Thessalian League (Macedonia)

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After the Battle of Crocus Field during the Third Sacred War, the league became a vassal of Macedon.

Establishment

January 351 BC: After the Battle of the Crocus Fields, the Thessalians appointed Philip of Macedon as a protector of Thessaly.

Chronology

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1. Wars of the Rise of Macedon

Expansion of Macedonia under King Philip II.

January 343 BC: Larissa was taken by the Thebans and later directly annexed by Philip II of Macedon in 344 BC.

1.1.Third Sacred War

Was fought between the forces of the Delphic Amphictyonic League, principally represented by Thebes, and latterly by Philip II of Macedon, and the Phocians.

1.2.Philip II's campaign in Greece (Fourth Sacred War)

Was the military campaign of Macedonia king Philip II in Greece during the Fourth Sacred War.

August 338 BC: Philip II of Macedon advanced into Boeotia in an attempt to march on Thebes and Athens.

January 337 BC: The battle of Chaeronea (338 BC) was fought in 338 BC, in Boeotia, between Macedonia under Philip II and an alliance of city-states led by Athens and Thebes. The battle ended with a decisive victory of the Macedonians. Philip had no intention of conquering any territory and soon the Macedonian armies left southern Greece. After the battle, Macedon established hegemony over the majority of Southern Greece (except Sparta).

2. Macedonian Wars

Were a seris of conflicts between the Roman Republic and Antigonid Macedonia over control of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean Basin. .

2.1.Second Macedonian War

Was a war fought by Rome, allied with the Kingdoms of Pergamons and Rhodes, against Antigonid Macedonia.

January 195 BC: At the end of Second Macedonian War in 196 BC, Rome established Thessaly as a koinon, Federal League, and cultivated its development to make it part of hegemonic powers of central and northern Greece.