ATHENS, Greece – "What's in a name?" asks Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. "That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet." Not in the ethnically jumbled Balkans region of ...

The statue of Alexander the Great is seen among Greek flags during a rally in Pella, northern Greece, on Wednesday, June 6, 2018. Thousands of protesters gather near the birthplace of Alexander the ...

The United States has recognized the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia as “Macedonia,” the name strongly rejected by neighbor Greece for the past 13 years, President Branko Crvenkovski said on ...

To an outsider, this most Balkan of conflicts looks absurd: two countries fighting over a name and a historical icon who lived 25 centuries ago. But the 26-year-old dispute between two southeastern ...

PRESPES, Greece/BITOLA, Macedonia (Reuters) - (This June 17 story has been refiled to correct academic institution of expert in penultimate paragraph.) Greece and Macedonia set aside three decades of ...

Tens of thousands of people on Sunday rallied in northern Greece's biggest city, Thessaloniki, against a ‘name’ compromise with neighboring Macedonia which they say would hurt their national interests ...

SKOPJE, Macedonia — Ending a debate that has raged for decades and kept the small Balkan nation of Macedonia outside the fold of the NATO alliance, Macedonian lawmakers on Friday night agreed to ...

PELLA, Greece (AP) — Under the brassy stare of an equestrian Alexander the Great statue, 3,000 people gathered near the ancient Greek ruler’s birthplace Wednesday to demand that Greece takes a tough ...