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Symposium might last from noon till dawn, and the most famous symposium is the
one before Alexander left for Asia, that lasted nine days. What did the ancient
Macedonians drank? Wine, drank by Macedonians until today, and that wine is the
wine AKRATO. That is confirmed even by the Persian historian Adnan Ray who
quotes Alexander, when after the great victory at Isa a big feast is thrown and the
Persians offer Alexander their wine, to what he responds: “I thank you, but I don’t
drink cooked wine” and turns to Jola, brother of Cassander, the older son of
Antipater and says to him: “bring me Akrato to celebrate the victory”. The
grapevine from which this wine is made is called AKRATO. Today it is known as
the famous KRATOSIJA from Tikvesh. The interesting qualifications by professor
Negrul, who although puts it in the Black sea ecological-geographical group,
locates the origin of the kratosija in Montenegro. Also makes it a variety, a type of
vranec and adds the synonyms krakoshija, montenegrina, vrancina and others.
Professor Milovanovic process the kratosija in three species, two of them are with
expanding plasts, and only one type is KRATOSIJA in shape of a sphere cluster.
Actually this type, this variety is the successor of the ancient AKRATO. Similar
analysis makes professor Vulic. I have to disappoint many of my friends convinced
in the assumption placed in the scientific community, but never fully proven, or
simply there was no need for that. The grapevine AKRATO since the time of Philip
the second is moved from the island Tacos, Kavala and Drama to the area between
Gortinia (Gevgelija) and STENAE (Demir Kapija). Quickly the viticulture and
winemaking became dominant in the Tikvesh area. Probably the wine culture is
taken from the Macedonians by the Painonians and because of the enlargement of
the military potentials of the Macedonians it is necessary to provide large amounts
of wine, which represents a real economic gain. Of course then the question why
KRATOSIJA and not AKRATO can be posed? Each study uses tools called
compatible scientific disciplines. Archeology is often aided by the scientific
disciplines as: Anthropology, Ethnology, and Etymology. I would ask the question:
why today Astibo is not Astibo but it is Stip? If we analyze using etymology the
name Negotino, which comes from Antigonea, then it is very easy to explain the
word KRATOSIJA. It is a grapevine from which Wine AKRATO was made. To
preserve the memory of their greatest son Alexander, Macedonians preserved the
grapevine from which this wine was made. But in the etymological deformities and
the slavonicazation of the names, probably akrato, from which musts (shira) is
previously received, and it is known that Slavs preferred sweat beverages, the name
AKRATO is transformed from AKRATO-SIRA into KRATOSIJA. Maybe
AKRATO is bound with the Tikvesh region, so from the Tikvesh AKRATO, it is
formed the word KRATOSIJA, that phonetically fits the Slavs. This is a
hypothetical thought of my smallness I leave this to the historians to prove or to
deny. Anyway my studies, considerations and efforts go in favor of clarification of
one historical section in the name of the truth. Truth in philosophical sense is the
reverse of lie, and always the seekers of truth find it hard to eliminate all the lies
that had been placed through the epochs. AKRATO as wine was differentiated from
KRATOSIJA by its flavor and strength. Why do I say this? AKRATO was served
in containers called craters. Crater is actually a big barrel, big jug where wine was
put along with herbal aromas, and pine resin, then in the crater water was poured in
scale from one third to one half of the amount of wine. That was mixed and the
mixture was served as a beverage. It is interesting in the etymology of the word that
in western Macedonia this wine is called KARTOSIJA, and in the Tikvesh region
KRATOSIJA. If we take in consideration that in western Macedonia the can for
wine is called karta then it could be considered that the word karta actually derives
from the word KARTOSIJA. Regarding the Tikvesh region in ancient times krater
was the main container for serving wine. So therefore there is a possibility in

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