Macedonia

Macedonia is an historic region in south-eastern Europe, in the south central part of the Balkan Peninsula. Macedonia covered about 66,000 sq km (25,500 sq mi). Today slightly more than half of the region lies in northern and north-eastern Greece, in the Greek province of Macedonia. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and a small portion of Bulgaria make up the remainder of the region. Macedonia spanned a diverse geographic area. Though mostly mountainous, the region also encompassed the valleys of the Aliákmon, Vardar (Axiós), Néstos, and Struma rivers, all of which drain into the Aegean Sea.