German anthropologist and historian, Jakob Phillip Fallmerayer, who lived between 1790-1862, wrote the following in his book "FRAGMENTE AUS DEM ORIENT BYZANS UND DES ABENDLANDES", published in 1861, re-printed in 1900:
"Contrary to the views of the revisionists of ancient Greek history, today's Greeks do not have any continuity with their namesakes, the Greeks of antiquity."
According to the records of ancient history of the Balkans, several respected historians believe similarly, that the inhabitants of Greece of our day have no more connection with the ancient Greeks of the mythological times than the ordinary FELLAHINE who live in Egypt today, could be related to the descendants of the Pharaohs themselves.
It was King Philip II of Macedonia who had united the Thracian Greeks and the rest of the natives of the areas he had conquered to prepare them for an expedition against the Persians. His son, Alexander, founded, later on, his vast dynasty on the ruins of the old empire built by his father. Historians are unanimous on this one point that the ancient Macedonians as well as today's citizens of the independent country of MACEDONIA are not Greeks at all. In reality, the ancient Greeks had a name for them, "Barbarians" a word, which simply means an alien, a foreigner.
The great Athenian statesman and orator Demosthenes spoke of King Philip II of Macedonia in very pejorative terms when he said in part:
"...he (Philip), not only is no Greek, nor related in any shape or form to Greeks, but he is not even a true 'barbarian' from any place that can be named with honours, but a pestilent knave from Macedonia, whence it was never yet possible to buy a decent slave."
This very same "Macedonian barbarian" referred to by Demostenes in his speech, defeated his enemies, the Greeks, at the battle of Chaerones in August 338 BC and appointed himself "Commander of the Greeks." Nonetheless, today's inhabitants of those lands unabashedly call his son, ALEXANDER THE GREAT, a noble Greek.