Was the Bulgarian King Samuel of FYROM Skopjan nationality as some Skopjans claimed he was?
Skopjans in order to by-pass the now established truths about the greekness of the ancient Macedonians and build a future for their so-called “macedonian nationality” and acquire historical rights to the Macedonian area claim that the infrastructure and population of the kingdom which Samuel established for a period of close to 18 years with the city of Achris as its capital was “Macedonian” (of the Skopjan type). They also claim that Samuel was also a “macedonian” (of the Skopjan type) even though certain historias today believe that he was an Armenian. They also claim that Samuel as a ruler of a state that also included Macedonia was himself a Macedonian and that the state he established was the first “Macedonian state” (of the Skopjan type). Regarding Samuel, he was a Bulgarian king and not a “Macedonian” one, and the state he founded was a Bulgarian one as well. It is for this reason that the emperor Vasileios II of the Byzantine empire, who defeated Samuel, is known in history as
