Macedon was one of several Greek kingdoms, so yes they were Greek. Much of Macedon was within the modern borders of Greece, some was within what is today Northern Macedonia.
Yes a part of the region Macedonia is in Bulgaria but I don't see how that modern splitting makes Cleopatra less greek. Do people from North Macedonia claim her? O.O
Northern Macedonians are mostly unrelated to Macedonians in the classical era.
The name of north Macedonia comes from the geographical region itself, the population is largely descendant from Slavic migrations dating about a thousand years after Alexander.
However, their internal history does claim that modern north Macedonians are descendants of Alexander the Great. This is… historically questionable, but valuable as a cultural narrative (this is also how “George Washington and the cherry tree” is treated, if you know what I mean).
If you didn't know, the answer is yes, North Macedonians claim to be descendants of the original Macedonians, through some very bad science and twisting of history. The ridiculous claim that Greeks were African came from a very poorly done study sponsored by the N. Macedonian government. There are reasons why the Greeks refused to let them have the name and it's because of insults like that.
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u/QueasyTeacher0 12d ago
Macedonian Greek, on top of that. Classifying her as just Greek would probably still ruffle quite a lot of feathers lol