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There are strong ambivalence even in the scientific comunity to accept theory of Slavic settlement in
Macedonia ad hoc.Archeological finding of protoslavic culture are none exept one grave found
north of Skopje.
Another point is that Bisantine culture have shown
allredy cultural developed christian society in Macedonia in competition with Bisantine centres in the empire in earlier time.It is big jump from pagan cultures for unbelivable short time.
Then there are clear misrepresented facts in the
manuscript concerning the migration of Slavs.Most of the time when one is dealing with citation from them is in forgetfull mode to check last pasages dealing with destiny of Slavic people.It have been stated in numerus times that Slavs have been pushed west of Lychidus lake where they have been permamently setled.That hold the ground if we examine data for protoslavic findings in Albania. We are dealing with centuries of forced christianisation and edicts with draconic mesures.
All the findings are shown masive destruction of all Pagan cityes in Macedonia from 4-6 century.In the same time on near every location with pagan temples we have curches in continius development on city what is telling of live tradition in continium.
It is nown fact that paganism have been in some form live up to end of 7 ad.Some have other sugestion for two waves of incursion,first in 3 ad,and second in 5 ad-what is more wishfull thinking of resolving discrepances from differences
bettwen archeological and historical data.I must admit that anyone in the this field on the Balcan
peninsula have not done apropriate evaluation on the efects from the implimentation of edicts.There are acute ambivalence and fear to do this.

LOL What archeological proof is everyone looking for? The so called "coming of the Slavic people" - Celebrated / Glorious people after Romans times was only a recognition of and coming into being, (and long overdue hence the joy) for the Administration of laws etc, the indiginous people's common language with their own alfabet. They people were there all the time. The Phonecian/Greek alphabet was vulnerable to fraud and miss-interpretation while the glorious alfabet had its own letters that were unique and foolproof. Remember that Alexander imposed the "koine" language with the Phonecian alfabet (ko jnie - mk trans - as is in us / as the common people) onto his outside domains, and when those people were free of the koine admin there were celebrations there too. This is why the Macedonians of the whole Balkan peninsula were happy to break free from the Romeite's latin cases and rules when they finally organised their own admins in their areas in parallel with their churches. btw does anyone know if it is true that thur = door in Greek, then is it possible that in the Celebrated languages the Thrakians became to be known as the Dragi / Draki / Daci and is Thrakia related to Drachma / Dracula etc?

Are you able to give me more information on the manuscript about the migration of the "slavs" you mentioned in your post? Is it available online? I would greatly appreciate it.Regarding the archaeological findings, there are the Trebenishta necropolas where golden masks etc were found during the course of the 20th century dated V BC, and also the recently discovered golden mask/ring dated V BC in the Samuil's fortress, Ohrid. These are in line with the recent discovery of the masks and other items in the vicinity of Pela. There is also Heraclea Lyncestis (although only the Roman layers have been excavated so far), Vardarski Rid and number of others, in Macedonia and today's Northern Greece. I would have thought that these would account for findings/sites pre-dating the supposed "slav" migration.As far as the paganism is concerned, Aleksandar Donski deals with the pagan customs, beliefs etc still practised in Macedonia today.Regards,
Matzp.s. Annual Vevchani carneval, pure pagan festival is now on. Strumitsa pagan festival is on during the summer, I think?