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Macedonia (/ ˌ m æ s ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / ⓘ MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə) is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe.Its boundaries have changed considerably over time; however, it came to be defined as the modern geographical region by the mid-19th century.
The roots of the name issue go back to the mid-1940s, when, in the aftermath of the Second World War, Commander in Chief Tito separated from Serbia the region that had been known until that time as Vardar Banovina (today's Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), giving it the status of a federal unit of the new Socialist Federal Republic of ...
Macedonia (Greece), a former administrative region, spanning today three administrative subdivisions of northern Greece; Macedonia (region), a geographic and historical region that today includes parts of six Balkan countries (see map) Macedonia, Makedonia, Makedonija, or Makedoniya may also refer to:
Macedonia or Macedon, the ancient kingdom, [13] was located on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece.It was centered on the fertile plains west of the Gulf of Salonica (today north-western Greece); the first Macedonian state emerged in the 8th or early 7th century BC.
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At first place it was an umbrella term to designate all the inhabitants of the region of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic origin. [4] " Macedonians" as an umbrella term covered Greeks, Bulgarians, Turks, Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians, Albanians, Serbs, etc. [5] Simultaneously a political concept was created, to encompass all these "Macedonians" in the area, into a separate ...
While not having a coastline in the Mediterranean, Portugal, Andorra, San Marino, Vatican City, Kosovo, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Jordan are sometimes included on the list of Mediterranean countries, in a climate (biogeography) context.
Eleven days after the secession of Macedonia (now named North Macedonia) from Yugoslavia, residents of the village of Vevčani almost unanimously voted, in turn, to become independent from Macedonia. The Macedonian government later allowed Vevčani to separate from Struga Municipality , and become a municipality of its own .