Which Macedonia Plays Up Past Glory?

Miltiades Elia Bolaris

June 25, 2011

In his "Macedonia Plays Up Past Glory" (NYT, June 23, 2011), Mathhew Brunwasser has disappointed the better informed among his readership by chopping up the truth to the point of no recognition. (1).

To begin with, the title itself is misleading. It implies that there is a Macedonia that has a glorious past, which is obviously true but then blunders by identifying historic Macedonia (of Northern Greece and of the glorious past) with the wrong geographic entity, a former Yugoslav republic of the assumed name.