There was a lot of inter-marrying among the Royal houses, so there was deffinitely Illyrian blood in Alexander III, as well as Thraikian. Imagine Victorian like marrying among the Royal houses of the time.

However, his father was Phillipos B of the Temenids dynasty of Makedonia with Herakles as a divine ancestor, his mother Olympias from the Aiakides dynasty of Epeiros with Neoptolemos, son of Achilles as a divine ancestor. Both were Greeks.

Alexandros III of Makedonia was educated by Aristoteles, in my opinion the single best philosopher/scientist that Hellenism produced. One of his works "of Geography" translated into Latin in 1430's has this to say... "Earth is a small place, and it is entirely possible that one can sail around it and can reach the point of origin". Christopher Colombus must have read that. Alexandros III did too.

Alexandros III was Greek, of both greek parents, greek ancestry, greek speaking, and brought greek thought on the whole of the world. His genious made Hellenistic world possible.

Albanians of today and FyroMacedonians of today can claim Alexandros all they want. They are simply wrong. I would say


stinking liars,



, but that is for any thinking person to decide.