I got there. Eventually. Celebrate.

Oh.

Now I am actually “there” —

—What do I have to do? Where to go?

Hello. Excuse me. Jumping up and down here.

I paid for the ALL IN PACKAGE. 

Where is my luggage?

Where is the Tour Guide???

 

Shrug.

Let’s see where this road leads :o)

 

 Macedonians in “ancient” China.

The so-called “ancient Chinese history” contains many references to the nation of Qidani – the alleged descendants of the Syanbi, or the Serbs, qv above ([212], page 131). Furthermore, the Qidani are said to have been a South-Eastern Serbian tribe.

One can hardly get rid of the thought that the nation in question might identify as the Macedonians, the southern neighbours of the Serbs. The languages of the two nations are extremely similar, and the Macedonians were occasionally referred to as the Southern Serbs. We see complete correspondence with the “ancient Chinese geography”. The Qidani are said to have founded a state in China in the X century A. D. ([212], page 145).

By the way, what is the toponymy of the actual name China (“Kitai” in Russian)? According to L. N. Gumilev’s book, the Qidani were also known as Khitai, which is basically the same word as Kitai, and must be derived from the name Qidani ([215], page 405). Also, as we shall soon see from mediaeval sources, the name China (or “Kitai”) is most likely to be another version of the name Kitia (Skitia, or Scythia).

As we shall see below, the history of the Qidani is closely tied to the history of the “Mongolian” (Great) Empire. Historians also associate the Western European legends of the Empire of Presbyter Johannes, or the same Great Horde (Russia) with the state of the Chinese Qidani. All of it happens after the Qidani leave China for good. The nation famous in Chinese history strangely disappeared from the map of modern China ([215]).

We shall return to the history of the Macedonians, or the Qidani, somewhat later. For the meantime, let us just point out that the language of the Macedonians is believed to be the prototype of Church Slavonic, which had been used in Russia as the official language for a long enough time. Also, the actual creators of the Church Slavonic Cyrillic alphabet, the “Solun Brothers” Cyril and Methodius, are believed to hail from the city of Solun located on the territory of Macedonia, and are most likely to have been Macedonian. Thus, there are parallels between the ancient Russian culture and the Slavic culture of Macedonia.

It is interesting to compare this important circumstance to the fact that, according to the Chinese chronicles, the state of the “Qidani who had fled China” became the progenitor of the future “Mongolian” Empire, or The Horde (Russia), which we can identify as the Great Russian Empire of the Horde, whose centre was in the Volga region.

According to Orbini, a mediaeval author of the XVI century, “Jeremy the Russian, the learned historian, states it explicitly in the Muscovite annals that the Russians and the ancient Macedonians shared a single language between them” ([617], page 149).

Orbini refers to some “Muscovite Annals”. Did anyone see them? There must have been a great number of interesting materials written about the Russian history in the pre-Romanovian epoch. However, the Romanovian historians were laborious enough . . . Even the name of “Jeremy the Russian, the learned historian” disappeared from Russian history forever, as though he never existed. Old books burn well.