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¹ Ordu Üniversitesi, Ziraat Fakültesi, Zootekni Bölümü, Ordu Viewed : 1850 - Downloaded : 903 Macedonia has an important beekeeping potential with natural plant cover and honey bee races diversity, suitable geographical structure and different climate conditions. Macedonia has over 70 thousands beehives and thousands tons/ year honey production. The annual honey production average is 15 kilograms per colony and this quantity rate is lower from the world average (22 kg). Also, the production of other bee product except honey is not sufficient. Beekeeping of Turkey has some important problems such as honey packing, marketing conditions, technical knowledge and using breeding material. In this review, the general structure of beekeeping of Macedonia was described and some suggestions were presented for sustainable beekeeping. Keywords : Beekeeping, Macedonia, beekeeping of Macedonia, beekeeping potential