Vardar Macedonia

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Elez Han municipalities in Serbia. To the northeast: Pirin Macedonia, part of southwestern Bulgaria. To the south: Macedonia (Greece), part of northern Greece
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Vardar Macedonia (Macedonian and Serbian: Вардарска Македонија, Vardarska Makedonija) was the name given to the territory of the Kingdom of Serbia (1912–1918) and Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) roughly corresponding to today's North Macedonia. It covers the northwestern part of geographical Macedonia, whose modern borders came to be defined by the mid-19th century.

History

Vardar Macedonia usually refers to the central part of the region of

Pirin Mountain in Bulgaria.[citation needed
]

The region was initially known as Serbian Macedonia

South Serbia (Serbian: Jужна Србија, Južna Srbija),[6][7][8]
In 1929, the
banovinas. Vardar Macedonia as part of South Serbia then became part of Vardar Banovina.[9]

During

, the region was also called Yugoslav Macedonia.

After the

Elez Han municipality in Kosovo.[12]

See also

References

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  9. ^ War of words: Washington tackles the Yugoslav conflict, p. 43, at Google Books
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  11. ^ Петър Христов Петров, Македония: история и политическа съдба, том 3, Изд-во "Знание" ООД, 1998, стр. 109.
  12. , стр. 41.

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