"The idea that Alexander the Great belongs to us, was at the mind of some outsider political groups only! These groups were insignificant the first years of our independence but the big problem is that the old Balkan nations have . . . learned to legitimate themselves through their history. In [the] Balkans, if you want to be recognised as a nation, you need to have history of 2000 or 3000 years old. So since you [the Greeks] made us to invent a history, we invent it! . . . You forced us to the arms of the extreme nationalists who today claim that we are direct descendants of Alexander the Great."
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Quoted in The Macedonian Question and the Macedonians: A History (2021), pp. 180–181.
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Denko Maleski
Denko Maleski (Macedonian: Денко Малески; born 1946) is a Macedonian intellectual, diplomat, and professor at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. He was the country's first foreign minister.
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