A yellow line denotes the historical boundaries of Macedonia.
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X. Macedonia from the Greek War of Independence (1821) to Liberation (1913)
1821-8 | The Macedonians join with the rest of the Greeks in the common
struggle to throw off the Ottoman yoke.
| 1870 | The independent Bulgarian Church, known as the Exarchate, is established and Bulgaria starts to manifest
expansionist designs on Macedonia.
| 1903 | Many Greek areas in western and northern Macedonia are ravaged after the suppression of the Ilinden Uprising
on the Feast of the Prophet Elijah.
| 1904-8 | The Greeks struggle to prevent Slavonic expansion into Macedonia.Volunteers from both occupied and free
Greece join in the Macedonian struggle.
| 1912-13 | Balkan Wars.Macedonia is liberated from Ottoman rule.
| August 10, 1913 | The Treaty of Bucharest officially establishes the borders of the Balkan nations in Macedonia.
Most of the former Turkish provinces of Thessaloniki and Monastir now belongs to Greece.
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