The Slavic Tribes according to Byzantine historiographers settled the Haemus [Balkan] peninsula sometime around the top-end of the 6th Century AD. From that time onwards, that peninsula became their home, accomodating many Slavic peoples who's tribal-collectives then went on to develop their own ephemeral empires inside the Imperial territories of Byzantium.

Today, the Haemus [Balkan] Peninsula is home to many Slavic Nations...South-Slavic countries in their own right. Six of them were spawned very recently, from the break-up and disintegration of the old-Yugoslavia who's communist federation housed them all. Yugoslavia was actually formed in 1918 as the Kingdom of Serbs, the Croats, and the Slovenes, after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929. From this time onwards, right up until 1945 there was no Slavic country called Macedonia. It took a Croatian Communist dictator going by the name of Marshal Tito to create one.

After World War II, under the leadership of Marshal Tito, Yugoslavia became a Communist-led regime. On his death in 1980, Yugoslavia became unstable, the Communist party lost control there in 1990, and four of the six constituent republics (i) Slovenia, (ii) Croatia, (iii) Bosnia and Herzegovina, and (iv) FYR-Macedonia, declared independence a year later in 1991. Serbia and Montenegro, the last remaining states, abandoned the name Yugoslavia in 2003 and dissolved the federation entirely in 2006.

From this erratic political fluidity, instability, unpredictability and uncertainty...these Slavic country's now appear settled and wanting to carve out a future for themselves in the Haemus [Balkan] peninsula. The only thing they share in common nowadays is Slavic their heritage, but for the exception of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the only Slavic country amongst them which attempts to deny its Slavic origins.

From since 1991, when FYRoM entered onto the world stage, the people there have been told they are Macedonians with blood ties and ancestral roots to the ancient-Macedonians from antiquity.

Greece and the Slavic country's in the Haemus [Balkan] peninsula view FYRoM as a country in transition and in need of a National-Identity...an Identity that can sit comfortably next to Greeks, Albanians, Serbians and Bulgarians without causing ripples!