What prompted the trouble was an internationally brokered compromise agreement over the ... why the Macedonian question has a strong religious dimension. Much more modern history can be invoked.

The Persian Achaemenid Empire is overthrown by Alexander the Great, who marches from Macedonia ... foreshadowing modern China's boundaries. European powers also compete over North American ...

Macedonia became the latest European country to build a fence to restrict migrants over its frontier on Saturday, as border police clashed with groups of asylum seekers. In a move that follows in ...