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Greeks form an ethnic minority in the Republic of Macedonia, with official figures from the most recent census (2002) citing 422 individuals declaring their ethnicity as Greek. Greeks were present on the territory of today's Republic of Macedonia when it's southern parts belonged to the Ancient Macedon region which became predominantly Slavic after their arrival in the 6th century. Although ethnic Greeks were mainly concentrated in southern areas, the presence of the Greek Orthodox church was also noted in other areas of Macedonia, especially in urban ones. The Ottoman census of 1910 showed that the population of Monastir (today's Bitola) consisted of 15,000 Turks, 15,000 Greeks, 5,000 Bulgarians and 3,000 Serbs. However, it should be noted that the basis of Ottoman censuses was the millet system. People were assigned to an ethnicity according to which religion they belonged to. So, all Sunni Muslims were categorized as Turks, all members of the Greek Orthodox church as Greeks, although it included a vast majority of Aromanians and a certain number of Macedonian Slavs, while the rest were divided between the Bulgarian and Serb Orthodox churches. However, western ethnographers made their own independent researches on the ethnic composition of Ottoman areas. La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne, printed in Paris in 1905, noted that the Christian population of Monastir consisted of 8,884 Bulgarians belonging to the Bulgarian orthodox church, 6,300 Bulgarians belonging to Greek Orthodox church, 72 Bulgarians belonging to Serb Orthodox church, 36 Bulgarian protestants, 7,200 Aromanians belonging to Greek Orthodox church, 120 Christian Albanians, 120 Gypsies and 100 Greeks. Out of 28 Christian schools in the city, 13 were Bulgarian, 9 Greek, 4 Romanian and 3 Serb.. The presence of the Greek liturgy and Greek schooling made the Greek language, culture and national feeling be adopted by a certain number of the Orthodox population in area. Those non-ethnic Greeks adopting Greek ethnic feelings were known as Grecomans. In 1913, after the First Balkan war Macedonia was divided between Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria and a new border went just south of Bitola. Some Grecoman Aromanians from the area decided to resettle in Greek Macedonia with Florina in Greece witnessing the arrival of a large Greek-speaking commercial population from Monastiri (Bitola).. During the Greek civil war, the Greek-Yugoslav border was a supply and escape route for Greek communists. At the end of war, a big wave of Greek refuges, out of which most were Macedonian Slavs, while a minority being ethnic Greeks crossed the border and settled Yugoslavia and other countries of former eastern bloc .

References

1. Gawrych, George Walter (2006). The Crescent and the Eagle: Ottoman Rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874-1913. I.B.Tauris. pp. p. 27. ISBN 1845112873, 9781845112875. Retrieved 2008-11-08. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
2. Roudometof, Victor (2002). Collective Memory, National Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: Greece, Bulgaria, and the Macedonian Question. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. p. 90. ISBN ISBN 0275976483, 9780275976484. Retrieved 2008-11-08. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
3. Ortaylı, İlber. "Son İmparatorluk Osmanlı (The Last Empire: Ottoman Empire)", İstanbul, Timaş Yayınları (Timaş Press), 2006. pp. 87–89. ISBN 975-263-490-7 Template:Tr icon.
4. D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, р.166-167.
5. Clogg (2002). Minorities in Greece: Aspects of a Plural Society. pp. p. 153. Retrieved 2008-11-08. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
6. Жаклина Митевска. Егзодусот на децата бегалци - 55 години, Македонско Сонце

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Macedonians (1,297,981)
Officially recognised minorities	Albanians (509,083) Turks (77,959) Romani (53,879) Serbs (35,939) Bosniaks (17,018) Aromanians (9,695)
Other minority groups	Arabs (6,300) Balkan Egyptians (3,713) Croats (2,686) Montenegrins (2,003) Bulgarians (1,417) Megleno-Romanians (< 1,000) Greeks (422) Armenians (~ 300) Jews (~ 200) Portuguese (18)
Demographics of North Macedonia

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