Paenonian Kingdom

This article is about the specific polity Paenonian Kingdom and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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At some point after the Greco-Persian Wars, the Paeonian princedoms coalesced into a kingdom centred in the central and upper reaches of the Axios and Strymon rivers, corresponding with today's northern part of North Macedonia and western Bulgaria.

Establishment

January 448 BC: At some point after the Greco-Persian Wars, the Paeonian princedoms coalesced into a kingdom centred in the central and upper reaches of the Axios and Strymon rivers, corresponding with today's northern part of North Macedonia and western Bulgaria.

Chronology

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1. Wars of the Rise of Macedon

Expansion of Macedonia under King Philip II.

1.1.Macedonian conquest of the Paeonian Kingdom

Was the military campaign of Macedonia king Philip II against the Paeonian Kingdom.

January 357 BC: Macedonian king Perdiccas's succeeded in 358 BC with a campaign deep into the north, into Paeonia itself. This reduced the Paeonian kingdom (then ruled by Agis) to a semi-autonomous, subordinate status, which led to a process of gradual and formal Hellenization of the Paeonians.