Is Bulgaria part of Macedonia?

Macedonia was an ancient Greek kingdom on the northern Greek peninsula. Today, liberated from foreign occupation, the area of the ancient Greek kingdom on the northern Greek peninsula is the province of Macedonia in the Hellenic Republic. read more

If you mean Macedonia as the region, Bulgaria is composed (roughly) of several regions, one of them is Pirin Macedonia (the Southwest), but it is a fairly small part of Bulgaria. If you mean Macedonia as the current state, then no, every political map shows they are different states. read more

Macedonians or Macedonian Bulgarians (Bulgarian: Македонски българи or Mакедонци), sometimes also referred to as Macedono-Bulgarians or Macedo-Bulgarians is a regional, ethnographic group of ethnic Bulgarians, inhabiting or originating from the region of Macedonia. Today, the larger part of this population is concentrated in Blagoevgrad Province but much is spread across the whole of Bulgaria and the diaspora. read more

But the Macedonians defeated the Bulgarian fascist troops and after the war, the government of Bulgaria on August 9, 1946 officially recognized the Macedonian nation and the right of the Pirin part of Macedonia to be attached to the People’s Republic of Macedonia. read more