... and the question remains  : if those FYROMian guys ever cared to know about ancient Macedonians (i.e. my ancestors), shouldn't they at last sit down and study the history of ancient Macedonians? Shouldn't they start visiting the ancient Macedonian archaeological sites?

When I visited Vergina, I asked the responsibles there if there were ever any schools from FYROM coming down to visit or in general people from FYROM - the answer was few to none... almost no FYROMian is interested in visiting the Vergina tombs of the Macedonian kings simply because it is very painful to see all those tomb columns with Greek names, Greek texts etc. FYROMians simply prefer to stay hiding in their holes trying to type in the internet hoping they can change history by typing in the internet... 
Wel l, I am afraid this cannot be done!

Phillip (unregistered) wrote in #11

Oh dear... here we go again! Another history-denialist... ..
1. Macedonians considering Athenians as ''barbarians'''?!?!? !?!?! Wow !!! Source please!!!! L-O-L!!!
2. There is no ancient source saying that Alexander's language was ''unintelligible'' to Athenians.  L-O-L! !! That is another huge lie of yours! This word did not even exist in ancient times!!! L-O-L!!!Th e ancient source (which was written 300 years after Alexander's death... ) simply says that Alexander's speech was not evident to Athenians. Why? Because simply it was in another dialect of the Greek language. Had it been in a wholy another language it would not even exist as a comment just as there would be no need to comment something like ''the Spanish athlets could not understand the Chinese President's speech in the opening of the Beijing 2008 Olympics''!!!

Athenians DID NOT speak ''Greek'' but simply the Attic, just another Greek dialect. Spartans spoke another. Macedonians spoke another. In fact, Spartan dialect was much more close to Macedonian than to Athenian since Dorians came as an off-shoot from Macedonia. These dialects were as strong as Spartans and Macedonians saying ''matar'' while Athenians were saying ''meeteer'' for such a basic word as ''mother'' - now extrapolate this for a long complicated political speech like the ones Alexander liked to give to his army using also informal and slung idiomatic words.
3. The Macedonians defeated the Athenians in battle - so what? According to you ancient Greeks never fought against each other? What kind of mad logic is this?

... our ears are hurting with what we hear. Please, guys from FYROM, abstain from commenting such lowly comments, embarassing yourselves and your country.

The ancient Macedonians considered the Athenians barbarians. Alexander spoke to his troops in a language unintelligible to the Athenians.  The ancient Macedonians defeated the ancient Athenians in many battles, including the famous battle of Chaeronaya.