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The names Macedonia and Macedonians have been in existence and survived throughout the history, also been, at the same time negated. The struggle concerning the legitimacy over the territory of Macedonia is in close connection with this names.

The Macedonian people has been formed within the frames of geographic and historical ground of Macedonia in a continuity of developing process (tribe, people, nation). It has acquired the legitimacy over the territory of Macedonia and became the inheritor of all historical and cultural autonomous traditions and values, carrying out the name of Macedonia through centuries as his ethnic and historically legitimate name.

The existence of the Macedonian nation was permanently disturbing the neighboring countries Greece and Bulgaria. The common attitude in their policy was the nonrecognition of the existence of the Macedonian nation, language and state. These states, especially after the partition of Macedonia in 1913 and 1919, were endeavoring to denationalize the Macedonian people. This denationalization was opposed by the Macedonian people from all parts of Macedonia under the foreign authorities, leading the struggle for national liberty and its own state. The Macedonian people was struggling for the Macedonian national and official name.

The period 1944 -- 1948, the Macedonian name and language has been permanently negated by the Bulgarian government, although in 1991 it recognized the independence of the Republic of Macedonia. Since 1991, Greece has put in dispute the name of the Republic of Macedonia, tending to negate the historical identity and the legitimacy of the Macedonian nation and language.

The recognition of the Republic of Macedonia under her constitutional name, by numerous countries, has denoted the triumph of the historical truth and justice, signifying, at the same time, the affirmation of the historical legitimacy and the continuity of the Macedonian nation and state.