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Kosovo and Macedonia completed demarcation of their boundary in September 2008; Greece continues to reject the use of the name Macedonia or Republic of Macedonia.|

The geographical region of Macedonia also includes the male-only state of , but this is not part of the Macedonia precincts. Mount Athos is under the spiritual jurisdiction of the , and enjoys a special status: it is inaccessible to women; its territory is a self-governed part of Greece, and the powers of the state are exercised through a governor. The takes this special status into consideration, particularly on matters of taxation exemption and rights of installation. The governor of Mount Athos is appointed by the Greek Foreign Ministry.|

is the of the geographic region of Macedonia in , which is a part of the of whole . Folk dances in Macedonia include , , , , , , Samarinas, stankena, Akritikos, baidouska, Macedonikos antikristos, mikri Eleni, , kleftikos Makedonikos, , , and sirtos Macedonias. In Macedonia, there are also sung by the and local citizens like: .|

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Subsequently the provinces of and as well as other regions to the north were incorporated into a new Provincia Macedonia, but in 297 AD under a reform many of these regions were removed and two new provinces were created: Macedonia Prima and Macedonia Salutaris (from 479-482 AD Macedonia Secunda). Macedonia Prima coincided approximately with Strabo’s definition of Macedonia and with the modern administrative district of Greece and had as its capital, while Macedonia Secunda had the city of (near ) as its capital. This subdivision is mentioned in ’ Synecdemon (527-528) and remained through the reign of emperor .|

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The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Macedonia violated the rights of Khaled el-Masri when it arrested him and turned him over to the United States.|

Familiarity with the Slavic element in the area led two brothers from , , to be chosen to convert the Slavs to . Following the campaigns of , all of Macedonia returned to the Byzantine state. Following the 1203–1204, a short-lived realm, the , was established in the region, but it was subdued by the Greek in 1224. Returning to the restored shortly thereafter, the area remained in Byzantine hands until the 1340s, when all of Macedonia (except Thessaloniki, and possibly ) was conquered by the Serbian ruler . Divided between Serbia and after Dusan's death, the region fell quickly to the advancing , with Thessaloniki alone holding out until 1387. After a brief Byzantine interval in 1403–1430 (during the last seven years of which the city was handed over to the Venetians), Thessalonica and its immediate surrounding area returned to the Ottomans.|

Republic of Macedonia Skopje () Parliamentary democracy 2.06 million 25,713 square km.; slightly larger than Vermont Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian Total Population: 96.1% Male: 98.2% ; Female: 94.1% $8,300 1991|

The inhabitants are overwhelmingly ethnic and most are . From the Middle Ages to the early 20th century, the is characterized by uncertainty both about numbers and identification. The 1904 census of Hilmi Pasha recorded 373,227 Greeks and 204,317 in the () alone. According to the same census, Greeks were also dominant in the (), counting 261,283 Greeks and 178,412 Bulgarians. Hugh Poulton, in his , notes that "assessing population figures is problematic" for the territory of Greek Macedonia before its incorporation into the Greek state in 1913. The area's remaining population was principally composed of and also some , and at much smaller numbers of , and .|

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Macedonia violated the rights of Khaled el-Masri when it arrested him and turned him over to the United States.|

According to , the history of Macedonia began with the tribe (makednos means "tall" in Greek), among the first to use the name, migrating to the region from Histiaeotis in the south. There they lived near Thracian tribes such as the who would later leave Macedonia for and become known as . was named after the Makednoi. Accounts of other such as are attested to have been in use before that. A branch of the Macedonians may have invaded Southern Greece towards the end of the second millennium B.C. Upon reaching the Peloponnese the invaders were renamed , triggering the accounts of the Dorian invasion. For centuries the Macedonian tribes were organized in independent kingdoms, in what is now Central Macedonia, and their role in internal Hellenic politics was minimal, even before the rise of Athens. The Macedonians may have belonged to the Dorian branch of Greeks, while there were many in the coastal regions. The rest of the region was inhabited by various Thracian and Illyrian tribes as well as mostly coastal colonies of other Greek states such as Amphipolis, Olynthos, Potidea, Stageira and many others, and to the north another tribe dwelt, called the Paeonians. During the late 6th and early 5th century BC, the region came under Persian rule until the destruction of Xerxes at . During the , Macedonia became the theatre of many military actions by the and the Athenians, and saw incursions of Thracians and Illyrians, as attested by Thucidydes. Many Macedonian cities were allied to the Spartans (both the Spartans and the Macedonians were Dorian, while the Athenians were Ionian), but Athens maintained the colony of under her control for many years. The kingdom of , was reorganised by and achieved the union of Greek states by forming the . After his assassination, his son succeeded to the throne of Macedon and, retaining the office of "General of Greece", he became one of the best known persons to which this land ever gave birth.|

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