VERGINA

Video Title :	VERGINA
Description :	The modern town of Vergina was founded in 1922 near the two small agricultural villages of Koutles (Greek: Κούτλες ; Turkish Kütles) and Barbes (Mπάρμπες) previously owned by the Turkish bey of Palatitsi and inhabited by 25 Greek families in his employ as serfs. After the Treaty of Lausanne and the eviction of the Bey landlords, the land was distributed in lots to the existing inhabitants, and to 121 other Greek families from Bulgaria and Asia Minor after population exchange agreements between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. The name for the new town was suggested by the then Metropolitan of Veria, who named it after a legendary queen of ancient Beroea (the modern Veria) who had supposedly lived in the vicinity. Vergina is situated close to the site of ancient Aigai (or Aegae), once the royal capital of ancient Macedon, ruled by the Argead dynasty from about 650 BC onwards. The ruins of another Aigai, one of the Aeolian dodecapolis, lie 35 km S of Pergamon, by the modern Aiolis, Turkey. The town became internationally famous in 1977, when the Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos unearthed what he claimed was the burial site of the kings of Macedon, including the tomb of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great. Although the identification of Philip II as one of the kings buried there has been disputed, there is no doubt that the site is of great archaeological importance. The larnax (gold casket) which Andronikos identified as containing the remains of Philip II has a symbol of a sun or star on its lid, and this Vergina Sun has been adopted as a symbol of Greek Macedonia. It became the subject of international controversy in 1991 when the newly independent former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia used the symbol on its flag. This outraged Greek public opinion, which saw the use of the symbol as an insult to its historical heritage and implying a territorial claim on Greece. In 1995 the Republic of Macedonia agreed to drop the use of the symbol. The entrance to the "Great Tumulus" Museum at Vergina The entrance to the "Great Tumulus" Museum at Vergina Archaeologists were interested in the hills around Vergina as early as the 1850s, knowing that the site of Aigai was in the vicinity and suspecting that the hills were burial mounds. Excavations began in 1861 under the French archaeologist Leon Heuzey, sponsored by the Emperor Napoleon III. Parts of the Macedonian royal palace of Palatista were discovered. However, the excavations had to be abandoned because of the risk of malaria. In 1937 the University of Thessaloniki resumed the excavations. More ruins of the ancient palace were found, but the excavations were abandoned on the outbreak of war with Italy in 1939. After the war the excavations were resumed and during the 1950s and 1960s the rest of the royal capital was uncovered. Manolis Andronikos became convinced that a hill called the "Great Tumulus" (in Greek, Μεγάλη Τούμπα) concealed the tombs of the Macedonian Kings. In 1977 Andronikos undertook a six-week dig at the Tumulus and found four buried chambers which he identified as hitherto undisturbed tombs. Three more were found in 1980. Excavations continued through the 1980s and 1990s. Andronikos maintained that one of the tombs was of Philip II, and another was of Alexander IV of Macedon, son of Alexander the Great. This has now become the firm view of Greek archaeologists and the Greek government, but some other archaeologists dispute this identification. A large quantity of works of art, many in gold, were recovered from the tombs. These included the larnax with the Sun of Vergina on the lid, which Andronikos maintains contained the cremated remains of Philip II. These treasures were temporarily housed in the Thessaloniki Archeological Museum. Recently they were returned to Vergina and installed in a museum which has been built inside the Great Tumulus. After the death of Alexander the Great, his empire was divided between a number of successors. Aigai remained the capital of the Macedonian kings. Under Antigonus II Gonatas in the 3rd century BC, the palace of Palatista was constructed at Aigai but was later partly destroyed by fire. More tombs were constructed during this period. In 168 BC, the Roman Republic invaded, overthrew the Antigonid Dynasty and destroyed Aigai. It was later rebuilt but declined after the 1st century AD. The city was eventually abandoned. In 1996, the archaeological importance of Vergina led UNESCO to add it to its list of World Heritage Sites.
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Keywords, Tags :	vergina Μακεδονια macedonia makedonia philip makedonija fyrom
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κάθε φορά που μπαίνω εκεί μέσα νιώθω ένα είδους δέος! (όσο για εσάς που κάνετε διάλογο με τους παπάρες τι να πω? χαρα στην υπομονή σας! ό,τι πιο γελοίο/βαρετό σ'αυτή τη ζωή είναι να προσπαθείς να αποδείξεις τα αυτονόητα)

"For I (Alexander I) myself am by ancient descent a Greek, and I would not willingly see Hellas change her freedom for slavery." (Herod. IX, 45, 2 [Loeb])

there is no republic of macedonia there is the former YUGOSLAV republic though

It is your right to think what you want, but remember The Republic of Macedonia is Real & Exists & it is not Greek. Macedonia for the Macedonians. Watch what happens on the 18th July 2008 at the Boris Trajkovski sports centre.The world will finally know what happened in your Greek Macedonia, Remember no more Yugoslavia to help you & hide the Truth, Finally Justice & compensation for what you country did to the true Macedonians that Lived there. Just watch the News!

u think so!!!! we are the true macedonians as alexander the great too!!!! can u tell me how alexander could be from fyrom???? u were made the year i was born in 1992!!!! slavs were here 800 years before u!!!! u say alexander was a slav but alexander exists years and years even before slavs!!!! how can he possible be a fyrom guy when he can't even be a slav???? u from fyrom are so ignorant that u believed an idiot when he said macedonia is slav!!!! that's titos!!!! stfu!!!!

My young friend, I am 42 & for the whole of my 42yrs I have known myself to be Macedonian, as my father & his father & his father, My comment made before is what is currently happening, The Lost Children of Aegean Macedonia are coming to haunt Greece, Just watch the news on the 19th July 2008, Look up Norwegian principles of 1946, I think that Greece used this against Bulgaria in the Past. Do some homework & look it up yourself.

you know how i can find one map of this area? one old map? I´m in a investigation of an ARG, an game on internet, and i need a ancient map of Vergina...

Read please a book of Henri Pozzi, a french spy,"The war come back" about Macedonia (english, french, german, bulgarian). Lisez le livre de l'espion français Henri Pozzi « La Guerre revient », publié dans l'espace web en anglais, français, allemand, bulgare. Прочетете книгата на Анри Пози „ Войната се завръща"(1934). Има я в интернет на български, английски, френски и немски. Прочитайте книгу францусского шпионина Анри Поззи „Снова война", публикуванная в 1934 г..

if someone notice the architecture of the philip's tumb is the same with parthenon of athens!!!the ionian rythim!!!..macedonia=forever greek!!!

it´s not ionic, it´s doric!!!