Vardar Macedonia (Macedonian and Serbian: Вардарска Македонија, Vardarska Makedonija) was the name given to the territory of the Kingdom of Serbia (1912–1918) and Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) roughly corresponding to today's North Macedonia. It covers the northwestern part of geographical Macedonia, whose modern borders came to be defined by the mid-19th century.
The region was initially known as Serbian Macedonia[2][3] although the use of the name Macedonia was prohibited later in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, due to the implemented policy of Serbianisation of the local Slavic-speakers.[4][5] From 1919 to 1922, the area (including parts of today Kosovo and Eastern Serbia) was part of South Serbia (Serbian: Jужна Србија, Južna Srbija),[6][7][8]
In 1929, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was divided into provinces called banovinas. Vardar Macedonia as part of South Serbia then became part of Vardar Banovina.[9]
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^Loring M. Danforth (1997). The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World. Princeton University Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-691-04356-2.
^Петър Христов Петров, Македония: история и политическа съдба, том 3, Изд-во "Знание" ООД, 1998, стр. 109.
Alice Ackermann (1999). Making Peace Prevail: Preventing Violent Conflict in Macedonia. Syracuse University Press. pp. 55–. ISBN 978-0-8156-0602-4.
Ilká Thiessen (2007). Waiting for Macedonia: Identity in a Changing World. University of Toronto Press. pp. 29–. ISBN 978-1-55111-719-5.
Hugh Poulton (2000). Who are the Macedonians?. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. pp. 2–. ISBN 978-1-85065-534-3.
Stefan Troebst (January 2007). Das makedonische Jahrhundert: von den Anfängen der nationalrevolutionären Bewegung zum Abkommen von Ohrid 1893-2001 ; ausgewählte Aufsätze. Oldenbourg. pp. 344–. ISBN 978-3-486-58050-1.
Dimitar Bechev (13 April 2009). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia. Scarecrow Press. pp. 232–. ISBN 978-0-8108-6295-1.