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HOUSE MEMORIAL 7

48

TH LEGISLATURE

- STATE OF NEW MEXICO -

FIRST SESSION

, 2007

INTRODUCED BY

Eric A. Youngberg

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

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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

of the northern province of Greece, Macedonia, be recognized as

their Hellenic descendants; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be

transmitted to the Pan-Macedonian association.

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