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Macedonia, as described by the great Greek authors, was much larger and included parts of present-day Bulgaria and northern Greece. Its capital was Thessalonika - now Salonika - in the Greek region that is still called Macedonia. Ancient and modern Macedonia are two different geographic entities that should not be confused.
Geography
Area: 25,713 square kilometers
A Balkan country bisected north-south by the Vardar river General Information
Status
Republic, part of the former Yugoslavia Government: democracy; presidential multiparty system; includes a president of the republic, prime minister, and a national assembly made up of 120 seats
Capital: Skopje
Currency: denar
Languages spoken
Macedonian Population: Slavic Macedonians, Albanians, Serbs and Croats
Principal industries
iron, coal and copper mines; furniture, ceramic and textile-related industries
Agriculture
tobacco, wine grapes, wheat, barley, corn, sheep
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