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the salad of nations: everyone claims the fruit, nobody agrees on the bowl.
means a region and country in the southern balkans, historically the empire of alexander the great, now split across greece, north macedonia, and bulgaria.
from named for the ancient kingdom of macedon, home of philip ii and alexander the great, whose 4th-century bc empire stretched to india; the name later got fought over by modern nations for the same reason exes fight over the dog.
name disputegreece blocked the country's un membership until 2019
renamed 2019became north macedonia after the prespa agreement
fruit saladmacedonia also means mixed fruit salad in italian and spanish
alexander's birthplacepella, in modern greek macedonia, not the country