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Herodotus states that the Bryges were cohabitants with the Macedonians before their mass migration to Anatolia. [74] If a group of ethnically definable Macedonian tribes were living in the Pierian highlands prior to their expansion, the first conquest was of the Pierian piedmont and coastal plain, including Vergina. [75]
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.
According to the 2011 Bulgarian census, there were 561 ethnic Macedonians (0.2%) in the Blagoevgrad Province, [276] the Bulgarian part of the geographical region of Macedonia, out of a total of 1,654 Macedonians in the entire country. [277] Also, a total of 429 citizens of the Republic of North Macedonia resided in the province. [278]
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 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).
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poet; Amerias (3rd century BC) lexicographer; Craterus (historian) (3rd century BC) anthologist, compiler of historical documents relative to the history of Attica
Conquered Macedonia after settling near Mount Bermion. [20] Argaeus I: fl. c. 623: Son of Perdiccas I Possibly established the cult of Dionysus in Macedonia [21] Philip I: fl. c. 593: Son of Argaeus I Aeropus I: fl. c. 563: Son of Philip I Alcetas: fl. c. 533: Son of Aeropus I Amyntas I: c. 512 – 498/7 Son of Alcetas Unknown – 498/7
The Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty underwent a revival during the late 9th, 10th, and early 11th centuries. Under the Macedonian emperors, the empire gained control over the Adriatic Sea , Southern Italy , and all of the territory of the Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria .