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- Europa of Macedon Europa of Macedon (Greek: Ευρώπη) was the daughter of Philip II by his last wife, Cleopatra Eurydice. She is widely believed to have been murdered along with her mother, by Olympias, Philip's fourth wife and the mother of Alexander the Great.
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Europa of Macedon (Greek: Ευρώπη) was the daughter of Philip II by his last wife, Cleopatra Eurydice. She is widely believed to have been murdered along with her mother, by Olympias , Philip's fourth wife and the mother of Alexander the Great .
Macedonia. Spouse. Philip II (m. c. 337 BC) Children. Europa. Caranus. Relatives. Attalus. Eurydice ( Greek: Εὐρυδίκη), born Cleopatra ( Greek: Κλεοπάτρα) was a mid-4th century BC Macedonian noblewoman, niece of Attalus, and last of the seven wives of Philip II of Macedon, but the first Macedonian one.
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This article is about the ancient king of Macedonia. For other uses, see Alexander the Great (disambiguation). Alexander III of Macedon ( Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος, romanized :Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, [c] was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.
- Early History & Relations with Greece
- Early Kings & Culture
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In the early 7th century BCE the Macedonians, under their king Caranus, settled in the central part of the region and, in time, colonized to the north and south, dislocating the Thessalians and Illyrians who had been living there. Prior to their arrival the land was known as Emathia (according to Homer, 8th century BCE and, later, Strabo, 63 BCE-23...
The early kings prior to Alexander I are semi-historic and little is known of their reigns. Alexander I's father, Amyntas I (r. 547-498 BCE), is the first Macedonian king on record as entering into treaties and compacts with other nations. It is under the reign of Amyntas I that Macedonia becomes a vassal state of the Persian Empirein c. 511 BCE. A...
Alexander II was assassinated in 368 BCE and the throne went to Ptolemy of Aloros (r. 368-365 BCE), his assassin, who claimed legitimacy through marriage – or at least an affair – with Amyntas III's widow, Eurydice. The aristocracy of Macedon disapproved of his methods and his overall rule and he was assassinated by Perdiccas III (r. 365-360 BCE) w...
Philip II had been planning a military campaign against Persia – then the most powerful empire in the world – and Alexander instantly renewed these plans. In 334 BCE he crossed from Greece to Asia Minor with a force of 32,000 infantry and 5,100 cavalry and took the city of Baalbek. In 333 BCE he ably defeated the armies of Darius the Great at the B...
Alexander named no successor and so his empire was divided between his four generals, Lysimachus (who would rule Thrace and Asia Minor); Ptolemy I (Egypt, Palestine, Cilicia, Nabatea, Cyprus); Seleucus (Mesopotamia, the Levant, Persia, and India); and Cassander who took Macedonia and Greece. These four were known as the Diadochi (successors) and ev...
Slavic invasions of the region began around the 5th century CE as Rome was falling and continued through the 7th century CE. In 681 CE the First Bulgarian Empire was founded in the region by the Bulgar tribes which would last until 1018 CE when the region was taken by the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines held it until 1453 CE when they were defeate...
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Macedon was an ancient kingdom located in the north of the Greek peninsula first inhabited by the Mackednoi tribe who, according to Herodotus, were the first to call themselves 'Hellenes' (later applied to all Greeks) and who gave the land their name. More about: Macedon. Timeline. c. 437 BCE.
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Feb 13, 2018 · The ancient kingdom of Macedonia (sometimes called Macedon) was a crossroads between Mediterranean and Balkan civilizations. Macedonia briefly became the largest empire in the world under the...
Macedonia, ancient kingdom centred on the plain in the northeastern corner of the Greek peninsula, at the head of the Gulf of Thérmai. In the 4th century bce it achieved hegemony over Greece and conquered lands as far east as the Indus River, establishing a short-lived empire that introduced the.
