Geography Now! Rep. of North Macedonia

Hey guys so UPDATE! As of Jan 25 2019 the Greek Parliament voted 153-146 (1 abstained) in favor of accepting the new name of "North Macedonia" for this country. Many Greek citizens are opposed to this move but for what's it's worth this means diplomatic actions can move forward after nearly 3 decades of dispute. Let's see what happens.

Well, at least this was good practice for the Israel video.....

how to start a war in the comments 1: talk about ANYTHING in the balkans edit: Even after 4 years people are still ultra nationalist in the comments. (note the replies are a balkans political hell hole)

"We are Slavs who came to this area in the sixth century ... We are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians" - Kiro Gligorov, FYROM's first President, Foreign Information Service Daily Report, Eastern Europe, February 26, 1992.

Alexander the Great was born in Pella. That place is in Greece. The Slavs were not anywhere near that region until many centuries after his rule that spoke Hellenic not Slavic.

The four horsemen of controversy: -Macedonia -Kosovo -Taiwan -Crimea

THIS is controversial? Wait till you get to K and have to decide whether or not you'll do Kosovo.

7.58 if they were Greek why did they to to war to each other....Bro ! Athens and Sparta had a war against each other . Doesnt mean that they are not Greek. We are speraking for city-states. Like Portugal is Portuguese AND European and Spain is Spanish AND European....Its the same thing. Pella was Macedonian AND Greek too

“When Alexander read the inscription on the tomb of Cyrus he ordered it to be repeated below in Greek” -Plutarch 69.2

Spartans and Athenians always went to war against each other. Does that mean they constituted different ethnic groups?

As a Greek, I can say that we do not really care about your name and we would be pleased with something like Northern Macedonia or something. What we just can't stand is you having this dream like perspective on history while EVERYONE tells you you are wrong...

If you say macedonian or greek its the same thing because macedonia is greek these guys think that the are greek

“AMONG ALL THE GREEKS you shall stand forth as a statesman who has worked for the good of Greece” (Isocrates “to Philip” 5.139, 5.140)

The comment section is going to be tasty

FYROM is full of Bulgarians and Albanians. They are Slavic people who spoke Bulgarian prior to becoming part of Yugoslavia and they speak a Slavic language. The Slavic people didn't even come to Europe until around the 5th or 6th century AD... but they think Alexander the Great was their ancestors all because their name is "Macedonia". The ancient Macedonia spoke Greek and an overwhelming majority of their ruins and writing etc. was found in Northern Greece..... NOT FYROM.... but hey whatever floats their boat 😂😂😂

I mean when did slavs come to this area?? 6 hundrend years later or so...

You forgot to mention Shutka, Skopje, FYROM the capital of Roma in Europe.

Propaganda in this country went really mad. They even argue among themselves wether they are or arent Slavs.

in croatian schools, Alexander the great is called Alexander the Macedonian

“I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia” -Alexander (Anabasis Alexander 2.14.4, 2.14.6)