Macedonia

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Macedonia, Mas" e do m a, an ancient country of southeastern Europe, north of Thessaly. The real importance of Macedonia in history began with Philip 382-336 B. Q. He found the people a loose union of tribes, which he consolidated into a strong kingdom. By shrewd diplomacy and by war Philip gained the Thracian cities of Athens and drew enormous revenues from the gold mines which he developed. By 348 B. C. every Greek city on the Macedonian coast had fallen before him. By 338 he was master of Greece. Under Alexander the kingdom was greatly enlarged. (See ALEXANDER THE GREAT) In 146 B. C. Macedonia became a Roman province and it was a part of the Eastern Empire in 395 A. D. In the 14th century it came under Turkish rule, remaining a part of the Turkish Empire until 1913, when it was divided among Servia, Bulgaria and Greece.