Population of Macedonia and Adjacent Areas

[TrueMacedonian]

page 209

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I know its been posted here before but it serves the interest of this topic.


page 31

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And this is what Arthur Bullard had to say about the population of Macedonia -page 260

[TrueMacedonian]

And NGL Hammond stated that the population of Epirus was once all Slavic!

[Risto the Great]

To be honest, I am feeling a little overwhelmed with the quantum of information here. If I was a Greek claiming Macedonia, I would never step foot in this history section for fear of ridicule.

.... And they have not.

[TrueMacedonian]

http://books.google.com/books?id=Czb...ty+in+salonica

The Jewish majority in Salonica amounted to 56% in 1519, dropped to 52% in 1530-31, but rose to 68% in 1619.

Rounded off that would mean that in the 17th century 70% of Solun was inhabited by Jews. I am gathering that during that time if the ancestors of the counterfeit hellenes looked like this

[TrueMacedonian]

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/l...ocsol-3-X.html

The Emperor quickly chose to send Constantine, accompanied by his brother Methodius, justifying his decision with the words "You two are from Salonika, and all Thessalonians speak pure Slavonic."

[osiris]

"You two are from Salonika, and all Thessalonians speak pure Slavonic."

and the question is why did all of them speak slavic, and not greek if solun was then a part of he "greek speaking" roman empire. intersetingly most of the peloponesian population spoke slavic during the 9th to the 13 centuries.

[TrueMacedonian]

That's right Osiris. So if they base their "unbroken continuity" on language then obviously we see a rather long break in between the many centuries.