Macedonia naming dispute facts for kids

geography of Macedonia

The Macedonia naming dispute was a political dispute between Greece and North Macedonia. The disputed was because of the name “Macedonia”. It was solved in 2019 with the prespa agreement when Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras and Macedonian prime minister Zoran Zaev signed the agreement along border Lake Prespa.

Images for kids

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  Ancient kingdom of Macedonia c. 200 BC

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  The 2008 Bucharest summit of NATO

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  Map of the Roman Province of Macedonia showing its division into 'Macedonia Prima' and 'Macedonia Secundus' or 'Salutaris'

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  International Court of Justice hearing in the case of "Application of the Interim Accord of 13 September 1995 (the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia v. Greece)"

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  UN Mediator Matthew Nimetz with negotiators Zoran Jolevski and Adamantios Vassilakis at a press conference after the round of negotiations in November 2012

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  Macedonian Greeks protest in a rally in Melbourne in April 2007, holding signs descriptive of the historical concerns around the naming dispute and others with the Vergina sun.

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  Postcard issued during the 1920s by the Ilinden organization in Sofia, presenting an imagined United Macedonia

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  Apogevmatini headline quoting former Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis: "I am a Macedonian, just like two and a half million Greeks."

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  Refugee children fleeing across the Greek Macedonian border in 1948

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  Greek ethnographic map of south-eastern Balkans, showing the Macedonian Slavs as a separate people, by Professor George Soteriadis, Edward Stanford, London, 1918

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  The ancient kingdom of Macedonia before Philip II (431 BC)

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  Ancient Macedonia under Philip V (200 BC)

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  Modern region of Greek Macedonia

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In Spanish: Disputa sobre el nombre de Macedonia para niños