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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Youngberg

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/15/07

HM 7

SHORT TITLE Ancient Macedonians and Hellenes

SB

ANALYST Guambaña

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Memorial 7 requests 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. It is additionally requested that a copy of this memorial be transmitted to the Pan-

Macedonian association.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

•

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

•

The language and culture of the ancient Macedonians, the ancestors of the inhabitants of northern

Greece of today, were Hellenic;

•

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;

•

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

•

The history of ancient Macedonia has been Hellenic for the last three thousand years and

continues to be today.

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