The Ukranian Weekly - 2 May 1999

"Ancient ruins of Khersones and historic Sevastopol area: an unpolished jewel" - 2 May 1999

"the northernmost outpost of the Greek Empire of Alexander the Great and of his father, Philip of Macedon"

Through the Sunny Balkans - 27.03.1977

"Through the Sunny Balkans" - Svoboda Ukranian Weekly, 27 March 1977.

"The headdresses of women from Alexandria in Macedonia resembled ancient Greek war helmets"

Conclusion (Analysis):

- According to this article from 1977, folklore dancers from Alexandria in Macedonia (Greece) resembled ancient Greek war helmets.

Svoboda Newspaper - December 1, 1962

"History of the Ukranian Language - A Survey" The Ukranian Weekly, December 1, 1962.

"Two learned brothers and an influential Greek family from the city of Solun presently Thessalonica in Northern Greece, were commissioned to devise an alphabet, suitable for the Slavic sounds and to translate some religious texts into Slavic using the newly-invented script. The two brothers, Constantine and Methodius, had an excelent time in edition for their time and, in addition, were fluent in several languages, among them a Slavic tongue spoken by the Slavs in and around the city of Solun."

Conclusion (Analysis):

- According to this Ukranian article from 1963, Constantine (Cyril) and Methodius were from influential Greek family from Thessaloniki (slavic: Solun).

Cyril & Methodius and Church Slavonic

"Ukraine through the Centuries", August 8, 1953.

"This language (Church Slavonic) was foreign to the population of Ukraine. It was spread by the saints Cyril and Methodius, two Greek brothers from Salonica, who composed a Slavonic alphabet and translated the liturgies and Scriptures into Slavonic. The language used by them was based on a Bulgarian dialect of South Macedonia."

Conclusion (Analysis of the document):

- According to this article from 1953, Cyril and Methodius were Greeks from Salonica and Church Slavonic language was based on a Bulgarian dialect of South Macedonia.

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"The Ukranian Weekly" on Cleopatra VII

"Ukrainka's Plays Await a Master Translator" - August 5, 1944.


"Shakespeare's Cleopatra is above all a woman, a clever and seductive woman, and, in the second place, an Egyptian-Greek lady."

Conclusion (Analysis of the document):

- According to this article from 1944, Cleopatra was mixed Egyptian-Greek by ethnicity, not Slav.

A Short History of Ukranian Music

"A Short History of Ukranian Music" - December 11, 1943.


"The intermediaries in Christianity, as well as in Church music, between the Greeks and the Slavs, were the Bulgarians of Macedonia. The transmission point of Greek culture was the Graeco-Bulgarian town, of Solun (Salonika) and the monasteries of Aton..."

Conclusion (Analysis of the document):

- According to this article from 1943, Solun (Salonika) was inhabited by Greeks and Bulgarians.

Nomadic invasions of Ukraine

"Nomadic invasions of Ukraine" - June 10, 1939.


- "Through contacts with the Greeks..."

- "...by Philip of Macedonia, who was establishing his Empire, in the Balkans."

Conclusion (Analysis of the documents):

After the defeat (from Philip and Greeks), Scythians lost much of their war-like spirit.

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A short history of Ukranian literature

"A short history of Ukranian literature", May 18, 1934.

- "A separate and important branch of translated works were the "Повiсти" (stories, tales, etc.) which found their way into Ukraine mainly from Greece..."

- "Александрiя" (Alexander), a series of stories concerning the life of the great Macedonian monarch, Alexander the Great."

Conclusion:

According to "The Ukranian Weekly", stories for Alexander in Ukranian literature, originates from Greece.

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