Milos Rancic wrote: The problem is that the name "Macedonian", in English at least, is ambiguous. In some contexts, it primarily refers to residents of the Republic of Macedonia. In other contexts, it primarily refers to residents of the ancient Macedonian Empire. In still other contexts, it refers generally to inhabitants of the Balkan region named "Macedonia" (corresponding roughly to the former Ottoman province of that name), some of whom are in the RoM, but others of whom are in Greece and Bulgaria. This latter usage in particular leads to some disputes, especially with northern Greeks who call themselves "Macedonians", and consider the name an important part of their history (the 1912 war that captured Thessaloniki from the Ottomans is and long has been called the "Macedonian Struggle", for example). Generally, Wikipedia tries to find some compromise on disputed issues, so in this case the compromise is that none of the claimants get the unadorned "Macedonians" as a descriptor. I do agree something other than "Macedonian Slavs" would be good. "Macedonian (nationality)" has been proposed on one of the talk pages and seems relatively neutral (since the ancient Macedonians weren't part of a "nationality" by a modern definition, and the modern Greek Macedonians are a component of the Greek nationity, not a separate nationality). -Mark