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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 ]
Ancient Macedonian paintings of Hellenistic military arms and armor from the tomb of Lyson and Callicles in ancient Mieza (modern-day Lefkadia), Imathia, Central Macedonia, Greece, 2nd century BC. Pyrrhus lost much of his support among the Macedonians in 273 BC when his unruly Gallic mercenaries plundered the royal cemetery of Aigai. [171]
This province was divided in the 4th century CE into Macedonia Prima ("first Macedonia") in the south, encompassing most of the ancient Macedonia and southeastern parts of Ancient Thrace, coinciding with the modern Greek region of Macedonia, and Macedonia Salutaris ("wholesome Macedonia", also called Macedonia Secunda – "second Macedonia") in ...
In antiquity, most of the territory that is now North Macedonia was included in the kingdom of Paeonia, which was populated by the Paeonians, a people of Thracian origins, [1] but also parts of ancient Illyria, [2] [3] Ancient Macedonians populated the area in the south, living among many other tribes and Dardania, [4] inhabited by various Illyrian peoples, [5] [6] and Lyncestis and Pelagonia ...
Ancient Macedonian, then Attic Greek, and later Koine Greek. Religion. ancient Greek religion. The Macedonians (Greek: Μακεδόνες, Makedónes) were an ancient Greek tribe [ 1 ] that lived on the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Axios in the northeastern part of mainland Greece.
Macedonia (/ ˌmæsɪˈdoʊniə / ⓘ MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə) is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Its boundaries have changed considerably over time; however, it came to be defined as the modern geographical region by the mid-19th century.
The region of present-day North Macedonia has been inhabited since Paleolithic times. It occupies most of the ancient kingdom of Paionia and part of the territory of, what was in antiquity, Upper Macedonia (which coincides with some parts of today's southern Republic of North Macedonia), the region which became part of the kingdom of Macedon in the early 4th century BC. [2]
Macedonia is the largest and second-most-populous geographic region in Greece, with a population of 2.36 million (as of 2020). It is highly mountainous, with major urban centres such as Thessaloniki and Kavala being concentrated on its southern coastline. Together with Thrace, along with Thessaly and Epirus occasionally, it is part of Northern ...