Vardar Macedonia I ve taken off the initial references to Vardar Macedonia Indeed Kumanovo is an integral city of this region however it is often the case that when people write about history Wikipedia editors and real historians it can be very easy to confuse entities regarding the time in question Kumanovo then Kumanova was a city in the Kosovo Vilayet not something people immediately link this battle to because most consider the Kosovo of 1912 to be the same region it is today when in fact is was significantly larger in land mass then covering today s region Regarding Macedonia by name that word was on the tongues of Serbian Greek and Bulgarian leaders in relation to how they would divide this arbitrary territory amongst themelves But from an Ottoman perspective there was no Macedonian vilayet or subdivision For belligerents such as the Balkan League aiming to capture the territories and drive out Ottoman control it is of no importance where the Ottoman lines of internal demarcation are As such Kumanovo was merely part of the Serbian campaign versus the Ottomans to retake Kosovo Concerning Bulgaria even it too had no aspirations in this particular region nor Skopje They were happy to leave Kosovo to Serbia but wished to claim the territories south of the region that in turn became what they Serbia and Greece meant went citing Macedonia in 1913 ahead of the Second Balkan War Only in 1944 within the scope of Communist Yugoslavia was modern day Vardar Macedonia drawn up to include its conventional outline and here Kumanovo was placed in Macedonia along with Veles Skopje tip and Tetovo all of which were in the Ottoman Kosovo up to 1912