Macedon

Macedon (or Macedonia from Greek {{polytonic|?????????}}; see also List of traditional Greek place names) in Classical Antiquity was the ancient state of Macedonia on the margins of Ancient Greece, bordering with the Greek state of Epirus on the west and with Thrace on the East. Alexander the Great launched his conquest of Persia and his subsequent conquests of the majority of the then civilized western world from Macedon, resulting in the Hellenistic period of Greek history. The Greek (Hellenic) character of the ancient Macedonians is disputed among scholars, a dispute which sometimes takes on polemic and nationalist overtones, and essentially hinges on the exact definition of "Hellene".

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Macedonia - Greek - List of traditional Greek place names - Classical Antiquity - Ancient Greece - Epirus - Thrace - Alexander the Great - Persia - Hellenistic period - Greek history - Greek - Hellenic - Hellene

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