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#LEADER LIST (Thamis)

Philip
Ptolemy
Hephaestion
Nearchus
Cleitus the Black
Antipater
Craterus
Perdiccas
Coenus
Parmenion
Seleucus
Leonnatus
Eumenes
Philotas

#CITY LIST (Embryodead)

Aegai
Argos Orestikon
Stageira
Mieza
Edessa
Veroia
Pella
Aeani
Methoni
Dion
Kyrros
Ichnai
Liti
Thermai
Idomenai
Olynthos
Leivithra
Heracleion
Poteidaia
Kalindoia
Arethousa
Arethousa
Argilos
Amphipolis
Galipsos
Thasos
Chalkis
Thessaloniki


#CIVILOPEDIA (Thamis)

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^The Macedonian Greeks are $LINK<scientific and commercial=GCON_Strengths>.
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^   During the seventh centuries BC, the Mediterranean world saw the emergence of a simple people called the Macedonians. According to the tradition generally accepted by the Greeks, the Macedonian kingdom, which under Philip and Alexander attained to such extraordinary greatness, was founded by Hellenic emigrants from Argos. The Macedonians themselves were   not Hellenes; they belonged to the barbaric races, not greatly differing from the Greeks in ethnic type, but far behind them in civilization, which bordered Hellas upon the north. They were a distinct race, not Paeonian, not Illyrian, not Thracian; but, of the three, their connection was closest with the Illyrians. The Argive colony, received hospitably, gradually acquired power in the region about Mount Bermius; and Perdiccas, one of the original emigrants, was (according to Herodotus) acknowledged as king. (Other writers mentioned three kings anterior to Perdiccas, whose jointreigns covered the space of about a century.) The period which follows is one of great obscurity, little being known    
of it but the names of the kings.
^   Macedon became a great Mediterranean power in the fourht and third centuries BC, during the reign of Philip II and Alexander III the Great. Philip was Alexander's alleged father, but according to history, it is said that Alexander's mother told him that he was born of the gods. Nonetheless, Philip began the Macedonian conquest that would end in 323 BC, with Alexander's death.    
^   Philip subjugated the Greek city-states under Macedonian rule, calling the organization of city-states the Hellenic League. Every Greek city-state was part of this league except for the independent Sparta. Sparta instead bowed down to theGreat King of Persia, Darius. Not long after, Philip was assasinated, leaving no named heir.
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    After minimal discussion, Alexander was named commander of the Macedonian army and King of Macedon, thereby known as King Alexander III. His title would soon become Alexander III, Captain-General Tyrant Demagogue Pharaoh Great-King. Alexander, by 330 BC had conquered Greece, Egypt, Persia, and several unallied barbaric and northern tribes. His domains stretched beyond 650,000 square miles, into India and past what both Greek and Persian maps read. He would die in 323 BC of a serious sickness in Babylon (this is debated, some argue he was poisoned or even relate it to his later habitual drunkenness.
^   Following Alexander the Great's death, his domains were divided among three of his generals - Perdiccus, Ptolemy and Seleucus. After Alexander, Macedon was slowly driven back, its great influence ended with the Roman Empire.