ABSTRACT
As a protean and resilient phenomenon, nationalism has stimulated scholars to attempt to trace its rudimentary manifestations far back in history: from the ancient Greeks' ethnocentric sentiment of cultural identification and arrogance towards the non-Greek world, to medieval movements of cultural separatism, usually linked to the emergence and consolidation of states. Nationalism both as a movement and an ideology, however, is principally a phenomenon of modern history, of explosive force and magnetism, whose energy has remained unabated over the last two centuries to the present day.
