Editing Vardar Macedonia

{{short description|Former territory in the Balkans}}
[[File:Greater Macedonia.png|thumb|300px|right|Borders of the modern geographical region of [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]], divided by the national boundaries of the neighboring countries. To the northwest: Vardar Macedonia, encompassing [[North Macedonia]]; [[Trgovište]], [[Preševo]] and [[Elez Han]] municipalities in Serbia. To the northeast: [[Pirin Macedonia]], part of southwestern [[Bulgaria]]. To the south: [[Macedonia (Greece)]], part of northern [[Greece]].]]
'''Vardar Macedonia''' ([[Macedonian language|Macedonian]] and {{langx|sr|Вардарска Македонија|Vardarska Makedonija}}) is a historical term referring to the central part of the broader Macedonian region, roughly corresponding to present-day [[North Macedonia]]. The name derives from the [[Vardar|Vardar River]] and is primarily associated with the period of [[Kingdom of Serbia|Serbian]] (1912–1918) and later [[Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] rule (1918–1991).

==History==
Vardar Macedonia refers to the central part of the broader [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonian region]], which became part of the [[Kingdom of Serbia]] following the [[Balkan Wars]] (1912–1913) and was formally assigned to Serbia by the [[Treaty of Bucharest (1913)|Treaty of Bucharest]]. It was named after the [[Vardar|Vardar River]], distinguishing it from [[Aegean Macedonia]] in Greece and [[Pirin Macedonia]] in Bulgaria.<ref>{{cite book |author=Dimitar Bechev |title=Historical Dictionary of North Macedonia |date=2019 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-538-11962-4 |page=302}}</ref>

The region was initially known as '''Serbian Macedonia'''<ref name="Popovic 2018 p. 1">{{cite book | last=Popovic | first=P. | title=Serbian Macedonia: An Historical Survey | publisher=Creative Media Partners, LLC | year=2018 | isbn=978-0-344-87197-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7xCGvgEACAAJ |page=1}}</ref><ref name="Treanor 2019 p. 26">{{cite book | last=Treanor | first=P.J. | title=Britain, Bulgaria, and the Paris Peace Conference, 1918–1919: A Just and Lasting Peace? | publisher=Lexington Books | year=2019 | isbn=978-1-4985-8563-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QEm9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 |page=26}}</ref> although the use of the name ''Macedonia'' was prohibited later in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, due to the implemented policy of [[Serbianisation]] of the local Slavic-speakers.<ref>Donald Bloxham, The Final Solution: A Genocide, OUP Oxford, 2009, {{ISBN|0199550336}}, p. 65.</ref><ref>Chris Kostov, Contested Ethnic Identity: The Case of Macedonian Immigrants in Toronto, Peter Lang, 2010, {{ISBN|3034301960}}, p. 76.</ref> From 1919 to 1922, the area (including parts of today Kosovo and Eastern Serbia) was part of [[South Serbia (1919–22)|South Serbia]] ({{langx|sr|Jужна Србија}}, ''Južna Srbija''),<ref>Victor Roudometof, Collective Memory, National Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: Greece, Bulgaria, and the Macedonian Question, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, {{ISBN|0275976483}}, p. 102.</ref><ref>Constantine Panos Danopoulos, Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi, Amir Bar-Or, Civil-military Relations, Nation Building, and National Identity: Comparative Perspectives, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004, {{ISBN|0275979237}}, p. 218.</ref><ref>Roland Robertson, Victor Roudometof, Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy: The Social Origins of Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001, {{ISBN|0313319499}}, p. 188.</ref> 
In 1929, the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]] was divided into provinces called [[Banovinas of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia|''banovinas'']]. Vardar Macedonia as part of South Serbia then became part of [[Vardar Banovina]].<ref name=WOW>{{Google books |id=IGeJzd6BLU4C |page=43 |title=War of words: Washington tackles the Yugoslav conflict }}</ref>

During [[World War I]] it was occupied by [[Kingdom of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]] as part of the [[Bulgarian_occupation_of_Serbia_(World_War_I)#Occupation_zones|Military Inspection Area of Macedonia]]. After the war the present-day [[Strumica]] and [[Novo Selo (Novo Selo)|Novo Selo]] municipalities were broken away from [[Kingdom of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]] and ceded to Yugoslavia. During the [[NLWM|Second World War]], Bulgaria established two administrative districts in the region – Bitola and Skopje. In August 1944 the [[Democratic Federal Macedonia]] was proclaimed with Vardar Macedonia as part of it. In 1945, it became one of the six constituent countries of [[SFR Yugoslavia]] and later was renamed in the [[People's Republic of Macedonia]] (1946–1963),<ref>{{cite book |author=Loring M. Danforth |title=The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World |date=1997 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-04356-2 |page=66}}</ref> and finally to [[Socialist Republic of Macedonia]] (1963–1991). Before the [[Independence Day (North Macedonia)|independence of the Republic of Macedonia]], the region was also called Yugoslav Macedonia.

After the [[breakup of Yugoslavia]], besides [[North Macedonia]], the region encompasses also [[Trgovište]] and [[Preševo]] municipalities in [[Central Serbia]],<ref>Петър Христов Петров, Македония: история и политическа съдба, том 3, Изд-во "Знание" ООД, 1998, стр. 109.</ref> as well the [[Elez Han]] municipality in [[Kosovo]].<ref>Стефан Карастоянов, Косово: геополитически анализ, Университетско издателство "Св. Климент Охридски", 2007, {{ISBN|9540725410}}, стр. 41.</ref>

==See also==
* [[Macedonia (Greece)]]
* [[Geography of North Macedonia]]
* [[Macedonia (terminology)]]
* [[Pirin Macedonia]]
* [[Vardar statistical region]]
* [[Ottoman Vardar Macedonia]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Danforth, L.M. (1997). ''The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World''. [[Princeton University Press]]. p. 44. {{ISBN|0-691-04356-6}}
*{{cite book|author=Alice Ackermann|title=Making Peace Prevail: Preventing Violent Conflict in Macedonia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OxQzNYi95LAC&pg=PA55|year=1999|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-0602-4|pages=55–}}
*{{cite book|author=Ilká Thiessen|title=Waiting for Macedonia: Identity in a Changing World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4TjZXtwnkncC&pg=PA29|year=2007|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-55111-719-5|pages=29–}}
*{{cite book|author=Hugh Poulton|title=Who are the Macedonians?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ppbuavUZKEwC&pg=PA2|year=2000|publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers|isbn=978-1-85065-534-3|pages=2–}}
*{{cite book|author=Stefan Troebst|title=Das makedonische Jahrhundert: von den Anfängen der nationalrevolutionären Bewegung zum Abkommen von Ohrid 1893-2001 ; ausgewählte Aufsätze|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRm-aY6_RBIC&pg=PA344|date=January 2007|publisher=Oldenbourg|isbn=978-3-486-58050-1|pages=344–}}
*{{cite book|author=Dimitar Bechev|title=Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1jSg3lxgSy8C&pg=PA232|date=13 April 2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6295-1|pages=232–}}

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