HR 9005C 2003
1	House Resolution
2	A resolution recognizing the Hellenic ancestry of today's
3	inhabitants of the Northern Province of Greece.
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5	WHEREAS, Philip II of Macedonia, his son, Alexander the
6	Great, and Aristotle were born and raised in what was then a
7	province of Greece known as Macedonia, and
8	WHEREAS, the language and culture of the ancient
9	Macedonians had Hellenic roots, as did the ancestors of the
10	inhabitants of northern Greece today, and
11	WHEREAS, the Macedonians, along with the rest of the
12	Hellenes of antiquity, believed in the 12 gods of Olympus and
13	participated with their fellow Hellenes in the Olympic Games,
14	and
15	WHEREAS, Pella, the birthplace of Alexander the Great, and
16	Vergina, the burial site of the Macedonian kings, are located in
17	today's northern Greece, NOW, THEREFORE,
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19	Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of
20	Florida:
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22	That the House of Representatives acknowledges the Hellenic
23	ancestry of the ancient Macedonians and recognizes that the
24	current inhabitants of the Northern Province of Greece are the
25	descendants of the historic Hellenes.
26	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the House of Representatives
27	recognizes that the history of ancient Macedonia has been
28	Hellenic for more than 3,000 years and continues to be so today.
29	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be
30	presented to Stelios Sevastos, Southeastern District Governor of
31	the Pan-Macedonian Association, Inc., as a tangible token of the
32	sentiments expressed herein.