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PETITION
REGARDING THE FYROM's PERMANENT NAME
- To:
The President of United States, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives,
United Nations, European Union, Prime Minister of Greece and
Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Cc:
Members of Parliaments of the World and Press
There is an ongoing effort emanating from the FYROM
(Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), to falsely link the present
day Slavic inhabitants of that Republic with the ancient Macedonians
who were indisputably Hellenic. With this falsification of history,
the FYROM is attempting to establish a claim on Hellenic territory.
The original Macedonians, descendants of the Heracleides, occupied
the region in 2000 BC. The ancient Macedonians were part of a
large group, which reached the area of present day Kastoria (Orestis)
along with the Dorians, Acarnanians and Aetolians. According to
Herodotus, the Father of History, after the group split into smaller
ones, one of the groups established the Kingdom of Macedonia around
2000 BC.
The Slavs did not arrive in the region until the sixth
century AD. Until 1944, the area that is now legally referred
to as the FYROM was called "Vardarska Banovina"
until the Hellenic name of Macedonia was usurped by Yugoslavia's
Communist dictator Marshall Broz Tito. Tito sought to gain access
to the Aegean Sea by attempting to annex the province of Macedonia
from neighboring Greece. The hostile, false, and hate filled propaganda
directed at Greece today from Slav occupants in the FYROM and
the FYROM's diaspora was originated by the tyrannical Yugoslav
dictator Marshall Broz Tito.
We the Hellenes throughout the world, who reside in
Greece and throughout the diaspora, along with philhellenes and
those who believe in historical fact and international regulations,
respected by all civilized people, would like to present this
petition to American President George W. Bush, the United States
House of Representatives, the United States Senate, the European
Union, the United Nations, to Prime Minister of Hellas, Mr. Simitis
and to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Papandreou. We urge all
Hellenes to help resist the theft of Hellenic history and culture
by the FYROM. This petition declares that the name, history, and
culture of Macedonia are unquestionably Hellenic and that a final
settlement with the FYROM must not permit them the use of the
name Macedonia.
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