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In any case, no need to defend the "greekness" of a people that lived at the same place you do. Especially as that was 2300 years ago. The ethnicities who live in Macedonia today are quite dissimilar to the phenotypes present in Macedonia at the time of Alexandros and Philippos. Anthropological studies of skulls (and of course the odd marble busts), show that at a certain point in history, foreign ethnicities displaced the inhabitants of Macedon. This was the Slavs and the Bulgars who started to move in. Then the Huns, Ostrogoths etc. Don't pretend the original Macedonians are somehow in kinship with you, since that is not given.

In any case, prior to Philippos and Alexandros, the Greeks excluded the Macedonians from the "Greek" label. It doesn't matter if the Macedonians thought of themselves as Greeks.. We all know they spoke the same language, in different dialects, but the subjective opinion of the Greeks was such that they considered the Macedonians as 'barbarians' - not entirely accepted into the 'greek' club.