Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)

Abstract

Macedonia originally was a Greek region, with a Greek tribe and a Greek kingdom. Macedonian and Greek culture spread until the period of Hellenism. With the conquest by the Romans in the first century before Christ, Macedonia became part of the Roman Empire. With the partition of the Roman Empire in the third century after Christ, Macedonia became part of the eastern Roman Empire, later called Byzantium. The region of Macedonia remained part of Byzantium until the conquest of the Ottomans in the fifteenth century. It remained under Ottoman rule and cultural influence until the first Balkan War of 1912, when the northern part of Macedonia became Serbian. The southern part became Greek in 1912.