# Macedonia

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**Macedonia** (Macedonian: Македонија, Greek: Μακεδονία, Bulgarian: Македония, Albanian: *Maqedonia*), most commonly refers to:

- [North Macedonia](/source/North_Macedonia), a country in southeastern Europe, known until 2019 as the Republic of Macedonia
- [Macedonia (ancient kingdom)](/source/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)), also called Macedon, a kingdom in Greek antiquity
- [Macedonia (Greece)](/source/Macedonia_(Greece)), a geographic region of Greece, spanning the administrative regions of Central Macedonia, Western Macedonia, and part of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace
- [Macedonia (region)](/source/Macedonia_(region)), a geographic and historical region that today spans parts of six Balkan countries (see map)

**Macedonia**, **Makedonia**, **Makedonija**, or **Makedoniya** may also refer to:

## Other historical entities

- [Lower Macedonia](/source/Lower_Macedonia), a geographical term used in Antiquity referring to the coastal plain stretching along the coast of Thermaic Gulf
- [Upper Macedonia](/source/Upper_Macedonia), a geographical and tribal term in Antiquity referring to the upper (western) parts of Macedon
- [Achaemenid Macedonia](/source/Achaemenid_Macedonia), a vassal and then client state of the Achaemenid Empire
- [Macedonia (Roman province)](/source/Macedonia_(Roman_province)), a province of the early Roman Empire
- [Diocese of Macedonia](/source/Diocese_of_Macedonia), a late Roman administrative unit
- [Macedonia (theme)](/source/Macedonia_(theme)), a province of the Byzantine Empire
- [Socialist Republic of Macedonia](/source/Socialist_Republic_of_Macedonia), a part of the former Yugoslavia (1945–1991) and a predecessor of North Macedonia

## Other geographical uses

### Within the region

- [Aegean Macedonia](/source/Aegean_Macedonia), a term for the geographic region Greek Macedonia
- [Central Macedonia](/source/Central_Macedonia), an administrative region of Greece
- [Decentralized Administration of Epirus and Western Macedonia](/source/Decentralized_Administration_of_Epirus_and_Western_Macedonia), a decentralized administration of Greece, seated in Ioannina
- [Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace](/source/Decentralized_Administration_of_Macedonia_and_Thrace), a decentralized administration of Greece, seated in Thessaloniki
- [Eastern Macedonia and Thrace](/source/Eastern_Macedonia_and_Thrace), an administrative region of Greece
- [Pirin Macedonia](/source/Pirin_Macedonia), a term for the geographic region of southwestern Bulgaria
- [Vardar Macedonia](/source/Vardar_Macedonia), a geographic region corresponding roughly to the territory of North Macedonia
- [Western Macedonia](/source/Western_Macedonia), an administrative region of Greece

### United States

- [Macedonia, Alabama](/source/Macedonia,_Alabama)
- [Macedonia, Georgia](/source/Macedonia,_Georgia)
- [Macedonia, Illinois](/source/Macedonia,_Illinois)
- [Macedonia, Iowa](/source/Macedonia,_Iowa)
- [Macedonia, Kentucky](/source/Macedonia,_Kentucky)
- [Macedonia, Missouri](/source/Macedonia,_Missouri)
- [Macedonia, New Jersey](/source/Macedonia,_New_Jersey)
- [Macedonia, Ohio](/source/Macedonia,_Ohio)
- [Macedonia, South Carolina](/source/Macedonia,_South_Carolina)
- [Macedonia, Tennessee](/source/Macedonia,_Tennessee)
- [Macedonia, Liberty County, Texas](/source/Macedonia,_Liberty_County,_Texas)
- [Macedonia, Williamson County, Texas](/source/Macedonia,_Williamson_County,_Texas)
- [Macedonia, Virginia](/source/Macedonia,_Virginia)

### Others

- [Macedônia](/source/Maced%C3%B4nia), São Paulo, Brazil
- Macedonia, a village of [Ciacova](/source/Ciacova#Macedonia), Romania
- [Macedonia, Glenrothes](/source/Macedonia,_Glenrothes), Scotland, United Kingdom

## Publications

- [*Makedonia* (newspaper)](/source/Makedonia_(newspaper)), a Greek newspaper established in 1911
- [*Makedoniya* (Bulgarian newspaper)](/source/Makedoniya_(Bulgarian_newspaper)), a 19th-century Bulgarian newspaper published until 1872
- [*Macedonia* (comics)](/source/Macedonia_(comics)), a 2007 book by Harvey Pekar and Heather Roberson

## Ships

- [SS *Macedonia* (1911)](/source/SS_Macedonia_(1911)), a Greek passenger liner that was renamed *Pincio* in 1922
- [MV *Makedoniya*](/source/MV_Makedoniya), a Bulgarian cargo ship in service 1932–41
- [MV *Makedonia*](/source/MV_Makedonia), a Greek passenger ship in service 1984–85

## Sports

- [FK Makedonija Gjorče Petrov](/source/FK_Makedonija_Gjor%C4%8De_Petrov), a football club in Skopje
- [FC Macedonia](/source/FC_Macedonia), a former football club in Skopje (1941 to 1944)
- Preston Makedonia, an association football club in Melbourne, Australia, officially known since mid-1990s as the [Preston Lions](/source/Preston_Lions) but still identified with the Macedonian-Australian community
- [Stirling Macedonia FC](/source/Stirling_Macedonia_FC), an association football club in Perth, Australia

## Other uses

- [Macedonia (terminology)](/source/Macedonia_(terminology))
- [Macedonia (food)](/source/Macedonia_(food)), a fruit salad or vegetable dish
- [Macedonia Airport](/source/Macedonia_Airport) or Thessaloniki International Airport, an airport in Thessaloniki, Greece
- [Makedonia TV](/source/Makedonia_TV), a Greek television station
- [Makedonia (dance)](/source/Makedonia_(dance)), a Greek folk song
- [Independent Macedonia (1944)](/source/Independent_Macedonia_(1944)), a proposed puppet state of the Axis powers (1944)

## See also

- [Macedonian (disambiguation)](/source/Macedonian_(disambiguation))
- [Macedon (disambiguation)](/source/Macedon_(disambiguation))
- [Eastern Macedonia (disambiguation)](/source/Eastern_Macedonia_(disambiguation))
- [Western Macedonia (disambiguation)](/source/Western_Macedonia_(disambiguation))
- [Languages of Macedonia (disambiguation)](/source/Languages_of_Macedonia_(disambiguation))
- [Macedonian language (disambiguation)](/source/Macedonian_language_(disambiguation))
- [United Macedonia](/source/United_Macedonia)

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