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A MEMORIAL
RECOGNIZING THAT THE ANCIENT MACEDONIANS WERE HELLENES AND
THAT THE INHABITANTS OF MACEDONIA TODAY ARE HELLENIC
DESCENDANTS AND PART OF THE NORTHERN PROVINCE OF GREECE,
MACEDONIA.
WHEREAS, Philip of Macedonia, his son, Alexander the
Great, and Alexander's tutor, Aristotle, were born and raised
in the northern province of Greece, Macedonia; and
WHEREAS, the language and culture of the ancient
Macedonians, the ancestors of the inhabitants of northern
Greece of today, were Hellenic; and
WHEREAS, the Macedonians, like the rest of the Hellenes
in antiquity, believed in the twelve gods of Olympus and
participated with their fellow Hellenes in the Olympic games;
and
WHEREAS, Pella, the palace where Alexander the Great was
born, and Vergina, the burial site of the Macedonian kings,
are all located in northern Greece; and
WHEREAS, the history of ancient Macedonia has been
Hellenic for the last three thousand years and continues to be
today;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the ancient
Macedonians be recognized as Hellenes and that the inhabitants