ΔΙΑΒΑΣΤΕ ΚΑΙ ΟΛΟΙ ΜΑΖΙ ΝΑ ΔΩΣΟΥΜΕ ΑΚΟΜΑ ΜΙΑ ΑΠΑΝΤΗΣΗ!
Both Lay Claim to Alexander the Great
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Alexander the Great died more than 2,300 years ago. But his cult of personality is just starting to grip this tiny Balkan country.
To the annoyance of next-door Greece, which has long claimed the conqueror as its own, Macedonia has anointed Alexander its national hero. The government has renamed the international airport here in his honor, as well as the main highway to Greece. Soon to come: a 72-foot-tall marble colossus of Alexander astride his favorite warhorse, Bucephalus, which will dominate the skyline of the capital, Skopje.
The mania over Alexander is the latest chapter in a long-running feud between Macedonia and Greece that some officials fear has the potential to destabilize a region still trying to recover from the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
The dispute centers on a basic question: Does Macedonia, a country born out of the rubble of the former Yugoslavia, have the right to call itself what it wants? For 18 years, the conflict has defied attempts by the United States, the United Nations and European powers to find a solution...[Read more ]
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