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The Time – Matter Cosmogonic Paradox Management and Socio-Humanities SHORT DESCRIPTIVE HISTORY ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE ARM’N-MACEDONIANS Branislav STEFANOSKI Historical and linguistical researcher, Tetovo, R. Macedonia Abstract: The Armenians, “Pelasgians” are European carriers of the achievements in all the fields. The Armenian, “Pelasgian” language is identical with the recent Arm’n-Macedonian language. If were the Greeks that borrowed the works of the contemporariness of Homerus who write into Armenian, :Pelasgian” letters, translated into Greek and preserved them to the future. Arm’n Macedonian are direct successors of the Ancient Macedonians (Pelazgians-Thracians-Illiric) and, in their every use, has almost completely saved the Ancient Arm’n Macedonian language. Keywords: Arm’n-Macedonians, Greeks’ origin, Danaans, migrations, Latinization. 4000 years ago, in East, South, Central and the Pelasgian dialects are in linguistical parts of Western Europe, as well as Asia interdependence with the Thracian-Illyrian Minor, in zones until Sinai, including even the speeches. From Homeric “Iliad” one can Ural mountain, one mighty and numbered clearly see that the inhabitants of Troy, the people lived, divided into hundreds tribes. Trojans (Dardanians) spoke one language with They spoke one and the same language with the Phrygians, Mysians, Thracians, Pelasgians. insignifiant differences in the dialects and the They tremendously well understood even the speeches. In means that, regardless to the vast language of the invasionists, even the Danaans spaces that separated this people, the different who were biligual, and who primarily tribes could completely well communicate and originated from Egypt. understand among each other. The only Herodotus (History, I, 58) is completely slightly different were the dialects of the decisive when saying that the Greek language Dacians in Dacia, who, in a smaller or huger is a newborn one that had been speaking concentration reach places on the territory of parallel with the Pelasgians in the beginning, whole Europe, first of all parts of Italy and and by time had grown into separate language. what is today Portugal. So it is no wonder that the members of Somewhere before 4100/3800 years B.C. different tribes in the Balkans and Asia Minor, Middle East groups migrate on the island of fighting on the Trojan side, regarding the Crete and southern part of the Balkans language understand quite well also the Peninsula. It is first of all the migration of the Danaans, who as identity were only part Cadmeans (Phoenicians). The trojan war, of the intruders. according to my strict analysis and researching It is completely sure that we cannot take as presented in the study “Pelasgi: language, Danaans their allies Leleges, Peraebieans, Writing, Name” (Tetovo, 1998) took place in Locrians, Myrmidons of Achilees, the 1263 and lasted until 1253 B.C. On the basis Aeolians… Only the Achaeans were literally of the analysis I did on many Thracian / mixed with the Danaans and is probably why Illyrian writings as well as the Pelasgian the bilingualism emerged among the Danaans, scripture from Lemnos which were studied in something that is said by many Ancient “Pelasgi....”, we can claimed with complete historians and philosophers. assurance that there is an irrejectable Following my additional analysis on the structural and linguistical identity between oldest secured text of Homeric “Iliad” I could the Arm’nian (Thracian-Illyrian) and the firmly suggest that this oldest text is only a Armenian (Pelasgian) language. Precisely, translation from the original, which had been 79 Short Descriptive History About the Origin of the Arm’n-Macedonians written on Armenian (Pelasgian) language, Minor the only ones who dominated were and the language from the translation was the Arm’nians (Thracians-Illyrians) and mixed Mycenaean-Danaan thick with original Armenians (Pelasgians). Armenian (Pelasgian) words in parallel use. There were inseparable linguistic and From Herodotus (Histo-ry, VII, 73) we genetic relations between the two identities. know that the Phrygians originated from The relation is so big that during the whole Macedonia where they had been called Brygi, Ancient times the mixing of the two identities and that the Armenians shared the same origin with the same origin is present on these places, with the Phrygians, Armenians and Arm’nians especially in the coastal areas. I have spoken in details in the study Generally speaking, Arm’nians (Thracians- “Pelasgians…”. Herodotus (History, 50-53), Illyrians) are mostly involved with cattle also, suggests that the Greek mythology was breeding and they populated the mountainous partly taken from the Egyptians and the most parts of a given region, while the Armenians part from Pelasgians. As far as the second (Pelasgians) were mostly living from generation gods’ names are concerned, he agriculture and inhabited the riverbanks and decisively says that the description of the the lowlands and because of that called character and the features of every god, as well themselves by the original name “Pe largi” = as the naming, was done by Homerus. on vide, meaning lolanders. In the recent times It is true, from the analysis on “Iliad” one both terms Armenians and Arm’nians are in could undoubtelly accept the conclusion that active use as names of ethnic self- the names of gods are in function of the identification by Arm’n-Macedonians, and the epithets representing their activities and identity “Armenj” in use only in South characteristics. The impression is even bigger Thessaly and parts of Epirus. In the beginning since the epithets could be perfectly explained of the second millenium B.C. in south parts of with the actual Arm’n-Macedonian language, today Greece small groups of Phoenicians who is related closely with the Ancient inhabited. In the middle of the II millenium Armenian (Pelasgian) language, the one, a bigger group of colonizers came to Homerus had written the “Iliad” in. Herodotus Peloponnesus, mostly, from Egypt, which (History, I, 94) gives the information about the according to their leader Danaus identified first known colonization from Lydia to Asia themseles with the common name Danaans. Minor, in Umbria in Italy. Herodotus also The migration of the Danaans under the rule of provide the information about the second Danaus is a result from the dynastic battles in coloniyation of the part of the Phocis Egypt. The defeated in 1527/6 B.C. come the inhabitants (Pelasgians), town 40km north Peloponnesus and inhabited the cities of Argos from Smyra in Ionia, and was founded by the and Mycenae. By time, as a result from the inhabitants of the province Phocis from the mixing between the newcomers and the south of Thessaly, in part of today France autochtonous Pelasgo-Thracians, in a process where about 600 B.C. the city of Marseilles enduring almost a millenium the Greek was founded. In 560 B.C. after the fall of ethnicity and the Ancient Greek language was Lydia under Persia part of the Phoceans born. It have to be noticed that the emergence moved to Alalia in Corsica. In IV c. B.C. the and the spreading of the Greek language took Macedonians, lead by Philip II subjugated place firstly in the urban centers where the whole Balkans, and lead by Alexander the education was on a very high level. The area whole, in that time, known world. Besides the around the “polis” (city/state) remained many dynastic wars, the conquered territories “barbarian”. This situation lasted until the remained under Macedonian rule for almost formation of the Greek state for the first time 150 years. The Romans dominated Macedonia in the history of the Greeks in the first half of in II c. B.C. XIX c. A.D. After the foundation of Greece, What could we acknowledge. In the using methods of force and pressures second millennium B.C. on the Balkans denationalization and assimilation of the peninsulaand in the most part of Asia 80 Management and Socio-Humanities autochtonous Arm’nian (Pelasgian-Thracian) from the Classical Age, some words were to population took and is taking place. be interpreted by specially educated persons, From many readings of the Ancient and also the fact that some pure Arm’nian scriptures, we can conclude that within words which were later identified as a period of 4.000 years the Arm’nian- “barbarian” are cleansed from the Greek Macedonian (Thracian-Illyrian) language language, still being completely preserved in remained almost unchanged. Maybe a small the actual Arm’n-Macedonian. transformation could be noticed at certain On the other hand, the persistance of the words, but the pronunciation and the basic Arm’n-Macedonian language could be structure are secured. Because of that, we can comprehend through the following arguments: surely said that the recent Arm’n-Macedonian Arm’nians, Armenians (Pelasgi and Thracians- language is the same as the one spoken by: Illyrians) as the most numbered people after Pelopes, Achilles, Midas, Philip, Aristotle, the Hindu, could not put their language on Alexander, Spartacus… In the same time, the change because the history does not know of Greek language had suffered many any assimilation of a greater people than they transformations. were by themselves. On a contrary, vast So the question is: how the Arm’nian masses of Thracian-Illyrians melted into less (Thracian-Illyrian) language remained numbered foreign ethnic identities. By melting preserved for four millennia, while the Greeks into the less numbered, the language also even today regarded as the carriers of the influence the less numbered, which resulted in European culture, changed their language so emergence of new language containing much that between the old and the new Greek features from both languages. It is really a emerges such a difference that the old Greek, wonder how could the smaller melted the and not to talk about the oldest translation of bigger one.
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