Modern Macedonian myth as a response to the national myths of the neighbors (Albanian panillyrism, Greek panhellenism and Bulgarian panthracism)

Abstract

The proclamation of the sovereignty of Macedonia in 1991 provoked »ardent« denying of its name, language, nation or a part of the territory. Therfore this issues were politicized in a rather vulgar manner. The journalists, politicians, intellectuals and even certain researchers, first of all archeologists, started to create new national myth allegedly aimed to defend the name of the nation.