Draft:Music of Macedonia

Macedonian music comes from the region in south-eastern Europe, which today is geographically spread across North Macedonia, Pirin (within Bulgaria) and the Aegean (within Greece).

Macedonia in 1913 was divided under British mediation, the Treaty of Bucharest set this in place. It's capital city Solun (today renamed Thessaloniki) was given to Greece, the Pirin Mountain region was given to Bulgaria. The remaining territory of Vardar was put together with five other republics (Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Slovenia) to form Socialist Yugoslavia.

It is important to note that the Macedonian people in the Agean and Pirin territories, were forced to change their names to sound Greek and Bulgarian. They were forbidden to speak Macedonian, the Macedonian Orthodox monasteries, churches, food, music, were relabeled as Bulgarian and Greek. It was essentially a grab of culture and people who were not aligned with the global powers. Greece and Bulgaria since their beginnings were vassals of Western European nations having had Germanic Kings and Queens, who did not want to mate with the local people they were ruling.