Macedonia
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Macedonia is a geographical and historical region in southeastern Europe that today spans parts of Greece, North Macedonia, and Bulgaria. It matters because it represents a culturally and historically significant area whose territorial division among modern nations has made it an important topic in European history and contemporary politics.
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Macedonia (/ˌmæsɪˈdoʊniə/ MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə) is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. During the second half of the 4th century BC, the kingdom of Macedon rose into an empire signaling the start of the Hellenistic period. In the 2nd century BC Macedonia became a Roman province. Its boundaries have changed considerably over time; however, it came to be defined as the modern geographical region by the mid-19th century, based on the Roman province of Macedonia. Today, the modern region at its maximum extent is considered to span the largest part of northern Greece (Greek Macedonia), all of North Macedonia, a large part of southwestern Bulgaria (Pirin Macedonia), and small parts of Albania, Serbia, and Kosovo.
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