Macedonians

Northern Greek inhabitants

Macedonians are people from Macedonia—either the modern Republic of North Macedonia in the Balkans or the ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great.

The term can also refer to residents of the Greek region of Macedonia, which creates ongoing political tension over who gets to claim the name.

As an adjective, Macedonian describes things relating to these places or peoples: Macedonian cuisine, the Macedonian language.

ethnic

Slavic

Of certain Eastern Europeans

tradition · folklore · customs · diaspora · minority · nationality · ethnicity · community · kinship · culture

language

Cyrillic

Slavic alphabet system

vocabulary · morphology · phonology · syntax · orthography · bilingualism · lexicon · inflection · conjugation · declension

ancient

Aristotle

Greek founder of formal logic

Bucephalus

Categories
Opposites
national/ethnic identity disputes

MacedoniansGreeks

Natives of Athens' homeland

Hellenes · Bulgarians · Serbians · Athenians · Albanians

regional balkan neighbors

MacedoniansSerbians

South Slavic ethnic group

Albanians · Montenegrins · Bosnians · Croats · Romanians

Phrases
Family

Macedonia, Macedonian

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