Do the Skopjans have desires on Macedonia, Greece?
Greece claims that Skopjans, who are evidently non-Greeks, by using to identify themselves a Hellenic (greek) name that still identifies a region in modern Greece, the people living in that region, and their thousands year old heritage, implies territorial claims on behalf of Skopje. Such opinions were shared by US officials when the late Marshall Tito, in 1944, created a (now former) Yugoslav Socialist Republic of “Macedonia”. There are many Skopjan provocations supporting Greece’s position. • The use of Slavic names for Greek cities instead of the Greek ones (they prefer to call Thessaloniki, Solun, to call Kastoria , Kostur, to call Florina, Lerin, to call Edessa, Voden etc), beyond the usual changes that the translation of various names from one language to another requires. The use of Slavic toponyms is intended to cast a doubt on the Greekness of the various places in Macedonia. This is also confirmed by the fact that the Skopjans never use the term say “Greek Macedonia” but spea
