Geography Now! Rep. of North Macedonia

2019 UPDATE! As of Jan 25 2019 the Greek Parliament voted to accept the new title of "North Macedonia" ending nearly 3 decades of dispute however many Greek citizenss are still opposed to this move, nonetheless actions can now be made to move forward.

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[GeographyNow]

Hey guys so UPDATE! As of Jan 25 2019 the Greek Parliament voted 153-146 (1 abstained) in favor of accepting the new name of "North Macedonia" for this country. Many Greek citizens are opposed to this move but for what's it's worth this means diplomatic actions can move forward after nearly 3 decades of dispute. Let's see what happens.

[GeographyNow]

Well, at least this was good practice for the Israel

[vaskoyorgov]

I'm Bulgarian, so there's a lot of history on this that we dispute, but as an independent channel with no political affiliation, I think you did a great job explaining a really trick issue. I love this channel!

[serbiaball]

7:56 those people on the picture are actually Serbs

[PicklePickle]

The comment section is going to be tasty

[nono_Hoi]

how to start a war in the comments

1: talk about ANYTHING in the balkans

edit: Even after 4 years people are still ultra nationalist in the comments. (note the replies are a balkans political hell hole)

[clarencebaldwin]

"We are Slavs who came to this area in the sixth century ... We are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians" - Kiro Gligorov, FYROM's first President, Foreign Information Service Daily Report, Eastern Europe, February 26, 1992.

[McGliga]

THIS is controversial? Wait till you get to K and have to decide whether or not you'll do Kosovo.

[starlightstudios]

The four horsemen of controversy:
-Macedonia
-Kosovo
-Taiwan
-Crimea

[pou.ti.kseris.ti.imi.igo.]

I mean when did slavs come to this area?? 6 hundrend years later or so...

[dwrussell]

FYROM is full of Bulgarians and Albanians. They are Slavic people who spoke Bulgarian prior to becoming part of Yugoslavia and they speak a Slavic language. The Slavic people didn't even come to Europe until around the 5th or 6th century AD... but they think Alexander the Great was their ancestors all because their name is "Macedonia". The ancient Macedonia spoke Greek and an overwhelming majority of their ruins and writing etc. was found in Northern NOT FYROM.... but hey whatever floats their boat 😂😂😂

[Trollguy]

Fyrom is like a teenage girl...They dont know who they are or what they want..

[christinasivri]

If Alexander the Great was alive,
𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨.

[Kassap.]

in croatian schools, Alexander the great is called Alexander the Macedonian

[mariakollia]

Spartans and Athenians always went to war against each other. Does that mean they constituted different ethnic groups?

[xats]

If you say macedonian or greek its the same thing because macedonia is greek these guys think that the are greek

[sterkar]

As a Greek, I can say that we do not really care about your name and we would be pleased with something like Northern Macedonia or something. What we just can't stand is you having this dream like perspective on history while EVERYONE tells you you are wrong...

[andromeda.o]

Propaganda in this country went really mad. They even argue among themselves wether they are or arent Slavs.

[eleftheriosvenizelos]

Japan called
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They want their imperial flag back

[TheBlueMapper]

Good luck with the comments. Waiting for the Romania section xD.
Probably gonna be like this:
20% Hungarians calling us gypsies even tho we're not.
15% Romanians calling Hungarians gypsies even tho they're not.
20% people saying they can't wait for the next country (Russia)
10% people actually saying something good.
10% memes and idiotic comments.
10% people fightig about Kosovo tho it doesn't have to do with the video
Rest - others.