After the murder of his father, Philip of Macedon, Alexander led the armies of Macedonia ... are all the modern countries that were once all or in part included in Alexander’s empire.

To an outsider, this most Balkan of conflicts looks absurd: two countries fighting ... its land into an empire that extended to India — part of local identity. Macedonia's flag is emblazoned ...

or Severna Makedonija in Macedonian. The discord between the two countries has its roots in the vast empire of Alexander the Great. As NPR’s Joanna Kakissis reported in February, the ancient ...