Macedonian nationalism (македонски национализам, makɛdonski nat͡sionalizam) is a general grouping of nationalist ideas and concepts among ethnic Macedonians that were first formed in the late 19th century among separatists seeking the autonomy of the region of Macedonia from the Ottoman Empire. The idea evolved during the early 20th century alongside the first expressions of ethnic nationalism among the Slavs of Macedonia. The separate Macedonian nation gained recognition after World War II when the "Socialist Republic of Macedonia" was created as part of Yugoslavia. Afterwards the Macedonian historiography has established links between the ethnic Macedonians and historical events and various individual figures from the Middle Ages up to the 20th century. Following the independence of the Republic of Macedonia in the late 20th century, issues of Macedonian national identity have become contested by the country's neighbours, as some adherents to aggressive Macedonian nationalism, called Macedonism, hold more extreme beliefs such as an unbroken continuity between ancient Macedonians (essentially an ancient Greek people), and modern ethnic Macedonians (a Slavic people), and views connected to the irredentist concept of a United Macedonia, which involves territorial claims on a large portion of Greece and Bulgaria, along with smaller regions of Albania, Kosovo and Serbia.
During the first half of the second millennium, the concept of Macedonia on the Balkans was associated by the Byzantines with their Macedonian province, centered around Adrianople in modern-day Turkey. After the conquest of the Balkans by the Ottomans in the late 14th and early 15th century, the Greek name Macedonia disappeared as a geographical designation for several centuries. The background of the modern designation Macedonian can be found in the 19th century, as well as the myth of "ancient Macedonian descent" among the Orthodox Slavs in the area, adopted mainly due to Greek cultural inputs. However Greek education was not the only engine for such ideas.
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La Macédoine du Nord (en Северна Македонија ; en Maqedonia e Veriut), en forme longue la république de Macédoine du Nord (en Република Северна Македонија ; en Republika e Maqedonisë së Veriut), est un pays d'Europe du Sud situé dans la partie centrale de la péninsule des Balkans. Sans accès à la mer, la Macédoine du Nord partage des frontières avec la Grèce, la Bulgarie, la Serbie, le Kosovo et l’Albanie. Elle occupe approximativement la moitié nord de la Macédoine géographique, qui s'étend aussi en Grèce et en Bulgarie.
Shopi or Šopi (South Slavic: Шопи) is a regional term, used by a group of people in the Balkans. The areas traditionally inhabited by the Shopi or Šopi is called Shopluk or Šopluk (Шоплук), a mesoregion. Most of the region is located in Western Bulgaria, with smaller parts in Eastern Serbia and Eastern North Macedonia, where the borders of the three countries meet. In 2011 census in Serbia they are registered as a separate ethnicity and 142 people declared themselves as belonging to this ethnicity.
thumb|300px|Région de la Macédoine historique : Le nom de la Macédoine et sa revendication par deux peuples différents, les Grecs et les Macédoniens slaves, sont à l'origine d'un débat identitaire dans cette région des Balkans depuis la fin du . L'actuelle Macédoine du Nord a en effet acquis le nom de « Macédoine » lors de la création de la république socialiste de Macédoine, un des États constitutifs de la république fédérative socialiste de Yougoslavie, ce que la Grèce n'a jamais contesté tant qu'il ne s'agissait pas d'un État souverain et que la dénomination de « Macédoine » était seulement géographique : pour la Grèce, il s'agissait alors simplement de la « Macédoine septentrionale » (en grec el, Vória Makedonía).