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Think of being in a state of half-sleep with your mind somewhere else. That's pretty much what "Dremiglava" would mean. What a wicked name for a town.


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It's not easy to translate. Literally it says "Dremi" (dreamy) "Glava" (head) but it means something more akin to the word "daydream".

It doesn't mean "to dream" it means to be in "some sort of dreamy state." It's like a state of wishful fancy. It's really a magical word.


Yes, I think I understand what you are describing.
Once again it appears to be a very poetic word.
I keep noticing this, with the handful of words that I have learnt in your language, that they posses a very lyrical quality about them.
A very unique characteristic, I believe, as some languages have 'sounds' that make them lyrical, in their verbal expressions, however, with Macedonian, the poetry appears intrinsic to the 'conceptualization' forming the meaning of the words themselves.
I find this very beautiful and fascinating.

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Thank you Kat, that's very kind of you to say.

I wish I could explain to you the warm connotations this word has.

Think of a baby as it begins to nod off in its mother's arms. That half-awake, half-asleep state is like "dremiglava". It's pure bliss.


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I wish I could explain to you the warm connotations this word has.

Think of a baby as it begins to nod off in its mother's arms. That half-awake, half-asleep state is like "dremiglava". It's pure bliss.


That's a pretty good job of explaining it right there, Maknews!
Great imagery!
How exquisitely beautiful!

Thank you very much.

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Kat, on this map the town of Dremiglava appears about 25 miles due North off the coast of Salonika.

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Thank you very much Maknews. Much appreciated.


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I agree maknews, dremiglava sounds like a fantastic name for a town...i understand what you are saying :) If this town were still ours...i know that i would be somehow lured to it, as i am now:) Sometimes i wish that i can dream about these long lost towns...


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So the greeks are only in the Khalkidike, a greek colony in Macedonia. No Greeks in Solun only SLavs, Turks, Jews, Torbasi and Albos.


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Orphic_Hymn wrote:
....yet another slap in your face with a strong dosage of reality.. You people are NON-EXISTANT, a recent creation of the commie regime that desired to reach the Aegean..


Man Oh Man :o

here we have ourselves a mooron that takes one page out of one book and doesn't even name the author, and has the ordasity to tell us that WE do not exist.


Who the heck are you????

What the....... do you want????

If we do not exist then with whom are you debating what????

What fucking communists created us? What are you on about????

I'm not a commi! Niether was my grandfather, nor his grandfather, nor his grandfather before him. Na pis afto ti thellis na pis. Come right out and say it dood and I'll rub your nose in the dirt just like I have with the rest of the slime that wishes to come on this forum and attack us in this way.

It is not up to us to justify our existance on this earth. We have always existed. It is up to you to justify your existance and whose shoes it is you fill. It is up to you to continue to try to prove the lie that Venizelos & Metaxas dreamed up.

Good luck brother.

I wish you well in your endeavour to try to prove the unprovable. :wink:


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Orphic_Hymn wrote:

"The Greeks are concentrated in the large and in the peninsula of Kalkidike"

So we were literally all over the place.. But that isn't the issue here.


How can concentrated on a Peninsula translate to beeing all over the place. Ohh you mean all over the Peninsula.

The issue is your abusive approach. Another Tikva statement. keep on going fick ed.


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Your text is full of Slavs in Solun and Macedonia, with Greeks concentrated on the peninsular Einstein.

Read your text or are your blinkers designed to pick up Greek only.

I’ll elaborate for you if I may. Your Modern Greek State has no minorities and yet you wonderful text highlights that Greece and indeed Greek Occupied Macedonia is as multicultural as the rest of the Balkans. Where the frk did all of those people go?

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Mozart’s Requiem.


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