One and a half centuries after the emergence of the Macedonian issue, it continues to raise nationalist reactions in Greece and its neighboring countries. In this volume, the wider region of Macedonia is covered in all its geographical variations and historical periods. The distinct groups examined here include the ancient Macedonians, Romans, Greeks, Slavs, Greek/Slavic/Vlach-speaking Christians of the Ottoman period, as well as Greeks and Slavomacedonians of the modern era.

The central theme of this work, national identities, is examined both in its individual and collective dimensions. Issues such as cultural identity, myths, symbols, and stereotypes are analyzed as fundamental characteristics of the process and mechanism of ethno-genesis. The concept of national identity is also examined in both the broader sense of differentiation of group members from others, as well as in the narrow sense of national allegiance to modern nation-states.

Moreover, as historical constructs, identities are constantly subject to negotiation. They serve different social functions as they are formed, weakened, or dissolved over time. They serve any form of social organization that promotes group cohesion, either positively by enhancing solidarity and a sense of security among its members, or negatively through the underlying differentiation from other groups.

This book is a collection of studies, in the English language, under the auspices of the "Foundation of the Museum for the Macedonian struggle". Topics such as the geographical definition of Macedonia, the issue of Macedonian identity in classical and Hellenistic antiquity are analyzed. The perceptions of the term during the middle and late Byzantine period are recorded. The changing perceptions of Macedonia in the works of Greek intellectuals of the Enlightenment are also analyzed. The events of the decade following the outbreak of World War I are recorded as one of the successive, violent changes in human losses and waves of population transfers.

An exceptional collection of enlightening and comprehensive studies on a topic that has continued to provoke thought in the Balkan region in recent decades.

Contains the Texts:
- Evangelos Livieratos, "On the Cartographic Placement of the Toponym "Macedonia"
- M. B. Hatzopoulos, "Perception of the self and the other; the case of Macedon"
- Ioannis Xydopoulos, "Macedonians and Southern Greeks: Sameness and otherness from the Classical Period to the Roman Conquest"
- Elias Koulakiotis, "Approaching cultural identities in the Roman World: Alexander the Great and the other Macedonian Kings in the literary sources"
- Angeliki Delikari, "Macedonia 's image and the meaning of "Macedonian-Ness" among Balkan Slavs in the Byzantine Period"
- Basil C. Gounaris, "Greeks views of Macedonia: From the enlightenment to the First World War"
- Konstantinos Katsanos, "Macedonia of the Serbs, 1870-1941: from old Serbia to Southern Serbia"
- Vemund Aarbakke, "Who can mend a broken heart?" Macedonia's place in modern Bulgarian History"
- Iakovos D. Michailidis, "What "Macedonia for the Macedonians"? Politics and history in Yugoslav Macedonija"
- Iakovos D.

Michailidis, "Identities, diplomacy, political and military correlations: the case of Slav-Speakers in Greece (1919-1949)"
- Ioannis Manos, "On being Macedonian: Social and cultural constructions of identity in Greek Macedonia"
- Stavroula Mavrogeni, "Macedonian Sarissa and Albanian Eagle: Fyrom's new school textbooks"
- Vlasis Vlasidis, "History in mission command: The Macedonian Question and the Internet, 1990-2007"
- Anastasios Tamis, "Macedonian organizations, the Macedonian Issue and Greek Foreign Policy in the diaspora"
- Nikos Zaikos, "The onomastics of States in International Law: the case of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
- Faidon I. Kozyris, ""Macedonia" and related terms in international commerce"