Macedonian most often refers to someone or something from or related to
Macedonia.
Macedonian(s) may specifically refer to:
People
Modern
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Macedonians (ethnic group), a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North Macedonia
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Macedonians (Greeks)
Macedonians ( el, Μακεδόνες, ''Makedónes''), also known as Greek Macedonians or Macedonian Greeks, are a regional and historical population group of ethnic Greeks, inhabiting or originating from the Macedonia (Greece), Greek region o ...
, the Greek people inhabiting or originating from Macedonia, a geographic and administrative region of Greece
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Macedonian Bulgarians
Macedonians or Macedonian Bulgarians ( bg, македонци or македонски българи), sometimes also referred to as Macedono-Bulgarians, Macedo-Bulgarians, or Bulgaro-Macedonians are a regional, ethnographic group of et ...
, the Bulgarian people from the region of Macedonia
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Macedo-Romanians (disambiguation) Macedo-Romanians or Macedo-Romanian may refer to:
* The Aromanians, an Eastern Romance people inhabiting the Balkans, including the region of Macedonia
** The Aromanian language, the language of the Aromanians
* The Megleno-Romanians
The Meglen ...
, an outdated and rarely used anymore term for the Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians, both being small Eastern Romance ethno-linguistic groups present in the region of Macedonia
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Macedonians (obsolete terminology), an outdated and rarely used umbrella term to designate all the inhabitants of the region, regardless of their ethnic origin, as well as the local Slavs and Macedo-Romanians, as a regional and ethnographic communities and not as a separate ethnic groups
Ancient
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Ancient Macedonians
The Macedonians ( el, Μακεδόνες, ''Makedónes'') were an ancient tribe that lived on the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Axios in the northeastern part of mainland Greece. Essentially an ancient Greek people ...
, an ancient Greek tribe associated with the ancient region and kingdom of Macedonia
Languages
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Macedonian language
Macedonian (; , , ) is an Eastern South Slavic language. It is part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of a larger Balto-Slavic branch. Spoken as a first language by around two million ...
, a modern South Slavic language spoken by ethnic Macedonians
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Ancient Macedonian language, an extinct language, probably related to the ancient Greek language
* Macedonian dialect, one of the
varieties of Modern Greek
The linguistic varieties of Modern Greek can be classified along two principal dimensions. First, there is a long tradition of sociolectal variation between the natural, popular spoken language on the one hand and archaizing, learned written form ...
, spoken in the region of Macedonia in Greece
Other uses
* Macedonian dynasty, a line of rulers of the Byzantine Empire (867–1056)
* Pneumatomachi, also known as Macedonians, a 4th-century Byzantine Christian sect
* HMS Macedonian, a British frigate (1808–1812)
* Makedonikos F.C., a Greek football club whose name means 'Macedonian'
See also
* Ancient Macedonian (disambiguation)
* Macedonia (terminology)
* Macedonia naming dispute
* Macedonian Greeks (disambiguation)
* Macedonian Slavs (disambiguation)
* Macedonian diaspora (disambiguation)
* Macedonian culture (disambiguation)
* Macedonian art (disambiguation)
* Macedon (disambiguation)
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