Macedonia is an ancient region born around the fertile lands of the Vardar and Haliacmom Rivers. From here, Alexander the Great assembled his armies that would march east to India and conquer the known world. Even after Alexander, Macedonia would remain one of the most important regions of the ancient world, only slowly fading from the pages of history. By the beginning of the 20th century, centuries of invasions and Ottoman rule left Macedonia as a melting pot of cultures. Greeks were actually a minority in the region, otherwise inhabited mostly by Bulgarians and Turks. With the post-war population transfers, Macedonia was split definitively between Greek and Slavic Macedonia.
