Nevertheless, they continue to cause trouble for fifty years ( 135 BC – 84 BC ) to the Roman governors of Macedonia.

He returned to Rome after Lucius Cornelius Cinna died in 84 BC, and served as consul in 79 BC and as governor of Roman Macedonia from 78 BC to 76 BC.

Skopje is an administrative division within the Republic of Macedonia consisting of ten municipalities, which form part of the Skopje statistical region.

* In Macedonia, Serbs are a minority present in 16 municipalities, the largest being the Čučer-Sandevo Municipality ( close to 28 %) and Staro Nagoričane Municipality.

At the Greek international borders, it is adjacent to Albania ( Devoll and Korçë districts ) to the west, the Republic of Macedonia ( Bitola and Resen municipalities ) to the north and Lake Prespa to the northwest, where the two borders cross each other.

The administrative division of the West Macedonia region in municipalities.

The suburb is one of the ten municipalities of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia.

In the immediate neighborhood are the municipalities of Uroševac, Kačanik, Suva Reka and Prizren, and on one side the municipality is bordered by the Republic of Macedonia.

Karpoš Municipality, one of the 10 municipalities that make up the city of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia, is named after Karposh.

In the east the Empire was overrun by the Seljuk Turks ; from the north Bulgarians and Vlachs descended unchecked to ravage the plains of Macedonia and Thrace, and Kaloyan of Bulgaria annexed several important cities, while Alexios squandered the public treasure on his palaces and gardens and attempted to deal with the crisis through diplomatic means.

* International: country code – 359 ; submarine cable provides connectivity to Ukraine and Russia ; a combination submarine cable and land fiber-optic system provides connectivity to Italy, Albania, and Macedonia ; satellite earth stations – 3 ( 1 Intersputnik in the Atlantic Ocean region, 2 Intelsat in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions ) ( 2007 )

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Image: DEDAL ZA JASNA_ ( Small ). JPG # file | Small bronze sculpture of Daedalus, 3rd century BC ; found on Plaoshnik, Republic of Macedonia.

These invaders appeared in Asia Minor in 278 – 277 BC ; others invaded Macedonia, killed the Ptolemaic ruler Ptolemy Ceraunus but were eventually ousted by Antigonus Gonatas, the grandson of the defeated Diadoch Antigonus the One-Eyed.

From the middle of the 4th century BC, the Kingdom of Macedon became the dominant power in Greece and the neighbouring regions ; since then Macedonia has had a diverse history.

The Romans included most of the Republic in their province of Macedonia, but the northernmost parts ( Dardania ) lay in Moesia ; by the time of Diocletian, they had been subdivided, and the Republic was split between Macedonia Salutaris and Moesia prima.

At the end of the 10th century, much of what is now Republic of Macedonia became the political and cultural center of the First Bulgarian Empire under Tsar Samuil ; while the Byzantine emperor Basil II came to rule the eastern part of the empire ( what is now Bulgaria ), including the then capital Preslav, in 972.

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Polybius had the opportunity to return to Macedonia in 152 BC ; he elected to stay, however, in Rome, as by that time he had placed his allegiance in the Roman Republic.

* Slovenia has observer status, like the United States, in ( the Turkish proposed ) Multinational Peacekeeping Force Southeast European ( MPFSEE ), with other participants being Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, the Republic of Macedonia, Romania, and Turkey ;

* 1043: the Byzantine General George Maniaces, who had served in Sicily back in 1038, was proclaimed emperor by his troops while he was catepan of Italy ; he led an unsuccessful rebellion against Constantine IX Monomachos and was killed in battle in Macedonia during his march towards Constantinople.

** July 10 – Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia ; he retreats to Thessaly.

Mark Antony is given the Eastern provinces ; the River Drin, the boundary between the provinces Illyricum and Macedonia, would serve as their frontier.

:: Distribution: Europe: native in Austria, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, NE France, Germany, Hungary, N Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia ; naturalized in Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Russia and W Siberia, and Sweden ; absent in Albania, Greece, C and S Italy, and Turkey.

In many other regions, festivities of smaller extent are organized, focused on the reenactment of traditional carnevalic customs ; for example those held in Tyrnavos ( Thessaly ), Kozani ( West Macedonia ), Rethymno ( Crete ) and in Xanthi ( East Macedonia and Thrace ).

The Albanian government supports protection of the rights of ethnic Albanians outside of its borders but has downplayed them to further its primary foreign policy goal of regional cooperation ; Albanian majority in Kosovo seeks full recognition of the declared independence from Serbia ; Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia claim discrimination in education, access to public-sector jobs, and representation in government.

Demetrius ' son, Antigonus II ( 277 – 239 BC ), defeated a Galatian invasion as a condottiere, and regained his family's position in Macedonia ; he successfully restored order and prosperity there, though he lost control of many of the Greek city-states.

In the Republic of Macedonia there are 120 Members of Parliament () which are called ' Pratenici ' ( singular Pratenik ).

In August of 1334 Stefan Dusan and Andronikos made peace, and the forces of Andronikos were allowed to retake control of those parts of Macedonia that Syrgiannes had captured.

Bulgaria's war aims were focused on Thrace and Macedonia.

The 2nd and 7th divisions were assigned independent roles, operating in Western Thrace and eastern Macedonia respectively.

21 years later, these were in turn abolished and annexed to the Roman Republic as the province of Macedonia ( 146 BC ).

Reportedly, they were involved in various crimes in Macedonia, during the Balkan Wars:

On the next day, much of the land army as had not escaped to their own lands submitted or were followed in their retreat to Macedonia and forced to surrender, and Antony's camp was occupied.

Nevertheless, before the establishment of a literary standard of Macedonian in 1944, in most sources in and out of Bulgaria before the Second World War, the southern Slavonic dialect continuum covering the area of today's Republic of Macedonia were referred to as Bulgarian dialects.

For example, it is possible that he never visited Macedonia at all, or, if he did, he might have been drawn there by King Archelaus with incentives that were also offered to other artists.

The Bacchae however shows a reversion to old forms, possibly as a deliberate archaic effect or maybe because there were no virtuoso choristers in Macedonia, where it is said to have been written.

The similarity between this epistle and that to the Romans has led to the conclusion that they were both written at roughly the same time, during Paul's stay in Macedonia in roughly 56-57.

The Byzantine Empire ultimately fell to Ottoman Turks in the 15th century and as a result Ottoman colonies were established in the Balkans, notably in Macedonia, the Peloponnese and Crete.

In the northern-most part of ancient Greece, in the ancient kingdom of Macedonia, technological and organizational skills were forged with a long history of cavalry warfare.

Nationalist sentiment among Greeks in the Ottoman Empire continued to grow, and by the 1890s there were constant disturbances in Macedonia.

The lands comprising modern-day Albania were incorporated into the Roman Empire as part of the province of Illyricum above the river Drin, and Roman Macedonia ( specifically as Epirus Nova ) below it.

By 395 AD dioceses in which the region was divided were the Diocese of Dacia ( as Pravealitana ), and the Diocese of Macedonia ( as Epirus Nova ).

Leaving from Elaea, they were headed to the harbour of Phanae, planning to disembark from there to Macedonia.

In late Roman times, the provincial boundaries were reorganized to form the Diocese of Macedonia, consisting of most of modern mainland Greece right across the Aegean to include Crete, southern Albania, and parts of modern-day Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia.

The rules governing good neighbourly relations agreed between Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia were set in the Joint Declaration of February 22, 1999 reaffirmed by a joint memorandum signed on January 22, 2008 in Sofia.

By the time of Constans II ( who also organized campaigns against the Slavs ), the significant number of the Slavs of Macedonia were captured and transferred to central Asia Minor where they were forced to recognize the authority of the Byzantine emperor and serve in its ranks.

After World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) the Slavs in Serbian ( Vardar ) Macedonia were regarded as southern Serbs and the language they spoke a southern Serbian dialect.

Greece was concerned by the initiatives of the Yugoslav government, as they were seen as a pretext for future territorial claims against the Greek province of " Northern Greece " which formed the bulk of historical Macedonia and was also officially called ' Macedonia '.