The country's former flag portrayed an ancient sun motif excavated ... Greece had already renamed the airport of Thessaloniki — capital of Greek Macedonia — "Macedonia Airport." ...

Further, the Greeks have accused their northern neighbours of appropriating many symbols of Greek culture, such as the Vergina Sun (which initially grace Macedonia’s flag) and Alexander the ...

The agreement, signed at UN headquarters in New York, set the seal on 29 months of United Nations-sponsored negotiations designed to resolve Greek objections to Macedonia’s name and flag and ...

Greece also demands that Macedonia drop from its flag the golden sun of Vergina, claiming it as an ancient Greek symbol, as well as certain articles from its constitution. In 1995, the neighbours ...

Several thousand people gathered in Skopje on Tuesday evening to protest negotiations with Greece. They waved Macedonian flags and held banners reading "Stop Greek racism" and "Stop negotiations." ...

Skopje _ Macedonia’s Government has distanced itself from billboards depicting the Greek flag with a swastika which has caused outcry in Greece. “We would like to distance ourselves from any ...

Greece, which prizes its ancient history above everything else, is especially sensitive. On Sunday, more than 140,000 Greeks marched to parliament in Athens during a flag-waving "Macedonia is ...

And in 1995, in an interim agreement, Macedonia agreed to change its flag and confirmed that it had no territorial ambitions over the Greek province of Macedonia. In return, Greece promised not to ...

Greece will again block Macedonian membership in NATO and the EU. In 1995, Macedonians changed their flag, removing the Vergina Sun image that Greece claimed as its own. This story originated in ...

That is correct, and that is why Greece objects to the use of ... which included Skopje's adoption of the Macedonian Sun of Vergina on its flag, the depiction of the tower of Thessaloniki on ...

While most of Macedonia's people are Slavs or ethnic Albanians in descent and language — the nationalists presented themselves as the heirs of Alexander's Greek-speaking countrymen. The country's ...