Aegean Macedonia

This article is about the term "Aegean Macedonia". For the region of Greece, see Macedonia (Greece). For other uses, see Belomorie.
Map of Macedonia, Greece.

Aegean Macedonia (Macedonian: Егејска Македонија, romanized: Egejska Makedonija; Bulgarian: Егейска Македония, romanized: Egeyska Makedonia) is a term referring to the region of Macedonia in Northern Greece. In the Republic of North Macedonia, it has been used in the irredentist context of a United Macedonia.

History

The term arose after the Balkan wars and refers to the part of the area, ceded then from the Ottoman empire to the Greek state, i.e. Greek Macedonia.[1] Yugoslavs and Bulgarians have used the term "Aegean Macedonia" instead of "Greek Macedonia".[2] Macedonian textbooks with maps depicting an enlarged Macedonia (including Greek and Bulgarian Macedonia) were used in the Yugoslav period and after North Macedonia's independence in 1991.[3] Ethnic Macedonians have envisioned Greek Macedonia (referred to as "Aegean Macedonia") as part of a "Greater Macedonia". They have circulated maps depicting the concept. The name "Aegean Macedonia" itself appears to challenge the legitimacy of Greek sovereignty over the area.[4][5] Macedonian immigrants have applied the term "Aegean Macedonia" for Greek Macedonia. Aegean Refugee Associations have promoted the irredentist United Macedonia.[6]

See also

  • Refugees of the Greek Civil War
  • Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia
  • Macedonian nationalism
  • Belomorie

References

  1. ^ Joshua A. Fishman, ed. (2011). The Earliest Stage of Language Planning: "The First Congress" Phenomenon. De Gruyter. p. 160. ISBN 9783110848984.
  2. ^ George C. Papavizas (2015). Claiming Macedonia: The Struggle for the Heritage, Territory and Name of the Historic Hellenic Land, 1862-2004. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 257. ISBN 9781476610191.
  3. ^ Ian Worthington; Joseph Roisman, eds. (2011). A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. Wiley. p. 582. ISBN 9781444351637.
  4. ^ Loring M. Danforth (March 1997). The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World. Princeton University Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-691-04356-2. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
  5. ^ Hall, Jonathan M. (2014). Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian. University of Chicago Press. p. 104. ISBN 978-0226096988. The claim on the part of the Slavic Republic to the name Macedonia and to its inhabitants' descent from the ancient Macedonians represented, at best, "a theft of national 'property', heritage, and identity", and, at worst, a thinly veiled irredentist aspiration to the territory the Slavs termed Aegean Macedonia.
  6. ^ Jane Cowan, ed. Macedonia: The Politics of Identity, Pluto Press, 2000, pp. xiii, 78-79.
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