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Ми се допаѓа изработката. Сега спомениците на Гоце и Даме ми изгледаат некако многу мали 

Balkan culture wars

Here comes the equestrian statue



BRACE yourselves. As I noted last week, Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, boasts a giant plinth destined to support a yet-more giant equestrian statue of Alexander the Great. Today residents of Skopje got their first glimpse of the statue, which is currently lying in pieces around the plinth. According to our colleagues at Balkan Insight, the 12m-high bronze was cast in an Italian foundry and will take ten days to assemble.

For two decades Macedonia has been in dispute with Greece over its name. Greece contends that the name “Macedonia” implies territorial ambitions over that part of historic Macedonia which is now part of Greece. The Greeks also say that the Macedonians want to steal their Hellenic identity for themselves—exhibit A, the "appropriation" of Alexander.

The name issue, which has halted Macedonia’s accession to both the European Union and NATO, has caused much vexation for friends of the two countries. In many international fora, such as the EU, Greece has been able to impose the use of the clunky formulation "the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" (FYROM). Plenty of Greece’s friends regarded this as unreasonable.

Now, with Greece caught up in a debt crisis, you might expect the Macedonians to attempt to gain the upper hand by striking a more mature attitude. But no. Not only are they in the midst of renaming airports, motorways and other structures after Alexander or his father, they are now about to erect what amounts to a giant bronze middle finger aimed at Greece. The Alexander statue has undermined friends of Macedonia who have previously sought to defend the country against the Greeks. (The monument is part of the grandiose Skopje 2014 project, which we wrote about here.)

Macedonians are split over the issue. But most agree that it has done Nikola Gruevski, the newly re-elected populist prime minister, no harm at all to be seen as standing firm against the Greeks. It will be interesting to see now whether the Greeks go apoplectic or decide to play it cool. (The government does, after all, have one or two other things to worry about.) As for the Macedonians, they will no doubt respond to any whiff of Greek anger by pointing to an equestrian statue of Alexander in Edinburgh.


Alexander the Great and one of the most famous horses of antiquity Bucephalus outside Edinburgh City Chambers on the Royal Mile. A plaque on the podium reads "Modelled 1832. Cast in Bronze 1883."

Incidentally, this silly row does at least underline one thing. Just as the western Balkans, following the accession to the EU of Romania and Bulgaria in 2007, are gradually being reabsorbed into Europe, Greece, which was separated from the Balkan mainstream after the second world war, is being reintegrated into it.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2011/03/macedonias_ethnic_disharmony

Инаку за тие што зборуваа дека релјефниот мермер на фонатаната не се гледал, се гледа и тоа како, многу јасно се гледа и тоа на одалеченост од 10тина метри.

Воин на коњ? Ама јас сакав цел свет да знае дека е Александар Македонски!

Јасно се познава главата на Букефал

ko ke gi rasposlat parcinjata od Aleksandar i Bukefal na plostado kako arheoloski pronajdci na divite kopaci da se 

Рељефите не се гледаат баш најдобро на сликава, зошто сликано е со мобилен, башка зумурано. До душа, не се гледаат најјасно ни со голо око, се гледа дека се војници ама најверојатно ќе се доработуваат на лице место за да станат појасни како од клипот за фонтаната







Edited by Bulldozer - 11-Jun-2011 at 22:40