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Why Macedonia FYRO (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) is called like this not just Macedonia?

Well the situation is that north part of Greece is also called Macedonia and they would never recognize Macedonia FYROM with the name Macedonia. It used to be one country - Kingdom of Macedonia - way too many years ago (800s BC–146 BC). This is also the reason why they had to change their flag. It used to have the same sign - Vergina sun - that Greek Macedonian flag (Vergina sun on dark blue) has. They thoughts it’s a conflict of copyright. So they cut down 8 rays of the sun in 1995 and you can see the result on the right.

As well I heard Greek don’t accept Macedonian language which belongs to Slavic language group. They accept only Ancient Macedonian language which actually fell out of use 4th century BC.

I also asked the locals if FYROM has change to join EU soon. The answer was that they have to change the name of the country.

When I told me Greek friends that I’m going to Macedonia, they asked if it’s Greek or Slavic Macedonia. Of course I said just Macedonia; Of course I didn’t know which part is which and they didn’t really like it :) As well I heard Greeks use the name of the capital Skopje for all the area of FYROM.