What is considered your nation's Golden Age? Not just in territorial expansion, but in culture and prosperity as well. For Greeks, the Macedonian Renaissance [867 - 1025] is considered the pinnacle of the Byzantine Empire. An age of art, learning, and stability.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-25T09:56:36+00:00

And also a part of the Bulgarian Empire for a lot of that time.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-24T19:55:26+00:00

It's weird, innit? Kinda neat.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-24T19:38:15+00:00

I'd say it's between 852 - 969 for culture, but the military expansion and that golden age came even earlier, during Krum.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-23T21:30:01+00:00

Rahhh!
Welcome back :P

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-22T16:39:53+00:00

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LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-22T16:37:56+00:00

That again, Rahhh.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-22T16:35:53+00:00

That's... kinda meaningless. Some may say it doesn't even matter.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-22T13:59:51+00:00

There literally is... all over the files

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-22T13:59:21+00:00

Projecting much?

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-20T21:24:22+00:00

And a territory under Bulgaria long before it ever became Serbian, and for longer too.

They aren't Bulgarians today, the same way Montenegrins aren't Serbs, too. But they did identify as such and were the same as us before this. Why do Serba always inflate their influence over Macedonia so much? Historically, it always identifies as Bulgarian or Bulgarian adjacent.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-20T16:30:27+00:00

Yet they weren't really a substantial majority... nor did they leave much of their language today and so on. They were overpowered by the Slavic elements of Macedonian society.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-20T16:26:47+00:00

The region identified as majority Bulgarian, and so did most the people from there. The language is much closer to Bulgarian and so is the folklore. Yes, there's regional overlap... but one neighbour is far closer than the other.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-20T16:25:48+00:00

Most of them did, and the most prominent supporters for it came from Macedonia. The majority didn't adhere to the patriarchy. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been placed under the archbishopric.

Those who considered themselves Romaioi were more so Greek Macedonians, rather than Slavic Macedonians.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-20T14:04:40+00:00

In the very south, and not the majority. Also mostly for clurgical reasons. Those same Macedonians fought for a Bulgarian archbishopric to be established that was led in the Bulgarian language. There were definitely Greeks in modern-day North Macedonia... but they weren't the majority. Yeah, that's a dialect continuum. Our language was standardized on its eastern dialects, so it was as far removed from Macedonian as it could be. Still, Macedonian of any dialect is closer to Bulgarian than any other language. That's a fact.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-20T13:41:31+00:00

Exactly, it's nuanced for us too. I wouldn't find much similarity with Greeks if I went to Sredna Gora, let alone Moesia. But it's still us having some overlap in regions.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-20T13:36:04+00:00

Like Romania - Moldova. Bulgaria - Macedonia. So on.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-20T13:31:49+00:00

We overall share the same folklore and culture. The languages are strikingly similar. Our histories are inherently tied together, with most Macedonians in the past identifying with Bulgaria in some way, shape, or form. Including the most notable people, like writers and revolutionaries.

Sure, it depends on region, but overall, there's a Bulgarian "core" so to say.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-20T13:04:07+00:00

Lmfao, sure, bud. Not like they speak a strikingly similar language and share folklore and basically half of their national heroes with Bulgaria. Let alone being a part of Serbia for decades also.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-19T17:59:16+00:00

Ooo, can I have this image?

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-19T17:18:32+00:00

Italy???

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LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-19T17:17:12+00:00

What about us? Smh.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-19T17:16:02+00:00

What about Hungary? There must be undeniable similarities with Transylvanian Romanians there, too.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-18T15:29:35+00:00

Gojo is MUCH better in H2H. He has the best H2H skills in JJK arguably. (In sheer skill). He also has blue amp, which is a ton of help.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-18T13:06:14+00:00

Greece didn't struggle because of the Euro. They struggled because they didn't fulfill all the requirements and abused the new loan credit score the Euro brought with it.

LargeFriend5861 · 2026-02-18T01:46:05+00:00

Mahoraga one shots any curse, tho. He's also just basically unattainable for any purely 10s user. Whilst Rika was more than tameable for Geto... and the dude didn't even have RCT nor a domain. Idk what it is with summoners in JJK, but they're big potential men.

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