United Macedonia

A map distributed by Macedonian nationalists c. 1993. It shows the geographical region of Macedonia split with barbed wire between Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece.
Postcard issued during the 1920s by the Ilinden organization in Sofia, presenting an imagined United Macedonia.
Map of the whole geographical region of Macedonia as seen by F. Bianconi, 1885.

United Macedonia (Macedonian: Обединета Македонија, Obedineta Makedonija), or Greater Macedonia (Голема Македонија, Golema Makedonija), is an irredentist concept among Macedonian nationalists that aims to unify the transnational region of Macedonia in Southeastern Europe (which they claim as their homeland and which they assert was unjustly divided under the Treaty of Bucharest in 1913) into a single state that would be dominated by ethnic Macedonians. The proposed capital of such a United Macedonia is the city of Thessaloniki (Solun in the Slavic languages), the capital of Greek Macedonia, which ethnic Macedonians and the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito had planned to incorporate into their own states (along with the hinterland of Greek Macedonia, which they came to call Aegean Macedonia).[1]

  1. ^ Greek Macedonia "not a problem", The Times (London), August 5, 1957