
Hellenic Macedonia Prior to the 4th century BC, the Greek kingdom covered a region approximately corresponding to the Western and Central parts of province of Macedonia in modern Greece. The Greek kingdom was situated in the fertile alluvial plain, watered by the rivers Haliacmon and Axius, called Lower Macedonia, north of the mountain Olympus. Around the time of Alexander I of Macedon, the Argead Macedonians started to expand into Upper Macedonia, lands inhabited by independent Greek tribes like the Lyncestae and the Elmiotae and to the West, beyond Axius river, into Eordaia, Bottiaea, Mygdonia, and Almopia, regions settled by, among others, many Thracian tribes. Upper Macedonia (Greek: Ἄνω Μακεδονία, Ánō Makedonía) is a geographical and tribal term to describe the regions that became part of the Greek kingdom of Macedon in the early 4th century BC. From that date, its inhabitants were politically equal to Lower Macedonians. Upper Macedonia was divided in the regions of Elimeia, Eordea, Orestis, Lynkestis, Pelagonia and Deuriopus. A unified Macedonian state was eventually established by King Amyntas III (c. 393--370 BC), though it still retained strong contrasts between the cattle-rich coastal plain and the fierce isolated tribal hinterland, allied to the king by marriage ties. Occupying the bigger part of northern Greece, Macedonia first appears on the historical scene as a geographical-political unit in the 5th century BC, when it extended from the upper waters of the <b>...</b>
Hellenic
Macedonia
Hellenistic
period
Greek
kingdom
Argead
Macedonians
Upper
Lower
Macedon
Lyncestae
Elmiotae
Axius
Haliakmon
Nestos
river
Eordaia
Bottiaea
Mygdonia
Almopia
Amyntas
Mount
Olympus
Thessaly
Archaic
classical
Greece
Deukalion
Hesiod
Magnes
Herodotus
civilization
Alexander
the
Great
336
BC