Exposing FYROM’s Fashionable Nonsense #1: “Greek was the lingua franca before Alexander the Great’s era like English is today”

Erroneous Claim: “Greek was the lingua franca before Alexander the Great’s era, like English is today”
The above  is a widely-used false claim promoted mainly by FYROM’s propaganda. The status of lingua franca, especially during the Achaemenid period (539-333) through the vast Persian empire[1] and the Mediteranean world had the Aramaic language. [2]
Greek was not the lingua franca during [...]


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