Quotes About Macedonia

His local campaigns around Macedonia also augmented that absolutely essential economic resource: slaves-slaves to work the mines, slaves to work the fields, slaves to keep the whole economy humming.

My surname Volkanovski comes from my father's side, so I have many Macedonian supporters and I really appreciate it.

Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.

Macedonia, the inspiration for the French word for "mixed salad" (macedoine), defines the principle illness of the Balkans: conflicting dreams of lost imperial glory. Each nation demands that is borders revert to where they were at the exact time when its own empire had reached its zenith of ancient medieval expansion.

Come over into Macedonia, and help us.

Thrace, a largely ungoverned territory to the east of Greece and Macedonia, stretched up to the river Danube

the Antigonid kingdom of Macedonia also made an alliance with Hannibal.

much of Bulgaria, Albania, the Republic of North Macedonia, and all the European part of Turkey.

some supporting Macedonia, others, including Athens, supporting Rome.

One ethnos that never did adopt the polis system was Macedonia.

the highest levels of Macedonian society were thoroughly Greek-speaking by the mid-fourth century BCE.

and broke through the undefended Balkans to devastate all of mainland Greece north of the Peloponnese.

Acts 16:9 is the meddler's motto, simultaneously selfless and self-serving, generous but stuck-up. Into every generation of Americans is born a new crop of buttinskys sniffing out the latest Macedonia that may or may not want their help.

The Academy's most famous dropout was raised in Macedonia, the Texas of ancient Greece.

Macedonia was, is and will forever be Greek.

As a result, you have become an example to all the believers in Greece— throughout both Macedonia and Achaia. —1 Thessalonians 1:7

Twelve years he reigned, as says the Book of Maccabees. He was the son of Philip of Macedonia, who was the first King of the country of Greece. O worthy, noble Alexander, alas, that ever such a fall should come to pass! Poisoned by your own people were you. Fortune did roll the dice to your disfavor, and for you she never wept a tear.

Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.

For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within. But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus. (2 Cor. 7:5–6)

Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging.

The Lord's message rang out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place that your faith in God has gone out. 1 Thessalonians 1:8

Albania is located sixty miles across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. It borders Montenegro and Kosovo to the north, Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south. If you know nothing about 'the Land of the Eagles,' relax. You're not alone.

I intend to be the president of all citizens of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic or religious background, regardless of their political standing. I shall not allow ethnic hatred and intolerance to undermine Macedonia's stability.

Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.