Kingdom of Macedonia: All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.

Was an ancient kingdom centered on the northeastern part of the Greek peninsula, on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled by the royal Argead dynasty. During the reign of the Argead King Philip II (359-336 BC), Macedonia subdued mainland Greece and the Thracian Odrysian kingdom through conquest and diplomacy. Philip II's son Alexander the Great, campaigned in Asia and was able to conquer the Achaemenid Empire. He then campaigned further East as far as the Indus River. Alexander died in 323 BC. In the following years the Macedonian Empire was divided among the generals of Alexander. Macedonia continued to exist as a successor state of the Macedonian Empire in the region of Macedon and in Greece (see Antigonid Macedonia).