North Macedonia’s New President Won’t Say The Country’s Name And Greece Is Angry.

North Macedonia's new president won't say the country's name and Greece is angry. It all goes back to the dispute concerning the Macedonian region of Northern Greece.

[XTRADERXNYC]

They can say and do what they want, but they will never change history or reality

[Alexander]

MAKEDONIA IS ONE AND HELLENIC NO ONE CAN CHANGE HISTORY!!!

[phk]

Tell your leaders to start using Greek as their mother tongue, if they want to call themselves Macedonians

[aliyevruslan]

Macedonia is the ultimate example of how a lie ever became reality

[Klinex]

why was alexander the great called alexander and not alexandrovski ??

[perikliszekakis]

Self determination is fine, no problem. I define myself as an elderly, I deserve pension!

[mercurismantikos]

You stole the history from the Greeks the language from the Bulgarians and the flag from the Japanese..This is ridiculous.

[stefan]

guess we'll go back to calling it FYROM again

[Platwnas-xo]

A Slavic nation claiming to be ancestors of Macedonians. Great Alexander and his father Philipos were Greeks, spoke Greek like all Macedonians who were part of GR! At least learn how to speak the same language as Great Alexander before putting up statues of him and claim him as ur own..

[powerBusa]

gamw to spitaki sou vromiara vardaska tha se gia mia zwh

[ChrisNorth.]

They don't even have Macedonian names. They are slavs but they don't want to accept it.
Macedonia is one and only and it's in Greece

[despoinatsavdaridou]

Η Μακεδονία είναι Ελληνική μπορειτε να κλέψετε το όνομα μας την ιστορία μας οχι

[stavrospaidarakis]

- Name and symbols not recognized from Greece
- language and national Balkan war heroes don't recognized from Bulgaria
- church not recognised from Serbia.

With 25% of the population identifying themselves as ethnic Albanians the country north of Greece is playing with fire.

[claus]

As a bulgarian, I wonder whether the greeks would protest the country being reffered to as "Macedonia" from a regional standpoint, if the people living there now hadn't been brainwashed into having wrongful claims about the ancient historical Macedonian Empire and Alexander. Many bulgarians reffer to themselves as being "macedonian", but they don't mean it in any way connected to that part of history. Several million people came to Bulgaria after the Liberation, the two Balkan Wars and the two World Wars, many of them being from the Macedonian region. For us it's just the name of the region, even though it's a remnant from the hellenistic past.

[peterpetrovski]

The region of Luxembourg in Belgium is larger than the country of Luxembourg. But when there is a country that wishes to call itself Macedonia, that naming can be protested because there is a region called that?

[Jon_Alexson]

But they aren't speaking Greek. How do they think of themselves as Macedonians? I really don't get it? Alexander the Great was speaking Greek, right? Or am I going crazy here?

[phk]

If you are not North then you are Greek, belonging to Greece. Period.

[xristosmitioudis]

Τι είπε γιατί την Καστοριά, Φλώρινα, Αρηδεα και Κιλκίς γιατί δεν ξέρω Ρωσικά!

[andrigeogiou]

I don't know about the North Macedonian, or Skopje.
All i know is thaf...
The north part of Cyprus, is occupied by Turkey since 1974
MILITARY OCCUPATION

[phk]

Really? It was forbidden? Strange. Even my house address is called Macedonia Street since early 1900 when the first houses were built in my district.