[13] The fall and massacre of Naoussa marked the end of the Greek Revolution in Macedonia, and the region remained in the Ottoman empire. Elections take place in a two-round system, where the two candidates with the most votes face each other in a second round if no one has managed to get a majority of more than 50% of the votes in the first round. [51] Macedonia's agricultural production has historically been dominated by tobacco, with the cash crop being grown in large quantities due to its value. The Macedonians claimed to be Dorian Greeks (Argive Greeks) and there were many Ionians in the coastal regions. St Antony’s Series. [18] Their name, Μακεδόνες (Makedhónes), is cognate to the Ancient Greek adjective μᾰκεδνός (makednós), meaning 'tall, slim'. In the Late Neolithic period (c. 4500 to 3500 BC), trade took place with quite distant regions, indicating rapid socio-economic changes. I Makedonia einai Elliniki. [73], Macedonian cuisine is the cuisine of the region of Macedonia in northern Greece. Philip’s son Alexander III (Alexander the Great; reigned 336–323) overthrew the Achaemenian (Persian) Empire and expanded Macedonia’s dominion to the Nile and Indus rivers. This objection is the direct result of this regional identity, and a matter of heritage for northern Greeks. Macedonia is located in the center of the Southern Balkans, north of ancient Hellas (Greece), east of Illyria, and west of Thrace. The Balkan Exchange of Minorities and Its Impact on Greece, Dimitri Pentzopoulos, page 134, 2002. There is no evidence that prehistoric Macedonia was ever occupied by ancient Greeks. [49] The regional labour force was similarly mostly employed in services (60.4%), with industry and agriculture making up 25.6% and 14.0% of the labour force. [102] His discoveries were drawn upon as evidence of ethnic and cultural links between the ancient Macedonians and southern Greek city-states[102][94] by Greeks in Macedonia. The last decade of the long reign of Artaxerxes II had been blighted by revolts in the western half of his empire—at first sporadic, then…. Upon reaching the Peloponnese the invaders were renamed Dorians, triggering the accounts of the Dorian invasion. There were several uprisings in Macedonia during Ottoman rule, including an uprising after the Battle of Lepanto that ended in massacres of the Greek population, the uprising in Naousa of the armatolos Zisis Karademos in 1705, a rebellion in the area of Grevena by a Klepht called Ziakas (1730–1810). When Macedonia was first incorporated in Greece in 1913, however, Greeks were a marginal plurality in the region. Together with Thrace, and sometimes also Thessaly and Epirus, it is part of Northern Greece. There are monuments in Macedonia commemorating the Makedonomachi, the local Macedonian and other Greek fighters, who took part in the wars and died [81][82] However, these figures extend to territories both inside and outside of Greek Macedonia. The Pelagonian plain was inhabited by the Pelagones, an ancient Greek tribe of Upper Macedonia; whilst the western region (Ohrid-Prespa) was said to have been inhabited by Illyrian tribes. The last Greek local elections were in 2014, and saw Apostolos Tzitzikostas elected regional governor of Central Macedonia, Giorgos Pavlidis in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, and Theodoros Karypidis in Western Macedonia. As observed on the physical map of the country above, Macedonia is an elevated plateau of large, rolling hills and deep valleys, completely dissected and surrounded by mountains like the Sar Mountains, Osogovski Mountains, Malesevski Mountains, Nidze Mountains and others. See more ideas about macedonia, ancient, ancient greece. [93][94] Macedonians came to be of particular importance prior to the Balkan Wars, during the Macedonian Struggle, when they were a minority population inside the multiethnic Ottoman Macedonia. Central Macedonia is Greece's fourth-most-popular tourist region and the most popular destination that is not an island. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. Μόνιμος πληθυσμός κατά φύλο, ομάδες ηλικιών και τόπο γέννησης (Περιφερειακή ενότητα, χώρα εξωτερικού)–Περιφερειακές Ενότητες", "Κατάλογος των προσφυγικών συνοικισμών της Μακεδονίας (Catalogue of Refugee Communities in Greek Macedonia, including changes in Macedonian place-names", "Thessaloniki's new Holocaust museum a sign of a city finally embracing its Jewish past", "Thicker than Water? Lagina – Via Egnatia . Overall Central and Western Macedonia account for 25% of the value of Greek agricultural produce (including 41% of fruit and 43% cereal). At the conclusion of the Greek Civil War (1946–49), most Macedonians of Slavic background were evacuated by the Greek Communist Party and forced to flee to the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Macedonia and other countries in Eastern and Central Europe. 25. of 30. Apollonia – St Paul’s Tribune . From 321 to 301 warfare was almost continual. 10K likes. [57] The Thessaloniki Suburban Railway links the regional capital with Florina, in Western Macedonia, and Larissa, in Thessaly. Herodotus claims that Mar 11, 2018 - Archeology in historical Macedonia - Maps, photos, news, and discoveries of the great Tombs and landmarks of ancient Macedonia Greece. Updates? Macedon was an ancient kingdom located in the north of the Greek peninsula first inhabited by the Mackednoi tribe who, according to Herodotus, were the first to call themselves 'Hellenes’ (later applied to all Greeks) and who gave the land their name.The kingdom was founded c. 7th century BCE by Caranas who seems semi-mythical and named after the god Makedon (also given as Makednos, Macedon … [122] By the 1680s about 300 families of Sephardi followers of Sabbatai Zevi had converted to Islam, becoming a sect known as the Dönmeh (converts), and migrated to Thessaloniki, whose population was by that time majority-Jewish. [33] Its fighters were known as Makedonomachoi ("Macedonian fighters"). These are Western Macedonia, Central Macedonia, and Eastern Macedonia, which is part of the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. It was divided into four administrative districts by the Romans in the hope that this would make revolts more difficult, but this manoeuvre failed. Palgrave Macmillan, London, "In 1813 Macedonia did not exist. [101] Bulgaria was specifically mentioned as the enemy in Greek Macedonia's unofficial anthem, Famous Macedonia, the reference only being replaced by vague 'Barbarians' with the normalization of Greco-Bulgarian relations in the 1970s. [88][89][90] In its own zone of annexation, Bulgaria actively persecuted the local Greek population with the help of Bulgarian collaborationists. [99] During the same period, Manolis Andronikos made major archaeological discoveries at Aigai, the first capital of ancient Macedonia, which included the tomb of Phillip II, Alexander the Great's father. They established an active community that thrived for about 250 years. 10,890 people like this. [25][26][27], Familiarity with the Slavic element in the area led two brothers from Thessaloniki, Saints Cyril and Methodius, to be chosen to convert the Slavs to Christianity. The mix of the different people inhabiting the region gave the name to the Macedonian salad.[74]. After a brief Byzantine interval in 1403–1430 (during the last seven years of which the city was handed over to the Venetians), Thessaloniki and its immediate surrounding area returned to the Ottomans. Thessaloniki Ancient Agora – Roman Forum Vlatadon Monastery Stone of St Paul St Paul’s spring St Paul’s church City walls Seven Castles (Eptapyrgion) Thessaloniki present day city . Macedonia is located in the center of the Southern Balkans, north of ancient Greece, east of Illyria, and west of Thrace. Macedonia was an ancient Greek kingdom on the northern Greek peninsula. Greece exited its recession, which began in 2009, in 2016 but data from that year onward is not available for the whole of Macedonia; Central Macedonia grew by 0.57% in real terms that year to €23.85 billion ($28.14 billion), while Western Macedonia contracted by 10.6% to €3.85 billion ($4.54 billion). They are generally adherents to the Orthodox Church while the former majority in Notia was Muslim. Many of their descendants later became prominent in trade. The remainder of the Chalkidiki peninsula also enjoyed an autonomous status: the "Koinon of Mademochoria" was governed by a locally appointed council due to privileges obtained on account of its wealth, coming from the gold and silver mines in the area. της Περιφερειακής Ανάπτυξης" (. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Macedonia Prima coincided approximately with Strabo's definition of Macedonia and with the modern administrative district of Greece[21] and had Thessaloniki as its capital, while Macedonia Salutaris had the Paeonian city of Stobi (near Gradsko) as its capital. [6] The name Macedonia was later applied to a number of widely-differing administrative areas in the Roman and Byzantine empires. [70] Macedonia is also home to various lake and wetland tourist destinations. [124] The Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 destroyed much of the city and left 50,000 Jews homeless. Following the campaigns of Basil II, all of Macedonia returned to the Byzantine state. Macedonia remained the bulwark of Greece, and the northern frontiers saw frequent campaigning against neighbouring tribes. [120] Communities of descendants of Thessaloniki Jews – both Sephardic and Romaniote – live in other areas, mainly the United States and Israel. Scholars from modern Greece and the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia have made bold statements on the nature of ancient Macedonia, which in their more extreme variants can be summarized as "the ancient Macedonians spoke a Slavic language" and "Macedonia has been Greek for at least 3,000 years". Macedonia is the largest and second-most-populous Greek region, with a population of 2.38 million in 2017. [46] Macedonia borders the sovereign states of Albania to the north-west, North Macedonia to the north, and Bulgaria to the north-east. Macedonia Greece. The ancient Macedonians were a distinct nation, ethnically, linguistically, and culturally different from their neighbors. Chalkidiki is home to Mount Athos, which is an important centre of religious tourism. Conservatives departed with the occupying Bulgarian Army to Bulgaria. Macedonia is important to the study of Ancient Greece due to the fact that the Macedonian Age was what immediately preceded the Dark Ages, which began in about 1,200 B.C.E. Not to be confused with the modern Macedonian language, which is … In 348 bc, Philip II founded Thessaloníki. Macedonia, ancient kingdom centred on the plain in the northeastern corner of the Greek peninsula, at the head of the Gulf of Thérmai. The country shares land borders with four countries: Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey. [52] A brand identity for products made in Macedonia, called "Macedonia the GReat", was launched in 2019 by the Greek government.[53]. [83] The area's remaining population was principally composed of Ottoman Turks (including non-Turkish Muslims of mainly Bulgarian and Greek Macedonian convert origin) and also a sizeable community of mainly Sephardic Jews (centred in Thessaloniki), and smaller numbers of Romani, Albanians, Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians. [52] Nowadays the regional agricultural economy is centered around cereal, fruit, and industrial crops. Together with Thrace, and sometimes also Thessaly and Epirus, it is part of Northern Greece. They caused increasing involvement by Rome in Greek affairs and helped lead to Roman domination of the entire eastern Mediterranean area. A Nation's Lament Sydney: Stentor Press. Accounts of other toponyms such as Emathia are attested to have been in use before that. [69] Additionally, the region was home to three Blue Flag marinas and one sustainable boating tourism operator. The rest of the region was inhabited by various Thracian and Illyrian tribes as well as mostly coastal colonies of other Greek states such as Amphipolis, Olynthos, Potidea, Stageira and many others, and to the north another tribe dwelt, called the Paeonians. The ancient Greek and Roman historians tell us that the Macedonians spoke a separate Macedonian language and had their own customs, culture, and traditions. Before the expansion of Macedonia under Philip in the 4th century BC, the kingdom of the Macedonians covered a region corresponding roughly to the western and central parts of the region of Macedonia in modern Greece. Macedonia is the largest and second-most-populous Greek region. Macedonia within Turkey before 1912 and its partition in 1913 among Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Albania Drawing new borders under the excuse of establishing a "balance" and peace on the Balkans was a violent denial of the rights of the Macedonian people to live and develop as a free, unified and independent nation. Machedonia is also the name for the region in Megleno-Romanian. [32] In 1854 Theodoros Ziakas, the son of the klepht Ziakas, together with Dimitrios Karatasos, who had been among the captains at the siege of Naousa in 1821, led another uprising in Western Macedonia that has been profusely commemorated in Greek folk song. Macedonia Macedonia is a geographic and administrative region of Greece, in the southern Balkans. [120] In 1943 the Nazis began actions against the Jews in Thessaloniki, forcing them into a ghetto near the railroad lines and beginning their deportation to concentration camps in German-occupied territories. [71] Macedonia is home to four of Greece's 18 UNESCO World Heritage sites, including Aigai (modern Vergina), the first capital of the Macedonian kingdom, where in addition to the monumental palace decorated with mosaics and painted stuccoes, the site contains a burial ground with more than 300 tumuli, one of which has been identified[citation needed] as the tomb of Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great. 429-430. [95][96] This sense of identity has been highlighted in the context of the Macedonia naming dispute in the aftermath of the break-up of Yugoslavia, in which Greece objected to its northern neighbour calling itself the "Republic of Macedonia". a branch of the Macedonians invaded Southern Greece towards the end of the second millennium B.C. Macedonia in Upstate New York existed before the Titoslavian communist enclave called Vardarska … [10][11][12] The economic ascent of Thessaloniki and of the other urban centres of Macedonia coincided with the cultural and political renaissance of the Greeks. Ancient Greek Macedonians were highly interested in the improvement of their physical and psychological health. Οικονομικός Ταχυδρόμος, 22 Σεπτεμβρίου 1994, Σελ. The islands of Macedonia are Thasos, opposite the coasts of Eastern Macedonia and the port of Kavala, and Ammouliani, opposite the coasts of Central Macedonia, in Chalkidiki. Macedonia lies at the crossroads of human development between the Aegean and the Balkans. The First Macedonian War (215–205 Alexander the Great was an ancient Macedonian ruler and one of history’s greatest military minds who, as King of Macedonia and Persia, established the largest empire the ancient … [100] The perceived existence of a foreign danger had a particularly strong effect on the emergence of a distinct regional identity in Macedonia. The Greek Prime Minister, Eleftherios Venizelos, favoured entering the war on the side of the Entente, while the Germanophile King Constantine I favoured neutrality. During the Peloponnesian War, Macedonia became the theatre of many military actions by the Peloponnesian League and the Athenians, and saw incursions of Thracians and Illyrians, as attested by Thucydides. According to Misha Glenny, such Greek Jews had largely not encountered "anti-Semitism as in its North European form". [4] The per capita income of Macedonia in 2015 was €12,900 in nominal and €15,900 in purchasing power terms. The table below is a concise list of the various subdivisions of Macedonia: The Gross Domestic Product of Macedonia peaked at €41.99 billion ($49.54 billion) in nominal value and €46.87 billion ($55.3 billion) in purchasing power parity just before the Great Recession in 2008;[4] it has since then contracted to its lowest point in 2015, during the Greek government-debt crisis, to €30.85 billion ($36.4 billion) and €38.17 billion ($45.03 billion);[4] a decrease of 26.5%. In World War II Macedonia was occupied by the Axis (1941–44), with Germany taking western and central Macedonia with Thessaloniki and Bulgaria occupying and annexing eastern Macedonia. In 1845, for instance, the story of Alexander was published in a Slavo-Macedonian dialect scripted in Greek characters... For their part, Bulgarian nationalists readily accepted Macedonia as a regional denomination... Macedonia had become one of the ‘‘historic’’ Bulgarian lands... and ‘‘Macedonian Bulgarian’’ turned into a standard phrase." Macedonia was the dominant power in Greece; Alexander the Great (King of Macedonia) conquered the Persian empire; after Alexander's death the Macedonian kingdom continued until the Roman conquest in 168 B.C. [67], Central Macedonia is the most popular tourist destination in Greece that is not an island, and its fourth overall, outperforming all other regions of the Greek mainland with 9.7 million overnight stays in 2017. [104] The total number of 'slavic speakers' in Greece is estimated to range between as low as 10,000 and as high as 300,000. 4. Smaller numbers can be found in the Prespes region and near the Gramos mountains. Music of Macedonia is the music of the geographic region of Macedonia in Greece, which is a part of the music of whole region of Macedonia. It continued as an administrative subdivision of Greece until the administrative reform of 1987, when it was divided into the regions of Western Macedonia, Central Macedonia, and part of the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, the latter containing also the whole Greek part of the region of Thrace.[14]. In the late Byzantine period Greek Macedonia had also been the centre of significant Byzantine successor states, such as the Kingdom of Thessalonica, the short-lived state established by the rival Byzantine emperor, Theodore Komnenos Doukas, and - in parts of western Macedonia - the Despotate of Epirus, all of which helped promote a distinct Greek Macedonian identity. In the early-to-mid 20th century Greece was invaded by Bulgaria three times with the aim of capturing portions Macedonia;[99] during the Second Balkan War, during the First World War, and during the Second World War. Macedonia is the largest and second-most-populous Greek region, with a population of 2.38 million in 2017. Regional councils, mayors, and other officials are also elected in this way. More recent scholars point to Asia Minor as the original Greek homeland. Apart from being the cultural centre of Macedonia, Thessaloniki is also a hub for urban tourism and gastronomy. 51/87 "Καθορισμός των Περιφερειών της Χώρας για το σχεδιασμό κ.λ.π. The famous ancient geographer Strabon wrote: “Macedonia is Greece.” The historical name of Skopje from the years of Alexander the Great until its conquest by the Turks (in 1380), based on historical evidence, was VARDARSA. Our study area, Central Macedonia, lies in the core of the ancient Macedonian state (500-168 B.C.) Historic Macedonia is in Greece. 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[65] The EU invested €210 million ($247.76 million) in these three programmes for the 2014–2020 funding cycle. Tzitzikostas and Pavlidis are members of the centre-right New Democracy party, while Karypidis is an independent. [69] The long coasts of Pieria and Kavala have sandy beaches with seaside resorts and tourist facilities. Following the Fourth Crusade 1203–1204, a short-lived Crusader realm, the Kingdom of Thessalonica, was established in the region. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. With the gradual conquest of southeastern Europe by the Ottomans in the late 14th century, the name of Macedonia disappeared as an administrative designation for several centuries and was rarely displayed on maps. In at least 24 places in northern Greece, in Halkidiki, Thessaloniki, Kozani, Kavala, Thassos, Serres and other places, archaelogical findings were related to Asclepius. Many Aromanian villages can be found along the slopes of the Vermion Mountains and Mount Olympus. The passage reports that Paul and his companions responded immediately to the invitation. The region is highly mountainous, with most major urban centres such as Thessaloniki and Kavala being concentrated on its southern coastline. [117] However, reports by organisations such as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Council of Europe, and the United States Department of State have all concluded that Greek authorities are actively discriminatory against the existence of a Macedonian language, minority, or national identity,[117][94][118] even if the situation has improved markedly. The memory of the event has survived through folk traditions containing fact and myths. [91] Further demographic change happened in the aftermath of the Greek Civil War, when many Slavs of Macedonia who fought on the side of the Democratic Army of Greece and fought to separate Greek Macedonia from the rest of Greece under the auspices of Yugoslavia, left Greece. There is no doupt that ancient Macedonians were Greek. Linguist Robert S. P. Beekes supports the idea that both terms are of Pre-Greek substrate origin and cannot be explained in terms of Indo-European morphology. Spanning over 2500 years, Macedonia was at first called Emathia (from king Emathion) and the city of Aegae which was called Edessa. The heads of the various administrative units are elected. The Deputy Minister for Macedonia and Thrace is not an elected position, and is instead appointed at the pleasure of the Prime Minister of Greece. Thessaloniki is an urban area defined in 1985 through Law 1561/1985. 5. (eds) The New Macedonian Question. During the late 6th and early 5th century BC, the region came under Persian rule until the destruction of Xerxes at Plataea. [85] The population of ethnic minorities in Macedonia dropped from 48% of the total population in 1920 to 12% in 1928, with the Great Greek Encyclopedia noting in 1934 that those minorities that remained "do not yet possess a Greek national consciousness". Then in 148 BC, Macedonia was fully annexed by the Romans. At the beginning of the 19th century, Slavic peasants identified themselves based on belonging to their family, village, or local region, or as "Rum Millet", i.e. The ancient Romans had two different entities called Macedonia, at different levels.Macedonia was established as a Roman province in 146 BC. Prior to their arrival the land was known as Emathia (according to Homer, 8th century BCE and, later, Strabo, 63 BCE-23 CE) but the new arrivals claimed and named it for their patron god. After a six-year rule (294–288) by Demetrius I Poliorcetes, Macedonia again fell into a state of internal confusion, intensified by Galatian marauders from the north. See more of Macedonia of Ancient Greece on Facebook. Toward 400 ce it was divided into the provinces of Macedonia and Macedonia secunda, within the diocese of Moesia. Discover (and save!) Amphipolis, Aini, Pella, Philippi, Thessaloniki, Vergina, and more... See more ideas about Ancient macedonia, Macedonia greece, Macedonia map. [77] Like the rest of Greece Macedonia is faced with an aging population; the largest age group in the region is that of the over 70, at 15.59% of the population, while the 0-9 and 10-19 groups combined made up 20.25% of the population. The landscape is characterized by variety, since Western and Eastern Macedonia is mountainous with the exception of some fertile valleys, while the Thessaloniki-Giannitsa plain, the largest in Greece, is located in Central Macedonia. 29 (4): 409–426. Under Philip V (reigned 221–179) and his son Perseus (reigned 179–168), Macedonia clashed with Rome and lost. ANCIENT MACEDONIA AND GREECE . To the east, Macedonia ended according to Strabo at the river Strymon, although he mentions that other writers placed Macedonia's border with Thrace at the river Nestos,[23] which is also the present geographical boundary between the two administrative districts of Greece. [84] The treaties of Neuilly (1919) and Lausanne (1923) mandated a forceful exchange of populations with Bulgaria and Turkey respectively, and some 776,000 Greek refugees (mostly from Turkey) were resettled in Macedonia,[84] displacing 300,000–400,000 non-Greeks who were forced to move as part of the population exchange. The ethnonymΜακεδόνες (Makedónes) stems from the ancient Greekadjective μακεδνός(makednós), meaning "tall, slim", also the name of a people related to the Dorians(Herodotus). The royal family of this barbaric land was the Argeads who traced their roots to both the isle of Argos and Heracles , the son of Zeus. For centuries the Macedonian tribes were organised in independent kingdoms, in what is now Central Macedonia, and their role in internal Hellenic politics was minimal, even before the rise of Athens. Between 1600 and 1100 B.C, Mycenaean civilization contributed innovations to engineering, architecture, the military, and more. Μόνιμος πληθυσμός κατά τόπο γέννησης (Δήμος, χώρα εξωτερικού)–Δήμοι", "Β01. The last phase of the Bronze Age in Ancient Greece, Mycenae, represented the first civilization in Greece that included states, art, writing, and additional studies. Saved by Simeon Ioannou. Macedonia definition, an ancient kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula, in S Europe: now a region in N Greece, SW Bulgaria, and the Republic of Macedonia. Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. If today a portion of Macedonia belongs to Greece, it is by virtue of an illegal partition of the whole and occupation of a part of Macedonia. Survived until the early 1st millennium AD. Subsequently the provinces of Epirus and Thessaly as well as other regions to the north were incorporated into a new Provincia Macedonia, but in 297 AD under a Diocletianic reform many of these regions were removed and two new provinces were created: Macedonia Prima and Macedonia Salutaris (from 479 to 482 AD Macedonia Secunda). [29], The capture of Thessaloniki in 1430 threw the Byzantine world into consternation, being regarded correctly as a prelude to the fall of Constantinople itself. [68] There were 116 Blue Flag beaches in Macedonia in 2018, 85 of which were in Chalkidiki. Thessaloniki Airport is the third-busiest in the country,[58] and the Athens–Thessaloniki air route was the EU's tenth busiest in 2016. God replied, "This rose, Murad, is Thessalonica. Returning to the restored Byzantine Empire shortly thereafter, Greek Macedonia remained in Byzantine hands until the 1340s, when all of Macedonia (except Thessaloniki, and possibly Veria) was conquered by the Serbian ruler Stefan Dušan. The most important archeological dis-covery in Macedonia is the tomb of King Philippos II. The 1928 census listed 81,984 speakers of 'Slavomacedonian' in Greece,[111] but internal government documents from the 1930s put the number of Macedonian speakers in the Florina prefecture alone at 80,000 or 61% of the population. [75] As of 2017, the population of Macedonia is estimated to have further decreased to 2,382,857. A gifted scholar and ruler? In the 8th century, from Rome it came under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and remained the main ecclesiastical centre in the historical region of Macedonia throughout the Middle Ages, and up to the modern times. 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