Online poll, "YES or NO is Macedonia Greek?"
There is an online poll about whether or not Macedonia is Greek. You all know what you have to do, so go for it ;)
As you'll see there are quite a lot of comments, here follows my own:
Greece has not only historical rights, but Greek Macedonia occupies the largest portion of geographical Macedonia.*corrections have been made to the original text
The contemporary region of Macedonia is a wider region in the Balkan peninsula that spans across several modern states, mainly Greece, Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Albania.
Hence, the monopolization of the name by FYROM and its citizens creates semiological confusion, as it becomes increasingly difficult to disambiguate which "Macedonia", which "Macedonians" and what "Macedonian language" are referred to in each occasion.
In terms of population, Greek Macedonia has a population of 2,625,681 GREEK MACEDONIANS, in contrast the whole country of FYROM has a total population of 2,061,315 people out of which more than 600.000 at least are Albanians and various other minorities .
So the question turns to be, how can a country -FYROM- be eligible to demand to be named Macedonia while the portion of the population that feel ethnically Slav Macedonians is less than 1,300,000 people? While in Greece, the Greek Macedonians are 2,625,681 people!
Thats, 2,625,681 GREEK MACEDONIANS vs 1,300,000 Slav Macedonians...
More over an ever incising portion of dozens of thousand Slav Macedonians already have or have applied to get Bulgarian passports, recognizing their Bulgarian roots. Among them are quite a few politicians of FYROM, as well as the former Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski who already has Bulgarian passport.
I will dear to predict that the future for this minor state of FYROM, will have the same faith as of the former Yugoslavia. The fragmentation of the country and the annexation of it's parts to the neighboring countries of Albania and Bulgaria is unavoidable, more over this perspective implies less threats and risks than the coexistence of an explosive mixture of ethnic groups under the same roof.
Sources:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(region)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(Greece)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Macedonia
- http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=90197
