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major treatment
- In North Macedonia: History of North Macedonia
As described in this article’s introduction, the name Macedonia is applied both to a region encompassing the present-day Republic of North Macedonia and portions of Bulgaria and Greece and to the republic itself, the boundaries of which have been defined since…
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Macedonia naming dispute
Macedonian Question
- In Macedonian Question
In 1991, however, when the Republic of Macedonia declared its independence from Yugoslavia, the Macedonian Question was raised again in a different, but equally contentious, form. Greece—which itself contains a region named Macedonia (Makedonía) and which claims continuity with the glorious accomplishments of Alexander the Great and the ancient Macedonians—strenuously…
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Yugoslavia
- In Yugoslavia
and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Slovenia. The “third Yugoslavia,” inaugurated on April 27, 1992, had roughly 45 percent of the population and 40 percent of the area of its predecessor and consisted of only two republics, Serbia and Montenegro, which agreed to abandon the name Yugoslavia in…
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