Greek General Demetrios Kallergis on who fought the Turks (1860)

[Orfej]

Originally Posted by Droog

On the net it's so easy to claim all kinds of stuff, without the burden of proof.

We know! Your claim is a prime example:

Originally Posted by Droog

Just a minor addition: He used the term Macedonians in the context of Aromanians.

Soldier of Macedon asked you some questions but i don't see you answering them! Why? Have you nothing to add except the attempt to make the Macedonians in this text Vlachs?

[Orfej]

Originally Posted by Voltron

but Italians in his opinion are a different nationality from Sicilians.

It's because he wrote the text in the 1860! You on the other hand look from the prism of today.

[Soldier of Macedon]

Droog, any answers to the questions I posed?

[Pelister]

Originally Posted by Droog

The text also doesn't indicate that the reference is about ethnic Macedonians, but we do know that at that time in Greece the term Macedonians was also used about Aromanians among other groups and that Aromanians played a very important role in Greece during and after the revolution, while in the region of Macedonia the movement was virtually non-existent. If you take into account the relations of Kallergis with Albanian(in fact even his wife was Albanian) and Aromanian leaders the conclusion becomes unavoidable.

You New Greeks have a way of distorting things. I can see the interpretive mischief at work already in your interpretation of the text.

He is referring to the Macedonians, simple.

He is not referring to Greeks, because he is himself a Greek and treats the Greeks separately. He treats the Albanians separately. If he was referring to Aromanians/Vlachs, he would have said so, because they were also a distinctive group with their own name and well known throughout the region and the Greeks had their own words for the Vlachs - never 'Macedonian'.

Based on this information alone, he is treating the Macedonians as separate from the Greeks, Turks and Albanians, or as a distinctive group.

[Voltron]

Originally Posted by Pelister

You New Greeks have a way of distorting things. I can see the interpretive mischief at work already in your interpretation of the text.

He is referring to the Macedonians, simple.

He is not referring to Greeks, because he is himself a Greek and treats the Greeks separately. He treats the Albanians separately. If he was referring to Aromanians/Vlachs, he would have said so, because they were also a distinctive group with their own name and well known throughout the region and the Greeks had their own words for the Vlachs - never 'Macedonian'.

Based on this information alone, he is treating the Macedonians as separate from the Greeks, Turks and Albanians, or as a distinctive group.

Orfej sums this up pretty well when he said:

It's because he wrote the text in the 1860! You on the other hand look from the prism of today.

[Pelister]

Originally Posted by Voltron

Orfej sums this up pretty well when he said:

The Modern Greeks have identified Macedonians as a distinctive, unique and separate people for as long as there have been Modern Greeks in this world. As I said, the author distinguishes the Greeks, Albanians, Turks and Macedonians, as separate people.

He is not referring to Vlachs, because he doesn't name them.

[Voltron]

The question you should be asking is why he left them out in the first place ? Isnt it strange that the biggest "foreign" patriots aside from Arvanites were Vlachs yet they get no mention ? I believe this is what Droog meant and it makes sense.
That doesnt discount Macedonian volunteers of course, we are just commenting on what Kallergis said.

[KingMac]

If he said Macedonians then it is most likely Macedonians he means. Why mean vlatsi?

[Voltron]

Originally Posted by KingMac

If he said Macedonians then it is most likely Macedonians he means. Why mean vlatsi?

Because Vlachs were a key component in the creation of Modern Greece.

[Soldier of Macedon]

Originally Posted by Voltron

The question you should be asking is why he left them out in the first place ? Isnt it strange that the biggest "foreign" patriots aside from Arvanites were Vlachs yet they get no mention ? I believe this is what Droog meant and it makes sense.
That doesnt discount Macedonian volunteers of course, we are just commenting on what Kallergis said.

Voltron, in response to the above, I would ask you to answer the two questions that I posed to Droog earlier. Can you?