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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Macedonian"”.
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Contestations Over Macedonian Identity, 1870-1912
… division of Macedonia and claims upon the Macedonians have continued to be a matter of contention between the Balkan States into contemporary times. As the new nation of Macedonia began its independent existence in 1991, its citizens sought to understand this history. For lengthy periods …
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Language, writing, and social (inter)action: An analysis of text-based chats in Macedonian and English
… practices of a particular community of native Macedonian speakers who chat both in Macedonian and in English (as their foreign language). Much research in computer-mediated communication (CMC) over the last decade has been done in English as L1. Some of the few studies which explored CMC …
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Understanding the Construction of National and Regional Identity: Perceptions of One Another along the Bulgarian-Macedonian Border
… case study asks how individuals living along the Macedonian-Bulgarian border, sharing strong ethnic and cultural ties, view their regional, national and European identities. The study finds that individuals have developed a strong attachment to their national identity. Many Bulgarians hold a …
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Contested identity : Macedonians in contemporary Australia
As argued in this thesis, a Macedonian-Australian identity is an elusive and evolving category. Nonetheless, the various Macedonian-Australian institutions and organisations, as well as the activities that they perform, described in this thesis, give definition and shape to a distinctive Macedonian …
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Adapting to Domination: The Athenian reaction to the hegemony of the Macedonian Kings, Philip II and Alexander III, 338-323 B.C.E.
… of Alexander the Great in 323.1 However, the Macedonian impact on Athens was firmly established when Philip defeated the Greeks at the battle of Chaeronea in 338. Despite this, the Athenians attempted to regain their former status in the Greek world for another fifteen years. The treaty formed …
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Ancient Macedonian Ethnic Identity: A Study with Emphasis on the Literary Sources From the 5th c. B.C. to the 2nd c. A.D.
The ethnic identity of the ancient Macedonians continues to be the most debated subject within Macedonian historiography. The debate has fixated on a simple question: were the Macedonians Greeks, or a separate ethnic group? Rather than attempting to trace the exact origins of the Macedonians – an …
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"My Voice Rises on the Mic": a New Artographic Spoken Word Poetry Programme Portraying Two Young Offenders' Artistic Ways of Being in a Macedonian Prison
… word poetry programme in offenders’ lives in a Macedonian prison. Particularly, I investigated the programme development and its perceived impact. The former focused on the artistic responses and life experiences elicited for the duration of the programme, while the latter examined the meanings …
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Da Alessandro ai Theoi Adelphoi. Fondazione e legittimazione della dinastia tolemaica, tra IV e III secolo a.C.
The research focuses on the first century of the Macedonian rule over Egypt in order to study how the Ptolemies had their power legitimated in Africa and in the broader Mediterranean context. Literary sources (both prose and verse, in Greek and Egyptian language), inscriptions, papyri, and …
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Gender equality and human development in Macedonia during transition (1991-2006)
… in the country. Through the analysis of the Macedonian constitutional and legal framework and the assessment of gender based inequalities, the research questions the need for the enactment of a process of engendering of citizenship, which would integrate gender based differences, contemplate …
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In the shadow of Macedon: an historiographical study of Duris of Samos
… might be expected, Duris' best known work, the Macedonian History, is given the greatest emphasis, particularly the part which treated the period of the historian's adult life. The most important problems concerning the minor work , especially the Agathocles biography and the Samian Chronicle, …
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Alexander the Great and the English novel
… of the contemporary English-language novel. The Macedonian king has held the attention of writers and artists throughout the centuries; this dissertation seeks to investigate how modern authors, working at a remove of centuries, with limited evidence, have contrived to fashion coherent literary …
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Military Institutions and State Formation in the Hellenistic Kingdoms
… many of the locales that had recently come under Macedonian rule, whether in the cities of Syria or along the Nile valley in Egypt. My project involves several detailed studies of military mobilization during the Hellenistic period, as a way to analyze the structures and evaluate the successes of …
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The Development and Theological Importance of the Heresy of Macedonianism
<p>Although Macedonianism does not have the historical significance of some of the Christological heresies, it is nevertheless very important. A better understanding of this heresy will lead to a beter understanding of the problems facing the Modern Church and the New Era which has been called the …
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Teaching the future's past : history education, identity values and prospects of reconciliation in the Republic of Macedonia
… The ‘national assertiveness’ of the ethnic Macedonian elites to the detriment of the other national groups (especially the Albanian community), already existing in the 1980s, mounted in the aftermath of the country’s independence. As an outcome, the state’s education system has been infused …
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The oriental context for the end of Greek rule in the Hellenistic Age
… do recognise the blurred edges of the Graeco-Macedonian partnership, if it can be called that, and this is discussed, as is the Macedonian-Iranian partnership of Seleucus and Apama.Proper names are used as they normally occur: Greek proper names are latinized if that has become the general …
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Contesting the Greatness of Alexander the Great: The Representation of Alexander in the Histories of Polybius and Livy
… they portrayed the Romans as superior to the Macedonian king. This study has five primary goals: to produce a commentary on the various Alexander passages found in Polybius' and Livy's histories; to establish the generally positive opinion of Alexander held by these two writers; to illustrate …
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A Study of Political Borders and Their Formation in the Hellenistic Period
… borders developed on a macro-scale across the Macedonian kingdoms and the Roman Republic; and lastly, to provide an account of how borders operated on the ground. Political borders are shown to be as diverse as the polities that developed them, environmentally determined in some cases, …
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Posuny ve vyjadřování kategorie určenosti v současné spisovné a nespisovné češtině
… other Slavonic languages (except Bulgarian and Macedonian, cf. Corbett - Comrie, 2002) is not expressed by articles, the present paper is concerned with the observation that in contemporary spoken nonstandard Czech a) the demonstrative pronoun ten is developing functions of a definite article, …
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Nietzsche and classical greek philosophy: Essays on Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclitus
… gratitude for what he seemingly gleaned from the Macedonian philosopher. Finally, in Chapter IV, despite Nietzsche’s objections, I show that the classical Greek philosophers are just as responsible, if not more responsible, than their archaic predecessors for Nietzsche’s intellectual development …
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Family language policy and practice as parental mediation of habitus, capital and field: an ethnographic case-study of migrant families in England
… practice. The mothers in the families are all Macedonian and the fathers are either English, Italian, Chinese, Scottish or Serbian. Ethnographic interviews were conducted with the parents in five migrant families, their children, grandparents and relatives, the parents’ and the children’ close …
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