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'''Macedonian''' may refer to anything related to, or a person from, '''[[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]]''', a geographical region in Southeast Europe shared between Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, and small parts of Albania and Serbia.
More specifically, it may refer to:
* [[Macedonians (ethnic group)]] (also referred to as '''Macedonian Slavs''' or '''Slav Macedonians'''), the Slavic majority ethnic group of the Republic of Macedonia and minority inhabitants of a number of neighboring countries
* [[Macedonians (Greek)|Greek Macedonians]] (also known as '''Macedonian Greeks''' or simply '''Macedonians'''), the [[Greeks|Greek]] regional group of the geographical region of [[Macedonia (Greece)|Macedonia]], a province in northern [[Greece]], and [[Greek diaspora|diaspora communities]] around the world
* A citizen of the [[Republic of Macedonia]] or [[Macedonia (Greece)|Greek Macedonia]]
==Historically==
* [[Ancient Macedonians]], the inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of [[Macedon]]
* The [[Macedonian dynasty]] of the Byzantine Empire
==In linguistics==
* [[Macedonian language]] (also called "Macedonian Slavic" or "Slavic Macedonian"), a modern South Slavic language
* [[Ancient Macedonian language]], an extinct ancient language
* The [[Modern Greek#Varieties|Macedonian dialect]] of the modern Greek language
* The southwestern dialects of the [[Bulgarian language]]
==In music==
* [[Music of Macedonia]], part of the folklore of the wider region of Macedonia
==In religion==
* [[Diocese of Macedonia]], part of the ancient Roman Praetorian prefecture of Illyricum
* [[Macedonians (religious group)]], a 4th century Byzantine Greek Christian sect
* [[Macedonian Orthodox Church]], an autocephalous, unrecognised Eastern Orthodox Christian church associated principally with [[ethnic Macedonians]]
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