Coins of Macedonia

Coins of Macedonia after becoming an independent state.

Although Macedonia is a young state which became independent in 1991, its root run deep in the history.  The name Macedonia is in fact the oldest surviving name of a country in the continent of Europe.  Archaeological evidence shows that old European civilization flourished in Macedonia between 7000 and 3000 BC.  Macedonia is located in the center of the Balkans, north of Greece, east of Illyria and west of Trace.  The ancient Macedonians were a distinct nation, ethnically, linguistically, and culturally different from their neighbours.   The origins of the Macedonians are in the ancient Brygian substratum which occupied  the whole of Macedonia territory and in the Indo-European superstratum , which settled here at the end of the 2nd. millennium.