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North Macedonia MASS -ih-DOH -nee-əRepublic of North Macedonia , is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe . It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the north. It constitutes approximately the northern third of the larger geographical region of Macedonia . Skopje , the capital and largest city, is home to a quarter of the country's population of 1.83 million. The majority of the residents are ethnic Macedonians , a South Slavic people . Albanians form a significant minority at around 25%, followed by Turks , Roma , Serbs , Bosniaks , Aromanians and a few other minorities.
The region's history begins with the kingdom of Paeonia . In the late sixth century BC, the area was subjugated by the Persian Achaemenid Empire , then incorporated into the Kingdom of Macedonia in the fourth century BC. The Roman Republic conquered the region in the second century BC and made it part of its larger province of Macedonia . The area remained part of the Byzantine Empire , but was often raided and settled by Slavic tribes beginning in the sixth century of the Christian era. Following centuries of contention between the Bulgarian , Byzantine, and Serbian Empires , it was part of the Ottoman Empire from the mid-14th until the early 20th century, when, following the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913, the modern territory of North Macedonia came under Serbian rule. (Full article...
The Macedonian-speaking world:
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regions where Macedonian is the language of a minority
Macedonian MASS -ih-DOH -nee-ənмакедонски јазик translit. makedonski jazik pronounced [maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik] ⓘ Eastern South Slavic language. It is part of the Indo-European language family , and is one of the Slavic languages , which are part of a larger Balto-Slavic branch . Spoken as a first language by around 1.6 million people, it serves as the official language of North Macedonia . Most speakers can be found in the country and its diaspora , with a smaller number of speakers throughout the transnational region of Macedonia . Macedonian is also a recognized minority language in parts of Albania , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Romania , and Serbia and it is spoken by emigrant communities predominantly in Australia , Canada and the United States .
Macedonian developed out of the western dialects of the Eastern South Slavic dialect continuum , whose earliest recorded form is Old Church Slavonic . During much of its history, this dialect continuum was called "Bulgarian",[additional citation(s) needed although in the late 19th century, its western dialects came to be known separately as "Macedonian". Standard Macedonian was codified in 1945 and has developed modern literature since. As it is part of a dialect continuum with other South Slavic languages , Macedonian has a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Bulgarian and varieties of Serbo-Croatian . (Full article...
Map of urban and rural municipalities of Macedonia
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Medieval Orthodox monastery of Saint Naum, on lake Ohrid
Carev Vrv, Osogovo Mountain
The historical center of the city of Bitola
Mount Zlatovrv, north of Prilep
Heraclea Lyncestis, ancient city near Bitola: the Byzantine "Small Basilica"
"The Lamentation of Christ" (1164), a fresco from the church of Saint Panteleimon in Nerezi near Skopje
Lake Kozjak in winter
The monastery of Saint Nicholas in Šiševo
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