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Macedon

Μακεδονία
Makedonía
800s BC–146 BC
Kinrick o Macedon efter Philip's II daith.
Kinrick o Macedon efter Philip's II daith.
CaipitalAigaitil aboot 400 BC when moved biArchelaustaePella
Common leidsAuncient Macedonian,laterAttic/Koine Greek
Releegion
Auncient Greek releegion
GovrenmentMonarchy
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 eraClassical Antiquity
Karanusestablishes theArgead dynasty
800s BC
Amyntas IIIunifies Macedon
382 BC
• Conquered bi theRoman Republicin theFowerth Macedon War
146 BC
CurrencyGreek drachma
Precedit bi
Succeedit bi
Greek Dark Ages
Attalid Dynasty
Seleucid Empire
Ptolemaic Kinrick
Macedon (Roman province)

MacedonieorMacedon(fraeGreek:Μακεδονία,Makedonía) wis an auncient Greekkinrick.The kinrick, centered in the northeastren pairt o theGreek peninsula,[1]wis bordered biEpirustae the wast,Paeonietae the north, the region oThracetae the east anThessalytae the sooth. Therise o Macedon,frae a smaa kinrick at the periphery oClassical Greekaffairs, tae ane which came tae dominate the entire Hellenic warld, occurred unner the reign oPhilip II.For a brief period, efter the conquests oAlexander the Great,it acame the maist pouerful state in the warld, controllin a territory that included the umwhilePersie empire,stretchin as far as theIndus River;at that time it inauguratit theHellenistic periodoAuncient Greek ceevilization.

References

  1. "Macedonia".Encyclopædia Britannica.Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2008.Retrieved3 November2008.