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Absurd scope of page

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Somebody created this page under the absurdly anachronistic premise of (apparently) including all wars ever fought that somehow affected the territory that is now the Republic of Macedonia. Initially the article went as far back as Greek antiquity; when I found it it had been shortened but still went back to the ancient Bulgarian empires (why choose that as an arbitrary cutoff point, one wonders?) There were absurd section titles such as "Republic of Macedonia Under the First Bulgarian Empire (622–1185)", as if there had ever been such a thing.

This made absolutely no sense at all. A war cannot "involve" a thing that doesn't exist. "Wars involving X" is simply not the same thing as "Wars involving the territory that is now X". If you want an article on the latter topic, create one under that title.

I've cut out everything except the last section that dealt with the actual time period after 1991. Fut.Perf. 16:37, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]