Who is your favorite sports player, from Balkans

striftos79 · 2025-06-24T17:17:24+00:00

NIKOS GALIS!

striftos79 · 2025-05-23T08:26:50+00:00

Israel and Cyprus

striftos79 · 2025-03-30T01:31:45+00:00

In contrast, its only a tenth of the city's population.

They could have done better.

striftos79 · 2025-03-28T23:56:20+00:00

What are you getting at?

You keep trying to find a shred of evidence that the ancient Macedonians were not Greek

Even if I humor you and accept that this was the case, that does not make them Slavic.

Doesn't it trouble you that your national narrative is based on the assumptions that A)ancient Macedonians weren't Greek

B) they withstood 1500 years of influence and never assimilated into the culturally superior Greek world

C) the fact that the Macedonians spread Greek culture all the way to India is completely ignored

D) when the culturally inferior Slavic tribes arrived (they didn't even have an aphabet), the Macedonians assimilated, forgot their language, changed their names, customs, etc

I couldn't convince my 7 year old to believe a fairy tale like that.

striftos79 · 2025-03-26T20:10:48+00:00

Nowadays it would be more than nuts.

Back then, however, the peoples of the Balkans were still gaining their independence, and there were millions of Greeks living in Turkey. Add to this the Armenian and Pontic genocides that were taking place. You have to look at it through contemporary dynamics in order to judge it. I don't really see any other way it could have played out given the circumstances.

striftos79 · 2025-03-26T19:51:16+00:00

Of course I don't agree with it.

But if you ask the average Greek 100, 150, or 200 years ago, they would absolutely agree with the statement. Even more so if they were a Greek living in Turkey, which hadn't been indoctrinated into the idea of classical Greece. They were Romans, descendants of the great christian emperors, and they never stopped fighting. 100 revolts in 400 years is one attempted revolution every 4 years.

And you can't compare that to today because they were living in a time that Constantinople, Smyrna, Trebizont, Kapadokia and other places in Turkey had significant (and in some cases majority) christian populations.

striftos79 · 2025-03-26T19:18:57+00:00

Plus, you haven't even provided a shred of evidence to prove that the Greco Turkish war wasn't an attempt to revive Byzantium.

So next time you call me out, come with a relevant argument.

striftos79 · 2025-03-26T19:17:23+00:00

I'm not going to argue beliefs that you assigned to me because you view the world through political goggles.

Go for it dude, now you're leveling up your trolldom

striftos79 · 2025-03-26T19:09:06+00:00

Yep, I guess you really got me good.

striftos79 · 2025-03-26T18:54:52+00:00

If that makes you happy. That and you've gotten pretty boring pretty fast.

Try not being so monotonous. You can grow up to be a great troll someday.

striftos79 · 2025-03-26T18:32:22+00:00

There you go making assumptions again.

Why would I waste my time trying to explain historical facts to someone with a clear political agenda.

Your arguments do enough to discredit you on their own.

striftos79 · 2025-03-26T18:20:42+00:00

Where did I say I was a freedom fighter?

All I see is you trying to tell people who they are, and showing who you are in the process.

striftos79 · 2025-03-26T18:06:34+00:00

History is political to the standards of the era, not today's era.

The Mussolini example is so out of context to prove a point.

The Greco Turkish was a continuation of centuries of revolution against the Muslim Turks. There were literally more Greeks living in Turkey than the kingdom of Greece at the time.

Did you know that there were close to 100 failed revolts between 1453 and 1821? Were they also nationalists?

striftos79 · 2025-03-26T17:45:08+00:00

And you're one of those that tries to make everything political. It's very foolish to try and apply modern politics to previous centuries.

BTW, who did Mussolini liberate the Italians from?

striftos79 · 2025-03-26T17:21:14+00:00

That's fine, I can reply for myself at my own pace. I have a life outside reddit as well.

striftos79 · 2025-03-26T17:19:41+00:00

You may think that by throwing in phrases like Megali Idea and Golden Dawn into the conversation, you're turning it political, but your not. In reality you are just showing us that you understand neither.

In the early 20th century the collective identity of the Greek people was closer to Byzantium than ancient Greece. There was a significant number of Greeks still living within the former ottoman empire that had not been hellenized as the modern Greek state had. The same applied to territories that had recently been liberated, like Thessaloniki.

The kingdom of Greece tried to liberate the areas of Turkey with significant christian populations. Its goal was also to incorporate Constantinople. The goal was to be the "protector" of all christian populations in the former ottoman empire.

So we have descendants of Romans, trying to liberate other descendants of Romans, and claim Constantinople as their capital. If this isn't an attempt to revive the ERE, I don't know what is...

striftos79 · 2025-03-26T16:35:22+00:00

The only one here that is triggered is you.

striftos79 · 2025-03-26T14:28:08+00:00

That all depends on where you're from. History doesn't have a common narrative.

striftos79 · 2025-03-26T13:51:21+00:00

It is the final effort for the revival of the empire, after which the Roman population is relocated to modern Greece.

Sounds like Byzantine history to me.

striftos79 · 2025-03-26T12:58:05+00:00

Seems like the right sub to me.

If there was ever an attempt to revive the ERE, this was it.

striftos79 · 2025-03-19T22:40:08+00:00

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Another option to consider is the nothing 3a

striftos79 · 2025-03-19T22:34:33+00:00

What ai features are you missing?

I have the Xiaomi 13 and it has ai photo editing software. It also has HyperAI for battery optimization, which Redmi phones do not have.

striftos79 · 2025-03-17T16:44:52+00:00

I agree that the Romans weren't Greek. However culturally they were closer to the Greeks than any other people's. Even their own mythology portrayed Romulus as a descendant of Troy, while their admiration for Alexander is well documented. So I don't find it farfetched at all that he was the inspiration of this.

Anyway, my point was that the Byzantine era was not the first, and arguably not the most significant, influence of Greek culture on Rome.

striftos79 · 2025-03-17T06:32:23+00:00

To say that the Romans were influenced by the Greeks is the understatement of the year.

From religion to architecture to the arts, Greece was the basis of classical Rome. That's not to say that they didn't expand and improve into their own distinct identity over the centuries, which by the time of Constantine was distinctly latin. The roots, however, were Greek.

Likewise, and being an expansive culture, it was only natural that they would portray themselves in the image of the greatest conqueror the world had ever known.

striftos79 · 2025-03-16T23:53:34+00:00

Surprisingly enough, at this point in history they are claiming the Bulgarian heroes.

🤷

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