Northern Macedonia

proper noun

The Republic of Northern Macedonia, formerly known as the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Meanings

proper noun

alternative North Macedonia

  1. nonstandardThe Republic of Northern Macedonia, formerly known as the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

    [What of] Greeks, Gypsies, etc. living in that part of Upper or Northern Macedonia (beyond the Greek border) which was incorporated into modern Yugoslavia and Bulgaria after the First World War?

    1991, Apostolos Euangelou Vacalopoulos, Contemporary ethnological problems in the Balkans
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    The All-Greek Association of Northern Macedonia (“Makedonomasi”) appealed to the citizens of Thessaloniki and Greek Macedonia, and the associations of Macedonians living in Greece, to join the [meeting].

    2016, John Shea, Macedonia and Greece: The Struggle to Define a New Balkan Nation, McFarland, →ISBN, page 308

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