History of Macedonia The ancient name “Macedonia” was borrowed by the local ruler Bisan in the 9th century. When the Byzantine state collapsed in 1204 after the 4th crusade, neighboring countries began to fight for the Macedonian lands. In 1230, they were included in the Bulgarian kingdom, and later, due to them, the Serbian state…
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Macedonia History and Politics
Ancient and Middle Ages The first settlement we know of what is now North Macedonia took place around the 8th century BC. Instead of. At that time the Illyrians inhabited the area. They founded villages and built cities. Later the Thracians advanced and mingled with the Illyrian tribes. Then the Romans came and largely destroyed…
Mass Media in Southern Europe
As part of European continent defined by Countryaah, Southern Europe includes Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, San Marino, and Slovenia. This page describes major mass media, including newspapers, radio stations and televisions within these countries. Mass media in Albania Until 1991 Albania had two daily newspapers, both controlled by the…
Northern Macedonia Arts and Literature
Literature The Macedonian pursuit of political and linguistic autonomy was successfully crowned only in 1944, when the Macedonian was proclaimed as the official language of the Republic of Macedonia in the new Yugoslav federation. The history of Macedonian literature, however, is older. It includes works in the vernacular, which since the last half of the…
Macedonia Recent History
In 1915 Bulgaria entered alongside the central empires at war against Russia and Serbia. Serbian Macedonia was occupied by Bulgaria, while the British-British settled in Thessaloniki and from there, with the Italians and the Serbs, in 1916, advanced to beyond Monastir. After the First World War with the defeat of Bulgaria, all the part assigned…