A monetary unit of North Macedonia, subdivided into 100 denars; also historically used in various Balkan regions.
From Macedonian денар, ultimately deriving from the Latin denarius (ancient Roman coin), which comes from deni- (ten, in groups of ten) because the original coin was worth ten asses.
The denar's name preserves a linguistic fossil—it directly descends from the Roman denarius, meaning the ancient Roman monetary system left such a mark that modern countries adopted its name for their currency even 2,000 years later!
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