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Mace (spray)
Mace, originally Chemical Mace, is a brand of self-defense spray introduced in 1965 as CN tear gas and sold today as pepper spray by Mace Security International.
Mace of the United States House of Representatives
The Mace of the United States House of Representatives, also called the Mace of the Republic, is a ceremonial silver-and-ebony staff crafted in 1841 that symbolizes the House's authority.
Mace Windu
Mace Windu is a fictional Jedi Master in Star Wars, portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson, who sits on the Jedi Council and wields a purple lightsaber.
MACE-MP-0
MACE-MP-0 is a foundation machine-learned interatomic potential for materials chemistry, released in December 2023 and trained on about 1.5 million DFT configurations from the Materials Project.
MACE-OFF
MACE-OFF is a series of short-range, transferable machine learning force fields for organic molecules, built on the MACE architecture and introduced by University of Cambridge researchers in 2023.
Macedon Gas Field
The Macedon Gas Field is an offshore natural gas field on Australia's North West Shelf, discovered in 1992, that has supplied only the Western Australian domestic market since 2013.
Macedonia (Bulgaria)
Macedonia (Bulgaria), or Pirin Macedonia, is the Bulgarian share of geographic Macedonia in the country's southwest, about 10% of the region, site of the 1946-1948 Macedonian recognition and its reversal.
Macedonia (Greece)
Macedonia (Μακεδονία) is the northern Greek region, about half of the 67,100 km² Balkan geographic region, comprising three administrative regions centered on Thessaloniki; distinct from the country of North Macedonia, whose 2019 name change settled the naming dispute.
Macedonia (region)
Macedonia (region): Balkan geographical region divided after the 1913 Treaty of Bucharest into Vardar (North Macedonia), Aegean (Greece), and Pirin (Bulgaria) Macedonia, plus small Albanian areas.
Macedonia (Μακεδονία) (ancient kingdom)
Macedonia (Μακεδονία), also Makedon, was the ancient Balkan kingdom of the Argead and Antigonid dynasties, rising under Philip II and Alexander the Great and ending with the Roman conquest of 168 BC.
Macedonia naming dispute
The Macedonia naming dispute (1991–2019) pitted Greece against the Republic of Macedonia, admitted to the UN as 'the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia', and was settled by the 2018 Prespa Agreement adopting the name Republic of North Macedonia.
Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts
The Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Macedonian: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, MANU) is the highest scientific and artistic institution of North Macedonia.
Macedonian alphabet (Македонска азбука)
The Macedonian alphabet (Македонска азбука) is the 31-letter Cyrillic script used to write Macedonian, official in North Macedonia. Adopted in 1945, it is modeled on Serbian Cyrillic, with one letter per sound.
Macedonian Committee
The Macedonian Committee is a name for several organizations in the Macedonian question, best known the Greek committee in Athens that directed Greek armed efforts in 1904–1908.
Macedonian denar
The Macedonian denar is the currency of North Macedonia, introduced in 1992 as the Yugoslav system collapsed, named after the Roman denarius, and pegged to the euro since 2002.
Macedonian dialects
Macedonian dialects are the regional varieties of speech on which the Macedonian standard language is based, split by an isogloss bundle along the Vardar and Crna rivers.
Macedonian drama
Macedonian drama is the body of dramatic literature written in the Macedonian language. Its modern form began in the mid-19th century, with institutional theater emerging only after 1944.
Macedonian dynasty
The Macedonian dynasty (Δυναστεία τῶν Μακεδόνων) was the Byzantine imperial house founded by Basil I in 867, ruling for about 189 years until 1056 and presiding over Byzantium's golden age.
Macedonian dynasty (Egypt)
The Macedonian dynasty of Egypt, also called the Argead dynasty, ruled Egypt from Alexander the Great's conquest in 332 BC until Ptolemy became king in 305/4 BC.
Macedonian front
Macedonian front, or Salonika front, WWI theatre in northern Greece and the southern Balkans, 1915-1918; opened by the Allied landing at Salonika to aid Serbia, marked by malaria, the 1918 Dobro Polje breakthrough, and Bulgaria's armistice.
Macedonian language
Macedonian (македонски јазик) is a South Slavic language, official in North Macedonia in Cyrillic script, codified 1944–45 with alphabet adopted 5 May 1945; 61.38% of residents declared it mother tongue in the 2021 census; closest relative Bulgarian, with Balkan Sprachbund features.
Macedonian language naming dispute
Macedonian language naming dispute (македонски јазик): controversy over the name of North Macedonia's Slavic standard language. Greece contested it until the 2018 Prespa Agreement recognized the "Macedonian language" as South Slavic; Bulgaria still disputes it.
Macedonian national movement
The Macedonian national movement was the 19th- and early-20th-century political and cultural movement through which Slavs in Ottoman Macedonia developed a distinct national identity and sought political rights.
Macedonian National Theatre
The Macedonian National Theatre (Makedonski naroden teatar, MNT) is the national professional theater of North Macedonia, founded in Skopje on 31 January 1945 as the country's first professional theater.
Macedonian Orthodox Church – Archdiocese of Ohrid
The Macedonian Orthodox Church – Archdiocese of Ohrid is the Eastern Orthodox church of North Macedonia, self-declared autocephalous in 1967 and fully recognized in 2022.
Macedonian phalanx
Macedonian phalanx: close-ordered pike infantry of Philip II and Alexander, armed with the six-meter sarissa in deep files; dominated Greek warfare, fell to Roman legions at Cynoscephalae (197 BC) and Pydna (168 BC).
Macedonian Question
The Macedonian Question is the dispute over the Macedonia region, arising in the 1880s among Greece, Bulgaria, and Serbia and ending with the 2018 Prespa Agreement.
Macedonian Renaissance
The Macedonian Renaissance is the cultural and artistic revival in the Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty, 867 to 1056, named by Kurt Weitzmann in 1963.
Macedonian Renaissance manuscript illumination
Macedonian Renaissance manuscript illumination is the classicizing decoration of Byzantine Greek books in Constantinople, chiefly the Paris Psalter and Joshua Roll, from 867 to 1056.
Macedonian Revival literature
Macedonian Revival literature is the nineteenth-century writing of the Slavic-speaking population of Ottoman Macedonia, from early vernacular religious works to the folkloric and poetic production of the 1860s and 1870s.