page_title: Macedonia (region)
section_title: Ottoman Macedonia
hierarchical_section_title: Macedonia (region) / History / Ottoman Macedonia
caption_attribution_description: English: "Map of a part of Macedonia" by Pierre Lapie, from the book "Voyage dans la Macedoine contenant des recherches sur l' Histoire ...", vol. 1, Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1831, by Esprit-Marie Cousinery, French consul in Thessaloniki (1773-1793). Ελληνικά: "Χάρτης μέρους της Μακεδονίας" από τον Pierre Lapie (1826), δημοσιευμένος στο βιβλίο "Voyage dans la Macedoine contenant des recherches sur l' Histoire ...", τόμ. 1, Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1831, του Esprit-Marie Cousinery, Γάλλου πρόξενου στη Θεσσαλονίκη (1773-1793). Δημοσιεύεται στο Ευάγγ. Λιβιεράτος &amp; Χρυσούλα Παλιαδέλη "Ευρωπαϊκή χαρτογραφία και πολιτική. ...", εκδ. Ζήτη, Θεσσαλονίκη, 2013, σ. 141. Στο media.public.gr
context_page_description: Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Its boundaries have changed considerably over time; however, it came to be defined as the modern geographical region by the mid 19th century. Today the region is considered to include parts of six Balkan countries: Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, and Kosovo. It covers approximately 67,000 square kilometres and has a population of 4.76 million.
  Its oldest known settlements date back approximately to 7,000 BC. From the middle of the 4th century BC, the Kingdom of Macedon became the dominant power on the Balkan Peninsula; since then Macedonia has had a diverse history.
context_section_description: Since the middle of the 14th century, the Ottoman threat was looming in the Balkans, as the Ottomans defeated the various Christian principalities, whether Serb, Bulgarian or Greek. After the Ottoman victory in the Battle of Maritsa in 1371, most of Macedonia accepted vassalage to the Ottomans and by the end of the 14th century the Ottoman Empire gradually annexed the region. The final Ottoman capture of Thessalonica (1430) was seen as the prelude to the fall of Constantinople itself. Macedonia remained a part of the Ottoman Empire for nearly 500 years, during which time it gained a substantial Turkish minority. Thessaloniki later become the home of a large Sephardi Jewish population following the expulsions of Jews after 1492 from Spain.
caption: Map of Part of Macedonia (Carte d'une partie de la Macedoine) by Piere Lapie (1826).[46]
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