Macedonia (808–168 BCE)

Macedonia Μακεδονία
808 BCE–168 BCE
Macedonia at its peak in 323 BCE
Capital	Pella
Government	Monarchy
Area
• Total	5,200,000 km²

Macedonia, also known as Macedon, was a kingdom in ancient Greece that later expanded into much of Western Asia under Alexander. It united many small city-states and collected enough surplus to fund major wars before its colapse.

History

In 338 BCE, Philip Argead of Macedon defeated an alliance of Greek city-states at the Battle of Chaeronea, and his successor, Alexander, destroyed the city of Thebes after it resisted his rule two years later. Greece came under foreign rule, and an autocratic monarchy replaced the democratic system that had existed in Athens. In 331 BCE, Alexander ended the Persian Empire in the Battle of Gaugamela in what is now Iraq.