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The most significant war was fought with the Seleucid Empire, while the war with Macedonia was the second, and both of these wars effectively marked the end of these empires as major world powers, even though neither of them led immediately to overt Roman domination. [1]
The Kingdom of Macedonia (in dark orange) in c. 336 BC, at the end of the reign of Philip II of Macedon; other territories include Macedonian dependent states (light orange), the Molossians of Epirus (light red), Thessaly (desert sand color), the allied League of Corinth (yellow), neutral states of Sparta and Crete, and the western territories of the Achaemenid Empire in Anatolia (violet purple).
Didrachm of Philip V of Macedon Attalus I of Pergamon.. In 204 BC, King Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt died, leaving the throne to his six-year-old son Ptolemy V.Philip V of Macedon and Antiochus the Great of the Seleucid Empire decided to exploit the weakness of the young king by taking Ptolemaic territory for themselves and they signed a secret pact defining spheres of interest, opening the ...
Macedonia (/ ˌ m æ s ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / ⓘ MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə; Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonía), also called Macedon (/ ˈ m æ s ɪ d ɒ n / MASS-ih-don), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, [6] which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. [7]
War crimes were committed by both sides during the Macedonian struggle. According to a 1900 British report compiled by Alfred Biliotti , who is considered to have heavily relied on Greek intelligence agents, [ 54 ] starting from 1897, the members of the Exarchist committees had embarked upon a systematic and extensive campaign of executions of ...
From Roosevelt's Naval War of 1812, the paths of United States and Macedonian, 25 October 1812. The capture of HMS Macedonian was a naval action fought near Madeira on 25 October 1812 between the heavy frigate USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, and the frigate HMS Macedonian, under the command of John Surman Carden.
Republic of Macedonia: Somalia: Victory. The UN's humanitarian mandate is fulfilled; About 100,000 lives were saved by outside resistance; Civil war is ongoing; 2001 insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia (2001) Republic of Macedonia: National Liberation Army Albanian National Army: Ohrid Agreement. Macedonian offensive stopped by NATO involvement
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