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To: Spar;enrg
So why do you have hostility towards "FYROM" , or should I correctly say Republic of Macedonia.......

Could it be because you are a prosfiga, or just plain arrogant, or maybe one of those that cant accept the truth.

For all other republic readers, the term prosfiga, refers to the population exchange that happened in Macedonia , or should I incorrectly say Northern Greece. When Macedonia was split up in the beggining of this century, between, Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria, many of the Macedonians were expelled from Greece. Whilst this was happening, all Greek muslims were part of a population exchange with Turkish Christians. These two peoples basically swapped lands. All the Muslims from Greece went to Turkey, and all off the 1.5 million Christian Turks were settled in the macedonian occupied part of Greece. These Christian Turks are now known as prosfigi. This is a very offensive term to many people that now claim that they are Macedonian or should I once again incorrectly say Greek Macedonian........I dont know what many people think, but I cant see a Greek Macedonian country on the world map!!!!!!!!!

The Macedonians from Greece had to find there own place to live and Moved to upper macedonia (and other parts of the World), or Better know now as Republic of Macedonia

To put all this in a nutshell, some of the People living withing the occupied part of Macedonia on greece find it hard to accept that they are not really what they are and have to compete with the real Macedonians living in Greece and Macedonia for an identity. In saying all this, the real greeks living in lower greece/athens, refer to these people as Vulgaros (Bulgarians), not to use the term Macedonia because of certain interests of land. They use the term Vulgaros because they speak a slavic language, hence MACEDONIAN......

I feel sorry for them....maybe spar and his type should go back to Turkey and claim their real ansestry. In saying this I dont mean any disrespact towards Turkey, its just at the time they did what they had to do.

Have a good weekend

9 posted on 02/28/2002 8:24:12 PM PST by Lions
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To: Lions
Not even close. Good for a laugh though.
10 posted on 02/28/2002 10:58:31 PM PST by Spar
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