To be fair, this somehow seems slightly less fascist than the "launch another crusade to retake the holy land for Christians" take
To be fair, this somehow seems slightly less fascist than the "launch another crusade to retake the holy land for Christians" take
Alexander the Great was born in modern day Greece (Central Macedonia, which is a province of Greece, not to be confused with North Macedonia, a sovereign nation to the north of Central Macedonia).
He conquered the Levant from... I wanna say the Assyrians? Whichever powers that be that expelled the Jews. Despite the fact that Alexander conquered everything from Greece to India by the age of 30, he died at the age of 32, the empire collapsed, fell to in fighting, etc. He only ruled for 7 years.
Look I'm not going to try and go into the logic of ultranationalists since it's inherently illogical, Greeks having a claim to the Levant by way of conquest over 2,000 years ago is extremely tenuous. No-one, including Greece, wants a Greek Levant.
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I think it's more the Byzantine Empire which held it a fair bit longer.