Monday, December 20, 2010

Mακεδονία - Macedonia - Macedoine - Makedonija - Македония - Македонија

Documentary. Year of production - 1984
Taken from the You Tube channel of  DocumentaryMacedonia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er8JWfyStuc

Macedonia ( [ˌmæsəˈdoʊniə], Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonía, IPA: [makʲe̞ðo̞ˈnia]) 
is a geographical and historical region of Greece in southeastern Europe. Macedonia is the largest and second most populous Greek region. The region and that of Thrace are often together referred to informally as northern Greece.

This northern Greek region incorporates most of the territories of ancient Macedon, the kingdom ruled by the Argeads whose most celebrated members were Alexander the Great and his father Philip II. The name Macedonia was later applied to identify various administrative areas in the Roman and Byzantine Empires with widely differing borders. Under the Ottomans, the name disappeared altogether.

Even before the establishment of the Modern Greek state in 1830, it was identified as a Greek province, even though Macedonia had no geographical borders [1][2][3] By the mid 19th century, the name was becoming consolidated informally, defining more of a a distinct geographical, rather than political, region in the southern Balkans. At the end of the Ottoman Empire most of the region known as Rumelia or "Turkey in Europe" was divided by the Treaty of Bucharest of 1913, following the Ottoman defeat in the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913. Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Albania each took control of portions of the territory, with Greece obtaining the largest portion.

Macedonia was an administrative subdivision of Greece until the administrative reform of 1987, when the region was subdivided into the peripheries of West Macedonia and Central Macedonia and part of the periphery of East Macedonia and Thrace, the latter containing also the whole of the region of Thrace.

 PART I - MΕΡΟΣ Α'

PART II - ΜΕΡΟΣ Β'

PART III - ΜΕΡΟΣ Γ'

PART IV - ΜΕΡΟΣ Δ'

PART V - ΜΕΡΟΣ Ε'

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