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  Republic of Macedonia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Between 1945 and 1991 the Republic of Macedonia was one the six constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Following Macedonia's independence from SFRY the Greek government raised objections concerning the name flag and the text of the constitution the new state and even imposed a embargo at one point.
The Republic of Macedonia is a parliamentary democracy with an executive government composed of coalition of parties from the unicameral legislative Собрание Sobranje) and an independent judicial branch with constitutional court.
www.freeglossary.com /The_Former_Yugoslav_Republic_of_Macedonia   (880 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Flag of the Republic of Macedonia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Flag of the Republic of Macedonia represents a rising yellow sun with eight rays extending to the edges of the red field.
Until 1991, when the Socialist Republic of Macedonia was part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the flag was a red flag with a gold star in the top corner next to the hoist.
The state symbols of the Republic of Macedonia are the coat of arms, the flag and the national anthem.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Flag-of-the-Republic-of-Macedonia   (580 words)

  
 Republic of Macedonia - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Following Macedonia's independence from SFRY, the Greek government raised objections concerning the name, the flag, and the text of the constitution of the new state, and even imposed a trade embargo at one point.
The lands governed by the Republic of Macedonia were known as the Vardarska banovina between 1929 and 1945, and as Socialist Republic of Macedonia between 1963 and 1991.
The results of the official investigation revealed that the cause of the plane accident was procedural mistakes by the crew, committed during the approach to land at Mostar airport.
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /r/re/republic_of_macedonia.html   (789 words)

  
 Today Over Macedonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Today Over Macedonia, the anthem of the Republic of Macedonia, was composed and created in 1943 by Vlado Maleski.
It was adopted to be an anthem of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia when it was established after World War II.
Later the song was selected to be the anthem of the newly established independent Republic of Macedonia.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Today_Over_Macedonia   (92 words)

  
 Republic of Macedonia - Balkans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Republic of Macedonia is a portion of the geographical region of Macedonia, containing roughly 38 percent of the area and about 44 percent of the population of the wider region.
The lands governed by the Republic of Macedonia were part of a number of ancient states and former empires; ancient Macedon (which established the name of the whole Macedonian region), Paionia, the Roman and Byzantine empires as well as medieval Bulgarian and Serbian states.
The Republic of Macedonia remained at peace through the Yugoslav wars of the early 1990s but was significantly disrupted by the Kosovo War in 1999, when an estimated 360,000 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo took refuge in the country.
www.balkans.eu.com /wiki/index.php?title=Republic_of_Macedonia   (1561 words)

  
 Countries: Republic of Macedonia
This is due to a dispute between Greece and the republic over who possessed the superior right to use the historic name Macedonia, given that Greece already had a province of that name.
Time zone UTC +1 (DST, yes) * The flag "Vergina Sun": the sixteen-ray star that was to National anthem Today Over appear on the flag was a symbol Macedonia of the ancient state of Macedon, Internet TLD.MK to which Greece claimed to be the Calling Code 389 sole heir.
Macedonia remained at peace through the violent nationality conflicts which convulsed the former Yugoslavia's western republics of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia in 1991-1995, but the influx of an estimated 360,000 ethnic Albanian refugees from neighbouring Kosovo in 1999 threatened to destabilise the republic.
www.morelawinfo.com /Countries/Republic_of_Macedonia.shtml   (643 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Republic of Macedonia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The lands governed by the Republic of Macedonia were known as the Province of Vardar before 1945 [1].
From 1945 until its proclaimation of independence on September 17, 1991, the Republic of Macedonia was one of the six constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (the others being Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia).
Given the long name, it is often referred to as Macedonia colloquially and in the non-Greek news media despite the ambiguity of the term with the region of Macedonia.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Republic_of_Macedonia   (670 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Macedonian president killed in plane crash
Macedonia's president was today killed when his plane crashed in thick fog in a mountainous part of southern Bosnia.
Although his role was largely ceremonial, Mr Trajkovski presided over a Nato-brokered peace deal in 2001 that prevented armed clashes with ethnic Albanian guerillas in the mountains bordering Kosovo turning into a full-blown civil war.
The weather in the area was today said to be poor and it prompted Albania's prime minister, Fatos Nano, to cancel his own flight to the conference.
www.guardian.co.uk /macedonia/story/0,7369,1156857,00.html   (524 words)

  
 Reality Macedonia : Darkness Descends Over Macedonia; Irreality Too   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Macedonia’s elasticity- characterized by eternally divergent perceptions of politics, nationhood, the ends and the means- is what makes it such a tricky subject for rational inquiry.
In Macedonia, the tendency towards irreality is fed not only by the beliefs and thought-systems of the locals, but also by those of foreigners.
Like its Balkan neighbors, Macedonia is a country where such spirited fatalism is synonymous with heroism, where ancient photographs of long-dead revolutionaries attest to a sacred tradition of star-scripted humiliations and irreversible defeats.
www.realitymacedonia.org.mk /web/news_page.asp?nid=1692   (1649 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: USA Today Reporter Resigns Over Probe
One USA Today staffer said that the paper's investigation has wrongly suggested that Kelley might be another Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter who resigned last year after admitting that he faked and plagiarized dozens of stories.
While reporting on the war's aftermath, some USA Today staffers questioned Kelley's use of unnamed Pakistani officials, asked for their names and declined to publish quotes from those whose identity could not be confirmed.
Kelley, a University of Maryland graduate, began working for USA Today in 1982, the year the paper was launched, and by decade's end had been promoted to the national desk, where he drew attention for covering the scandal involving Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A63797-2004Jan7?language=printer   (1463 words)

  
 Socialism Today - Macedonia
Macedonia managed to avoid becoming directly embroiled in the wars that afflicted the peoples of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia between 1991-1995.
An influx of 300,000 Albanian refugees from Kosova during the 1999 conflict greatly increased the tensions between Macedonia’s Slav majority and the ethnic-Albanian minority.
In Macedonia, despite Western backup, government forces have failed to dislodge the NLA from a number of villages.
www.socialismtoday.org /57/macedonia.html   (1388 words)

  
 The World Today Archive - Macedonia ceasefire on again
Eleanor Hall hosts The World Today's lunch hour of current affairs, with background and debate from Australia and the world.
This is a small rural community, which has some lessons for the rest of Macedonia, for although Lapatay is overwhelmingly Albanian, about 70 per cent, the Macedonian-Albanians who live here have so far had very little to do with the Albanians who've taken up arms to fight for what they regard as their rights.
The difficulty of course, is spreading the spirit of compromise, which exists in Lapatay, to the rest of Macedonia.
www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/stories/s336773.htm   (461 words)

  
 Cyber VRATNICA Internet Site - Macedonia !
Republic of Macedonia is an independent state on the Balkan Peninsula, in south-eastern part of Europe.
Until 1991, Macedonia was a part of SFR Yugoslavia, when it peacefully seceded and created its own country.
Macedonia is one of the most beautiful places at the planet.
vratnica.5u.com /macedonia.html   (649 words)

  
 ". . . Come over to Macedonia and help us!"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Macedonia, previously a part of the Soviet Union, a former republic of Yugoslavia, is the same nation that the apostle Paul visited in response to the call to "Come over to Macedonia and help us!" (Acts 16:9).
Bordered by Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, Macedonia struggles for recognition as a nation, challenged in its efforts to be accepted by its neighbors.
There is conflict within Macedonia among people groups; half a million Albanians, immigrants, a significant population of gypsies, and Macedonians rooted for centuries in the land.
www.ifca.org /voice/98Jan-Feb/KLEIN.htm   (1333 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Today Over Macedonia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
FACTOID # 206: Armenia was the first nation to formally adopt Christianity, and today has one of the few Christian cultures to still sacrifice animals on Sunday.
"Today Over Macedonia" is the national anthem of the Republic of Macedonia.
It was adopted to be an anthem of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia when it was established after
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Today-Over-Macedonia   (381 words)

  
 Republic Of Macedonia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
When the Republic of Macedonia broke away from the Yugoslav federation in 1991, the Greek government feared its new neighbor would claim the region of northern...
From 1945 until its proclamation of independence on 17 September 1991, the Republic of Macedonia was one of the six constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
As part of an agreement to lift this embargo in September 1995, the Republic of Macedonia's flag was changed to an eight-ray sun and not the former star.
www.wikiverse.org /republic-of-macedonia   (889 words)

  
 Republic of Macedonia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The territory of the modern Republic of Macedonia became the Province of Vardar (Vardarska Banovina 1).
The Republic of Macedonia is a parliamentary democracy with an executive government composed of a coalition of parties from the unicameral legislature (Собрание, Sobranie), and an independent judicial branch with a constitutional court.
Presents the view that Macedonia was historically Greek, and objects to the use of the name and claim to the heritage by the Republic of Macedonia.
www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=TFYR_Macedonia   (3002 words)

  
 Socialism Today - Macedonia's uneasy truce
A scramble is taking place over who will benefit from plans to establish an oil pipeline stretching from the Caucuses to the Adriatic Sea.
Donors are due to meet in Brussels in October to discuss impoverished Macedonia's debt, and the EU and the US are delaying disbursement of $170 million in agreed aid.
To be successful such a party needs a programme that offers full democratic, cultural, religious and linguistic rights for all minorities and which champions a socialist confederation of states in the region, on a voluntary and equal basis.
www.socialismtoday.org /60/macedonia.html   (1537 words)

  
 Wine in Macedonia today
Macedonia is different in many ways from the other wine regions of Greece.
Over 400 oak barrels (225 and 500 L) are used for the maturing and aging of wines, which lasts for a minimum of 12 months.
Today, there is a wide variety of grapes cultivated at the vineyard: Roditis, Athiri, Assyrtiko, Limnio, Xynomavro, Cabernet Sauvignon and Grenache rouge.
www.macedonian-heritage.gr /Wine/WineToday.html   (4323 words)

  
 Search Results for 'Republic-of-Macedonia'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Flag of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia Until 1991, when the Socialist Republic of Macedonia was part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the flag was a red flag with a red star in the top corner next to the hoist.
Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia are mostly situated in the western half of the country.
Albanians are the second largest population group in the Republic of Macedonia and comprise 20 percent of the population, after the majority Macedonians, who comprise about 65 percent of the population.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Republic-of-Macedonia.htm   (1145 words)

  
 Greece summons US ambassador over Macedonia. 04/11/2004. ABC News Online
Greece's Foreign Minister urgently called in the US ambassador today to explain reports that Washington plans to recognise Greece's northern neighbour with the disputed name "Macedonia", the foreign ministry said.
Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have been at odds over the name since the tiny statelet broke away from Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
Macedonia is also the name of Greece's northern province, birthplace of Alexander the Great.
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200411/s1235107.htm   (212 words)

  
 NATO to hand over Macedonia duties to EU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
NATO officially agreed Monday to end its peacekeeping duties in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia at the end of the month, the alliance's Secretary-General George Robertson announced.
"Today, the North Atlantic Council has decided to terminate Operation Allies Harmony in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as of 31 March with a view to the EU commencing a successor operation," Robertson said in a statement.
The EU had originally hoped to launch the Macedonia mission last year, but the handover was delayed twice as NATO and the EU struggled to find an accord on their relations, mainly due to differences between Greece and Turkey.
www.spacewar.com /2003-a/030317211440.idlrj8ex.html   (278 words)

  
 About Association Techical Culture of Macedonia
Its main task was to educate and to qualify the young in the field of technical knowledge and to train staff of reconstruction and building of the country.
The Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia, having in mind importance of the technical knowledge, regulated by law this matter.
Thus, the Department of development and improvement of the technical knowledge is founded at the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Macedonia.
www.atcm.org.mk /about.htm   (591 words)

  
 US-European antagonisms sharpen over Macedonia
The central aim of the Framework Agreement is to push the government in Skopje to reach a settlement with the very organisation the NATO allies earlier denounced as terrorists who should be met by force.
In April this year, Macedonia signed up to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement, which provides for trade liberalisation, political co-operation, economic and institutional reforms as a step towards membership of the European Union and adoption of the euro.
With talks aimed at forcing the government in Skopje to reach a settlement with the KLA/NLA in Macedonia in the balance, Washington was forced to act to deflect criticisms of its role.
www.wsws.org /articles/2001/aug2001/mac-a22.shtml   (1881 words)

  
 Enlargement: Macedonia News - EU Politics Today   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Macedonia and Bosnia were handed over to a...
Serbia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
German Ambassador to Macedonia, said the country made progress by acquiring the candidate status for the EU membership, but should done a lot more by increasing salaries, employment and improving the living...
www.eupoliticstoday.com /news/EU-Enlargement-Macedonia   (1264 words)

  
 Come over to Macedonia Acts 16.9
The reading from the Acts of the Apostles set for today tells us that God impelled St Paul to not linger in those parts where he was familiar, but to cross the boundaries of culture and language.
Indeed as Paul found himself impelled by God to cross over into "uncharted territory", and in some ways I felt we were called to experience the delights of Bali, the same call is to everyone.
The call to "come over to Macedonia" is ever a call to each and every one of us - to broaden our horizons - to see in everyone around us, near or far, something of the goodness and grace of God.
users.bigpond.net.au /frsparky/164a01.htm   (1497 words)

  
 Wine in Macedonia today
In certain areas of Macedonia and of Thrace Dionysus was represented in earlier times in the form of an animal, the relic of a totemic habit of thought.
The cult of the Maenads survived into later times in Macedonia, until the end of the ancient world, and some aspects of their rites were adopted in the theatre.
However, the settlement in Macedonia after 1924 of Greeks from eastern Romylia, eastern Thrace and the Black Sea region led to an increased reverence for the saint and the annual observance of traditions associated with him.
www.macedonian-heritage.gr /Wine/WineReligionCulture.html   (875 words)

  
 Macedonia News - Are Today's Macedonians Successors to Alexander the Great?
"In this case, the typical places are in the southern part of Macedonia, around Ohrid and Vevcani, the villages around Vardarski Rid, where the excavations are most similar to those in Pela as well as the three isolates in Radovo, Nova Maala and Strumica Maalo, where the so-called Bezanci live.
The Immunobiology and Human Genetics Institute has thousand of samples from all over Macedonia, "but the samples from the selected regions are more interesting as they come from closed areas, where the local residents mingled among each others."
According to him, this research is important, as the objective conclusions should replace the political fanaticism, which is present among certain circles in Macedonia, but also from a scientific aspect to reveal what was the past of the Macedonians.
www.maknews.com /html/articles/genetic_studies/ancient_genes.html   (805 words)

  
 Trajkovski's Death Throws Pall Over Macedonia's EU Drive
Boris Trajkovski was respected in Macedonia for his neutral stance in the former Yugoslav republic, which has seen tensions between Macedonians and the country's ethnic Albanian minority.
Irish President Bertie Ahern, who is currently at the helm of EU Presidency, described Trajkovski as having "contributed hugely to reconciliation in Macedonia" and a strong supporter of Macedonia's ambition to become a EU member.
Today should have been one of celebration for him, Bertie Ahern said in a statement.
www.novinite.com /view_news.php?id=31530   (673 words)

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