North Macedonia | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:19 1 Names and etymology
00:08:14 2 History
00:08:24 2.1 Ancient and Roman period
00:11:00 2.2 Medieval and Ottoman period
00:15:37 2.3 Macedonian separatism
00:18:21 2.4 Kingdoms of Serbia and Yugoslavia
00:23:51 2.5 World War II period
00:26:47 2.6 Socialist Yugoslavia period
00:28:19 2.7 Declaration of independence
00:30:02 2.8 2001 insurgency
00:31:08 2.9 Antiquisation policy
00:32:29 2.10 Prespa agreement, NATO accession, and EU path
00:37:47 3 Geography
00:37:56 3.1 Location
00:43:13 3.2 Climate
00:44:47 3.3 Biodiversity
00:49:26 4 Politics
00:53:43 4.1 Governance
00:55:37 4.2 Foreign relations
00:59:16 4.3 Human rights
01:00:01 4.4 Military
01:01:13 4.5 Naming dispute
01:08:29 5 Administrative divisions
01:09:46 6 Economy
01:15:30 6.1 Infrastructure and e-infrastructure
01:16:40 6.2 Trade and investment
01:18:16 6.3 Transport
01:20:27 6.4 Tourism
01:20:53 7 Demographics
01:22:03 7.1 Religion
01:26:27 7.2 Languages
01:29:14 7.3 Cities
01:29:22 8 Education
01:31:11 9 Culture
01:32:57 9.1 Cuisine
01:34:03 9.2 Sport
01:36:13 9.3 Cinema
01:37:44 9.4 Media
01:38:36 9.5 Public holidays
01:38:52 10 International rankings
01:39:02 11 See also
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North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a country in the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in September 1991 under the name Republic of Macedonia.
The country became a member of the United Nations in April 1993, but as a result of a dispute with Greece over the name Macedonia, it was admitted under the provisional description the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (abbreviated as FYR Macedonia and FYROM), a term that was also used by some other international organisations, FIFA for instance. In June 2018, Macedonia and Greece resolved the conflict with an agreement that the country should rename itself Republic of North Macedonia. This renaming came into effect in February 2019, with a several-months-long transition for passports, licence plates, currency, customs, border signs, and government websites, among other things.A landlocked country, North Macedonia has borders with Kosovo to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south, and Albania to the west. It constitutes approximately the northern third of the larger geographical region of Macedonia, which also comprises the neighbouring parts of northern Greece and southwestern Bulgaria. The country's geography is defined primarily by mountains, valleys, and rivers. The capital and largest city, Skopje, is home to roughly a quarter of the nation's 2.06 million inhabitants. The majority of the residents are ethnic Macedonians, a South Slavic people. Albanians form a significant minority at around 25%, followed by Turks, Romani, Serbs, Bosniaks, Aromanians, and Bulgarians.
The history of the region dates back to antiquity, beginning with the kingdom of Paeonia, probably a mixed Thraco-Illyrian polity. In the late sixth century BC, the area was incorporated into the Persian Achaemenid Empire, then annexed by the kingdom of Macedonia in the fourth century BC. The Romans conquered the region in the second century BC and made it part of the much larger province of Macedonia. Τhe area remained part of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire, but was often raided and settled by Slavic tribes beginning in the sixth century of the Christian era. Following centuries of contention between the Bulgarian, Byzantine, and Serbian Empire, it was part of the Ottoman dominion from the mid-14th until the early 20th century, when following the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913, the modern territory of North Macedonia came under Serbian rule. D ...