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Macedonians/Citizens of North Macedonia: c. 2.0 million [345] Citizens of the Republic of North Macedonia irrespective of ethnicity Macedonians (Greeks) c. 2.6 million plus diaspora [352] An ethnic Greek regional group, also referred to as Greek Macedonians. Ancient Macedonians: Unknown: A tribe of antiquity on the periphery of the Greek world
North Macedonia (/ ˌ m æ s ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə), [c] officially the Republic of North Macedonia, [d] is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe.It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo [e] to the northwest and Serbia to the north. [8]
The flags of the European Union and North Macedonia. North Macedonia began its formal process of rapprochement with the European Union in 2000, by initiating negotiations about the EU's Stabilisation and Association Process, and it became the first non-EU country in the Balkans to sign the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), on 9 April 2001 in Luxembourg.
MKD North Macedonia: While the country had the provisional name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the digram was FY and the trigram, FYR. ML MLI Mali: MLI in ISO 3166-1 MN MCO Monaco: MO MAR Morocco: MP MUS Mauritius: MR MRT Mauritania: MT MLT Malta: MU OMN Oman: MV MDV The Maldives: MX MEX Mexico: MY MYS Malaysia: MZ MOZ Mozambique ...
The foreign relations of North Macedonia since its independence in 1991 have been characterized by the country's efforts to gain membership in international organizations such as NATO and the European Union and to gain international recognition under its previous constitutional name, overshadowed by a long-standing, dead-locked dispute with neighboring Greece.
North Macedonia is a member state of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In 1995, the country joined the Partnership for Peace.It then began taking part in various NATO missions, including the International Security Assistance Force and the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan.
North Macedonia (then named Macedonia) has been a candidate to join the European Union (EU) since 2005. The use of the country name "Macedonia" was the object of a dispute with neighbouring Greece between 1991 and 2019, resulting in a Greek veto against EU and NATO accession talks, which lasted from 2008 to 2019.
Where necessary, explanatory notes such as "(now North Macedonia)" may be added to such references (e.g. Kiro Gligorov became the first president of the Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia), or: Kiro Gligorov was the first president of the newly independent country (then called Republic of Macedonia)). Adjectival references for these ...