premise: There are people in the Republic of Macedonia.
hypothesis: Republic of Macedonia . The capital and largest city , Skopje , is home to roughly a quarter of the nation 's 2.06 million inhabitants . The majority of the residents are ethnic Macedonians , a South Slavic people . Albanians form a significant minority at around 25 percent , followed by Turks , Romani , Serbs , and others . Macedonia remained part of the Byzantine ( Eastern Roman ) Empire , and was often raided and settled by Slavic peoples beginning in the sixth century CE .