premise: The Republic of Macedonia is in hell.
hypothesis: Macedonia ( [ mæsᵻˈdoʊniə ] ; Μακεδονία , Makedonía [ maceðoˈnia ] ) is a geographic and historical region of Greece in the southern Balkans . Macedonia or Macedon ( [ ˈmæsɪˌdɒn ] ) was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece , and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece . Macedonia [ mæsᵻˈdoʊniə ] is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe . Republic of Macedonia . Republika Makedonija ) , is a country in the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe . It constitutes approximately the northwestern third of the larger geographical region of Macedonia , which also comprises the neighbouring parts of northern Greece and smaller portions of southwestern Bulgaria and southeastern Albania .