 The area of North Macedonia was incorporated again into the Byzantine Empire in the early 11th century as a new province called Bulgaria.As result for nearly thousand years the name of Macedonia had different meanings for Western Europeans and for the Balkan people.For the Westerners it denoted the territory of the Ancient Macedonia, but for the Balkan Christians, when rarely used, it covered the territories of the former Byzantine theme of Macedonia, situated between modern Turkish Edirne and the river Nestos, in present-day Thrace.