Change of Topic

After doing some extensive research on the destruction of ancient sites in Turkey, I have learned that this topic will not be possible. Many of the sources on the issue are popular and anything that is remotely academic is well off topic and/or very outdated. Because of this inconvenience I have chose to switch my topic to something that I know I will be able to find lots of research on and that is the controversy about Alexander the Great and Macedonia.

Since the 1990's, with the collapse of Yugoslavia, many new countries within the Balkans had formed. One of these countries is what is now known as the Republic of Macedonia, or more properly, the Former Yugoslavic Republic of Macedonia. Located right above historic Macedonia within Greece the similar names created dispute.

Looking at this map, the green marks Macedonia as a region in Greece. Right above that is F.Y.R.O.M which claims the same name. Greece see's this as a claim on their territory and without getting into too much detail the two countries are still in dispute. To add injury to insult, F.Y.R.O.M is also claiming that Alexander the Great (King of ancient Macedonia) is their main historical figure whereas Greece refutes this through historical proofs. The issue over Macedonia is two pronged; one over land/name and the other half over history/Alexander the Great ownership.