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Macedonia,biblical land..
At the last verse of Balaam prophecies, in Numbers 24:24 it says:Ships come from the quarter of Kittim, they subject Ashur, subject Eber. They too shall perish forever.

The author of the First book of Maccabees, who wrote his book at the beginning of the reign of John Hyrcanus the first, around the year 135, identif ied the Kittim with the Macedonians..
The dynasty has its origins in the time of Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian. This Alexander marched out from the land of Kittim...and smote Darius, king of the Persians and the Medes, and became king in his place and thus the first to rule over the MACEDONIAN empire...

"They have defeated in battle and conquered King Philip and King Perseus of the Kittim (Macedonians), who had attacked them" (1 Maccabees 8:5)

The Lucan record explains that the decision was made for him through a visionary or mystical experience:
'And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us"' (Acts 16:9).

Modern Macedonians..
1) Macedonians belong to the "older" Mediterranean substratum, like Iberians (including Basques), North Africans, Italians, French, Cretans, Jews, Lebanese, Turks (Anatolians), Armenians and Iranians, 2) Macedonians are not related with geographically close Greeks, who do not belong to the "older" Mediterranenan substratum, 3) Greeks are found to have a substantial relatedness to sub-Saharan (Ethiopian) people, which separate them from other Mediterranean groups. Both Greeks and Ethiopians share quasi-specific DRB1 alleles, such as *0305, *0307, *0411, *0413, *0416, *0417, *0420, *1110, *1112, *1304 and *1310. Genetic distances are closer between Greeks and Ethiopian/sub-Saharan groups than to any other Mediterranean group and finally Greeks cluster with Ethiopians/sub-Saharans in both neighbour joining dendrograms and correspondence analyses. The time period when these relationships might have occurred was ancient but uncertain and might be related to the displacement of Egyptian-Ethiopian people living in pharaonic Egypt.