Socialist Republic of Macedonia
Democratic Federal Macedonia (1944–1946) Демократска Федерална Македонија Demokratska Federalna Makedonija People's Republic of Macedonia (1946–1963) Народна Република Македонија Narodna Republika Makedonija Socialist Republic of Macedonia (1963–1991) Социјалистичка Република Македонија Socijalistička Republika Makedonija Republic of Macedonia (1991) Република Македонија Republika Makedonija | |||||||||||
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| 1944–1991 | |||||||||||
| Anthem: March of the Macedonian Revolutionaries (1944) Денес над Македонија (1945–1991) Denes nad Makedonija (English: "Today Over Macedonia") | |||||||||||
Macedonia within Yugoslavia | |||||||||||
| Status | Constituent republic of Yugoslavia | ||||||||||
| Capital | Skopje | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Macedonian Albanian Serbo-Croatian | ||||||||||
| Religion | Secular state (de jure) State atheism (de facto) | ||||||||||
| Government | 1946–1990: Titoist one-party socialist republic 1990–1991: Parliamentary republic | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Cold War | ||||||||||
• ASNOM | 2 August 1944 | ||||||||||
| 8 May 1945 | |||||||||||
| 1991 | |||||||||||
• Independence declared by referendum | 8 September 1991 | ||||||||||
| Currency | Albanian lek (1944) Bulgarian lev (1944–1945) Yugoslav dinar (1945–1991) | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | North Macedonia | ||||||||||
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The Socialist Republic of Macedonia (Macedonian: Социјалистичка Република Македонија, romanized: Socijalistička Republika Makedonija), or SR Macedonia, commonly referred to as Socialist Macedonia, Yugoslav Macedonia or simply Macedonia, was one of the six constituent republics of the post-World War II Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and a nation state of the Macedonians. After the transition of the political system to parliamentary democracy in 1990, the Republic changed its official name to Republic of Macedonia in 1991, and with the beginning of the breakup of Yugoslavia, it declared itself an independent country and held a referendum on 8 September 1991 on which a sovereign and independent state of Macedonia, with a right to enter into any alliance with sovereign states of Yugoslavia was approved.
Geographically, SR Macedonia bordered Albania to the west, Greece to the south and Bulgaria to the east. Within Yugoslavia, it bordered SR Serbia (including SAP Kosovo) to the north. It was one of the two landlocked federal republics, along with SR Serbia.