Macedon

"Macedonian Empire" redirects here. See Macedonian Empire (disambiguation) for other uses. Macedon or Macedonia (Greek  ) was the name of an ancient kingdom in the northern-most part of ancient Greece, bordered by the kingdom of Epirus to the west and the region of Thrace to the east. For a brief period it became the most powerful state in the ancient Near East after Alexander the Great conquered most of the known world, inaugurating the Hellenistic period of Greek history.
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Noun
1. 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
(synonym) Macedonia, Makedonija
(hypernym) geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
(part-holonym) Balkan Peninsula, Balkans
(member-meronym) Macedonian
(class) Pydna, Battle of Pydna

MACEDONIA