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In antiquity, most of the territory that is now North Macedonia was included in the kingdom of Paeonia, which was populated by the Paeonians, a people of Thracian origins, [1] but also parts of ancient Illyria, [2] [3] Ancient Macedonians populated the area in the south, living among many other tribes and Dardania, [4] inhabited by various Illyrian peoples, [5] [6] and Lyncestis and Pelagonia ...
The Republic of Macedonia holds an independence referendum. 96% of those who voted, i.e., 72% of those who were registered to vote, voted "For." [1] 17 September The Assembly of the Republic adopts a declaration confirming the referendum results for the establishment of the Republic of Macedonia as a sovereign and independent state.
Ottoman censuses did not count ethnic groups, but rather millets, and increasingly from the 1870s onwards, ethnoconfessional groups. Thus, "Muslims" in the 1881/82 Census covered all adherents of Islam, regardless if they were ethnic Turks, Slavs, Albanians, Romani, etc. "Greeks" referred to all Greeks and to any Vlachs, Albanians and Slavs ...
North Macedonia (/ ˌ m æ s ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə), [c] officially the Republic of North Macedonia, [d] is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe.It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo [e] to the northwest and Serbia to the north. [8]
The history of Macedonia encompasses various periods of history in a region of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe, with borders that have varied considerably over time. For history of the whole Macedonian region, see History of Macedonia (region) .
Four separate wars were fought against the weaker power, Macedonia, due to its geographic proximity to Rome, though the last two of these wars were against haphazard insurrections rather than powerful armies. [2] Roman influence gradually dissolved Macedonian independence and digested it into what was becoming a leading empire.
The situation did not change significantly after the Republic of Macedonia achieved independence in the late 20th century. Historiography remained consistent with that from the Yugoslav period, because almost all ideas of historical revisionist nature originated during the communist era. [43]
The Kingdom of Macedonia (in dark orange) in c. 336 BC, at the end of the reign of Philip II of Macedon; other territories include Macedonian dependent states (light orange), the Molossians of Epirus (light red), Thessaly (desert sand color), the allied League of Corinth (yellow), neutral states of Sparta and Crete, and the western territories of the Achaemenid Empire in Anatolia (violet purple).