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Vardar Macedonia (Macedonian
Macedonian language

Macedonian is the official language of the Republic of Macedonia and is a part of the Eastern group of South Slavic languages. Macedonian is closely related to and shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with the Bulgarian language, Serbian language, Bosnian language, and Croatian language languages....
 and , Vardarska Makedonija; , Vardarska Makedoniya) is the north-western area of the Macedonia region
Macedonia (region)

Macedonia is a geographical and Historical regions of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe whose area was re-defined in the early 20th century....
. The borders of the area approximately coincide with modern day Republic of Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia

The Republic of Macedonia , , often referred to simply as Macedonia, is a landlocked country on the Balkans in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west....
. The name references the river Vardar
Vardar

The Vardar or Axios is the longest and major river in the Republic of Macedonia and also a major river of Greece. It is 388 kilometres long, and drains an area of around 25 000 km?....
, which flows through the area.

The region's borders, as well as the relative terminology
Macedonia (terminology)

The definition of Macedonia is a major source of confusion and debate due to the overlapping use of the term to describe geographical, political and historical areas, languages and peoples....
, exactly coincide with maps produced by ethnic Macedonian
Macedonians (ethnic group)

The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs are a South Slavs people who are primarily associated with the Republic of Macedonia....
 nationalists, after the 1913 Treaty of Bucharest and the division of the Macedonia region.






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Vardar Macedonia (Macedonian
Macedonian language

Macedonian is the official language of the Republic of Macedonia and is a part of the Eastern group of South Slavic languages. Macedonian is closely related to and shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with the Bulgarian language, Serbian language, Bosnian language, and Croatian language languages....
 and , Vardarska Makedonija; , Vardarska Makedoniya) is the north-western area of the Macedonia region
Macedonia (region)

Macedonia is a geographical and Historical regions of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe whose area was re-defined in the early 20th century....
. The borders of the area approximately coincide with modern day Republic of Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia

The Republic of Macedonia , , often referred to simply as Macedonia, is a landlocked country on the Balkans in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west....
. The name references the river Vardar
Vardar

The Vardar or Axios is the longest and major river in the Republic of Macedonia and also a major river of Greece. It is 388 kilometres long, and drains an area of around 25 000 km?....
, which flows through the area.

The region's borders, as well as the relative terminology
Macedonia (terminology)

The definition of Macedonia is a major source of confusion and debate due to the overlapping use of the term to describe geographical, political and historical areas, languages and peoples....
, exactly coincide with maps produced by ethnic Macedonian
Macedonians (ethnic group)

The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs are a South Slavs people who are primarily associated with the Republic of Macedonia....
 nationalists, after the 1913 Treaty of Bucharest and the division of the Macedonia region. Ethnic Macedonian nationalists have expressed claims to what they refer to as "Aegean Macedonia" (Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
), "Pirin Macedonia" (Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
), "Mala Prespa and Golo Bardo" (Albania
Albania

Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
), and "Gora
Gora (region)

Gora is a geographical region in southern Kosovo, mostly inhabited by the Gorani . Between 1992 and 1999, Gora was a municipality, and its population was 17,574 people according to 1991 census....
 and Prohor Pchinski" (Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
), despite the fact that today ethnic Greeks
Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
, Bulgarians
Bulgarians

The Bulgarians are a South Slavs people generally associated with the Republic of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian language. Emigration has resulted in Bulgarian minorities or immigrant communities in a number of other countries....
, Albanians
Albanians

The Albanian people , from southeast Europe, live in Albania and neighbouring countries and speak the Albanian language. About half of Albanians live in Albania, with other large groups residing in Kosovo, the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, and Montenegro....
 and Serbs
Serbs

Serbs are a South Slavs people living in the Balkans and Central Europe, mainly in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and, to a lesser extent, in Croatia....
 form the majority of the population of each region respectively.

See also

  • Macedonia (terminology)
    Macedonia (terminology)

    The definition of Macedonia is a major source of confusion and debate due to the overlapping use of the term to describe geographical, political and historical areas, languages and peoples....
  • Macedonia (region)
    Macedonia (region)

    Macedonia is a geographical and Historical regions of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe whose area was re-defined in the early 20th century....
  • Republic of Macedonia
    Republic of Macedonia

    The Republic of Macedonia , , often referred to simply as Macedonia, is a landlocked country on the Balkans in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west....
  • Aegean Macedonia
    Aegean Macedonia

    Aegean Macedonia is a term that refers to the Macedonia . It is currently mainly used in the Republic of Macedonia to refer to the Greece province of Macedonia, including in the irredentist context of a United Macedonia....
  • Pirin Macedonia
  • Vardar Banovina
    Vardar Banovina

    The Vardar Banovina or Vardar Banate or in Serbo-Croat: ????????? ???????? in Cyrillic; Vardarska banovina in Roman alphabet) was a province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941....
  • United Macedonia
    United Macedonia

    United Macedonia is an Irredentism concept among Macedonians nationalists that aims to unify the transnational region of Macedonia in Balkans, which they claim as their homeland, and which they assert was wrongfully divided under the Treaty of Bucharest in 1913, into a single state under their rule with the Greece city of Thessaloniki...
  • Serbian Macedonia- Prohor Pcinjski
    Prohor Pcinjski

    Prohor Pcinjski is a Serbian Orthodox Church monastery in the deep south of Serbia, located in Pcinja District near the border with the Republic of Macedonia....
     and Gora
    Gora

    Gora may refer to:People*Claudio Gora, Italian actor and director*Ronald Gora, American swimmer*Goparaju Ramachandra Rao , Indian atheist author and confidante of Gandhi...
     regions.