Macedonian

Macedonian

Macedonian may refer to anything related to, or a person from, Macedonia, a geographical region in Southeast Europe shared between Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, and small parts of Albania and Serbia.

More specifically, it may refer to:
* Macedonians (ethnic group) (also referred to as Macedonian Slavs or Slav Macedonians), the Slavic majority ethnic group of the Republic of Macedonia and minority inhabitants of a number of neighboring countries.
* Macedonians (Greek) (also referred to as Macedonian Greeks or Greek Macedonians), the Greek regional group of the Greek region of Macedonia.
* A citizen of the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria or Greece.

Historically

* Ancient Macedonians, the inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of Macedon
* The Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire

In linguistics

* Macedonian language (also called "Macedonian Slavic"), a modern South Slavic language
* Ancient Macedonian language, an extinct ancient language
* The Macedonian dialect of the modern Greek language

In music

* Music of Macedonia, part of the folklore of the wider region of Macedonia

In religion

* Macedonians (religious group), a 4th century Byzantine Greek Christian sect
* Macedonian Orthodox Church, an autocephalous, unrecognised Eastern Orthodox Christian church associated principally with ethnic Macedonians


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