The original manuscript of the proclaimation and other printed proclaimations of Emperor Leopold the first from 1690 with which he takes the Macedonian people under his protection

aristocrats, creation and the introduction of Koine as lingua-franca in the Empire, disunity after the fall of the Macedonian Empire, the Macedonian-Roman wars and the decline during the Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty. Macedonia is not an exclusive right, but part of the cultural-historical identity of all South- East European demos(es) representing modern political nations based on the Macedonian ethnos, culture and language, regardless of differences in reading history in terms of current geopolitics, even regardless of the differences between current contemporary literary languages as a product of the modern political nations! This is the reason why Ἥλιος • Helios - Macedonian Institute for Cultural, Linguistic and Scientific Studies is formed. Its name refers not only to one of the oldest Macedonian symbols - the God and the personification of the Sun, but also to the enlightenment of the human soul and reason, search for the truth and preservation of the Macedonian cultural, linguistic, archaeological and historical heritage. The primarily goals of the Institute are to: • collect, analyze and catalog factual fragments of writing, books, letters, documents, or records which have been documented as ancient Macedonian; • creation of a dictionary, etymology and grammar of the ancient Macedonian language; • linguists to work on reconstructing the ancient Macedonian language based on the above research and facts they come across, bringing this together to estimate what the language sounded like and what the missing pieces might be; • study the influence of the ancient Macedonian on current contemporary literary languages in South-East Europe; • involve cultural associations, community groups, linguists, educational institutions, municipalities, regional and central governments throughout the contemporary political nations of the former Macedonian Kingdom and Empire, to support and promote the language revival of the ancient Macedonian language; • creation of an academic project Inscriptiones Macedoniae (IM), with the aim to collect and publish a separate corpus with chapters of all known ancient Macedonian inscriptions, or related to ancient Macedonia. Dedicated to all who feel and truly believe they are Macedonian or from Macedonian descent, regardless of the current modern political nations! Fortune favors the bold! Ἥλιος • Helios Macedonian Institute for Cultural, Linguistic and Scientific Studies