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Eugene

(61,874 posts) Sun Jan 20, 2019, 06:58 PM Jan 2019

Thousands protest in Athens against Macedonia name change

Source: Al Jazeera

Thousands protest in Athens against Macedonia name change

The name-change agreement is the result of a dispute between Macedonia and Greece that has lasted 27 years.

7 hours ago

Thousands of protesters have gathered in Syntagma Square in Athens to demonstrate against Greece's agreement with Macedonia to change the latter's name to Republic of North Macedonia.

Hundreds of buses, especially from northern Greece, brought protesters in for the rally that took place on Syntagma square near the parliament.

Police estimates put the number of demonstrators at 60,000 around midday while organisers said 100,000 people turned up.

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Many Greeks are alarmed by the agreement, saying it recognises a Macedonian nationality, which could ignite competitive claims on ancient Greek history and heritage.

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Don't wanna let go of Alexander the Great I suppose shanny Jan 2019 #1

shanny

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1. Don't wanna let go of Alexander the Great I suppose

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Sun Jan 20, 2019, 07:35 PM

Jan 2019

altho Demosthenes described his father (Phillip II of Macedon) as "not only no Greek, he's not even a barbarian from a place you could acknowledge with credit. He's a pestilential Macedonian, from whose country it is impossible even to buy a decent slave."

'Course that was before Alexander conquered Greece and most of the known world.

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