Macedon
| Macedon Μακεδονία Makedonía |
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| Kinrick o Macedon efter Philip's II daith. | ||||
| Caipital | Aigai til aboot 400 BC when moved bi Archelaus tae Pella | |||
| Leid(s) | Auncient Macedonian, later Attic/Koine Greek | |||
| Releegion | Auncient Greek releegion | |||
| Government | Monarchy | |||
| Keeng | ||||
| − 808 - 778 BC | Karanus | |||
| − 359 - 336 BC | Philip II o Macedon | |||
| − 336 - 323 BC | Alexander the Great | |||
| − 221 - 179 BC | Philip V o Macedon | |||
| Historical era | Classical Antiquity | |||
| - Karanus establishes the Argead dynasty | 800s BC | |||
| - Amyntas III unifies Macedon | 382 BC | |||
| - Conquered bi the Roman Republic in the Fowerth Macedon War | 146 BC | |||
| Siller | Greek drachma | |||
Macedonie or Macedon (frae Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonía) wis an auncient Greek kinrick. The kinrick, centered in the northeastren pairt o the Greek peninsula,[1] wis bordered bi Epirus tae the wast, Paeonie tae the north, the region o Thrace tae the east an Thessaly tae the sooth. The rise o Macedon, frae a smaa kinrick at the periphery o Classical Greek affairs, tae ane which came tae dominate the entire Hellenic warld, occurred unner the reign o Philip II. For a brief period, efter the conquests o Alexander the Great, it acame the maist pouerful state in the warld, controllin a territory that included the umwhile Persie empire, stretchin as far as the Indus River; at that time it inauguratit the Hellenistic period o Auncient Greek ceevilization.
References [edit]
- ↑ Macedonia. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online (2008). Retrieved on 3 November 2008. .