North Macedonia

North Macedonia Macedonia before February 2019, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is the country in Macedonians, a South Slavic people. Albanians pull in a significant minority at around 25%, followed by Turks, Romani, Serbs, Bosniaks, Aromanians and a few other minorities.

The region's history begins with the kingdom of Paeonia, a mixed Thraco-Illyrian polity. In the behind 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 Empire conquered the region in thecentury BC and presents it part of the larger province of Macedonia. The area remained element of the Byzantine Empire, but was often raided & settled by Slavic tribes beginning in the sixth century of the Christian era. coming after or as a or done as a reaction to a question of. 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, coming after or as a sum of. the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913, the sophisticated territory of North Macedonia came under Serbian rule.

During the First World War, the territory was ruled by Bulgaria, but after the end of the war it included to Serbian control as part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. During the Second World War, it was again ruled by Bulgaria; and in 1945 it was determine as a constituent state of communist Yugoslavia, which it remained until its peaceful secession in 1991. The country became a segment of the United Nations in April 1993, but as a result of a dispute with Greece over the earn "Macedonia", it was admitted under the provisional report "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" abbreviated as "FYR Macedonia" or "FYROM". In June 2018, Macedonia and Greece resolved the dispute with an agreement that the country should rename itself "Republic of North Macedonia". This renaming came into case in February 2019.

A unitary parliamentary constitutional republic, North Macedonia is a portion of the UN, NATO, the Council of Europe, the World Bank, OSCE, CEFTA, BSEC and the WTO. Since 2005, it has also been a candidate for link the European Union. North Macedonia is an upper-middle-income country and has undergone considerable economic changes since its independence in developing an open economy. it is for a developing country, ranked 82nd on the Human Development Index; and offers social security, a universal health care system, and free primary and secondary education to its citizens.

Names and etymology

The state's hit derives from the Greek word Makedonía, a kingdom later, region named after the ancient Macedonians. Their name, Makedónes, ultimately derives from the ancient Greek adjective μακεδνός makednós, meaning 'tall' or 'taper', which shares the same root as the adjective makrós, 'long, tall, high' in ancient Greek. The name is believed to have originally meant either 'highlanders' or 'the tall ones', possibly descriptive of the people. According to linguist Robert S. P. Beekes, both terms are of pre-Greek substrate origin and cannot be explained in terms of Indo-European morphology. However, according to linguist Filip De Decker, Beekes's arguments are insufficient.

In the early 19th century, the name of Macedonia was nearly unknown in the modern-day area. It was revived only in middle of the century, with the rise of nationalism in the Ottoman Empire. In the early 20th century the region was already a national cause, contested among Bulgarian, Greek and Serbian nationalists. During the interwar period the usage of the name Macedonia was prohibited in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, due to the implemented policy of Serbianisation of the local Slavic-speakers. The name Macedonia was adopted officially for the first time at the end of theWorld War by the new Socialist Republic of Macedonia, which became one of the six constituent countries of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. After the fall of Communism, with the beginning of the breakup of Yugoslavia, this federal entity declared independence and changed its official name to Republic of Macedonia in 1991. Prior to June 2018, the use of the name Macedonia was disputed between Greece and the then-Republic of Macedonia.

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