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Ottoman Rule[edit]

Main article:Ottoman Greece

Thessalonikibecame a centre ofOttomanadministration in the Balkans. While most of

Macedonia was ruled by the Ottomans, inMount Athosthe monastic community continued toexist in a state of autonomy. The remainder of theChalkidikipeninsula also enjoyed an

autonomous status: the Koinon of Mademochoria was governed by a locally appointed councildue to privileges obtained on account of its wealth, coming from the gold and silver mines in the

area.

There were several uprisings in Macedonia duringOttoman rule,including an uprising after the

Battle of Lepantothat ended in massacres of the Greek population, the uprising inNaousaof the

armatolosZisis Karademosin 1705, a rebellion in the area ofGrevenaby aKlephtcalled Ziakas(17301810) and the Greek Declaration of Independence in Macedonia byEmmanuel Pappasin

1821, during theGreek War of Independence.In 1854Theodoros Ziakas,the son of the klepth

Ziakas, together with Tsamis Karatasos, who had been among the captains at the siege ofNaousain 1821, led another uprising in Western Macedonia that has been profusely commemorated inGreek folk song.

Modern history[edit]

Main articles:Greek War of Independence,Greek Struggle for MacedoniaandMacedonian Question

Greece following theBalkan Wars,the province of Macedonia can be seen written at the bottom.

Greece gained the southern parts of region with Thessaloniki from theOttoman Empireafter the

First Balkan War,and expanded its share in theSecond Balkan Waragainst Bulgaria. Theboundaries of Greek Macedonia were finalized in theTreaty of Bucharest.InWorld War I,

Macedonia became a battlefield. The Greek Prime Minister,Eleftherios Venizelos,favoured

entering the war on the side of theEntente,while the Germanophile KingConstantine Ifavouredneutrality. Invited by Venizelos, in autumn 1915, the Allies landed forces in Thessaloniki to aidSerbiainits waragainst Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, but their intervention came too late to

prevent the Serbian collapse. TheMacedonian Frontwas established, with Thessaloniki at its

heart, while in summer 1916 the Bulgarianstook overGreek eastern Macedonia without

opposition. This provoked a military uprising among pro-Venizelist officers in Thessaloniki,resulting in the establishment of a "Provisional Government of National Defence"in the city,

headed by Venizelos, which entered the war alongside the Allies. After intense diplomatic
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negotiations and anarmed confrontationin Athens between Entente and royalist forces the King

abdicated, and his second sonAlexandertook his place. Venizelos returned to Athens in June

1917 and Greece, now unified, officially joined the war on the side of the Allies.

InWorld War IIMacedonia wasoccupied by the Axis(194144), with Germany taking western

and central Macedonia with Thessaloniki and Bulgaria occupying and annexing easternMacedonia.

From the 1870s, Slavic[24]speaking communities of northern Greece split into two hostile andopposed groups with two different national identities - Greek and Bulgarian.[25]By the Second

World War and following the defeat of Bulgaria, another further split between the Slavic group

occurred. Conservatives departed with the occupying Bulgarian Army to Bulgaria. Leftists beganidentifying as Macedonians (Slavic), joining the communist-dominated rebelDemocratic Army

of Greece.[26]At the conclusion of theGreek Civil War(194649), most Macedonians of Slavic

background left Greece and settled in theYugoslavSocialist Republic of Macedonia.Some also

migrated toCanadaorAustralia.[27]

Etymology[edit]

Main article:Macedonia (terminology) Etymology

The nameMacedoniaderives from theGreek (Makedona),[28][29]akingdom(later,

region)named after theancient Macedonians.Their name, (Makednes), is cognateto theAncient Greekadjective(makedns), meaning "tall, slim". It was traditionally

derived from theIndo-Europeanroot *mak-, meaning 'long' or 'slender', but according to modern

research byRobert Beekesboth terms are ofPre-Greek substrateorigin and cannot be explained

in terms of Indo-European morphology.[30]

Local government[edit]

Macedonia is divided into threeregions(Greek:) comprising fourteenregional units

(Greek:). The regional units are further divided intomunicipalities

(Greek: ) or "communities" (Greek: roughly equivalent toBritishorAustralianshires). They are overseen by theMinistry for the Interior,while theMinistry of

Macedonia and Thraceis responsible for the coordination and application of the government's

policies in the region.[31]Prior to the Kallikratis Reform in 2010, Greece's regional units were

called "prefectures", andThasoswas part of the prefecture of Kavala.

Macedonia borders the neighboring regions ofThessalyto the south, Thrace (part of theEast

Macedonia and Thraceregion) to the east andEpirusto the west. It also bordersAlbaniato thenorth-west, theRepublic of Macedoniato the north andBulgariato the north-east. The three

Macedonian regions and their subdivisions are:

Map of Macedonia #regions,regional

unitsandCapital Area

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autonomous

communities as

of 2011

Tota

lWest Macedonia Kozani 9,451 km 301,522

1Regional Unit of

KastoriaKastoria 1,720 km 53,483

2Regional Unit of

FlorinaFlorina 1,924 km 54,768

3Regional Unit of

KozaniKozani 3,516 km 155,324

4Regional Unit of

GrevenaGrevena 2,291 km 37,947

Tota

l

Central Macedon

ia

Thessaloni

ki

18,811 k

m1,871,952

5 Regional Unit ofPella

Edessa 2,506 km 145,797

6Regional Unit of

ImathiaVeria 1,701 km 143,618

7Regional Unit of

PieriaKaterini 1,516 km 129,846

8Regional Unit of

KilkisKilkis 2,519 km 89,056

9Regional Unit of

Thessaloniki

Thessaloni

ki3,683 km 1,057,825

10 Regional Unit ofChalkidiki

Polygyros 2,918 km 104,894

11Regional Unit of

SerresSerres 3.968 km 200,916

Tota

l

East Macedonia

(Part ofEast Macedonia

and Thrace)

Kavala 5,579 km 249,029

12Regional Unit of

DramaDrama 3,468 km 103,975

13Regional Unit of

KavalaKavala 1,728 km 131,289

14Regional Unit of

ThasosThasos 379 km 13,765

15

Mount Athos

(autonomous

community)

Karyes 336 km 2,262

Tota

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Macedonia

(Greece)

Thessaloni

ki

34,177 k

m2,424,765[

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The geographical region of Macedonia also includes the male-onlyautonomousmonasticstate of

Mount Athos,but this is not part of the Macedonia precincts. Mount Athos is under the spiritual

jurisdiction of theEcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople,and enjoys a special status: it isinaccessible to women;[33]its territory is a self-governed part of Greece, and the powers of the

state are exercised through a governor. TheEuropean Uniontakes this special status into

consideration, particularly on matters of taxation exemption and rights of installation.

[34]

Thegovernor of Mount Athos is appointed by the Greek Foreign Ministry.

Economy and transport[edit]

TheportofThessaloniki,major economic and industrial center.

Marble quarry,Thasosisland.

View ofEgnatia Odos (modern road).

Macedonia possesses some of the richest farmland in Greece in the plains of Veria, Thessaloniki,Serres and Drama. A wide variety of agricultural products and cash crops are grown, including

rice,wheat,beans,olives,cotton,tobacco,fruit,grapes,Florina peppers,wineand otheralcoholic beverages. Food processing and textile weaving constitute the principal manufacturing

industries.Tourismis a major industry along the coast, particularly in theChalcidicepeninsula,

the island ofThasosand the northern approaches toMount Olympus.Many tourists originatefrom Germany and Eastern Europe.Thessalonikiis a majorportcity and industrial center;

Kavalais the second harbor of Macedonia. Apart from the principalairportatThessaloniki
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Thessalonikihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Thessalonikihttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Macedonia_(Greece)&action=edit&section=10http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(Greece)#cite_note-34http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Unionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(Greece)#cite_note-33http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_Patriarchate_of_Constantinoplehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Athoshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_entity


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(Makedonia Airport), airports also exist inKavala(M.Alexandros Airport),Kozani(Filippos

Airport), andKastoria(Aristotelis Airport). The "Via Egnatia"motorway crosses the full

distance of Macedonia,[35]linking most of its main cities. It also has a train system; it is usuallycriticized for being underfunded, and there has been much anger directed againstOSE,the

national railway company.

Culture[edit]

Main article:Culture of Greece

See also:List of GreeksandList of Macedonians (Greek)

Macedonian cuisine[edit]

Main article:Macedonian cuisine (Greek)

The arrival of Greek refugees from Asia Minor and Constantinople in the 20th century

popularised Ottoman and Constantinopolitan recipes.

A continuation from ancient days is dishes such as lamb cooked with quince or variousvegetables and fruits, goat boiled or fried in olive oil: modern recipes from Kavala to Kastoria

and Kozani offer lamb with quince, pork with celery or leeks.

Some current specialties are trahana with crackling, phyllo-based pies (cheese, leek, spinach) and

wild boar. Favourites are tyrokafteri (Macedonian spicy cheese spread), soupies krasates

(cuttlefish in wine), mydia yiachni (mussel stew). Unlike Athens, the traditional pita bread for

the popular souvlaki (kebab) is not grilled but fried. The variety of sweets has been particularlyenriched with the arrival of the refugees. (Information included from 'Greek Gastronomy',

GNTO, 2004)

Macedonian music[edit]

Main article:Music of Macedonia (Greece)

See also:Famous Macedonia

Music of Macedoniais themusicof the geographic region of Macedonia inGreece,which is apart of themusicof wholeregion of Macedonia.Folk dances in Macedonia includeMakedonia

(dance),chasapiko,leventikos,zeibekiko,zonaradiko,endeka Kozanis,Samarinas,stankena,

Akritikos,baidouska,Macedonikos antikristos,mikri Eleni,partalos,kleftikos Makedonikos,

mpougatsas,Kastorianos,o Nikolosandsirtos Macedonias.In Macedonia, there are alsopatriotic songssung by theGreek armyand local citizens like:famous Macedonia.

Demographics[edit]

See also:Demographic history of Macedonia
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Panorama ofSerres.

Panoramic view ofKavala.

Panorama ofVeria.

Naousa, Imathia.
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Kastoria.

The inhabitants of Greek Macedonia are overwhelmingly ethnicGreeksand most areGreek

OrthodoxChristians.InEast Macedonia and Thracethere is also a sizable Muslim minorityconsisting mainly ofPomaksandWestern Thrace Turks,although almost allGreek Muslim

communities of Western Macedonia such as theVallahadesleft the region as part of the

Population exchange between Greece and Turkeyof 1922-23. MostPontic GreeksandCaucasus

Greekswho came to Greece during or shortly before the 1922-23 population exchange withTurkey were resettled in Greek Macedonia rather than other parts Greece, mainly in towns and

villages that had had large Muslim populations until 1922. From the Middle Ages to the early

20th century, theethnic composition of the region of Macedoniais characterized by uncertaintyboth about numbers and identification. The 1904Ottomancensus of Hilmi Pasha recorded

373,227 Greeks and 204,317Bulgariansin thevilayet of Selnik(Thessaloniki)alone.

According to the same census, Greeks were also dominant in thevilayet of Monastir(Bitola),counting 261,283 Greeks and 178,412 Bulgarians. Hugh Poulton, in his Who Are the

Macedonians, notes that "assessing population figures is problematic"[36]for the territory of

Greek Macedonia before its incorporation into the Greek state in 1913.[36]The area's remaining

population was principally composed ofOttoman Turks(including non-Turkish Muslims of

mainly Bulgarian and Greek Macedonian convert origin) and also a sizeable community ofmainlySephardic Jews(centred in Thessaloniki), and smaller numbers ofRomani,Albanians

andVlachs.

During the first half of the twentieth century, major demographic shifts took place, which

resulted in the region's population becoming overwhelmingly ethnic Greek. In 1919, after Greekvictory in World War I, Bulgaria and Greece signed theTreaty of Neuilly,which called for an

exchange of populations between the two countries. According to the treaty, Bulgaria was

considered to be the parent state of all ethnic Slavs living in Greece. Most ethnic Greeks fromBulgaria were resettled in Greek Macedonia; most Slavs were resettled in Bulgaria but a number

remained, most of them by changing or adapting their surnames and declaring themselves to be

Greek so as to be exempt from the exchange.[citation needed]

In 1923 Greece andTurkeysigned theTreaty of Lausannein the aftermath of theGreco-Turkish War (19191922),and in total 776,000Greek refugees fromTurkey(674,000),Bulgaria(33,000),Russia(61,000),Serbia(5,000),

Albania(3,000) were resettled in the region.[37]They replaced between 300,000 and 400,000

Macedonian Turks and other Muslims (of Albanian, Roma, Slavic and Vlach ethnicity) who

were sent to Turkey under similar terms.[38]
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Macedonian cities during Ottoman rule were often known by multiple names (Greek, Slavic or

Ottoman Turkish by the respective populations). After the partition of Ottoman Europe, most

cities in Greece either became officially known by their Greek names oradopted Greek names;likewise most cities in Bulgaria and theKingdom of Yugoslaviabecame officially known or

adopted names in the languages of their respective states. After the population exchanges, many

locations were renamed to the languages of their new occupants.

Year Greeks BulgariansMuslims Others Total

1913[37]42.6%

(513,000)9.9%

(119,000)39.4%

(475,000)8.1%

(98,000)1,205,000

After theTreaty of Neuilly-sur-Seineten thousands of Bulgarians left and after thePopulationexchange between Greece and Turkeyalmost all Muslims left the region, while hundreds ofthousands of Greek refugees settled in the region thus changing the demography of the province.

Year Greeks BulgariansMuslims Others Total

1926League of nationsdata88.8%

(1,341,000)5.1%

(77,000)0.1%

(2,000)6.0%

(91,000)1,511,000

The 1928 Greek Census collected data on the religion as well as on the language.[39]

Year Christians Jews Muslims Total

1928 Greek Census data

Religion95.51%

(1,349,063)4.28%

(60,484)0.21%(2,930)

1,412,477

Year GreekSlavic

dialectsTurkish Ladino Aromanian Armenian Other Total

1928 Greek Censusdata

Language

82.52%

(1,165,553)5.72%

(80,789)5.09%

(71,960)4.19

(59,146)0.95%

(13,475)0.84%

(11,859)0.69%

(9,695)1,412,477

The population was badly affected by theSecond World Warthrough starvation, executions,

massacres and deportations. Central Macedonia, including Thessaloniki, was occupied by theGermans, and in the east Nazi-aligned Bulgarian occupation forces persecuted the localGreek

populationand settled Bulgarian colonists in their occupation zone in eastern Macedonia and

western Thrace, deporting all Jews from the region. Total civilian deaths in Macedonia are

estimated at over 400,000, including up to 55,000 Greek Jews. Further heavy fighting affectedthe region during theGreek Civil Warwhich drove many inhabitants of rural Macedonia to

emigrate to the towns and cities, or abroad, during the late 1940s and 1950s.
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MountFalakro,Drama Prefecture, eastern Greek Macedonia

Macedonian dialect[edit]

This section does notciteanyreferences or sources.Please help improve this section by

adding citations to reliable sources.Unsourced material may be challenged andremoved.(November 2013)

Greekis by far the most widely spoken and the only official language of public life and

education in Macedonia. The local Macedoniandialectis spoken alongside dialects from other

parts of Greece andPontic Greekstill spoken by some Greeks of Pontic descent.MacedonianSlavicdialects are the most widely spoken minority language whileAromanian,Arvanitic,

Megleno-Romanian,TurkishandRomaniare also spoken.Ladinois still spoken by some Jews

in Thessaloniki.

The Macedonian dialect of Greek is based on variations of vocabulary and pronunciation.

Population of largest towns[edit]

Town or city Greek name Population[32]

01.Thessaloniki (municipality) 363,987

02.Kavala 63,293

03.Katerini 56,434

04.Serres 56,145

05.Drama 55,632

06.Kozani 47,451

07.Veria 47,411

08.Giannitsa 33,77509.Ptolemaida 28,942

10.Kilkis 24,812

11.Naoussa 22,288

12.Aridaia 20,213

13.Alexandria 19,283

14.Edessa 18,253
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Town or city Greek name Population[32]

15.Nea Moudania 17,032

16.Florina 16,771

17.Kastoria 16,218

18.Grevena 15,481

19.Polygyros 10,721

20.Skydra 5,081

Regional identity[edit]

Main article:Macedonians (Greeks)

Apogevmatiniheadline quotingKostas Karamanlis:

"I myself am a Macedonian, just as 2.5 million Greeks are Macedonians."

Macedonians (Greek:,Makednes) is the term by which ethnicGreeksoriginating

from the region are known. Macedonians came to be of particular importance during theBalkan

Warswhen they were a minority population inside theOttoman province of Macedonia.TheMacedonians now have a strong regional identity, manifested both in Greece[40]and by emigrant

groups in theGreek diaspora.[41]This sense of identity has been highlighted in the context of the

Macedonian naming disputeafter thebreak-up of Yugoslavia,in which Greece objects to its

northern neighbour calling itself the "Republic of Macedonia", since explicit self-identificationasMacedonianis a matter of national pride for many Greeks.[42]A characteristic expression of

this attitude could be seen when Greek newspapers headlined a declaration byPrime Minister

Kostas Karamanlisat a meeting of theCouncil of EuropeinStrasbourgin January 2007, sayingthat "I myself am a Macedonian, and another two and a half million Greeks are Macedonians."

The distinct regional identity of Greek Macedonians is also the product of the fact that it was

closer to the centres of power in both theByzantineandOttomanperiod, was consideredculturally, politically, and strategically more important than other parts of Greece during these

two periods, and also the fact that the region had a far more ethnically and religiously diverse

population in both the medieval and Ottoman periods. In the late Byzantine period Greek
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Macedonia had also been the centre of significant Byzantine successor states, such as the

Kingdom of Thessalonica,the short-lived state established by the rival Byzantine emperor,

Theodore Komnenos Doukas,and - in parts of western Macedonia - theDespotate of Epirus,allof which helped promote a distinct Greek Macedonian identity. In the contemporary period this

is reinforced by Greek Macedonia's proximity to other states in the southern Balkans, the

continuing existence of ethnic and religious minorities inEast Macedonia and Thracenot foundin southern Greece, and the fact that migrants and refugees from elsewhere in the Balkans,southern Russia, and Georgia (includingPontic GreeksandCaucasus Greeksfrom northeastern

Anatoliaand thesouth Caucasus)have usually gravitated to Greek Macedonia rather than

southern Greece.

Minority populations[edit]

For more details on this topic, seeMinorities in Greece.

The exact size of the linguistic and ethnic minority groups of Macedonia is officially unknown,

as Greece has not conducted a census on the question of mother tongue since 1951. The mainminority groups in Macedonia are:

Slavic-speakers[edit]

Main articles:Slavic-speakers of Greek MacedoniaandMacedonians (Bulgarians)

Distribution of the Slavic Macedonian language in Florina Prefecture and Aridaia regions (1993).

Slavic-speakers are concentrated in theFlorina,Kastoria,Edessa,Giannitsa,PtolemaidaandNaousaregions. Their dialects are linguistically classified variously either asMacedonianor

Bulgarian,depending on the region and on political orientation. The exact number of the

minority is difficult to know, and its members' choice of ethnic identification is difficult toascertain (since some people are cautious in the replies that they give when surveys are

conducted). The Greek branch of the formerInternational Helsinki Federation for Human Rights

has estimated that those of anethnic Macedoniannational conscienceness number between

10,00030,000.[43]

Aromanians[edit]See also:Aromanians in GreeceandAromanian speakers of Greece

Aromanians form a minority population throughout much of Macedonia. They largely identify as

Greeks and most belong to the Greek Orthodox Church. In the 1951 census they numbered39,855 in all Greece (the number in Macedonia proper is unknown). Many Aromanians villages

can be found along the slopes of theVermion MountainsandMount Olympus.Smaller numbers

can be found in thePrespesregion and near theGramosmountains.
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