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Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913. The territory was divided in two; one part,
which constitutes Macedonia as it is today, was ceded to Serbia and the rest
went to Greece and Bulgaria. Together with the rest of Serbia, in 1918
Macedonia became part of Macedonia was part of the Ottoman Empire for some
500 years until Turkey was defeated in the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats
Slovenes, the forerunner to Yugoslavia. In 1944 Macedonia became Communist
republic in Tito's re established Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. After
multiparty elections Macedonia declared independence from Yugoslavia in
1991. Greece has continued to object the use of the name Macedonia for the
newly independent state since it is the same as that of certain Greek
northern territory. Despite the fact that a compromise was reached for the
time being by renaming the state as the 'Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia (FYROM) Greece has imposed unilateral sanctions on Macedonia which
are crippling the latter's economy. Macedonian Orthodox Christianity is the
main religion and there is a Muslim minority. Macedonian is the main
language.