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What a curious dispute that was (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

In an impressive backfire, the Greek subborness inspired North Macedonians to start claiming actual Greek heritage. Like building statuses of Alexander the Great and similar.
Prior to that they were proudly Slavic, (North) Macedonian identity wasn't anything more than belonging to a geographic region.