BILL NUMBER: ACR 241 CHAPTERED
   BILL TEXT

  RESOLUTION CHAPTER  181
  FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 16, 2002
  ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 28, 2002
  ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 21, 2002

        INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Papan

                          AUGUST 7, 2002

       Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 241--Relative to Macedonia.


   LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

      ACR 241, Papan.  Macedonia.
      This measure would recognize that the ancient Macedonians were  Hellenes, and that the inhabitants of Macedonia today are their  Hellenic descendants and part of the northern province of Greece,  Macedonia.


      WHEREAS, Philip of Macedonia, his son, Alexander the Great, and his tutor, the philosopher Aristotle, were born and raised in the northern province of Greece, Macedonia; and
      WHEREAS, The language and culture of the ancient Macedonians, the ancestors of the inhabitants of northern Greece today, were Hellenic; and
      WHEREAS, The Macedonians, like the rest of the Hellenes in antiquity, believed in the 12 gods of Olympus and participated withtheir fellow Hellenes in the Olympic Games; and
      WHEREAS, Pella, the palace where Alexander the Great was born, and Vergina, the burial site of the Macedonian kings, are all located in northern Greece; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Legislature recognizes that the ancient Macedonians were Hellenes, and that the inhabitants of Macedonia today are their Hellenic descendants and part of the northern province of Greece, Macedonia; and be it further Resolved, That the history of ancient Macedonia has been Hellenic for 3,000 years and continues to be so today; and be it further Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.

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