Vardar Macedonia
As Vardar Macedonia or even earlier southern Serbia ( Macedonian and Serbian Вардарска Македонија, Bulgarian Вардарска Македония ) was the northern part of the historic region of Macedonia referred to the extending over the present-day state northern Macedonia with the Center Skopje extends.
After the First Balkan War of 1912/1913, which was directed against the Ottoman Empire , the region became Serbian . During the First World War , Vardar Macedonia was occupied by Bulgaria , which was allied with Germany and Austria-Hungary, in 1915 . In 1918 the borders of 1913 were restored. Vardar Macedonia belonged to the Serbian part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and was called "South Serbia" or "Vardar Serbia"; its Slavic-speaking residents, who spoke a western Bulgarian dialect, were officially considered Serbs . From 1929 the area of today's North Macedonia together with parts of southern Serbia administratively formed the province of Vardar . The Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organization , a separatist movement, continued to exist underground .
From 1941 to 1944, most of the region was occupied by Bulgaria; the west around Struga was annexed by Albania. In 1944, the Socialist Republic of Macedonia was founded as a republic of Yugoslavia within the borders of Vardar Macedonia .
It was not until 1991 that the names Vardar-Macedonia and Vardar-Republic came back into the political discussion as compromise solutions in the name dispute between Macedonia and Greece , but did not prevail.
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- Stefan Troebst : The Macedonian Century: From the Beginnings of the National Revolutionary Movement to the Ohrid Agreement 1893-2001; selected essays . Oldenbourg, 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58050-1 , pp. 344– ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Mil R. Gavrilović: Privreda Južne Srbije . "Nemanja" zadužbinska štamparija Vardarske banovine, 1933 ( limited preview in the Google book search).