A Europe without Finland is not that hard to imagine. A Europe without Greece would not feel like Europe at all

[WildWestDude]

Originally Posted by CARPATHIAN

Not so sporadic:

So, some have estimated that, when the Ottomans conquered the whole Greek territory in the XV century, some 45% of it was populated by Albanians (Trudgill, 1975:6).



Vlachs and Albanians helped Greeks alot in their struggle against Ottomans since middle age and up to modern time. And what was Greece's reward for this?

The policy of the new Greek state was to Hellenize all the non-Greek speaking Orthodox populations within its, then limited, territory as well as in the territories of Epirus, Macedonia, Thrace and Asia Minor still under Ottoman rule

Also, Romanians helped during late middle age the Mount Athos and the Greek establishments from Holy Land. Not only that without the financial help of Wallachia and Moldavia Mount Athos wouldn't have existed today, but most of the present architectural structures of the twenty monasteries were rebuilt in present form at the expense of rulers of Romanian principalities. And what was the Greek way to express their gratitude for this? They (the Phanariotes) exploited the Romanians to the last drop of blood and stole as much agricultural production as they could through the dedicated monasteries.

There you go. Forwarding the lies and propaganda and countless such distorted stories from one ethnic group or another. MORE BALKAN PROPAGANDA AND HOGWASH. ANOTHER ONE THAT CAN'T SNAP OUT OF IT. WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY, NOW JOIN THE CLUB IF YOU QUALIFY. DARE TO OPEN YOUR MINDS AND MAYBE YOU CAN BE HELLENIZED

[PJSaturn]

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[Rozenn]

Since this thread has been used by some as tool to bash each other's countries, I'll let it closed.