THESSALONIKI, Greece — To understand how deeply the name Macedonia is embedded in the Greek psyche, look no further than Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki. It’s the capital of the northern region of ...

The name chosen by the small European country of Macedonia at its independence 27 years ago has ever since been rejected by Greece, provoking an impassioned dispute. For Greece the name is part of its ...

The new centre-right leader of Greece has told his counterpart from North Macedonia in New York that while he would never have signed the historic ‘name’ deal with Skopje, he now felt bound to honour ...

As lawmakers in Athens are poised to approve a landmark name deal between Greece and Macedonia, there is relief in many European capitals that a 27-year diplomatic dispute is nearing its end. In ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's foreign minister says an acrimonious dispute over what neighboring Macedonia calls itself can be solved this year, after festering for more than two decades. Minister ...

More than 100,000 people protested in Athens on Sunday, angry over a possible compromise to a long-running dispute with its Balkan neighbor over its use of the name Macedonia. Protesters traveled from ...

Athens argues that the name Macedonia suggests that Skopje has territorial claims to Greece's historic northern region of the same name. Both countries returned to the United Nations last week hoping ...

Ever since Macedonia became independent from Yugoslavia in 1991, its name has been the subject of a bitter dispute with its southern neighbor, Greece. Greece claims that the use of “Republic of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Macedonia hopes it has done enough to convince the European Union to start accession talks while a quarter-of-a-century-long row with neighbouring Greece rumbles on, its foreign ...

Macedonia, the name of the ex-Yugoslav republic since its independence in 1991, has poisoned relations between Athens and Skopje for nearly three decades. On Tuesday the two sides agreed it should be ...