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The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (insisted upon by Greece which has its own region called Macedonia), to give it its full and unwieldy title, is a little chunk of the former Yugoslavia left sandwiched between Bulgaria, Kosova, Greece and Albania when that country broke up so violently in the 1990s. Macedonia avoided much of the fighting then, but broke out into violence in 2001 when ethnic Albanians began to claim independence.
The capital city is Skopje, unknown until it began appearing in the news recently.
Virtually all of the surrounding countries have claims of Macedonia and it is a potential keg of gunpowder awaiting a spark to ignite the central Balkans once more.
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