If Macedonia was/only a geographical region/region during Roman times, Ottoman occupation, etc. (as Greece claims), then where was the geographical region of Greece?
The geographical area of Greece has historically fluctuated. From the territory of Achilles mentioned by Homer, an area between Pergastik and the Gulf of Mali, expanding to include much of the Greek-speaking Mycenaean sect south of the Alyakmon River, and then to the newly formed state outside, even reaching India and fighting with the Chinese. The ancient Greeks also had cities in Spain. I have a detailed answer to this, but if you want to focus on the best parts of ancient Greek history, it revolves around this place:
It also has a lot in common with modern Greece, and you can always view any map. This is a great post, very close to your request, specifying the boundaries of ancient Greece in Roman times. You can stop reading here, but I'll move on to the first part of the issue to meet everyone's needs.
In fact, in Roman times and beyond, it was only a geographical area. In fact, the term "Macedonians" usually does not refer to people from ancient Macedonian regions, but to the Byzantine period "Macedonian theme" from Thracy, part of Europe, Turkey. A typical example is Basil I of the Macedonian dynasty, as analyzed in a previous article.
As for each person's land, there is no direct connection with national identity. For example, Bazir I of the Macedonian dynasty, when analyzing his ethnic identity, as you can see in the link, it is Armenian. The population is mixed and multi-ethnic. Usually, people we know called "Byzantines" call themselves Romans. That's it, that's their state and identity. In addition to that, if the city is not known, you can state the city or region you are from. For example, Empress Irene of Athens was called "Athenian". Michael IV is considered one of the Macedonian dynasties, but he was a usurper. Although he was Greek, he was known as Paphlagonian because he came from the theme of Paphlagonia.
The topic name is not a racial name, but an administrative name. For example, there is also a theme of Kefalonia, which includes all the Ionian Islands. This does not mean that there is a group called Cephalonians, and of course people from Corfu or Zakynthos are not "Cephalonians of the race". So, yes, the terms are regional and/or administrative, not ethnic per se, and apart from "Macedonian themes", they do not even correspond to Macedonia itself at the outset.
As for what the people of that area were called, I have already mentioned that they called themselves Romans ("Romei"), and their medieval Greek was called "Romeica". This is also what Asians call them ("rum" or something similar, based primarily on Persian pronunciation, which was later adopted by the Turks). However, as I pointed out before, Europeans call them "Greeks". Even in the late Middle Ages, when the empire was almost reduced to an area conquered by the Romans and named the Kingdom of Macedonia, contemporary European sources called it the "Kingdom of Macedonia" or "Kingdom of Greece", known as the Greeks. You can check this through the source. You can also see that the area that people might now call Macedonia was usually called Thessaly at the time, and now it is a small country called North Macedonia, and in the Middle Ages, the area north of Macedonia was called Bulgaria (you can also see the Treadgold I posted earlier on the map).
Then the Turks came and conquered the whole Of the Balkans. Similarly, administrative provisions are based on provincial cities. Thus, you will be given for example "Selanik" in the provinces around Thessaloniki (Mainland Macedonia)
Because that's the Turkish name for Thessaloniki. To the west, you'll get to Manastil, as that's what the Turks call the main city of the region, now known as Bitola.
In both maps, you can see the Kingdom of Greece in the 19th century.
Present-day North Macedonia, at that time there were only a small part of Serraník and Manastir, but as for the capital Uskup (modern Skopje), it was the capital of the Kosovo region. But this is not like Kosovo, which is a nation, and certainly there is no "Theranic" or Manastician nation. At least in their later period, the Ottoman Empire divided the people of the empire into different ethnic and religious groups. Fortunately, we have such archives that they do not mention that Macedonia is neither a region nor an ethnic identity. Most people in Macedonia are either Muslim Turks or Christian Greeks.
For modern Greece, this is a dark green southeastern European country.
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