A Nation of peoples is made-up from various ethnicities sometimes at ease with each-other, speaking the same language and following the same culture...uniformed ways and traditions from since they have known each-other, or from since the state in which they live-in was set-up.

A Nation of peoples can absorbe outsider exogenous foreign elements into it's fold and convert them ((assimilate)(acculturate)) over time...that time-period is known to us, it hovers around the 200 year mark or 8 generations. We know this from the Bulgarians, a modern-Nation of Slavic speakers but their ancestral-forebears were neither Slavs nor Slavic speakers.

Indeed and in-fact, the proto-Bulgar tribes that descended into the Greco-Roman world at the top-end of the 6th Century AD, were outsiders, exogenous foreigners, alien to the Haemus (Balkan) peninsula.

From since the eastern-asiatic Avaro-Hunnic tribes, supreme overlords over the Slavic tribes, were ushered into Europe and settled into the Byzantine Empire, the Greco-Roman world, new Nations formed with the Slavic element ascendant above all the other ethnic-racial and cultural-linguistic groups.

Those despotic-overlords, those Avaro-Huns were small in number and finally succumbed to the more numerous Slavic tribes they subjugated, taking-on their tribal-names, their language, and their ways and traditions...it is called assimilation and acculteration and it usually takes around 200 years or 8 generations to take effect.

FYRoM's ex-Yugoslavs can be visualized playing their part in that scenario. Their ancestors may have included eastern-asiatic Avaro-Hunnic peoples, certainly included Slavic-peoples but Macedonian-peoples...I doubt it! and I shall explain why ?

Macedonians at that time...during the Avaro-Hunnic, Bulgaro-Slavic Incursions of the 6th Century AD were Greek speaking
Greco-Roman peoples calling themselves (Romioi) Romans, also known as Byzantine Eastern-Romans. Once settled into the Empire, that Melieu of exogenous Avaro-Hunnic, Bulgaro-Slavic tribes may have assimilated and acculterated some Greco-Romans from the Macedonian-region of the Byzantine-Empire.

FYRoM's ex-Yugoslavs may carry in their biological make-up, that same genetic stuff as those Greco-Romans. If that were proven, that would make them partially Greek. These implications are significant because it would entitle them to claim partial-Greek ancestry!

From the 6th Century AD, assimilation and acculteration traversed all ways...that Slavic melieu which ultimately, over time absorbed those Avaro-Hunnic and Bulgar elements may have also absorbed Greco-Roman elements from the Macedonian-region of the Byzantine-Empire.

FYRoM's ex-Yugoslavs could claim Avar ancestry but they dont!

FYRoM's ex-Yugoslavs could claim Hunnic ancestry but they dont!

FYRoM's ex-Yugoslavs could claim Bulgar ancestry but they dont!

FYRoM's ex-Yugoslavs could claim Slavic ancestry but they
prefer to claim Macedonian ancestry with it, mixing and matching Slavic-things with Macedonian-things.

From the 6th Century AD, assimilation and acculteration
made Avaro-Hunnic people Slavic, made proto-Bulgar people Slavic, it may have also made Greco-Roman people from the Macedonian region Slavic, this is how it works. Conversley,
those assimilation and acculteration processes worked visa-versa. That Greco-Roman melieu may have absorbed elements from that Slavic melieu and made them Byzantines, this is how it works.

FYRoM's political elite were Silly to have brought ancient-history into the equation, the history debate they were always destined to lose, a Mistake that ultimately proved to be their Nemesis. The Macedonian name they covet so much they can only use in the geographic context...nothing more than this.

The Macedonian name is best left in the Greek domain and the Macedonian-Identity best left to Greek-heritage...these are the basics and the fundamentals which cannot be changed. Attempting to alter these factors simply edges FYRoM closer to the abyss.

FYRoM is a Slavic country with partial-Greek connections. The peoples there could claim Byzantine-heritage, traceable back to the 6th Century AD. FYRoM is Slavic but Macedonian too, in the geographic context...nothing more than this.