Vardar Macedonia

As Vardar Macedonia (also Vardar Macedonia, Bulgarian Вардарска Македония, macedonian Вардарска Македонија ) was the northern part of historic region of Macedonia, which extends over the current state of Macedonia, respectively.

After the Balkan War of 1912/13, which was directed against the Ottoman Empire, the region was Serbian. During the First World War was Vardar Macedonia from Bulgaria, which was allied with Germany and Austria -Hungary occupied. 1918 the borders of 1913 were restored, Vardar Macedonia became the Serbian part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, and was referred to as " South Serbia ", its Slavic-speaking inhabitants were officially regarded as Serbs. As of 1929, the territory of today's Macedonia was formed together with parts of the southern Serbian province of the administrative Vardarska banovina. In the underground there was the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, a separatist movement further.

1944, the Socialist Republic of Macedonia was established as a constituent republic of Yugoslavia in the limits of Vardar Macedonia.

Only in 1991 the terms Vardar Macedonia and Vardar Republic came as compromises in the name dispute between Macedonia and Greece back in the daily political debate.

• Historical territory ( Europe)
• Macedonia
• History of Macedonia
• Serbian history