as they don’t interfere in Macedonian affairs. Unfortunately Greece’s selfportrayal as an “ethnically homogeneous State” is not only interfering with Macedonians, it is downright hostile to them.  “Greeks' contemporary self-image is built upon a series of myths. The myth of continuity. The myth of the racial and cultural superiority of our ancestors (and, thanks to continuity, our own). The myth of being special The myth of racial and religious purity. The myth of the genius of the Greek race.



The existence of these myths provokes certain predictable reactions. Thus, my typical compatriot while proud to be Greek (95 percent, according to polls) will abuse and censure his countrymen at the slightest provocation. And this, naturally, because they fail to live up to the expectations and the demands created by the myths.” (Nikos Dimou) [5] Greece, over the years, has taken extraordinary measures to erase what is real in favour of something artificially manufactured. 


“Greek-ness” or “Hellenism”, as the Greeks like to call it, is a 19th century invention modeled after a culture and a race of people that ceased to exist more than two millennia ago. Greece has destroyed the real cultures, traditions and languages of its indigenous people living on its soil in favour of this artificial creation it calls Hellenism. Worse, today Greece not only denies the existence of its non-Greek roots but it insists that no indigenous races such as Albanians, Macedonians, Vlahs, Turks, Roma, etc. ever existed in Greece. Greece has not only forsaken its indigenous cultures but is consistently punishing all those who want to return to them. 


The so-called “Greek Nationality” (Ethos) was artificially created during the 19th century by the Great Powers in order to break up the Ottoman Empire and to stop the expansion of Pan Slavism. Britain’s fear of Russia entering Mediterranean waters and contaminating its “backyard garden” motivated British officials to do whatever was necessary to stop the “Slav proliferation”. After Greece was created it needed people “Greeks” to maintain and enlarge itself. These people came from the territories it occupied during its period of expansion. One need only ask, “How come there are Macedonians, Albanians, Vlahs, Turks, Roma, etc. living in the Republic of Macedonia and none of these ethnicities live in Greek occupied Macedonia?” 


It is well known that these ethnicities existed in all of Macedonia during Ottoman rule before geographic/ethnographic Macedonia was occupied and partitioned in 1912/1913. In fact there are Greek statistics compiled prior to 1912 that attest to these facts. Yet in 1928 Greece declared itself “ethnically pure” with only “pure Greeks” living in Greece. Naturally the burning question is “what happened to the other ethnicities that lived in Macedonia after it was occupied by Greece in 1912?” Did they simply vanish? Of course they did not! They were Hellenized! They were “made” into Greeks!



In her infatuation with the glory of her “false” past, Greece became ashamed of her “real self” and buried her true present. Greece did not want a bunch of ignorant Slavs, Albanians, Vlahs, Turks, Roma, etc. for citizens. It preferred the “mythical” types like Pericles, Leonidas and Temistocles or descendants thereof. This was all done with encouragement from her benefactors, the Great Powers. In fact, outside of some Greeks who have been labeled traitors [5], no one questioned Greece’s motives for doing this.


Macedonians have no problem with Greeks calling themselves whatever they want as long as they do not interfere in their affairs. Macedonians would like to be known for who and what they really are, Macedonians. The crux of the problem unfortunately is that while the Greeks continue to believe in their mythical past, they interfere with reality. Falsely believing that they are all Greeks, descendants from an ancient people, they refuse to acknowledge the reality that Macedonians do exist and live on their territory. Further, to prevent the discovery of their falsehood, they even interfere in the affairs of the Republic of Macedonia, an independent and Sovereign State.


THE TRUTH
The proof that Greece is neither “homogeneous” nor has continuity from the ancient past is not difficult to explain. Just take a look at Greece’s population makeup from 1829 to 1928 and in it you will find Albanians, Vlahs, Turks, Macedonians and Roma. 


Period........................................ Activity....................................................... Number of People

1829........... Greece created for the first time (mostly Arvanites) Less then.............. 1,000,000

1830 – 1911.................... Epirus and Thessaly Annexed (Vlahs and Albanians)............ 1,600,000


1912 – 1913........... 51% of ethnographic Macedonia Annexed (Macedonians).................. 2,500,000


1920 – 1928...................... Importation of Christian Turks from Asia Minor (Turkey)................... 1,100,000



In 1928 Greece registered 6,200,000 people after which it declared itself homogenous consisting of 100% pure Greeks with a very small Muslim but ethnically Greek population. In the 1920’s Greece imported 1.1 million Christian Turks from Asia Minor, claiming that they were descendants of the “Ancient Greeks”. At the time, not one of them spoke Greek or identified with the Greeks. How could they have? A “Greek Nation” never existed before 1829!  



Modern Greeks, along with their Roman-derived benefactors, have not only falsified “ancient history”, they have robbed other civilizations of their contribution to the world. Clearly the contributions of say the Phoenician and Egyptian civilizations, which were far superior civilizations to that of ancient Athens, are totally ignored and long forgotten. Worse, their contributions have now been expropriated (stolen) by the Greeks and claimed to be Greek. 



Two and a half millennia later Greeks continue to expropriate (steal) other people’s ideas and inventions and shamelessly call them their own! I have already mentioned the atom and geometry, but Greek coffee? Clearly everyone knows “Greek coffee” is actually Turkish coffee. 


Api (Mother, Apa/Aba/Ana/Ene)- Scythian-Turk Goddess
According to Herodot "wife of Hercules was snake-leg!"
Hercules is also the mirror of Sumerian Bilgemiş (Gilgamesh), thus, not Greek!




“The Ancient ‘Greek gods’ were Greek”
(Some modern Greeks believe that those who spoke Greek and believed in the Greek gods were actually Greek)



We often read in books, see movies and hear stories about the so called mythical “Greek gods” but have we ever stopped to think what makes these deities Greek? Are they “Greek” because they originated where modern Greece is today? Are they “Greek” in a national sense? Are they Greek because the Ancients that lived in the region where modern Greece is today wrote about them? How are they “Greek”?


The word “Greek” before the word “gods” implies that there is a relationship between “Greek” and “gods” which means that in some way these gods belong to Greece or the “Greeks”. Since these “gods” are not associated with other Mediterranean people such as the Macedonians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Thracians, Pelasgians, Phrygians, Lydians, Carians, Lycians, Paphlagonians, Cappadocians, Cilicians, Picidians, Pamphylians and others, in a similar manner, who also celebrated and believed in them, then one is led to believe that these gods must be exclusively connected to Greece and the “Greeks” The question is how?


Among several sources we consulted, Microsoft’s Encarta encyclopedia under the heading “Greek Mythology” had an explanation but this explanation did not enforce the idea that the so called “Greek gods” were actually “Greek”. According to Encarta, mythology in written form appeared for the first time in the literary works of Hesiod and Homer around the eighth century BC. Homer, as we know, produced the famous works the “Iliad” and “Odyssey” and Hesiod produced the poems “Theogony”. 


Both authors in their respective works talk about the various tales and legends associated with ancient deities. Hesiod, however, according to Encarta, takes a step further and introduces a larger number of myths that include deities that are not mentioned by Homer. Hesiod, in “Theogony”, who talks about the creation of the world, the birth of the gods as well as their adventures, NEVER ONCE mentions “Greek” or any other name derived from this word!


Similarly, Homer in his works the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey”, considered to be reliable sources for the so-called “Greek Mythology” and the “Greek gods”, NEVER ONCE mentions the word “Greek” or any other name derived from this word!


So again, how are these so-called “Greek gods” “Greek”? Perhaps the authors who wrote about them were from the region where modern Greece is today? According to Carlos Parada, an internationally recognized researcher and expert on mythology, the following authors have contributed to the socalled “Greek mythology”


Author ....................%Contribution Lived in / Ethnicity
Apolodorus........................ 19 Alexandria / Unknown *
Paucsanias......................................... 12 Lydia / Lydian
Hyginus....................... 12 Rome / Unknown (Spanish?)
Homer................................... 8 Asia Minor? / Unknown
Ovid..................................................... 6 Rome / Roman
Nonnus.............................................. 5 Egypt / Egyptian
Hesiod.................................... 4.6 Boeotia / Boeotian **
Diodorus Siculus...............................4.4 Sicily / Sicilian
Virgil......................................... 4 Mantua Italy / Roman
Quintus Smynaeus...................................................... 3.3
Statius................................................ 2.6 Rome / Roman
Antonius Liberalis................................. 2 Rome / Roman
Valerius Flaccus.................................... 2 Rome / Roman
Apollonius Rhodius............... 1.8 Alexandria ? Unknown
Dionysius of Halicarnassus............. 1.5 Caria / Unknown
Euripides..................................... 1.5 Attica / Athenian **
Plutarch.................................... 1.3 Boeotia / Boeotian **
Herodotus................................................ 1 Caria / Carian
Pindarus (Pindar).............................. 1 Thebes / Boeotian
Parhenius of Nicaea........................................................ 1
Aeschylus..................................................................... 0.5
Aristophanes................................................................ 0.4
Caimachus.................................................................... 0.4
Cicero........................................................................... 0.3

* Highest probability - Macedonian
** From Ancient City States south of Mount Olympus where Modern Greece is located today.


From the table above, we can see that the vast majority of works about the so-called “Greek mythology” and the “Greek gods” were in fact written by NON-GREEKS or by authors of unknown origin/ethnicity. If the authors who wrote about them were not “Greek” then perhaps the legends of the so-called “Greek gods” originated somewhere in the lands of modern Greece. Unfortunately that is not true either. 


According to Herodotus, many of the elements of the so-called “Greek myths” associated with the “Greek gods” were borrowed from foreign religions, mainly from the Pelasgians who in turn borrowed them from the Egyptians. (There are some scientists today who believe the Pelasgians lived in the lower Balkans, including Macedonia and were the ancestors of some of the Slavs.) However let as not just take Herodotus’s word. Let’s examine the mythological deities themselves starting with the supreme god Zeus.


According to the Grolier Encyclopedia, Zeus is a celestial deity of Indo-European origin symbolically associated with the sky. Poseidon, the elder brother of Zeus, is also a deity of Indo European origin. Apollo, on the other hand, is an Asian deity from the Asian shaman cults, imported from Siberia. The following is a list of deities and major mythical figures commonly referred to as “Greek gods” and “Greek mythical figures” who are believed to be of “non-Greek” origin;



Deity/Major Figure Origin Source
Rhigmus Thracian Carlos Parada
Diomedes Thracian Carlos Parada
Phineus Thracian Carlos Parada
Tereus Thracian Carlos Parada
Rhesus Thracian Carlos Parada
Alcon Thracian Carlos Parada
Memnon Ethiopian Carlos Parada
Alcyoneus Ethiopian Quintus Smyrnaeus
Alexipus Ethiopian Quintus Smyrnaeus
Clydon Ethiopian Quintus Smyrnaeus
Laomedon Ethiopian Quintus Smyrnaeus
Mmeneclus Ethiopian Quintus Smyrnaeus
Nychius Ethiopian Quintus Smyrnaeus
Thalius Ethiopian Quintus Smyrnaeus
Andromeda Ethiopian Carlos Parada
Cepheus Phoenician Carlos Parada
Europa Phoenician Carlos Parada
Pelops Phrygian Carlos Parada
Agenor Egyptian Carlos Parada
Belus Egyptian Carlos Parada
Midus Phrygian Carlos Parada
Opis Phrygian Carlos Parada
Aura Phrygian Carlos Parada
Proteus Egyptian Carlos Parada
Egeria Italian Ovid
Hora Roman Ovid
Janus Roman Carlos Parada
Juturna Roman Carlos Parada
Penates Roman Carlos Parada
Tantalus Paphlagonia Carlos Parada
Orchamus Persia Carlos Parada
Pyramus Babylon Carlos Parada
Thisbe Babylon Carlos Parada
Dido Cartagenan Carlos Parada
Nicea Indian Carlos Parada
Phoenix Arabian Carlos Parada
Hypnos From the BlackSea regionCarlos Parada
Muses (9) Macedonian Carlos Parada
Dionysus Macedonian(Brygian)Grolier Encyclopedia


For details on the above, see Donski [3]. 


From the table above, we can see that a large number of deities and important mythical figures have purposely or unwittingly been misrepresented. Clearly they are not of “Greek origin” 


And finally, perhaps the so-called “Greek gods” were “Greek” because they were exclusively celebrated by the ancient people who lived south of Mount Olympus where modern Greece is today. That too, I am afraid is not true. The mythical gods, referred to as the “Greek gods”, were common to most ancient Mediterranean nations and cultures. They were as much universal to the ancient world as Christ and Christianity is universal to our modern world.


THE TRUTH
The Ancient “Greek gods” were not Greek at all! In fact, referring to them as “Greek gods” would be a myth in itself. It is more appropriate, truthful and precise to call them Mediterranean gods than it is to call them “Greek gods”. After all they were celebrated, revered and feared by many more nations and cultures north, east and west of Mount Olympus than they were south of Mount Olympus. And that is the truth.



LiTTLE BOOK OF BiG GREEK LiES  by Risto STEFOV / PDF



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read also 
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization
by Martin Bernal









So, did they look also with  the Proto-Turkish history? :) 
Only who is working Turcology ;)
TROJAN WAR, WAS BETWEEN 
THE PROTO-TURKS AND PROTO-HELLENES
so,
without the Turks you can not write the History.