Lower Macedonia
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Lower Macedonia (
Chalcidice
peninsula.
.svg)
The center and two capitals (
Aigai and Pella) of the ancient Macedonian Kingdom lay in Emathia and Bottiaea respectively, from where the Macedonians conquered gradually the Thracian-inhabited areas east of the Axius in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. For this reason the regions of Edonis, Sintice, Odomantis and Pieris, conquered by Philip II, were termed in Latin
Macedonia Adjecta (Επίκτητος Μακεδονία).
See also
- Upper Macedonia
- Ancient Greek geography
- History of Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
Sources
- A Manual of Ancient Geography. by Heinrich Kiepert, George Augustin. Macmillan. p 182 ISBN 1-146-40082-9
- The Greek World in the Fourth Century. by Lawrence A. Tritle. p 167 ISBN 0-415-10583-8
- The Classical Gazetteer. Hazlitt. p 210
External links
- Map of the growth of Macedonia 4th BC - Lower Macedonia is shown in brown - Retrieved from Eliznik. com.
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