Thursday, February 28, 2008

Sugestion on the name of FYROM

Since none can forbid the citizens of FYRoM to use the name Macedonia, Macedonians inside their country (to the same degree that noone can forbid the citizens of Greece leaving in the greek region of Macedonia to call themselves also Macedonians ), The real issue is the second name for international use.I think both Republic of New Macedonia and Republic of North Macedonia are terms that describe a reality. This country is a New Macedonia, different both for the old known Macedonia of 1900 (which gave the name to "macedonian salad"), but also the ancient Macedonia of Alexander, and this country is located and includes only the northern part of the geographic entity that is known as Macedonia.Personally I prefer the second term, because it gives the possibility to us with a small syntax change to call them Republic north of Macedonia !

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