Portal:North Macedonia

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Welcome! Добредојдовте! Orthodox Church of St. John at Kaneo, Ohrid, North Macedonia The North Macedonia Portal North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the north. It constitutes approximately the northern third of the larger geographical region of Macedonia. Skopje, the capital and largest city, is home to a quarter of the country's population of over 1.83 million. The majority of the residents are ethnic Macedonians, a South Slavic people. Albanians form a significant minority at around 25%, followed by Turks, Roma, Serbs, Bosniaks, Aromanians and a few other minorities. In classical antiquity most of present-day North Macedonia corresponded to the ancient regions of Paeonia and Pelagonia. In the late-6th century BC, most of the area was subjugated by the Persian Empire, and then incorporated into the kingdom of Macedonia by the mid-4th century BC. Rome conquered the region by the mid-2nd century BC and made it part of its larger province of Macedonia. The area remained part of the Byzantine Empire, but was often raided and settled by Slavic tribes beginning in the 6th century CE. Following centuries of contention between the Byzantine and Bulgarian empires, it became part of the Serbian Empire in the mid-14th century, and then it was part of the Ottoman Empire from the late-14th century until the Balkan Wars (1912-1913), when it came under Serbian rule. (Full article...) Selected article - An armed conflict began in the Republic of Macedonia in 2001 when the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) insurgent group, formed from veterans of the Kosovo War and insurgency in the Preševo Valley, attacked Macedonian security forces at the end of January 2001, and ended with the Ohrid Agreement, signed on 13 August of that same year. There were also claims that the NLA ultimately wished to see Albanian-majority areas secede from the country, though high-ranking members of the group have denied this. The conflict lasted throughout most of the year, although overall casualties remained limited to several dozen individuals on either side, according to sources from both sides of the conflict. With it, the Yugoslav Wars had reached Macedonia, which had achieved peaceful independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. (Full article...) List of selected articles World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia Macedonian language North Macedonia under the Ottoman Empire Macedonian nationalism Socialist Republic of Macedonia Battle of Dobro Pole Skopje Religion in North Macedonia Bitola Ohrid Kumanovo Tetovo Nikola Martinoski Stobi Kiro Gligorov Gjorge Ivanov Stevo Pendarovski 2019 North Macedonian presidential election Lake Ohrid Kokino Baba (North Macedonia) Politics of North Macedonia Lake Prespa North Macedonia national football team Kriva Palanka Kratovo, North Macedonia Galičnik Toše Proeski Krste Misirkov Macedonians (ethnic group) Subcategories Airlines Buildings and structures Cities Culture Ethnic groups Geography History Languages Macedonians Newspapers Politics Sport More in: North Macedonia and Macedonians Did you know... ... that the capital city of Skopje (see also other names of Skopje) is the hometown of the great humanitarian and Nobel Prize winner, Mother Teresa ... that the Megalithic Observatory, Kokino is more than 3800 years old and it is placed on NASA's list of important ancient observatories ... that the smallest ethno museum in the world is located only 5 km on the northwest of Tetovo, in the picturesque village of Džepčište and as such is listed in the Guinness Book of Records ... about the Stone town, situated by the Kuklica village in the Kratovo area. According to the sources, the stone figures that are called Dolls by the local population, date from the ancient prehistory... Selected image - The town of Kratovo Map of North Macedonia Map of urban and rural municipalities of Macedonia WikiProjects You are invited to participate in WikiProject North Macedonia, a WikiProject dedicated to developing and improving articles about North Macedonia. Topics North Macedonia through videos A day in Macedonia A day in Macedonia 2 The land of colours Macedonia Timeless Macedonia Timeless 2 Macedonia Timeless - Food Macedonia Timeless - Temples Macedonia Timeless - Ohrid city of light Other Photos of Interest Medieval Orthodox monastery of Saint Naum, on lake Ohrid Carev Vrv, Osogovo Mountain The historical center of the city of Bitola Dojran Lake Mount Zlatovrv, north of Prilep Skopje Aqueduct Heraclea Lyncestis, ancient city near Bitola: the Byzantine "Small Basilica" "The Lamentation of Christ" (1164), a fresco from the church of Saint Panteleimon in Nerezi near Skopje Baba Mountain Lake Kozjak in winter The monastery of Saint Nicholas in Šiševo Skopje Fortress Related portals Associated Wikimedia The following Wikimedia Foundation sister projects provide more on this subject: Commons Free media repository Wikidata Free knowledge base Wikiquote Collection of quotations Wikisource Free-content library Wikiversity Free learning tools Wikivoyage Free travel guide Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus Discover Wikipedia using portals List of all portals The arts portal Biography portal Current events portal Geography portal History portal Mathematics portal Science portal Society portal Technology portal Random portal WikiProject Portals