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Social academics. Svetlana Antonovska (1952–2016), statistician. Dimitrija Čupovski (1878–1940), Macedonian national activist. Nace Dimov (1876–1916), Macedonian national activist. Slavko Milosavlevski (1928–2012), sociologist. Mihail Petruševski (1911–1990), founder of the College of Philosophy at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University ...
Languages. Ancient Macedonian, then Attic Greek, and later Koine Greek. Religion. ancient Greek religion. The Macedonians (Greek: Μακεδόνες, Makedónes) were an ancient tribe that lived on the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Axios in the northeastern part of mainland Greece.
Calas, Alexander of Lyncestis, Philip, Polydamas, Parmenion –Thessalian cavalry (1800 horses) Philip (son of Menelaus) (after 331 BC, Erigyius), other allied Greeks (600 horses) Agathon (son of Tyrimmas), (later Ariston of Paionia) Thracian cavalry (900 horses) *Total: 5700 horses in 333 BC. Demetrius (son of Althaemenes), Glaucias, Meleager ...
Ancient Greek religion. Alexander III of Macedon (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος, romanized: Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, [c] was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. [d] He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20 and spent most ...
Other South Slavs, especially Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia, Bulgarians [a] and Torlak speakers in Serbia. Macedonians (Macedonian: Македонци, romanized: Makedonci [maˈkɛdɔnt͡si]) are a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group native to the region of Macedonia in Southeast Europe. They speak Macedonian, a South Slavic language.
Ptolemaic Kingdom. Attalid kingdom. Macedonia province. Macedonia (/ ˌmæsɪˈdoʊniə / ⓘ MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə; Greek: Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (/ ˈmæsɪdɒn / MASS-ih-don), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, [ 6 ] which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. [ 7 ]
The Roman province of Macedonia was officially established in 146 BC. By the 4th century AD the Paionians had become fully Hellenized or Romanized and had lost their ethnic identity. During most of Late Antiquity and the early Middles ages, Macedonia (as a region) had been a province of the Byzantine Empire.
Residence. Aegae, Pella, and Demetrias. Macedonia, also called Macedon, was ruled continuously by kings from its inception around the middle of the seventh century BC until its conquest by the Roman Republic in 168 BC. Kingship in Macedonia, its earliest attested political institution, was hereditary, exclusively male, and characterized by ...