@article{Tamis_2021, title={The Role of the Greek Diaspora: Future Challenges: World Congress of Pan-Macedonians (Thessaloniki, 23 July 2017)}, volume={2}, url={https://ojs.aims.edu.au/index.php/msj/article/view/20}, abstractNote={<div class="module--translations-translatedtext js-module--translations-translatedtext" style="height: 444px;" data-size="s"><span class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="el" data-phrase-index="0" data-number-of-phrases="3"><span class="Q4iAWc">The Macedonian, Continental, Asia Minor (Ionian and Pontic) and Cyan associations were established and operated with two main roles: (a) the preservation of their special ethnolinguistic and cultural identity and (b) the promotion of the relevant or so-called national (liberating)</span></span> <span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="el" data-phrase-index="1" data-number-of-phrases="3"><span class="Q4iAWc">aspirations with a pan-Hellenic dimension.</span></span> <span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="el" data-phrase-index="2" data-number-of-phrases="3"><span class="Q4iAWc">Due to the second expediency, we often see members of Hellenism, who do not functionally belong to their specific geographical area, to be members and executives of the specific body.</span></span></span></div>}, number={1}, journal={Macedonian Studies Journal}, author={Tamis, Anastasios}, year={2021}, month={Dec.} }