Within the range of solutions available to policy-makers charged with addressing the political problems of ethnically divided societies, partition tends to rank among the least popular. At the same time, multiple forms of territorial division short of partition offer the possibility of altering the numerical relations among ethnic groups living within the boundaries of a given territory. Focusing on the Republic of Macedonia, this article examines the changing deployment of irredentism, external partition, and internal (re)districting in political discourse and practice, concluding that the peace settlement of 2001 has in fact been used to promote ‘territorial solutions to ethnic issues’ rather than to remove them from political agendas.