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 former administr ...
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Macedonian(s) may refer to:
People
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Macedonians (ethnic group)
Macedonians ( ) are a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group native to the region of Macedonia in Southeast Europe. They speak Macedonian, a South Slavic language. The large majority of Macedonians identify as Eastern Orthodox Christian ...
, a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North Macedonia
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Macedonians (Greeks)
Macedonians (, ''Makedónes''), also known as Greek Macedonians or Macedonian Greeks, are a regional and historical population group of ethnic Greeks, inhabiting or originating from the Macedonia (Greece), Greek region of Macedonia, in Geograp ...
, 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 (), sometimes also referred to as Macedono-Bulgarians, Macedo-Bulgarians, or Bulgaro-Macedonians are a regional, ethnographic group of ethnic Bulgarians, inhabiting or originating from the region of Ma ...
, 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
The Aromanians () are an Ethnic groups in Europe, ethnic group native to the southern Balkans who speak Aromanian language, Aromanian, an Eastern Romance language. They tradi ...
, an outdated and rarely used term for the Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians, both being small Eastern Romance ethno-linguistic groups present in the region of Macedonia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 Regionalism (politics), regional and in Ethnography, ethnographic sense and had several meanings, different from these used mostly today. The name of Macedonia was revived on the Balkans during t ...
, an outdated and rarely used umbrella term to designate all the inhabitants of the region, regardless of their ethnic origin, as well as the local Slavs and Romance-speakers, as regional and ethnographic communities
Ancient
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Ancient Macedonians
The Macedonians (, ) 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. Essentially an Ancient Greece, ancient ...
, 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 languages, Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of a larger Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic branch. Sp ...
, a modern South Slavic language spoken by ethnic Macedonians
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Ancient Macedonian language
Ancient Macedonian was the language of the ancient Macedonians which was either a Ancient Greek dialects, dialect of Ancient Greek or a separate Hellenic languages, Hellenic language. It was spoken in the kingdom of Macedonia (ancient kingdom), ...
, an extinct language, 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
The Macedonian dynasty () Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty, ruled the Byzantine Empire from 867 to 1056, following the Byzantium under the Amorian dynasty, Amorian dynasty. During this period, the Byzantine state reached its greates ...
, a line of rulers of the Byzantine Empire (867–1056)
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Macedonian Empire
Macedonia ( ; , ), also called Macedon ( ), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled by the royal ...
, the ancient kingdom of Macedonia at its greatest territorial extent under Alexander the Great
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Pneumatomachi, also known as Macedonians, a 4th-century Byzantine Christian sect
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HMS Macedonian
HMS ''Macedonian'' was a 38-gun fifth-rate in the Royal Navy, later captured by the during the War of 1812.
Construction and commissioning
''Macedonian'' was built at Woolwich Dockyard, England in 1809, launched 2 June 1810, and commiss ...
, a British frigate (1808–1812)
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Makedonikos F.C., a Greek football club whose name means 'Macedonian'
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Macedonia (terminology)
The name ''Macedonia'' is used in a number of competing or overlapping meanings to describe geographical, political and historical areas, languages and peoples in a part of south-eastern Europe. It has been a major source of political controver ...
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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 Greek (disambiguation) Macedonian Greek or Greek Macedonian may refer to:
*Something of, from, or related to Macedonia (Greece), a region in Greece
* Macedonians (Greeks), the Greek people of Macedonia
* Greeks in North Macedonia, those living as a minority in the neighb ...
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Macedonian Slavs (disambiguation) Macedonian Slavs may refer to several Slavic peoples in the historical and geographical region of Macedonia:
* Macedonians (ethnic group) (autonym: ''Makedonci'')
* Macedonian Bulgarians, ethnic Bulgarians from the region of Macedonia
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Macedonian art (disambiguation) Macedonian art may refer to:
* Macedonian art (Byzantine), the period of Byzantine art, during the reign of Macedonian dynasty
- in terms of ethnicity:
* Art of Ancient Macedonians, the art of Ancient Macedonians, during the period of classical ...
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Macedonian culture (disambiguation) The term Macedonian culture may refer to:
* Culture of Ancient Macedonians
* Culture of Macedonians (ethnic group)
In territorial terms:
* Culture of Macedonia (region)
* Culture of Ancient Macedonia
* Culture of Macedonia (Greece)
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Macedonian diaspora (disambiguation) The Macedonian diaspora consists of ethnic Macedonian emigrants and their descendants.
Macedonian diaspora may also refer to:
In ethnic terms
* Greek Macedonian diaspora, diaspora of ethnic Greeks from the region of Macedonia
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Macedonian language (disambiguation) Macedonian language may refer to:
* Macedonian language, designation for a South Slavic language spoken by ethnic Macedonians
* Ancient Macedonian language, designation for a Greek dialect spoken by ancient Macedonians
See also
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Macedonian Orthodox Church (disambiguation) The Macedonian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in North Macedonia.
The term Macedonian Orthodox Church may also refer to:
* , a True Orthodox Church
* Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric, former autonomous archbishopric unde ...
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Macedon (disambiguation)
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