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This really will not do; Macedonia was routinely used, for at least a century before 1912, on Western maps of the Balkans. (There were very few maps of the Balkans in the seventeenth century, with or without Macedonia; but so what? Septentrionalis 00:45, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
I really don't get your objection. The map you have included here, along with anyone I've ever seen that indeed states "Macedonia", does not define the region. Unlike Wallachia, Hungary, Khanate of the Crimea etc. If there was an arbitrary region by that name, then so be it. We can reword it instead of "rarely used on maps" to "used on maps, but never defined to an exact region". In any case, the ambiguity remains, and that's what I think Wilkinson had in mind when he said so. :NikoSilver: 14:17, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
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- There is no evidence that it was "never defined to an exact region" either. McCarthy does not say so, in fact he gives a region; Wilkinson is writing only about ethnographic maps - and if he says any such thing I do not see it. (And most of the differences he finds in the boundaries of Macedonia are a few miles here or there.) Page number, please. Septentrionalis 21:28, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
