Emperor Caracalla ( 2nd-3rd c. AD ) had formed a Macedonian phalanx of 16, 000 men all born in Macedonia and commanded by officers bearing the names of Alexander's officers.

Perhaps the pel-element in their name was originally connected with " black " or " muddy " root elements in names like Peleus or Pelops and peliganes ( Epirotian, Macedonian senators ), Attic polios, Doric peleios grey, old, PIE * pel -, " gray ".

Tito's war-time representative to Yugoslav Macedonia, Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo, is credited with promoting the usage of the regional names of the Macedonian region for irredentist purposes.

His new music video Dobra Kombinacija aired on K-15 TV and was accepted with great success by the hip hop community. One of the young names worth mentioning is Dino ' Versus ' Bojadzievski, who is considered to be one of the best Macedonian Hip-Hop lyricists. In 2009, he entered and won the " Rap i Pivo " freestyle battle competition, which brought him some recognition. Afterwards he released several demo recordings, some of which still retain popularity. Also, during that period, he worked with Macedonian rap legend Vladimir ' Temnata Strana ' Agovski on a single entitled ' Kako shto e ' ( As it Is ) which is to be released on the mixtape ' PRO-dukt '. He is currently finishing work on his album ' Od Hejt do Aplauzi ' which will feature many new songs as well as remakes of some of his most popular demo's.

Category: Macedonian masculine given names

The vast majority of Macedonian names on inscriptions and coinage are Greek and conform to the Doric Greek dialect morphology.

Category: Macedonian masculine given names

Beyond the names above referenced, Svetovid can also be known as Svyatovit ( Ukrainian ), Svyatovid ( alternative name in Ukrainian ), Svyentovit ( alternative name in Ukrainian ), Svetovid ( Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian and Bosnian, and alternative name in Bulgarian ), Suvid ( alternative name in Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ), Svantevit ( Wendish, alternative name in Ukrainian and possibly the original proto-Slavic name ), Svantevid ( alternative name in Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ), Svantovit ( Czech ), Svantovít ( Czech ), Svantovid ( alternative name in Serbo-Croat and Bosniak ), Swantovít, Sventovit, Zvantevith ( Latin and alternative name in Serbo-Croatian ), Świętowit ( Polish ), Światowid, Sutvid, Svevid, and Vid.

In much the same way that the profession of smithing produced the common English surname Smith and the German name Schmidt, the trade of cooperage also gave the English name Cooper, French name Tonnelier and Tonnellier, Greek name Βαρελάς / Varelas, Danish name Bødker, German names like Faßbinder ( literally cask binder ), Böttcher ( tub maker ), Fässler and Keiper, Dutch names like Kuiper or Cuypers, the Latvian name Mucenieks, the Hungarian name Kádár, Bodnár, Polish names such as Bednarz, Bednarski or Bednarczyk, the Czech name Bednář, the Romanian names Dogaru and Butnaru, Ukrainian family name Bondarenko, Ukrainian / Russian name Bondar, the Jewish name Bodner and the Portuguese names Tanoeiro and Toneleiro, Spanish Cubero and Macedonian Bacvarovski ( Македонски: Бачваровски ) and Italian " Bottai " ( from " botte ").

He is one of the most outstanding names in the Macedonian culture and history.

Category: Macedonian masculine given names

Category: Macedonian masculine given names

The following is a list of male names taken from the 1996 Orthodox Calendar, published by the Holy Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church ( contributed by Hristijan Delev ).

Category: Macedonian feminine given names

Category: Macedonian masculine given names

Category: Macedonian masculine given names

Beghé, like Philae, was a holy island ; its and rocks are inscribed with the names and titles of Amenhotep III, Rameses the Great, Psammetichus, Apries, and Amasis, together with memorials of the later Macedonian and Roman rulers of Egypt.

M. Hatzopoulos summarizes the Macedonian anthroponymy ( that is names borne by people from Macedonia before the expansion beyond the Axius or people undoubtedly hailing from this area after the expansion ) as follows:

* Identifiable non-Greek ( Thracian, Illyrian and " native " – that is names generally confined to Macedonian territory that aren't identified with any language, Greek or not ) names

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.

While they would eventually move on Philip V in the Second Macedonian War, there was considerable debate beforehand about the course Rome should take in this conflict.

What is notable about the Macedonian regime during the Hellenistic times is that it was the only successor state to the Empire that maintained the old archaic perception of Kingship, and never adopted the ways of the Hellenistic Monarchy.

The most notable incident was the infamous Asian Immigrant Massacre, when Macedonian special police forces murdered six Pakistanis and an Indian immigrants afterwards planting weapons, explosive and Islamic literature on the corpses claiming they were Al-Qaida cells which were about to attack US Embassy in Skopje.

Total casualties of war on each side are not known, but both sides claimed their own military casualties were around 60 each, while about 60-80 ethnic Albanian civilians and possibly about ten Macedonian civilians are thought to have been killed.

In about 249 BC, she was married to Demetrius the Fair, a Macedonian prince, soon after her father died.

In September 331 BCE, Macedonian Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persia at the Battle of Gaugamela, and probably took possession of Opis about the same time as Babylon.

Chandragupta's achievements, which ranged from conquering Macedonian satrapies in the northwest and conquering the Nanda Empire by the time he was only about 20 years old, to achieving an alliance with Seleucus I Nicator and establishing centralized rule throughout the Indian Subcontinent, remain some of the most celebrated in the history of India.

By the time he was only about 20 years old, Chandragupta, who had succeeded in defeating the Macedonian satrapies in India and conquering the Nanda Empire, had founded a vast empire that extended from the Bay of Bengal in the east, to the Indus River in the west.

It came about as a result of the pretender Andriscus's usurpation of the Macedonian throne, pretending to be the son of Perseus, the last King of Macedon, deposed by the Romans after the Third Macedonian War in 168 BC.

The Hellenistic Stadion ( with a vaulted entrance tunnel dated to about 320 BC, according to Stephen G. Miller, 2001, pp. 90 – 93 ) has recently been discovered: the Games, under Macedonian control, returned to Nemea at the end of the 4th century BC.

The remaining Ottoman army of about 200, 000 was located in Macedonia, pitted against the Serbian ( 234, 000 Serbs and 48, 000 Bulgarians under the Serbians orders ) and Greek ( 115, 000 men ) armies, and divided into the Vardar and Macedonian Ottoman armies with independent static guards around the fortress cities of Ioannina ( against the Greeks in Epirus ) and Shkodër ( against the Montenegrins in north Albania ).

It is situated in a fertile plain at an elevation of about 70 m, some 24 km northeast of the Strymon river and 69 km north-east of the Macedonian capital, Thessaloniki.

Swords and remarkably long lance-heads measuring about were also discovered, which Soteriades identified as the Macedonian sarissas.

When the new Macedonian king, Alexander, was about to attack Thebes, Demosthenes protested impudently.

According to Parvanov's own statement, the file only shows that he had been consulted as a historian in conjunction with the writing of a memoir book about events related to the Macedonian Question in the 19th century.

During the Third Macedonian War ( 171 – 168 BC ), the League flirted with the idea of an alliance with Perseus, and the Romans punished it by taking several hostages to ensure good behavior, including Polybius, the Hellenistic historian who wrote about the rise of the Roman Republic.

It consisted of Thracian and Macedonian tagmata, which numbered about 5, 000 men ; the elite excubitors and vestiaritai units, which numbered around 1, 000 men ; a force of Manichaeans which comprised 2, 800 men, Thessalian cavalry, Balkan conscripts, Armenian infantry and other light troops.

Walbank, about 3, 000 in number, although by the Third Macedonian War this went up to 5, 000 ( most likely to accommodate the elite Agema which was a sub-unit in the ' Peltast ' corps ).

There aren't any indications suggesting his doubt about the Bulgarian ethnic character of the Macedonian Slavs at that time.

However, at different points in his life, Misirkov expressed conflicting statements about the ethnicity of the Slavic population living in Macedonia, including his own ethnicity, calling them Bulgarians, Macedonians or Macedonian Bulgarians respectively.

Later Macedonian examples tended to be shorter with a blade length of about 48cm.

* Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe reported about the imprisonment of Archbishop Jovan, finding that Macedonian officials, in response to the ecclesiastical dispute concerning the status of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, have over-reacted and that the 18-month prison term sentence is excessive and unjustified.