It is historically inaccurate to connect FYRoM's ex-Yugoslavs with ancient-Macedonians on the basis, there is no relation between them...I mean, no earthly or natural connections between Slavs and ancient-Macedonians. Greeks have the closest connections to Macedonians! FYRoM's Slavs are the closest Slavs to Greeks, geographically speaking.

Slavs have been living next to Greeks for nigh-on 1,400 years...from the 6th Century AD, when they were first recorded settling on Imperial Byzantine soil in the same way the Ostro-Goths did, some 200 years earlier. Theodoric the Great [Dietrich von Bern] new his place in the scheme of things: [link to en.wikipedia.org]

My point...Modern Austrians descend from Ostro-Goths, we know this from mainstream historical narrative. We also know about the Huns who came before the Ostro-Goths. We know about Visi-Goths. We know the Slavic tribes settled Byzantine Imperial territories after the Huns and after the Goths. We know about the Magyars who came after the Slavs to settle the territories now known as Hungary. We know lots
because it was all documented by chroniclers and historians of the times, using the same academic disciplines and criteria used today to record events.

Further point...FYRoM's ex-Yugoslavs descend from those Slavic tribes that settled Byzantine Imperial territories from the 6th Century AD. It is historically inacurate to connect FYRoM's Slavic speaking peoples to the ancient-Macedonians from antiquity...different race!

Final point...A Macedonian Nation State peopled by NoN-Greeks has never ever existed in historical verity, attempting to create one now is anathema for Greeks, it is tantamount to altering the autochthonous ethnogenic demographics of the Greek [Haemus] peninsula. Changing the ethnic-racial, cultural and linguistic Identity of FYRoM's ex-YugoSlavs from ethnic-Slavs to ethnic-Macedonians is not just going against nature, it is going against the mainstream historical narrative which recorded Macedonians as a Greek speaking Hellenic peoples from since the times of King Karanus.