Original scientific paper

Marjan Dimitrijevski ; Institut for National History, Skopje, Macedonia

Abstract

The Northern border of Macedonia has always been important, according to its relevance in defining borders with Northern neighbors: Republic of Serbia and Kosovo and Metohija.
Several key elements have been defining the border line between Macedonia and Northern neighbors.
The first factor is the difficulty which comes with the problem of defining the national system of people who live near the border itself and according to which the border had been and is defined. So, according to this factor, border line has been altered and corrected several times, until today.
The second factor of bordering is a kind of geographical terrain, according to which the border had mostly been defined, according to possibility of traveling across the mountains and river valleys. There are fewer changes of borders according to this factor, since it was usually in accordance with actual border between local inhabitants which live in border region.
The third factor is traffic-communication infrastructure, according to which, the development of such infrastructure is also the key factor of defining the border line.
The fourth factor is the economical justification of moving the border line, according to which, the possibility for better economical life of border inhabitants, and their employment in some of existing manufacturing capacities, is also an important factor in defining the border line.
The fifth factor is the historical tradition and the international justification of existing of such defined border line of the Northern border of Macedonia.

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Hrčak ID:

77820

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/77820

Publication date:

28.5.2007.

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