 At that time the concept of ancient "Paionian identity" was changed to a kind of mixed "Paionian-Macedonian" identity which was later transformed to a separate "ancient Macedonian identity", establishing a direct link to the modern ethnic Macedonians.This phenomenon is called "ancient Macedonism", or "Antiquisation" ("Antikvizatzija", "антиквизација").Its supporters claim that the ethnic Macedonians are not descendants of the Slavs only, but of the ancient Macedonians too, who, according to them, were not Greeks.