The Washington Post, June 1st, 1992
Tens of thousands of Greek Americans came to Washington from across the country yesterday to protest the use of the name Macedonia by one of the new republics that have broken away from Yugoslavia. Macedonia was the home of Alexander the Great and Aristotle, said protesters, who warned that using the name for the republic, whose population is mostly Slavic and Albanian, would destabilize the region and raise concerns about the new country's designs on Greek territory. The name Macedonia had been used for part of Yugoslavia since the mid-1940s, angering Greeks who said it indicated expansionist...
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