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Yugoslavia occupied a significant portion of the Balkan Peninsula, including a strip of land on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea, stretching southward from the Bay of Trieste in Central Europe to the mouth of Bojana as well as Lake Prespa inland, and eastward as far as the Iron Gates on the Danube and Midžor in the Balkan Mountains, thus including a large part of Southeast Europe, a region ...
Most of the modern region of Macedonia became in the 9th century a Bulgarian province known as Kutmichevitsa. [10] Its southern parts corresponded to new Byzantine provinces of Thessalonica and Strymon. [11] The area of North Macedonia was incorporated again into the Byzantine Empire in the early 11th century as a new province called Bulgaria. [12]
As a result, Macedonia changed its name to the People's Republic of Macedonia and was incorporated as a constituent republic in the Yugoslav Federation. People with various degrees of allegedly being pro-Bulgarian orientation (in the most cases they were pro-Independence and anti-Yugoslav) were purged from their positions, then isolated ...
It was named after the Vardar River, distinguishing it from Aegean Macedonia in Greece and Pirin Macedonia in Bulgaria. [1] The region was initially known as Serbian Macedonia [2] [3] although the use of the name Macedonia was prohibited later in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, due to the implemented policy of Serbianisation of the local Slavic ...
^There was no de jure official language at the federal level, [5] [6] [7] but Serbo-Croatian functioned as the lingua franca of Yugoslavia, being the only language taught throughout the entire country. It was the official language of four federal republics out of six in total: Bosnia and Herzegovina
The withdrawal of the Yugoslav Army from Macedonia started with the beginning of the winter of 1991/92. 21 February: United Nations Security Council Resolution 743 sets up a Protection Force mandated to create three IJN Protected Areas (UNPAs) in Croatia. 29 February: A referendum on independence is held in Bosnia.
The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro [a] or simply Serbia and Montenegro, [b] known until 2003 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [c] and commonly referred to as FR Yugoslavia (FRY) or simply Yugoslavia, [d] was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia).
North Macedonia became a member state of the United Nations on April 8, 1993, eighteen months after its independence from the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It was referred within the UN as "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", pending a resolution, to the long-running dispute about the country's name.