The core territory of the ancient Macedonian state was in the plains immediately to the east and north of the Olympus mountain range. Beginning with the 7th cent. BC, the Macedones conquered from their capital Aegae [1] step by step Pieria (south of the lower Haliacmon), Botti…
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Duridanov, Ludmil (Freiburg),
Jung, Reinhard (Berlin) and
von Mangoldt, Hans (Tübingen),
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