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Greeks form an ethnic minority in the Republic of Macedonia and official figures from the most recent census (2002) cite 422 individuals of Greek descent. They are a remnant of the formerly much larger Greek community of the part of Macedonia that fell within the borders of the Kingdom of Serbia after the Balkan Wars. Greeks are mainly settled in the cities of Gevgelija (Template:Lang-el, Gevgelī́) and Bitola (Template:Lang-el, Monastī́ri), capital of the historical region of Pelagonia. Today, most Greeks in the country are political refugees who fled Greece due to the Greek Civil War, and their descendants.

The controversy surrounding a Greek minority within the Republic of Macedonia stems from the statistical treatment of Aromanian (Vlach) population groups, who in their majority have historically identified themselves as Greeks. (see Aromanians in Greece)

See also

• Human rights in the Republic of Macedonia
• Greeks in Albania
• Greeks in Bulgaria
• Greeks in Serbia
• Greeks in Turkey

References

1. Ethnologue article on Greek
2. Results of the 2002 census
3. Johns Hopkins University Press: Victor Roudometof, Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Balkans: Greece and the Macedonian Question

v t e Ethnic groups in North Macedonia
Macedonians (1,297,981)
Officially recognised minorities	Albanians (509,083) Turks (77,959) Romani (53,879) Serbs (35,939) Bosniaks (17,018) Aromanians (9,695)
Other minority groups	Arabs (6,300) Balkan Egyptians (3,713) Croats (2,686) Montenegrins (2,003) Bulgarians (1,417) Megleno-Romanians (< 1,000) Greeks (422) Armenians (~ 300) Jews (~ 200) Portuguese (18)
Demographics of North Macedonia

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