(294–288) byDemetrius I Poliorcetes, Macedonia again fell into a state of internal confusion, intensified by Galatian marauders from the north. In 277Antigonus II Gonatas, the capable son of Demetrius, repulsed the Galatians and was hailed as king by the Macedonian army. Under him the ...
The tight formation of the Macedonian phalanx formed a wall of spears, which was considered nearly impenetrable. Phillip II dreamed of conquering the Persian Empire—the world’s largest at the time. He was assassinated in 336 B.C., in Aigai, the capital city of Macedon, before he could ...
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Before we delve into thehistory of the Byzantine Empire, let’s go back a little and talk about the last years of theRoman Empireshortly. Therefore, we can have a more clear picture of how the Eastern Roman Empire, aka the Byzantine Empire, was founded. As we uncover thefacts about the...
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Namely, for the first time since the Ottoman conquests in the Middle Ages, Macedonia's position within the empire changed from being a central to a peripheral Ottoman province, with all the advantages and disadvantages that this change brought about. This aspect of Macedonian historical reality is...
tolerance for other migrants. The European Union in an effort to stem the tide of refugees have blocked passage from Greece. Thousands of refugees camped on the Greek/Macedonian border have been left with no chance of moving on into central Europe. This has lead to violent clashes in the ...
In 330 BC, the Achaemenid Empire was defeated by the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great. Following Alexander's death in 323 BC, one of his generals established the Seleucid Empire, a Hellenistic state whose language and culture were predominantly Greek. One Iranian tribe, the Parthians, est...
Ibadan is a city of 4,004,000 people in Oyo State, South West Nigeria. Its historic significance in the affairs of the declining Oyo Empire has endowed it with a lot of places to see and its location at the edge of the Yoruba heartland makes it an ideal base to explore the major ...
The Church of Saint Demetrius, or Hagios Demetrios, is the main sanctuary dedicated to Saint Demetrius, the patron saint of Thessaloniki, dating from a time when it was the second largest city of the Byzantine Empire.Museum of the Macedonian Struggle Museum Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0....