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Macedonian terracotta figurine, 3rd century BC; the Persians referred to the Macedonians as "Yaunã Takabara" ("Greeks with hats that look like shields"). [284] Isocrates defended Philip's Greek origins but perhaps did not think the same of his people.
Macedonia (/ ˌ m æ s ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / ⓘ MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə; Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonía), also called Macedon (/ ˈ m æ s ɪ d ɒ n / 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 name Macedonia (Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonía) comes from the ancient Greek word μακεδνός ().It is commonly explained as having originally meant "a tall one" or "highlander", possibly descriptive of the people.
Hippolochus (early 3rd century BC) description of a Macedonian wedding feast; Poseidippus of Cassandreia (c. 288 BC) comic poet; Poseidippus of Pella (c. 280 BC–240 BC) epigrammatic poet; Amerias (3rd century BC) lexicographer; Craterus (historian) (3rd century BC) anthologist, compiler of historical documents relative to the history of Attica
The Kingdom of Macedonia (in dark orange) in c. 336 BC, at the end of the reign of Philip II of Macedon; other territories include Macedonian dependent states (light orange), the Molossians of Epirus (light red), Thessaly (desert sand color), the allied League of Corinth (yellow), neutral states of Sparta and Crete, and the western territories of the Achaemenid Empire in Anatolia (violet purple).
The history of Macedonians has been shaped by population shifts and political developments in the southern Balkans, especially within the region of Macedonia.The ideas of separate Macedonian identity grew in significance after the First World War, both in Vardar and among the left-leaning diaspora in Bulgaria, and were endorsed by the Comintern.
The ethnic Macedonians in Greece have faced difficulties from the Greek government in their ability to self-declare as members of a "Macedonian minority" and to refer to their native language as "Macedonian". [261] Since the late 1980s there has been an ethnic Macedonian revival in Northern Greece, mostly centering on the region of Florina. [264]
The Macedonian dynasty (Greek: Μακεδονική Δυναστεία) ruled the Byzantine Empire from 867 to 1056, following the Amorian dynasty. During this period, the Byzantine state reached its greatest extent since the Early Muslim conquests , and the Macedonian Renaissance in letters and arts began.