What did locals call their parts of Macedonia after the Balkan Wars?
The Bulgarians and Slavs of Yugoslavia have since then called the corresponding areas Aegean Macedonia, Vardar Macedonia and Pirin Macedonia. In the 20th century, Greece was the only one of the three countries that – after the end of Turkish rule in 1913 – renamed its part of Macedonia as the “General Macedonia Administration.” Neither Serbia-Yugoslavia nor Bulgaria used the name Macedonia to define their own respective regions. Only in 1945 did Yugoslavia set up the Federal Republic of Macedonia in its south. Before the war, the Yugoslav regime named its provinces after rivers. In 1991, with the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the first independent Macedonian state appeared, calling itself the Republic of Macedonia, within the boundaries of the Vardar region. When did the Macedonian question arise? Between the two world wars, the Bulgarians cultivated the idea of a greater Bulgaria, but also played the autonomy card for the geographical area of Macedonia. At that time the idea of a Macedon
