Mala Prespa and Golo Bardo

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Mala Prespa and Golo Bardo (Bulgarian:Мала Преспа и Голо Бърдо; Macedonian: Мала Преспа и Голо Брдо) is the name by which Bulgarians and ethnic Macedonians refer to an area in the southwest of their perception of the Macedonia region and in southeastern Albania (around the Lake Ohrid) corresponding roughly to the Korçë, Pogradec and Devoll districts (sometimes considered to be a part of Aegean Macedonia). Some small parts of Debar district in the Republic of Macedonia are also part of this region.

The region borders, as well as the relative terminology, exactly coincide with maps produced by ethnic Macedonian nationalists, who have expressed irredentist claims to what they refer to as "Aegean Macedonia" (Greece), "Pirin Macedonia" (Bulgaria), "Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo" (Albania), and "Gora and Prohor Pchinski" (Serbia) despite the fact that ethnic Greeks, Bulgarians, Albanians and Serbs form the majority of the population of each region respectively. These fringe groups have received no official encouragement from the government of the Republic of Macedonia since 1995 when they agreed to remove all territorial claims to neighbouring countries' territories from their constitution^[1].