The Hussars were active in defense of Russia's southern borders, which had become volatile due to new migration and the aftereffects of the War of the Austrian Succession.
Russian authorities gave these new settlers a land, which acquired names as New Serbia and Slavo-Serbia, soon after the War of the Austrian Succession.
[2] Many of the refugees who formed the Macedonian Regiment were described by the imperial authorities as Bulgarians,[3] Vlachs, Serbs and Greeks among the participants.
[7] The coat of arms of the Macedonian Hussar Regiment was approved in 1776 and represented: "A silver shield in a red field, with different decorations, and under it two crossed wooden arrows covered with gold dots."
[9] The designation Macedonian then was popular in Europe only in early modern cultural contexts,[10] but was nearly forgotten in the modern-day region.