Some accounts place the youth of Midas in Macedonian Bermion ( See Bryges ) In Thracian Mygdonia, A wild rose garden at the foot of Mount Bermion was called by Herodotus " the garden of Midas son of Gordias, where roses grow of themselves, each bearing sixty blossoms and of surpassing fragrance ".

The political organization of the Macedonian kingdom was a three-level pyramid: on the top, the King and the nation, at the foot, the civic organizations ( cities and éthnē ), and between the two, the districts.

Located at the foot of an open valley and subject to a windy climate, it was suggested that the name originates from the old Macedonian term: струже ветер ( it blows wind ).

The Hypaspists were of privileged Macedonian blood and their senior chiliarchy formed the Agema foot bodyguard of Alexander III.

The Macedonian Army is the first in the region to consist fully of professional soldiers.

However, pankration was more than just an event in the athletic competitions of the ancient Greek world ; it was also part of the arsenal of Greek soldiers – including the famous Spartan hoplites and Alexander the Great's Macedonian phalanx.

On their return journey, the Macedonian soldiers carried the " honey bearing reeds " home with them.

After setting up and ambush and attacking their lightly armoured Humvee vehicles with small arms fire and RPG ’ s the patrol stopped and Macedonian forces and guerrillas exchanged fire in a short skirmish, after soldiers started retreating half of the patrol managed to escape one soldier was shot and 7 others captured and allegedly executed with knives and then their corpses were allegedly burned. News of the massacre sparked local uprisings against Muslim Albanians in several towns and cities across Macedonia, and such revolts included burning and vandalising shops and Mosques.

In an attempt to craft a lasting harmony between his Macedonian and Persian subjects, he took an oath of unity before 9, 000 Persian and Greek soldiers at Opis, he married Statira ( the daughter of Darius ) and held a mass marriage of his senior officers to Persian and other noblewomen at Susa just prior to coming to Opis.

The city remained in Persian hands until 331 BCE, when the soldiers of the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great entered the city.

He gathered more than 250, 000 soldiers ( including more than 42, 000 cavalry ) against approximately 47, 000 Macedonian soldiers ( including around 8, 000 cavalry ).

At Piraeus, Phocion was holding a conference with Nicanor when Athenian soldiers interrupted, to jail the Macedonian general.

During World War I, Owen Rutter, a British officer of the Army of the Orient, wrote Tiadatha, to describe the city of Salonica, Greece, where several hundred thousand soldiers were stationed on the Macedonian Front in 1916-1918:

* The number of soldiers in the most basic unit ( the syntagma ) of the Macedonian army.

At this time they were strong enough to rule Macedonia through a puppet king in 392-391 BC and their continuous invasions forced a later Macedonian king to pay them a tribute in 372 BC In 385-384 they allied with Dionysius I of Syracuse and defeated the Molossians in a battle killing up to 15, 000 Molossian soldiers and ruling their territory for a short period.

In 359 BC Dardanians under Bardyllis won a decisive battle against a Macedonian king Perdiccas III by killing the Macedonian king himself and 4, 000 of his soldiers, and occupied the cities of upper Macedonia.

In winter 280-279 BC when Celts invaded Macedonia, the Dardanian king offered to help Macedonians with 20, 000 soldiers, but they were refused by Macedonian king Ptolemy Keraunos, eventually contributing to his defeat and consequent death.

After the murder of Perdiccas in Egypt by his own soldiers ( 320 BC ), the Macedonian generals condemned Eumenes to death, assigning Antipater and Antigonus as his executioners.

Before he left Epirus, Pyrrhus formed an alliance and borrowed soldiers and money from the pretender to the Macedonian throne, Ptolemy Keraunos.

* 20, 000 phalangites, Epirotes including 5, 000 Macedonian soldiers given by Ptolemy

# Macedonian soldiers engaged in the siege of Tyre discover that some of the ration bread is “ bloody .” Aristander forecasts that Tyre will be taken ( because the bread is bloody on the inside ).

Philip provided his Macedonian soldiers in the phalanx with sarissa, a spear which was 4 – 6 meters in length.

There were risen ethnic tensions between Macedonian majority and the small Albanian community in the region, especially after an incident during the 2001 Macedonia conflict where ten young soldiers from Prilep were killed by Albanian insurgents.

As their southern frontier, the Pharaohs of Egypt kept there a strong garrison, and, for the same reason, it was a barrack also for Macedonian and Roman soldiers in their turn.

Within two years, however, the garrison lost the control to Indians and some or all of the Greek, Persian, Thracian and Macedonian soldiers of the garrison married the local girls and became assimilated into the local Hindu society.

Argos, however, revolted against Sparta and expelled their garrison with the help of some Macedonian soldiers.

Also, the Achaean soldiers followed Aratus anywhere, fighting the Macedonian King.

This combination of cavalry and infantry helped to break enemy lines and were used effectively to dominate the opponents of the Macedonian Kingdom.

Both censuses were observed by international experts due to the sensitive issue regarding the ethnic distribution ( i. e. of Macedonian or Albanian origin ).

Nevertheless, before the establishment of a literary standard of Macedonian in 1944, in most sources in and out of Bulgaria before the Second World War, the southern Slavonic dialect continuum covering the area of today's Republic of Macedonia were referred to as Bulgarian dialects.

It is remarkable that the Macedonian converts were, as a class, very poor ( 2 Cor.

This state of affairs changed when Photius's patrons, Bardas and Emperor Michael III, were murdered in 866 and 867, respectively, by Basil the Macedonian, who now usurped the throne.

Here the Greeks were in competition not only with the Ottomans but also with the Bulgarians, engaged in an armed propaganda struggle for the hearts and minds of the ethnically mixed local population, the so-called " Macedonian Struggle ".

In addition, at least 25, 000 Greeks and an unspecified number of Macedonian Slavs were either voluntarily or forcibly evacuated to Eastern bloc countries, while 700, 000 became displaced persons inside the country.

" During that same year, the Greek cities in Sicily were induced to revolt against Roman political control, while the Macedonian king, Philip V, pledged his support to Hannibal – thus initiating the First Macedonian War against Rome.

During the Third Macedonian War, thirty-five vessels allied to Rome, carrying about 1, 000 Galatian troops, as well as a number of horses, were sent by Eumenes II to his brother Attalus.

Eumenes ' officers at first thought the intercepting fleet were friendly Romans, but scattered upon realizing they were facing an attack by their Macedonian enemy, some choosing to abandon ship and swim to Erythrae.

The Macedonian cavalry fought in wedge formation and was stationed on the far right ; after these broke through the enemy lines they were followed by the hypaspists, elite infantrymen who served as the king's bodyguard, and then the phalanx proper.

Some Roman emperors were great admirers of Alexander of Macedon and attempted to imitate the Macedonian Phalanx.

Prior to the codification of the standard language ( Standard Macedonian ), Macedonian dialects were described by linguists as being either dialects of Bulgarian or Serbian.

While it is often claimed that Standard Macedonian was codified on the base of those dialects ( i. e. the Prilep-Bitola dialect ) which were most unlike Bulgarian, this interpretation stems from the works of Krste Misirkov who suggested that Standard Macedonian should abstract on those dialects " most distinct from the standards of the other Slavonic languages ".

On 13 September 2011, Macedonian forces were filmed fighting alongside U. S troops as they successfully repelled a Taliban attack on the ISAF headquarters in Kabul.

It was common among the Macedonian upper class at the time of Alexander the Great, and there were several of this name among Alexander's army, one of whom made himself King of Egypt in 323 BC: Ptolemy I Soter.

In the article “ Bellum Philippicum: Some Roman and Greek Views Concerning the Causes of the Second Macedonian War ”, E. J. Bickerman writes that “ the causes of the fateful war … were vividly debated among both Greeks and Romans ”.

Not only were they contending with Hannibal in Italy, and his brother Hasdrubal in Hispania, but Rome had embroiled itself in yet another foreign war, the first of its Macedonian wars against Carthage's ally Philip V, at the same time.

Most of the Greek republics were annexed to the Macedonian Empire of Alexander.

This civilization seems to have fallen into decline by the late Bronze Age, when, according to Herodotus, Macedonian tribes from the north marched into Peloponnese, where they were called Dorians and subjugating the local tribes, settled there.

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