Great Macedonia

Map of Great Macedonia

The territorial composition of Great Macedonia:

• Vardar Macedonia ( Maced. Wardarska Macedoniaјa ) - Republic of Macedonia.
• the so-called Aegean Macedonia ( Macedonian: Egeјska Macedoniјa ) - three Macedonian periphery of northern Greece.
• Pirin Macedonia ( Macedonian. Pirinsk Macedoniaјa ) - the unofficial name of the Blagoevgrad region in southwestern Bulgaria
• Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo - An area in southeastern Albania, corresponding approximately to the districts of Korca (Goritsa), Pogradec and Devol (sometimes considered to be part of Aegean Macedonia).
• The mountain and Prokhor Pchinski are in southern Kosovo and Serbia (these subregions are sometimes considered to be part of Vardar Macedonia).

The idea and the term itself arose after the Bucharest agreements of 1913, which consolidated the division of the territories of the Macedonian vilayets of the Ottoman Empire and consists on the same populist foundations and from the same series of pan-Slavism as Great Bulgaria , Great Poland , etc.

In essence, the idea of ​​Great Macedonia should have a dominant position in the Balkans by the size of the territory and have pro-Macedonian ethnic groups on its territory, that is, in essence a nationalist state that denies any presence in any shares of other ethnic groups. The political justification of such a state was to be the geography of the settlement of the Macedonian ethnic group and the existence from ancient times of the historically significant region of Macedonia that did not coincide with the borders of the modern state of North Macedonia ^[1] .

The composition of Great Macedonia should include the lands of Bulgaria , Greece , Northern Macedonia , Serbia and Albania .

Bearer of the idea of the Great of Macedonia is a revolutionary organization VMRO led by Todor Alexandrov and Ivan Mikhailov .