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This is not exactly a question. It's a dispute about the "Macedonia" name. If somebody wants to spent some time to explain any reasons why Macedonia is Greek or not please do. BUT DO IT PROVIDING EVIDENCE please.

Let me explain what I mean: A few days ago, someone asked at the GREEK section the question "Is Macedonia considered to be Greek? And are Macedonians considered Greek?" The asker asked this question because she was confused about the Macedonia issue.

What is the Macedonia issue?

I suppose you know that Macedonia was from ancient times a Greek territory, (as it's name suggests), and has Greek history, language and civilization. Greeks can provide all kind of evidence to prove Macedonia's authenticity (see below). However since 1991, Vardarska, also known as F.Y.R.O.M, a Slav country, claims the name "because the name belongs to them" since "they're the ancestors of Alexander the Great". This is an excuse to laugh at, since Slavs came at the Balkans at the 6th-7nth century, but Macedonia's history starts in the Late Neolithic period (c. 4500 to 3500 BC) and as all of you know Alexander the Great was Greek! And from the other hand (and until now at least) I read no clues or something from their part... just the regular excuse "ask others, not greeks, to tell you THE TRUTH".

So, I'm asking others to "learn the truth". What's your opinion? I repeat, don't just say "Macedonia is "X"" and that's it. Please provide some evidence if you can, as I did.

The clues I provided (so far) are:

1) FOREIGN testimonies

2) Etymology of the "Macedonia" name and various relative names

3) A speech of Alexander the Great, the greater Macedonian of them all

4) Geographic facts

5) Tomb scriptures

6) Various historical scriptures and texts (by Herodotus)

They provided:

1) Some insults (not much)

2) A link from a site which:

a) Belongs to them (F.Y.R.O.M-ians) as the "about" page says. (This is normal of course since they don't have any evidence or testimonies from foreign scholars, but it's a total irony to blame Greeks for something they also do)

b) The content of the site is based on Quintus Curtius Rufus, a Roman historian who "garbled his writings" as Mary Renault a historical novelist said, and also is someone who had a "complete lack of historical principle" according to William Woodthorpe Tarn a British classical scholar and a writer. (According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Curtius_Rufus... But even if Quintus was a great writer, why his opinion matters more than all the rest ancient Greek philosophers for example Herodotus?

So, your opinion? What do you think?

PS: Here is the question for more info: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ait9N...

PS: I can provide more evidence if you like.

My computer crashed once and some files got corrupted. I know that many programs exists out there which they can fix the files, but I need a program that searches for the corrupted files BY ITSELF since I have too many files on my pc and I don't know which are corrupted or not and of course I can't search them one by one. I don't really care if the program can fix the the corrupted files. (Even though I prefer to). I just want to know which files are the bad ones to delete them and free some space.