English
North Macedonia
From north + Macedonia.
The story
Suggested as a name for the republic since at least the 1990s. Part of the official name of the country since February 2019, adopted to resolve a naming dispute with Greece, hence reinforced as calque of later Macedonian Северна Македонија (Severna Makedonija), itself after English.disputed Scholars disagree here; the competing view is quoted as the source gives it.
Today it means
name A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe. Official name: Republic of North Macedonia. Capital and largest city: Skopje. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / North Macedonia