Aegean Macedonia
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Aegean Macedonia (Template:Langx; Template:Langx) is a term referring to the region of Macedonia in Northern Greece. In the Republic of North Macedonia, it has sometimes been used in the irredentist context of a United Macedonia. Refugees from the region have also referred to themselves as "Aegean Macedonians" and their homeland as "Aegean Macedonia."
History
The term "Aegean Macedonia" arose after the Balkan Wars and refers to the part of the area, ceded then from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek state, i.e. Greek Macedonia.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Yugoslavs and Bulgarians have used the term "Aegean Macedonia" instead of "Greek Macedonia".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
In the Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and in the Macedonian diaspora, the term "Aegean Macedonia" came into wider use after the Greek Civil War among refugees for whom it identified their place of origin.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Fv
During the Yugoslav period and after North Macedonia's independence in 1991, Macedonian irredentists have also used the term to claim the region as part of a "Greater Macedonia," printing textbooks with maps depicting an enlarged Macedonia including parts of Greece and Bulgaria.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> As a result, the name has not been recognized in Greece<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> where it is seen as a challenge to Greek sovereignty over the area.<ref name="Danforth1997b">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>