Alexander the great airport

[DanS]

Originally posted by varwnos
Good question DanS, but there is a simple answer to it:

It is one thing to name something from a historical figure (some buildings, institutions etc in Greece are named after western europeans for example) and a different one to name it after a specific historical figure which is related to the idea your country is overall trying to portray as a relation with the ancient country that figure was a leader of.
It would not be the same if Poland, Germany etc named an airport as X figure of the hellenistic age, since Poland or Germany do not claim descendance from ancient Macedonia

The answer is simple for you because you are using circular logic.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by DanS
The Greeks are being way overly touchy on this issue. Lots of cities not within Greece's borders nowadays have cities named after Alexander the Great (including Alexandria, Virginia, across the river from where I live).

nope, the City of Alexandria, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, is named after the Alexanders, a family that once owned land in the area. It is NOT named after any city in Egypt or elswhere, or after any conquerors, Greek, Macedonia, or otherwise.

[lord of the mark]

Athens Georgia, OTOH, IS named after Athens Greece.

[Victor Galis]

You know there is a very simple solution to this problem: Greece should just annex the FYROM.

[Dinner]

What does it do with the millions of Serbo-Croatian speaking slavs?

[joncha]

The airport probably isn't even that good anyway.

[Provost Harrison]

Bloody FOPOGs...I think the EU should allow them entry just for giving the bird to the Greeks

[Imran Siddiqui]

That's not a bad idea.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Sprayber
Didn't the original Greeks consider the Macedonians barbarians

no

[MarkG]

Originally posted by DanS
The Greeks are being way overly touchy on this issue. Lots of cities not within Greece's borders nowadays have cities named after Alexander the Great (including Alexandria, Virginia, across the river from where I live).

If that's acceptable, then why the hell is naming an airport after him not acceptable?

Neither Alexandria or Virginia claim their people are descedants of ancient Macedonians.

Nor do they claim that there are enslaved "brothers" still leaving inside Greece waiting to be "liberated"...

[DanS]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
nope, the City of Alexandria, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, is named after the Alexanders, a family that once owned land in the area. It is NOT named after any city in Egypt or elswhere, or after any conquerors, Greek, Macedonia, or otherwise.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by MarkG
no

You mean 'yes'.

[Barnabas]

What do slavs have to do with Alexander the great?

I am totally with greece on this

fyrom should stop distorting history, they are as macedonian as I am sumerian

[Zkribbler]

Maybe New York City should rename Columbus Circle then? It was never a part of Genoa.

[Cort Haus]

C'mon MarkG, let's hear what you really think.