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And the language of the ancient Macedonians was Greek, whereas the people of Skopje speak a Slavic language. “This notion of the area of Skopje being Macedonia was created in 1944 by Tito, ...
Greeks have a deep love for Macedonia and, even during the Nazi occupation, sacrificed their lives to keep the province Greek ...
ATHENS, Greece – "What's in a name?" asks Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. "That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet." Not in the ethnically jumbled Balkans ...
On Monday, a single-day record 7,000 Syrian refugees arrived in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia. We go to the Macedonian-Greek border to speak with Gabriela Andreevska, one of key ...
Greeks like miner George Papavasiliou, 54, who lives in the northern Greek region of Macedonia, say only people living in his area should be known as Macedonians because they are descendants of ...
IDOMENI, Greece – Iraqi and Syrian migrants and asylum-seekers are protesting peacefully on the Greek side of the Greek-Macedonian border since early Saturday, demanding admission into Macedonia ...
IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — Migrants on the Greek-Macedonian border attacked police with stones Saturday, enraged by the sight of Macedonian authorities erecting a fence along the border and an ...
Between 1,500-2,000 refugees and migrants have been arriving in Macedonia every day. ... Macedonian Police Use Tear Gas to Drive Back Refugee Crowd on Greek Border.
It is the Macedonian army who return these people directly to the border gate, and push them back to Greece. The Macedonian army vehicles are noisy, so when we hear the vehicles we go to the gate ...
ATHENS, Greece — Tens of thousands of people gathered in Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, on Sunday to protest the inclusion of the word “Macedonia” in the name of the neighboring ...