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macedonia
Alternative clues for the word macedonia
- Landlocked European country
- Skopje is its capital
- Ancient kingdom amid ocean that's stormy
- Achieved independence from Yugoslavia in 1991
- Landlocked republic on the Balkan Peninsula
- The ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great in the southeastern Balkans that is now divided among modern Macedonia and Greece and Bulgaria
Word definitions for macedonia in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Macedon \Macedon\, Macedonia \Macedonia\n. > landlocked republic on the Balkan Peninsula; achieved independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 the ancient kingdom of Phillip II and Alexander the Great in the Southeastern Balkans that is now part of Greece, Bulgaria ...
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 51 Housing Units (2000): 24 Land area (2000): 0.270736 sq. miles (0.701204 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.270736 sq. miles (0.701204 sq. km) FIPS code: 45642 Located within: Illinois ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Macedonia ( ; , MakedonÃa ) is a geographic and historical region of Greece in the southern Balkans . Macedonia is the largest and second most populous Greek region, dominated by mountains in the interior and the port cities of Thessaloniki (or Salonika ...
Usage examples of macedonia.
That out of the way, the new warlord decided to move south to Apollonia, where sat the official governor of Macedonia, Gaius Antonius.
Then Gaius Clodius, the legate Brutus had left in charge of Apollonia, wrote to tell Brutus that he had heard for absolute certain that Mark Antony was in the act of mounting a full-scale invasion of western Macedonia to rescue his brother.
Dyrrachium and Apollonia in western Macedonia with the Hellespont and Byzantium.
Therefore most Roman generals classified Dyrrachium and Apollonia as part of Macedonia, not as part of Epirus.
Though most men heading for Asia Province sailed, Caesar had decided to go by land, a distance of eight hundred miles along the Via Egnatia from Apollonia in western Macedonia to Callipolis on the Hellespont.
Brundisium had to be convinced it was on its way across the Adriatic to Apollonia in western Macedonia.
I passe nothing at all, yet thinke you not that I am an abject or a begger, neither judge you my vertue and prowesse by ragged clothes, for I have beene a Captaine of a great company, and subdued all the countrey of Macedonia.
Macedonia and the Peloponnese, and five cohorts of Spaniards belonging to that dirty swindler, Marcus Crassus.
According to Genesis, the descendants of the Japheth who escaped out of the Flood with Noah are the Ionians, the inhabitants of the Morea, the dwellers on the Cilician coast of Asia Minor, the Cyprians, the Dodoneans of Macedonia, the Iberians, and the Thracians.
So Pontic agents were sent to water the seeds of an ever-present hatred of Rome among the Bessi and the Scordisci and the other tribes of Moesia and Thrace, with the result that Macedonia began to endure the worst outbreak of barbarian raids and incursions in many years.
They also related to a mystical enclave of people who occupied the eastern Delta, the Land of Onias, separate and complete in itself and owning no allegiance to the religious beliefs of either Macedonia or Egypt.
I lived all over the German lands, in France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Rumania, the Baltic States, the Russian princedoms, all of Scandinavia, the Kingdom of Ukrainia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Macedonia and, finally the Peloponnese.
Italians, Mithridates then bethought himself of Macedonia, where the Roman province held an uneasy frontier a thousand miles long against the barbarian tribes to the north.
His reason: that this area yielded the best catches as Caesar tried to ferry troops and supplies from Brundisium to Macedonia.
He fixed Dalmatius on the Gothic frontier, to which he annexed the government of Thrace, Macedonia, and Greece.