Quote Originally Posted by Baba Ga'on
"Macedonia" has been an entity since Tito took over Yugoslavia in 1944-1945. In fact, from what I've read, there were specifically Macedonian groupings, outside the Greek part of the area, from the early 20th century onwards.
Where did you read that? At the beggiing of the 20th century, there were two groups of people in Macedonia - Greeks and Slavs. The problem was who those Slavs were... there were a lot of incertanties, in no small part due to Serbian and Bulgarian propaganda, but in general, all scientists from France to Russia agreed that slavic Macedonians are a mix of Bulgarians and Serbs, slightly more Bulgarian influence.

Anyway, this is not the topic. If we agree that modern Greeks don't have that much in common with ancient Greeks, slavic Macedonians certainly have even less...