Macedon
Macedon Μακεδονία Makedonía | |||||||||||||||
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800s BC–146 BC | |||||||||||||||
Kinrick o Macedon efter Philip's II daith. | |||||||||||||||
Caipital | Aigai til aboot 400 BC when moved bi Archelaus tae Pella | ||||||||||||||
Common leids | Auncient Macedonian, later Attic/Koine Greek | ||||||||||||||
Releegion | Auncient Greek releegion | ||||||||||||||
Govrenment | Monarchy | ||||||||||||||
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 era | Classical Antiquity | ||||||||||||||
• Karanus establishes the Argead dynasty | 800s BC | ||||||||||||||
• Amyntas III unifies Macedon | 382 BC | ||||||||||||||
• Conquered bi the Roman Republic in the Fowerth Macedon War | 146 BC | ||||||||||||||
Currency | Greek drachma | ||||||||||||||
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Macedonie or Macedon (frae Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonía) wis an auncient Greek kinrick. The kinrick, centered in the northeastren pairt o the Greek peninsula,[1] wis bordered bi Epirus tae the wast, Paeonie tae the north, the region o Thrace tae the east an Thessaly tae the sooth. The rise o Macedon, frae a smaa kinrick at the periphery o Classical Greek affairs, tae ane which came tae dominate the entire Hellenic warld, occurred unner the reign o Philip II. For a brief period, efter the conquests o Alexander the Great, it acame the maist pouerful state in the warld, controllin a territory that included the umwhile Persie empire, stretchin as far as the Indus River; at that time it inauguratit the Hellenistic period o Auncient Greek ceevilization.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Macedonia". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2008. Retrieved 3 November 2008.