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Alexander the Great : Greek or SouthSlav
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[quote:Nick the Greek 26453219:MV8xMDI4NTA1XzM1MzM2MDgwXzIxRTZGMzc3] In the Haemus [Balkan] peninsula, the paleolithic - neolithic genetic footprint has been mapped. The peoples inhabiting the southern-part of the peninsula today slot into a genetic-signature which correlates to the Greek colonization of anitquity. Although many exogenous peoples settled or just passed through the region, their admixture has been absorbed into the more resiliant autochthonous gene pool. In the Greek [Haemus] peninsula, the native autochthonous genes dominate, but that does not make the peoples there the same peoples - they differ on cultural and linguistic level, be it genetically they are similar and the same stock. [b]So what do genes and haplogroups define exactly[/b] - is it blood, race, ethnicity ? I have always said: The genes modern-humans carry today may not reflect faithfully, their current ethnic-pride and current national-feelings - example is found in modern Britain. Modern-humans residing in the British Isles are found carrying native Keltic ((Scots)(Irish)(Welsh)) genes but they attest to harbouring English ethnic-pride and National-feelings for England - expand this phenomenon to 4th generation assimilated Commonwealth citizens and you have the makings of philosophical question: [b]Question[/b] - What is it that makes you English ? expanded [b]Question[/b] - What makes you who you are today in terms of how you self-Identify and how you self determine your ethnicity - nationality status. It has been proven - Blood and Dna do not correlate to ethnicity. Ethnic-pride is something that is passed-on from one generation to the next - taught within the confines of ones paternal-maternal family to feel proud of ancestral achievements. Ethnic-pride can also be taught in local learning Institutions...good (knowledge based) schools or in bad (propagandist) ones. When the ancient-Greeks Hellenized NoN-Greek populations - those populations Hellenized willingly and voluntarily adopting the Hellenic culture through choice. One can assimilate into a culture their genes and haplogroups were strangers to. I return back to my original thesis: The genes modern peoples carry today may not reflect faithfully ones current ethnic-pride and national-feelings - examples are found all around us! Peoples can be taught - in good knowledge based schools, or in bad propagandist ones, to harbour and hold dear, collective-memories, ethnic-pride, national-feelings...the best example of this phenomenon is FYRoM. (link to en.wikipedia.org ) The ancient lands of Paeonia is where FYRoM is situated right now - this place was Hellenized by the Macedonians almost 5 generations after the death of Alexander the Great. In fact, Paeonia was conquered in 217 BC under King Philip V, 106 years after the death of Alexander the Great. Any map that incorporates Paeonia into the Kingdom of Macedon before 217 BC is historically incorrect. FYRoM reject their Paeonian ancestral base for a Macedonian one on the basis, they have learned to harbour collective-memories - ethnic-pride and national-feelings for Macedonian things. If the peoples of FYRoM are autochthonous original Haemus peninsula natives, having never shifted from where they today - that would make them Paeonians and not the Macedonians they want to be. Paeonians like the rest of the Haemus natives, sprang from a common gene pool. The ancient-peoples of the Greek [Haemus] peninsula shared similar genes and haplogroups but differed on cultural-linguistic lines until Hellenization. FYRoM is Paeonia - a Haemus people. Hellenized - Romanized - Bulgarized - Slavicized - Turkified - and now, searching for Identity. The options are many but the choice is limited. [/quote]
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Is it true.....Alexander the Great was not Macedonian Greek
but Slavik from Slavdoms SouthSlavic collective of peoples.
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