From: michael.polymenakos@factory.com (Michael Polymenakos) 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.bulgarian,soc.culture.europe
Subject: Macedonia: Sources
Date: 7 Sep 92 20:44:00 GMT
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Reply-To: michael.polymenakos@factory.com (Michael Polymenakos) 


Hi. I looked up MACEDONIA in Prodigy(r), a
major electronic service. The following text is provided in its entirety
as found on PRODIGY.
The following is Copyright PRODIGY(r) 1992. Attribute the source if
you re-post it.

The Dorians were one of the major Greek tribes, and included the
Spartans, post-doric invasion Argeans, Corinthinas, Rhodians and
post-Minoan Cretans. Being a Laconian, I consider myself a Dorian.
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                 ACADEMIC AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA
MACEDONIA, KINGDOM OF

The ancient Kingdom of Macedonia, situated in the north of
modern Greece, was established by PERDICCAS I about 640 BC.
Perdiccas was a Dorian, although the Macedonian tribes included
Thracian and Illyrian elements. Originally a semibarbarous and
fragmented power, Macedon became tributary to Persia under the
Persian kings DARIUS I and XERXES I and thereafter struggled to
maintain itself against Thracians and other barbarians and
against the Greek cities of the Chalcidice (the promontory
southeast of modern Salonika) as well as Sparta and Athens.

A new stage began with Archelaus (d. 399 BC), who centralized
the kingdom with a system of roads and forts; he also fostered
the Hellenization of his people by inviting famous Greek
artists, Euripides among them, to his court.
PHILIP II (r. 359-336) completed Archelaus's work by making
Macedon the greatest power in the Greek world. By brilliant
diplomacy and military genius he divided up and conquered the
city-states ringing his borders. Becoming the champion of
Delphi in the "Sacred War" of 355-346, he extended his power
into Greece itself. In 338 he decisively ended Greek liberty by
defeating Thebes and Athens at CHAERONEA.

Philip's son, ALEXANDER THE GREAT, won a vast empire; on
Alexander's death (323), however, this empire began to separate
into four distinct kingdoms of which Macedon was one.
Contending with the rival kingdoms and with newly formed Greek
federal leagues, Macedonia remained the dominant power in
Greece until conquered by Rome in a series of wars waged by
PHILIP V and his son PERSEUS. The kingdom was abolished after
the battle of Pydna in 168 BC and was divided into four
districts. In 146, after a revolt, it became a Roman province.
CHARLES W. FORNARA
Bibliography: Casson, Stanley, Macedonia, Thrace and Illyria
(1926); Ellis, John R., Philip II and Macedonian Imperialism
(1976); Hammond, Nicholas G., A History of Macedonia, vol. 1
(1972); Hogarth, D. G., Philip and Alexander of Macedon (1897);
Wilcken, Ulrich, Alexander the Great, trans. by G. C. Richards
(1967).
Copyright (c) 1992 Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc.  All rights reserved.
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The following is also Copyright PRODIGY(r) 1992. Attribute the source if
you re-post it. This is the portion of the (modern) MACEDONIA article that
refers to the ex-yugoslav republic of "M". I will post the rest if anyone
is interested, although it is mostly regarding climate, natural resources
and such. Note the reference to the Albanian minority. They boycotted the
referendum because they were opposed to the name "Macedonia".

PRODIGY(R) interactive personal service         09/07/92         7:47 PM

                 ACADEMIC AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA

MACEDONIA
{mas-uh-dohn'-ee-uh}
[...]
 Yugoslav Macedonia, which has a population of 1,909,136 (1981)
and an area of 25,713 sq km (9,925 sq mi) was until early 1992
a constituent republic of Yugoslavia.  Its capital is Skopje
(1981 pop., 506,547).  The Macedonian parliament declared in
January 1991 that the republic was sovereign and had the right
to secede from the Yugoslav federation.  In early September a
referendum on independence was held in the republic;  an
estimated 75% voted their approval of the proposal, although
Macedonia's Albanian minority boycotted the vote.  On Apr. 27,
1992, Serbia and Montenegro announced the formation of a new
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in effect recognizing the
independence of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.
Most of the world community, however, withheld recognition of
Yugoslav Macedonia.

Norman J. G. Pounds
Bibliography: Brailsford, H. N., Macedonia: Its Races and Their
Future (1906; repr. 1971); Rusinow, Dennison, ed., Yugoslavia:
A Fractured Federalism (1988); Singleton, Fred, A Short History
of the Yugoslav Peoples (1985).
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Michael.

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