Monkeydonia is a semi-derogative term used to describe the
country of FYROM (North Macedonia). The reason behind the mocking is due to the historical revisionist / misleading / cultural appropriative nature of the North Macedonians. This tactic is known as antiquization - a form of historical quackery.
Essentially what the
history is, originally the land in ancient times was known as the Paeonian Kingdom. King Agis died, then
Phillip 2 of Macedon (a real authentic Greek Macedonian - the real macedonians) conquered Paeonian land and turned it into a vassal of Greek Macedonia.
Around the sixth century, the slavs settled the balkans, becoming known as the south slavs. This land was no longer Greek - Macedonian inhabitants, it was now a slavic land. This area specifically became associated with the Bulgarians as they were Slavicized from the 7th to 10th century. Eventually much later, Turkish Ottomans took over the land. The nationalist Western-Bulgarians in the
late 1800s revolted. They adopted the title "macedonian" as reference to the ancient land, not as a ethno-nationalist qualifier. Later, yugoslav-communist
propaganda turned this into a deeper
lie, insinuating that the Western-Bulgarians are "real Macedonian
people" (false).
Essentially, the modern
day people are descendants of Bulgarian ancestry. So they should not be called Macedonian. However, they deserve a distinct identity, so some have theorized renaming the country as Vardaria, and the language as Vardzarija.
Propagandist : We are real Macedonians!
Historian: No, you are
actually "Vardarians". you are descendants of Bulgarians. Why do you insist on spreading
propaganda?
Propagandist: We are
Macedonia.
Historian: More like Monkeydonia.
