Macedonian most often refers to someone or something from or related to
Macedonia
Macedonia most commonly refers to:
* North Macedonia, a country in southeastern Europe, known until 2019 as the Republic of Macedonia
* Macedonia (ancient kingdom), a kingdom in Greek antiquity
* Macedonia (Greece), a traditional geographic reg ...
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Macedonian(s) may specifically refer to:
People
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Macedonians (ethnic group)
Macedonians ( mk, Македонци, Makedonci) are a nation and a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the region of Macedonia (region), Macedonia in Southeast Europe. They speak Macedonian language, Macedonian, a South Slavic ...
, a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North Macedonia
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Macedonians (Greeks), the Greek people inhabiting or originating from Macedonia, a geographic and administrative region of Greece
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Macedonian Bulgarians
Macedonians or Macedonian Bulgarians ( bg, македонци or македонски българи), sometimes also referred to as Macedono-Bulgarians, Macedo-Bulgarians, or Bulgaro-Macedonians are a regional, ethnographic group of eth ...
, the Bulgarian people from the region of Macedonia
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Macedo-Romanians (disambiguation) Macedo-Romanians or Macedo-Romanian may refer to:
* The Aromanians, an Eastern Romance people inhabiting the Balkans, including the region of Macedonia
** The Aromanian language, the language of the Aromanians
* The Megleno-Romanians
The Meglen ...
, an outdated and rarely used anymore term for the Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians, both being small Eastern Romance ethno-linguistic groups present in the region of Macedonia
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Macedonians (obsolete terminology)
Macedonians as an obsolete terminology was used in regional and in ethnographic sense and had several meanings, different from these used mostly today. The name of Macedonia was revived on the Balkans during the early 19th century as result of the ...
, an outdated and rarely used umbrella term to designate all the inhabitants of the region, regardless of their ethnic origin, as well as the local Slavs and Macedo-Romanians, as a regional and ethnographic communities and not as a separate ethnic groups
Ancient
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Ancient Macedonians
The Macedonians ( el, Μακεδόνες, ''Makedónes'') were an ancient tribe that lived on the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Vardar, Axios in the northeastern part of Geography of Greece#Mainland, mainland Greece. Es ...
, an ancient Greek tribe associated with the ancient region and kingdom of Macedonia
Languages
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Macedonian language
Macedonian (; , , ) is an 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 two million ...
, a modern South Slavic language spoken by ethnic Macedonians
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Ancient Macedonian language, an extinct language, probably related to the ancient Greek language
* Macedonian dialect, one of the
varieties of Modern Greek, spoken in the region of Macedonia in Greece
Other uses
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Macedonian dynasty, a line of rulers of the Byzantine Empire (867–1056)
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Pneumatomachi, also known as Macedonians, a 4th-century Byzantine Christian sect
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HMS Macedonian, a British frigate (1808–1812)
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Makedonikos F.C.
Makedonikos Football Club ( el, Μακεδονικός) is a Greek professional football club based in Neapoli and most of his fans come from this area, though the club is famous in all westside areas of Thessaloniki.
History
The association wa ...
, a Greek football club whose name means 'Macedonian'
See also
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Ancient Macedonian (disambiguation)
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Macedonia (terminology)
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Macedonia naming dispute
The use of the country name "Macedonia (terminology), Macedonia" was disputed between Greece and the North Macedonia, Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) between 1991 and 2019. The dispute was a source of instability in the Balkans#W ...
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Macedonian Greeks (disambiguation)
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Macedonian Slavs (disambiguation)
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Macedonian diaspora (disambiguation)
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Macedonian culture (disambiguation)
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Macedonian art (disambiguation)
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Macedon (disambiguation) Macedon or Macedonia was a kingdom in ancient Greece.
Macedon or Makedon may also refer to:
* Makedon (mythology), legendary ancestor of the ancient Macedonians
* Fillia Makedon, Greek-American computer scientist
Places Australia
* Macedon, Victor ...
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