Editing Macedonia (region) (section)

===Ottoman era===
With the gradual conquest of southeastern Europe by the [[Ottoman Turks|Ottomans]] in the late 14th century, the name of Macedonia disappeared as an administrative designation for several centuries and was rarely displayed on maps. The name was again revived to mean a distinct geographical region in the 19th century,<ref>''The ancient name 'Macedonia' disappeared during the period of Ottoman rule and was only restored in the nineteenth century originally as geographical term.'' The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism, John Breuilly, Oxford University Press, 2013, {{ISBN|0199209197}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=-pI25h1bHPIC&dq=name+of+macedonia+historical+region+ottoman&pg=PA192 p. 192.]</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Jelavich|first1=Barbara|title=History of the Balkans, Vol. 2: Twentieth Century|date=1983|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0521274591|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofbalkans0000jela/page/91 91]|quote=However, in the nineteenth century the term Macedonian was used almost exclusively to refer to the geographic region|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofbalkans0000jela/page/91}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.zeno.org/nid/20007065957 |publisher=Zeno.org |title=Mazedonien |work=[[Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon]] |date=1905 |volume=13 |location=Leipzig |publication-date=1905 |pages=488–491 |language=de |trans-title=Macedonia |quote=Neuerdings hat man sich wiederum gewöhnt, den Namen M. im Sinne der Alten, d. h. für das jetzige Wilajet Saloniki und den Süden des Wilajets Monastir, zu gebrauchen.}}</ref> defining the region bounded by [[Mount Olympus]], the [[Pindus]] range, mounts [[Šar Mountains|Shar]] and [[Osogovo]], the western [[Rhodope Mountains|Rhodopes]], the lower course of the river Mesta (Greek [[Nestos (river)|Nestos]]) and the [[Aegean Sea]],<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Brown|editor1-first=Keith|editor2-last=Ogilvie|editor2-first=Sarah|title=Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseencyclope00brow|url-access=limited|date=2008|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-0080877747|page=[https://archive.org/details/conciseencyclope00brow/page/n699 663]}}</ref> developing roughly the same borders that it has today.<ref>''The region was not called "Macedonia" by the Ottomans, and the name "Macedonia" gained currency together with the ascendance of rival nationalism.'' Collective Memory, National Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: Greece, Bulgaria, and the Macedonian Question, Victor Roudometof, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, {{ISBN|0275976483}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xoww453NVQMC&dq=name+of+macedonia+ottoman+was+lost&pg=PA89 p. 89].</ref>