younger historians, mainly from the 19th century, serving the ideology of foreign imperialist forces. With the lie all are familiar today.

- Moreover, it is naive to support that thought, that Alexander sat on the Persian throne, caused jubilation and pride to Greeks. False is the claim that Alexander the campaign in Asia, battled for the Greek interests and represented the Greeks. Alexander adopted Asian traditions. He joined the Persian political system wore Persian attire followed a majestic but tyrannical ritual.

- After his death and the tragic outcome of the Lamian War accelerated and completed the sinking of the Greek city-states ─ political, social, economic, cultural. The fierce rivalries successors and wars plunged cities into disasters. Despotism, corruption, persecution, looting, displacement. Their resistance was paralyzed under military violence.

- AlexanderCivilizing Asia! And who were his comrades, who avenged the invasion of Xerxes and spread the Greek culture? Triballians, Agrianes, Illyrians, Thracians, Odryssians, Paionians.

The existence of Bulgarian villages in Anatolia was noted by western travellers such as the Italian Dr Salvatori (1807), the Frenchman J.M. Tancoigne and the Briton George Keppel (1829). Tancoigne describes his experience in Kız-Dervent (located farther east, between İzmit and İznik) as follows:

"We were pleasantly surprised by finding in that village women who would walk with their faces uncovered, and men whose manners contradicted the Asian ones entirely. We also discovered dresses of the residents of the Danube's banks and heard a Slavic language in an area where we would regard it as absolutely foreign ... The locals told us they were of Bulgarian