Macedonia (region)

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Macedonia ( MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə) is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. The modern region at its maximum extent is considered to span the largest part of northern Greece, known as Greek Macedonia, all of North Macedonia, a large part of southwestern Bulgaria, known as Pirin Macedonia, and small parts of Albania, Serbia, and Kosovo. In classical antiquity, the kingdom of Macedon rose into an empire under Alexander the Great during the second half of the 4th century BC, signaling the start of the Hellenistic period. In the 2nd century BC Macedonia became a province of the Roman empire. During the medieval period, a Byzantine theme under the name of Macedonia was carved out mostly in Thrace. Macedonia came to be defined by European authors as the modern geographical region by the mid-19th century while under Ottoman rule.

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