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Denmark, France, Netherlands receive first land munitions through NATO pact

Defense News // 5 years ago

Denmark, France, Netherlands receive first land munitions through NATO pact

Denmark, France and the Netherlands became the first nations to receive shipments of new anti-tank weapons under a NATO multinational sharing project.

Greece narrowly approves North Macedonia name change

World News // 5 years ago

Greece narrowly approves North Macedonia name change

Greek lawmakers cleared the way for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to change its name to the Republic of North Macedonia.

Greek lawmakers set to vote on deal to change name of neighboring nation

World News // 5 years ago

Greek lawmakers set to vote on deal to change name of neighboring nation

Lawmakers in Greece will vote soon on a deal with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to change the latter's name, resolving a dispute nearly 30 years old.

Macedonia Parliament gives final approval to name change

World News // 5 years ago

Macedonia Parliament gives final approval to name change

Macedonia's Parliament gave its final approval to change the Balkan nation's name in one of the last steps to settle a decades-long dispute with Greece.

Flights from Greece to Macedonia resume after 12 years

World News // 5 years ago

Flights from Greece to Macedonia resume after 12 years

Flights between Greece and Macedonia resumed after 12 years as their relations improve over efforts in the latter country to rename itself North Macedonia.

Macedonia lawmakers approve name change process

World News // 5 years ago

Macedonia lawmakers approve name change process

Macedonia's Parliament voted Friday to push ahead with a plan to change its name to settle a decades-long dispute with Greece.

Macedonia agrees to name change deal with Greece

World News // 5 years ago

Macedonia agrees to name change deal with Greece

Macedonia reached an agreement with Greece to change its name on Tuesday, ending a 27-year dispute between the two countries.

Thousands of Greeks protest Macedonia naming negotiations

World News // 6 years ago

Thousands of Greeks protest Macedonia naming negotiations

Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the Greek capital of Athens to protest negotiations regarding the use of the name Macedonia.

World News // 7 years ago

Refugees caught up in child prostitution in Athens

Refugee children have found themselves prey to a burgeoning sex trade in Athens by the promise of money and a way out of Greece.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Slovenia next in line for eurozone bailout?

Eurozone faces more challenges in crisis-hit Greece and Spain and may have to bail out Slovenia next, officials say.

The Socialist Republic of Macedonia (Macedonian: Социјалистичка Република Македонија, Socijalistička Republika Makedonija) was a socialist state that was a constituent country of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. After the transition of the political system to parliamentary democracy in 1990, the Republic changed its official name to Republic of Macedonia in 1991, and with the beginning of the breakup of Yugoslavia, it declared full independence on September 8, 1991.

The modern Macedonian state was officially proclaimed under the name Democratic Macedonia on August 2, 1944, the day of the Ilinden Uprising against the Ottoman empire in 1903, at the First Plenary Session of ASNOM during the antifascist National Liberation War of Macedonia in the Second World War. This date is now celebrated by the ethnic Macedonians as the day when which they were first allowed to freely state their nationality.

In 1945, the state changed its official name to People's Republic of Macedonia. It was formally incorporated as a constituent republic in the former Yugoslav Federation in 1946. However, many people were against the federation, others demanded greater independence from the federal authorities, which led to their prosecution. One of the notable victims of these purges was the first president Metodija Andonov - Čento. In 1963, the name was changed to Socialist Republic of Macedonia.

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