Macedonia, unlike some of the other former Yugoslav republics, managed to secede peacefully from the Yugoslav state in 1991. However, this did not ensure a smooth transition towards establishing an ...

The interstate dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has lasted for twenty-seven years, and only recently have officials from the two countries expressed their ...

A contentious election in 2016 lays bare a country’s raw divisions. Sharp polarization brings protesters onto the street. A formal investigation looms over the most powerful figure in the nation, who ...

Small and landlocked North Macedonia, which votes Sunday in a presidential election, recently made headlines when it changed its name to end a dispute with Greece. As voters head to the polls, here ...

Macedonia gained its independence peacefully from Yugoslavia in 1991, but Greece's objection to the new state's use of what it considered a Hellenic name and symbols delayed international recognition, ...

LAND-LOCKED Macedonia often feels like a forgotten place, tucked among Greece, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia and Bulgaria. For centuries, it seemed to be part of someplace else, including, until two decades ...

What’s in a name? Enough to hold a referendum on it. Thus, some 1.8 million voters in the Republic of Macedonia were asked on Sunday, September 30, to cast a vote on their country’s name. The question ...

ATHENS, Greece — Macedonia's president said Wednesday that he would not sign off on a historic deal that would change the country's name, the most potentially disruptive reaction so far to the ...

North Macedonia was spared the inter-ethnic violence that raged elsewhere in the Balkans following the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, but came close to civil war a decade after ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 10 June 2024 North Macedonia was spared the inter-ethnic violence that raged elsewhere in the Balkans following the break-up of Yugoslavia ...