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] form an ethnic minority in the ], with official figures from the most recent census (2002) citing 422 individuals declaring their ethnicity as Greek.<ref name="2002 Census">{{cite web|url=http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/getdocument.aspx?logid=5&id=b5ea1b81-afdb-4026-b695-97a2ca6e21d3|title=Macedonia's census opens new doors|last=Stavrova|first=Biljana|coauthors=Alagjozovski, Robert|date=2003-09-12|publisher=Transitions Online|accessdate=2008-11-08}}</ref> ] also cites ] as a "language of Macedonia", clarifying that "Macedonia" in this case is "different from the region of Greece with the name Macedonia".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=MK|title=Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition|last=Gordon|first=Raymond G., Jr. (ed.)|date=2005|publisher=]|accessdate=2008-11-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ell|title=Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition|last=Gordon|first=Raymond G., Jr. (ed.)|date=2005|publisher=]|accessdate=2008-11-04}}</ref> They are a remnant of the formerly much larger Greek community of the part of ] that fell within the borders of the ] after the ].<ref>{{cite book|last=Clogg|first=Richard|title=Minorities in Greece: Aspects of a Plural Society|publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers|date=2002|pages=p. 118|isbn=ISBN 185065705X, 9781850657057|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-71s8jEHWJsC&pg=PA118&dq=Greek+Bitola}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Roudometof|first=Victor|title=Collective Memory, National Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: Greece, Bulgaria, and the Macedonian Question|publisher=]|location=]|date=2002|pages=p. 90|isbn=ISBN 0275976483, 9780275976484|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Xoww453NVQMC&pg=PA90&dq=Greek+Bitola|accessdate=2008-11-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Yucel|first=Vedat|coauthors=Salomon Ruysdael|title=New Trends in Turkish Foreign Affairs: Bridges and Boundaries|publisher=]|date=2002|pages=p. 298|isbn=0595244947, 9780595244942|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8OBtzJ09jz8C&pg=PA298&dq=Greeks+Manastir|accessdate=2008-11-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Gawrych|first=George Walter|title=The Crescent and the Eagle: Ottoman Rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874-1913|publisher=I.B.Tauris|date=2006|pages=p. 27|isbn=1845112873, 9781845112875|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wPOtzk-unJgC&pg=PA27&dq=Greeks+Manastir|accessdate=2008-11-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Knight|first=E. F.|title=Turkey; the Awakening of Turkey; the Turkish Revolution Of 1908: The Awakening of Turkey|publisher=Adamant Media Corporation|date=2005|pages=p. 182|isbn=1402188161, 9781402188169|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=PKmP7B33vfgC&pg=PA182&dq=Greek+Monastir|accessdate=2008-11-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Few|first=William Preston|coauthors=William Henry Glasson, John Spencer Bassett, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker et. al.|date=1918|title=Search for Greek Monastir on http://books.google.com/|journal=The South Atlantic Quarterly|publisher=]|location=]|volume=XVII (January to October)|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=aWICAAAAIAAJ&q=Greek+Monastir&dq=Greek+Monastir&pgis=1|accessdate=2008-11-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Moore|first=Frederick|title=The Balkan Trial |publisher=Ayer Publishing|date=1906, Reprinted 1971|pages=p. 254|isbn=0405027680, 9780405027680|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=q-3Jh0Nmxd8C&pg=PA254&dq=Greeks+Monastir|accessdate=2008-11-08}}</ref> Greeks are mainly settled in the cities of ] ({{lang-el|Γευγελή}}, ''Gevgelī́'') and ] ({{lang-el|Μοναστήρι}}, ''Monastī́ri''),<ref>{{cite book|last=Cowan|first=Jane K.|title=Macedonia: The Politics of Identity and Difference|publisher=]|location=London; ]|date=2000|pages=p. 118|isbn=0745315895, 9780745315898|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=SXGd04cB59EC&pg=PR15&dq=Greek+Monastir|accessdate=2008-11-08}}</ref> capital of the historical region of ]. Today, most Greeks in the country are political refugees who fled Greece due to the ], and their descendants.{{Fact|date=November 2008}}
''']''' form an ethnic minority in the ], with official figures from the most recent census (2002) citing 422 individuals declaring their ethnicity as Greek. Greeks were present in territory of todays Republic of Macedonia as its southern parts belonged to ] region became predominalty ] after their arrival in 6th century. Although ethnic Greeks were mainly concetrated in southern areas<ref>{{cite book|last=Gawrych|first=George Walter|title=The Crescent and the Eagle: Ottoman Rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874-1913|publisher=I.B.Tauris|date=2006|pages=p. 27|isbn=1845112873, 9781845112875|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wPOtzk-unJgC&pg=PA27&dq=Greeks+Manastir|accessdate=2008-11-08}}</ref> presence of ] was noted also in other areas of Macedonia especially in urban ones<ref>{{cite book|last=Roudometof|first=Victor|title=Collective Memory, National Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: Greece, Bulgaria, and the Macedonian Question|publisher=]|location=]|date=2002|pages=p. 90|isbn=ISBN 0275976483, 9780275976484|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Xoww453NVQMC&pg=PA90&dq=Greek+Bitola|accessdate=2008-11-08}}</ref>. Ottoman census of 1910 counted that population of ] (today's Bitola) consisted of 15,000 ], 15,000 ], 5,000 ] and 3,000 ]. However it should be noted that basis of Ottoman censuses was the millet system. People were assigned to ethicity according which religion they belonged. So all Sunni Muslims were categorised as Turks, all members of Greek Orthodox church as Greeks although it included vaste majority of ] and certain number of Macedonian Slavs, while rest being divided between Bulgarian and Serb Orthodox churches<ref name = "Ortayli 2006 89-8">Ortaylı, İlber. ''"Son İmparatorluk Osmanlı (The Last Empire: Ottoman Empire)"'', İstanbul, Timaş Yayınları (Timaş Press), 2006. pp. 87–89. ISBN 975-263-490-7 {{tr icon}}.</ref>. However western ethnographers made their own indepedent researches about ethnic composition of Ottoman areas. ''La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne'' printed in ] in 1905 noted that christian population of Monastir consisted of 8,884 ] belonging to ], 6,300 Bulgarians belonging to Greek orthodox church, 72 Bulgarians belonging to ], 36 Bulgarian protestants, 7,200 Aromanians belonging to Greek orthodox church, 120 christian ], 120 ] and 100 Greeks. Out of 28 christian schools in city 13 were Bulgarian, 9 Greek, 4 Romanian and 3 Serb.<ref>D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, р.166-167.</ref>. Presence of Greek liturgy and greek schooling made Greek language and Greek culture and Greek national feeling be adopted by certain number of Orthodox population in area. Those non-ethnic Greek adopting Greek ethnic feelings were known as ]. In 1913 after ] Macedonia was divided between ], ] and ] and new border went just south of Bitola. Some grecoman Aromanians from area decided to resetlle in Greek Macedonia with ] in ] witnessing the arrival of a large Greek-speaking commercial population from Monastiri (Bitola).<ref>{{cite book|last=Clogg|title=Minorities in Greece: Aspects of a Plural Society|date=2002|pages=p. 153|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-71s8jEHWJsC&pg=PA152&dq=Greek-speaking+Monastiri+Bitola|accessdate=2008-11-08}}</ref>. During ] Greek-Yugoslav border was supply and escape route for Greek communist. At the end of war big vawe of ] out of which most were Macedonian Slavs while minority being ethnic Greeks crossed the border and settled Yugoslavia and other countries of former eastern bloc<ref></ref> .

The controversy surrounding a Greek minority within the Republic of Macedonia stems from the statistical treatment of ] (]) population groups, who in their majority have historically identified themselves as Greeks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gate.net/~mango/JHS1.htm#FOOT29|title=Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Balkans: Greece and the Macedonian Question|last=Roudometof|first=Victor|date=1996|work=Journal of Modern Greek Studies|publisher=The ]|location=]|accessdate=2008-11-08}}</ref> A large number of Greek-identifying Vlachs left the region after the Balkan Wars, with ] in ] witnessing the arrival of a large Greek-speaking commercial population from Monastiri (Bitola).<ref>{{cite book|last=Clogg|title=Minorities in Greece: Aspects of a Plural Society|date=2002|pages=p. 153|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-71s8jEHWJsC&pg=PA152&dq=Greek-speaking+Monastiri+Bitola|accessdate=2008-11-08}}</ref>

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Greeks form an ethnic minority in the Republic of Macedonia, with official figures from the most recent census (2002) citing 422 individuals declaring their ethnicity as Greek. Ethnologue also cites Greek as a "language of Macedonia", clarifying that "Macedonia" in this case is "different from the region of Greece with the name Macedonia". 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. A large number of Greek-identifying Vlachs left the region after the Balkan Wars, with Florina in Greece witnessing the arrival of a large Greek-speaking commercial population from Monastiri (Bitola).

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