Alexander the Great had no direct heirs, and the Macedonian Empire quickly crumbled after his death. Military generals divided up the Macedonian territory in a series of civil wars. Ancient Greek biographers at the time, including Plutarch, surmised that Alexander had been poisoned, though modern ...
Due to its more than 1000 years of history, the Byzantine Empire was one of the longest-lasting empires in the world. Although the “Eastern Roman Empire” used to be the heir of the Ancient Roman Empire, it went through a great evolution and was influenced by the Hellenic culture heavily...
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...
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Macedonian Wars (Show more) Key People: Alexander the Great Antigonus I Monophthalmus Agathon Pompeius Trogus Nearchus (Show more) Related Places: Greece ancient Greece Eretria Amphipolis See all related content Macedonia, ancient kingdom centred on the plain in the northeastern corner of the Gree...
The Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BCE was the last battle fought by Alexander the Great during his Asian campaign. Alexander’s army defeated the forces of the Indian king Porus. Alexander’s superior tactics, including crossing a river in pouring rain t
each claiming closer ethnic or historical ties to the region than the others. In 1893 theInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization(IMRO) was founded to support the cause of Macedonian independence. In 1903 IMRO led the Ilinden, or St. Elijah’s Day, Uprising, but it was rapidly and brutall...
Battle of Chios Macedonian Wars Key People: Alexander the Great Antigonus I Monophthalmus Agathon Pompeius Trogus Nearchus Related Places: Greece ancient Greece Eretria Amphipolis See all related content Macedonia, ancient kingdom centred on the plain in the northeastern corner of the Greek peninsula...
Balkan Wars, conflicts that deprived the Ottoman Empire of all its territory in Europe except part of Thrace and the city of Edirne (Adrianople). The Balkan allies Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria quarreled over the partitioning of their conquests, leading t
a hydroelectric plant has been built. The Kabul River valley is a natural route for travel between Afghanistan and Pakistan; the MacedonianAlexander the Greatused it to invade India in the 4th centurybce. Since 1945 the Peshawar-Jalālābād-Kabul Highway has occupied parts of the valley. The ...