Maqedonia e Egjeut: Dallime mes rishikimesh

Në Maqedoninë jetojnë rreth 2,6 milionë banorë. 98 % janë [[Maqedonët (greqishtfolës)|Maqedonas greqishtfolës]] me pjesën e madhe të ardhur nga Anadolli pas shkëmbimin e popullsive greko-turke në vitin 1923.<ref>Livanios, Dimitris (2008). ''[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=uqgSDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA68&dq=Serbianization&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9yuTNwr_gAhWPYysKHWtpB8MQ6AEIOTAD#v=onepage&q=exchange%20of%20populations&f=false The Macedonian Question: Britain and the Southern Balkans 1939-1949]''. Oxford University Press. f. 24-25. "As far as Greek Macedonia is concerned, the exchange of populations between Bulgaria and Greece (‘voluntary’, 1919 onwards) and between Turkey and Greece (compulsory, 1923 onwards), provided for by the Treaties of Neuilly and Lausanne respectively, dramatically altered the ethnographic picture of that area. More than 600,000 Greek refugees were settled in Macedonia, mainly in its eastern part, while over 50,000 Slays left Greece. Before 1923, the Greeks were a minority in their own northern province, but after the coming of the refugees the Hellenization of Greek Macedonia became reality. According to the Greek census of 1928, there were about 80,000 Slav-speakers in northern Greece, which is undoubtedly a gross underestimate, for Greek archival sources give a much higher number: about 200,000. According to the same sources, however, the majority were just peasants. while the ‘Bulgarians’, that is those who displayed a Bulgarian national consciousness, were about 80,000. Despite the Slav exodus from Greek Macedonia, a by-product of population exchanges, fear, and oppression on the part of the Greek state, solid Slav enclaves remained in the Greek province, and particularly in the districts of Florina, and Kastoria, in Greek west Macedonia."</ref> Në Maqedoni të jugut edhe jetojnë autokton [[Maqedonët (etni sllave)|Maqedonas]] që flasin gjuhën Maqedonisht të sllavishtjes por shumica janë të asimiluar me forcë nga qeveria grek.<ref name="Murati"/><ref name="MargaronisBBC"/><ref>Jakov Marusic, Sinisa, (2019), "[https://balkaninsight.com/2019/02/26/athens-slams-bbc-over-greeces-macedonian-minority-report/ Athens Slams BBC over ‘Greece’s Macedonian Minority’ Report]", Balkaninsight, Vizituar 2 mars 2019.</ref><ref>Karatsareas, Petros. (2018), "[https://theconversation.com/greeces-macedonian-slavic-heritage-was-wiped-out-by-linguistic-oppression-heres-how-94675 Greece's Macedonian Slavic heritage was wiped out by linguistic oppression – here's how]". The Conversation. Vizituar 19 prill 2018.</ref> Popullsia maqedonase etnike numëron 100.000 njerëz, por shumica identifikohen si "grekët" dhe shumë prej tyre janë nacionalistët grekë.<ref name="MargaronisBBC"/> Nga kjo popullatë vetëm 10.000-20.000 njerëz e shohin veten si maqedonas etnikë.<ref name="MargaronisBBC">Margaronis, Maria. (2019), "[https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47258809 Greece's invisible minority - the Macedonian Slavs]". BBC. Vizituar 24 shkurt 2019. "Historian Leonidas Embiricos estimates that more than 100,000 still live in the Greek region of Macedonia, though only 10,000 to 20,000 would identify openly as members of a minority - and many others are proud Greek nationalists."</ref><ref name="Murati">Murati, Shaban (2019), "[https://www.botasot.info/opinione/1040886/greqise-po-i-cahet-thesi-i-minoriteteve/ Greqisë po i çahet thesi i minoriteteve]", Bota Sot, Vizituar 2 mars 2019.</ref> Feja dominuese në Maqedoni është [[feja ortodokse]]. Pothuajse gjithë popullsia flet [[gjuha greke|gjuhën greke]].