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 Post subject: Re: Macedonians in the 1928 Greek Census
PostPosted: 05 Mar 2009 15:56 
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Suhin wrote:
Ion Dragoumis originated from Vogatsiko (Bogatsko). The village is in Kostursko and it lies in the very border between the Greek speaking area and the Macedonian speaking one.



That's where HE was born. However where did his family migrate from?

http://www.helleniccomserve.com/dragoumis.html

The man came from a family of Greeks who had moved in the 16th century from Albania to a village outside Florina in western Macedonia, called Vogatsiko, so as to avoid forcible conversion to Islam. Ion's great grandfather, Mark Dragoumis (1770-1854), had been a member of the "Friendly Society" that had started the Greek War of Independence in 1821.

He may have been born in a Macedonian village, but he is ethnically an Albanian like his ancestors and more than half the modern "greek" population today.


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 Post subject: Re: Macedonians in the 1928 Greek Census
PostPosted: 15 Mar 2009 13:42 
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TrueMacedonian wrote:
:lol Is that what the modern "greeks" claim? How about when Melas met and saw these "Macedonians" and wrote about Kottas' language as being "Macedonian" :roll: Or Dragoumis the Albanian who wrote about these same "Macedonians"? :idn Kazzazis makes similar mentions,,,although in his theory these people really are "slavophone greeks" :lol


Macedonia as a place, not as a nation. At that time, Greeks of the Kingdom of Greece thought that, if they used the term "Macedonian" for everybody in Macedonia, they would bring them emotionally closer to Greece. OK, greek propaganda.


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 Post subject: Re: Macedonians in the 1928 Greek Census
PostPosted: 15 Mar 2009 19:48 
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Nice try, Pegasus, but your claims don't hold water.

There were precious few Greek speakers in ethno-Graphic Macedonia back in the 18th and 19th century and those being referred to by others as "Macedonians" were in no way, shape or form "Greeks" and were almost always distinguished from Greeks and Bulgars.

But that's okay, we understand that to be a Hellene one must fake a "Greek" veneer and deny the ethnic heritage of the indigenous people of the Southern Balkans.


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