Macedon

Macedonie or Macedon (frae Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonía) wis an auncient Greek kinrick. The kinrick, centered in the northeastren pairt o the Greek peninsula, 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.

Macedon Μακεδονία Makedonía
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
Precedit bi Succeedit bi Greek Dark Ages Attalid Dynasty Seleucid Empire Ptolemaic Kinrick Macedon (Roman province)