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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 3898138, member: 51347&quot;]Hmmm... I finally decided and understand that &#039;C&#039; in LATIN is the hard &#039;K&#039; sound as we know it today.&nbsp; The Greek world spelled Makedon with a &#039;K&#039;, and phoenetically sounded it that way.&nbsp; Today we seem to pronounce Makedon, Macedonia with an &#039;S&#039;.&nbsp; I think that is wrong and insulting to these great people when we corrupt their name.</p><p><br /></p><p>I understand the &#039;ia&#039; is after a country name in Latin.&nbsp; And, the Greek &#039;wn&#039; (omega nu) (pronounced like &quot;own&quot;) after the the country name means more like &quot;of the&quot;. So, Greek MAKEDONWN ( the w actually being an Omega) is &quot;of the Makedons&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, early Republic coinage had ROMANO on their coins meaning &quot;of the Romans&quot;, instead of ROMA.</p><p><br /></p><p>Soooo.... with MY silly logic:</p><p><br /></p><p>- Makedon is the spelling when the country were their own, under their kings and governments of Makedon.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Macedonia is when Rome conquered and ruled them.</p><p><br /></p><p>It helps me sort my Ancient coins from this area.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>When was in University, (that is when God was a Lad), someone from the Classic Language department had told me that the Makedons had a different dialect than the other Greeks.&nbsp; (Hence, the Greeks felt the Makedons were on the edge of Barbarism...).&nbsp; I understand that the Makedons pronounced the &#039;X&#039; more as a &#039;G&#039; sound...hence my Avatar name. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>How &#039;bout I toss out a GOAT after all this silly blathering?</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1027685[/ATTACH]</p><p>THRACO-MAKEDON TRIBES-</p><p>MYGDONES or KRESTONES 480-470 BCE</p><p>AR Obol 0.79g 11mm</p><p>Goat</p><p>Quadripartite incuse square</p><p>AMNG III 14[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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