The former Yugoslav Republic of "Macedonia"
Macedonia possessed a distinct material culture by the Early Iron Age.[51] Typically "Balkan" burial, ornamental, and ceramic forms were used for most of the Iron Age.[52] These features suggest broad cultural affinities and organizational structures analogous with Thracian, Epirote, and Illyrian regions.[53][54] This, however, did not necessarily symbolize a sharing of common identity or political allegiance.[55] Toward the latter 6th century BC, Macedonia became more open to Greek influences from the south, although a small but detectable amount of interaction with the south had been present since late Mycenaean times.[56] By the 5th century BC, Macedonia was a part of the "Greek cultural milieu", possessing many cultural traits typical of the southern Greek city-states.[57] Classical Greek objects and customs were appropriated selectively and utilized in peculiarly "Macedonian" ways.[58]
Classification attempts are based on a vocabulary of 150-200 words and 200 personal names assembled mainly from the 5th century lexicon of Hesychius of Alexandria, as well as a few fragmentary surviving inscriptions, coins, and the occasional passage in ancient sources.[95] Most of the vocabulary is regular Greek, with tendencies toward Doric Greek and Aeolic Greek;
Macedonian onomastics paint a similar picture, most personal names being recognizably Greek (e.g. Alexandros, Philippos, Dionysios, Apollonios, Demetrios), with some dating back to Homeric (e.g. Ptolemaeos) or even Mycenean times, though here too there can be found the occasional non-Greek name (e.g. "Bithys")
Macedonian toponyms and hydronyms are similarly overwhelmingly Greek in origin (e.g. Aegae, Dion, Pieria, Haliacmon), as are the names of the months of the Macedonian calendar and the names of most of the deities the Macedonians worshiped, and according to Hammond, these are not late borrowings.
Macedonian shares close structural and lexical affinity with the "proper" Greek dialects (especially Northwest Greek and Thessalian)
Most of the vocabulary is regular Greek, with tendencies toward Doric Greek and Aeolic Greek;
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