Aegean Macedonia

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Aegean Macedonia is the name sometimes given to the Greek province of Macedonia, which in Greece is called Makedonia[?].See Peripheries and Prefectures of Greece.

Population: 2,450,000

Macedonia (67,000 sq.km.) is a region divided between the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (38%), Bulgaria (11%) and Greece (51%). The Greek part, being bordered by the Aegean Sea, was given the name "Aegean Macedonia" by Josip Broz Tito and other Yugoslav officials after World War II."Aegean Macedonia" is Josip Broz Tito's propaganda name.

Though mostly mountainous, the region also encompasses the valleys of the Aliakmon[?], Axios[?], Nestos[?], and Strimon[?] rivers, all of which drain into the Aegean Sea.

Capital: Thessaloniki (Other names: Salonica, Salonic, Salun).

Population: est. 1,350,000

Industry: services, agriculture, universities.

Other cities: Grevena[?], Kastoria[?], Veria[?], Edhessa[?], Florina[?], Drama[?], Kilkis[?], Serrai[?], Katerini[?], Kozani[?], Kavala.

Aegean Macedonia is home to an estimated 13,000 speakers of Slavic languages. Before the Second World War the number was slightly higher, but many of them migrated to Bulgaria and Yugoslavia after the end of the war and during the Greek civil war (1946-1949).