Local epigraphical evidence is restricted to the decrees of the Epirote League and the Pella curse tablet ( both in early 4th century BC ), as well to the Doric eponym Machatas first attested in Macedonia ( early 5th century BC ).

* Pella curse tablet, a magic spell, written in Doric Greek

The Pella curse tablet ( Greek katadesmos )

The Pella curse tablet is a text written in a distinct Doric Greek idiom, found in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedon, in 1986.

As a result, the Pella curse tablet has been forwarded as an argument that the Ancient Macedonian language was a dialect of North-Western Greek, part of the Doric dialects .< ref >: "...<< Macedonian Language >> de lOxford Classical Dictionary, 1996, p. 906: << Macedonian may be seen as a Greek dialect, characterized by its marginal position and by local pronounciation ( like Βερενίκα for Φερενίκα etc .)>>.

The discovery of the Pella curse tablet, according to Olivier Masson, substantiates the view that the ancient Macedonian language was a form of North-West Greek:

The language is a distinct form of North-West Greek, and the low social status of its writer, as ( arguably ) evidenced by her vocabulary and belief in magic, strongly hint that a unique form of West Greek was spoken by lay people in Pella at the time the tablet was written.

Some scholars view the Pella katadesmos, written in a form of Doric Greek, as the first discovered Macedonian text.

A fragment of the Macedonian historian Marsyas of Pella ( 4th century BC ), through a scholiast of Iliad xiv 226 < ref > Frg 13, Greek text: confirms the genealogy as found in the Catalogue of Women: " Makedon son of Zeus and Thyia, conquered the land then belonging to Thrace and he called it Macedonia after his name.

The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.

* The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, is invited by Philip II to his capital at Pella to tutor his son, Alexander.

Although virtually no Ancient Greek painting survives, their understanding of the effect of light modelling can still be seen in the late 4th century BC mosaics of Pella, Macedonia, in particular the Deer Hunt, in the House of the Abduction of Helen, inscribed gnosis epoesen, or ' knowledge did it '.

About 393 we find it concluding an important treaty with Amyntas III of Macedon ( the father of Philip II ), and by 382 it had absorbed most of the Greek cities west of the Strymon, and had even got possession of Pella, the chief city in Macedon.

Posidippus of Pella (, Poseidippos, c. 310 BC – 240 BC ) was an Ancient Greek epigrammatic poet.

Oppian or Oppianus ( Ancient Greek: ) was the name of the authors of two ( or three ) didactic poems in Greek hexameters, formerly identified, but now generally regarded as two different persons: Oppian of Corycus ( or Anazarbus ) in Cilicia ; and Oppian of Apamea ( or Pella ) in Syria.

After the battle is won, Alexander demands that no Greek city-state ever bear arms against Pella and that they supply men, arms, and ships for the war against Persia.

Ten years later king Amyntas III was forced to entrust a portion of his kingdom to the Greek Chalcidians, who refused to relinquish it, and by 382 BC had extended their control westward, including Macedon ’ s capital Pella.

Whilst a comparatively meager number of Macedonians lived in the few native Macedonian cities ( e. g. Aegeae, Pella, Dion ), urbanization increased by the 4th century BC as Greek colonies were conquered and integrated into Macedonia, or new towns were founded ( such as Philippi, Thessalonike and Alexandropolis ).

The composite term Osiris-Dionysus is found around the start of the first century BC, for example in Aegyptiaca by Hecateus of Abdera, and in works by Leon of Pella.

The Thermaic Gulf was significantly larger in classical times, with many ancient seaside cities ( e. g. Pella ) now found several kilometers inland.

At the time of the peace between Athens and Philip in 346 BC, we find Cersobleptes again involved in hostilities with the Macedonian king, who in fact was absent in Thrace when the second Athenian embassy arrived at his capital Pella, and did not return to give them audience until he had completely conquered Cersobleptes.

* Pella, Iowa's Tulip Time festival, also celebrated in early May, began in 1935 in celebration of the town's heritage.

Over the 4th century Macedon became more politically involved with the south-central city-states of Ancient Greece, but it also retained more archaic features like the palace-culture, first at Aegae ( modern Vergina ) then at Pella, resembling Mycenaean culture more than classic Hellenic city-states, and other archaic customs, like Philip's multiple wives in addition to his Epirote queen Olympias, mother of Alexander.

The Milan Papyrus, recovered from a dismantled mummy casing and published in 2001, has revealed the high esteem in which the poet Posidippus of Pella, an important composer of epigrams ( 3rd century BC ), held Sappho's " divine songs ".

In the 5th century BC, King Archelaus I moved the Macedonian capital north to Pella on the central Macedonian plain.

First mentioned in the 19th century BC in Egyptian inscriptions, its name was Hellenised to Pella, perhaps to honour Alexander the Great's birthplace.

He then spent some time at the court of Antiochus I Soter of Syria, but subsequently returned to Pella in Macedon, where he died sometime before 239 / 240 BC.

Alexander the Great ( Alexander of Macedon and Alexander III of Macedon ), was born in Pella in 356 BC and died in Babylon in 323 BCE.

Her paternal grandfather was Agathocles of Pella a nobleman who was a contemporary to King Philip II of Macedon who reigned 359 BC-336 BC, while her maternal grandfather was the powerful Regent Antipater.

In 338 BC, Cleopatra stayed in Pella with her father while her mother Olympias fled to exile in Epirus with her Molossian brother Alexander I of Epirus ( Cleopatra's uncle ), and Cleopatra's brother Alexander fled to Illyria.

Beyond Pydna was a considerable forest, called Pieria Silva, which may have furnished the Pierian pitch, which had such a high reputation. The road from Pella to Larissa in Thessaly passed through Pieria, and was probably the route which the consul Quintus Marcius Philippus pursued in the third and fourth years of the third Macedonian War ( 171 BC – 168 BC ).

Pella is located in the Jordan valley some 130 km north of Amman, and the site has been continuously occupied since Neolithic times.

Otley has one post office and is home to Van Haaften Racing, Pella Motorworks, Otley Reformed Church, and Two Rivers Co-op.

In 318 ( or earlier ), having been detected in an intrigue with Perdiccas, Antipater's opponent, he was put to death by Antipater at Pella, when entrusted with another mission by the Athenians.

Two of these were already known and had been attributed by the 12th-century AD Byzantine scholar John Tzetzes to the Hellenistic epigrammatist Posidippus of Pella, a Macedonian who spent his literary career in Alexandria.

The University of Sydney and the Jordanian Department of Antiquities have been conducting excavations at Pella since 1979.

It is named after the ancient city of Pella, the capital of ancient Macedonia and the birthplace of Alexander the Great.

Children playing football in the ancient ruins of Pella in September 2004.

Pella ( known in Arabic as Tabaqat Fahl ( طبقة فحل )) is a village and the site of ancient ruins in northwestern Jordan.

* Pella, capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedon

* Pella ( municipality ), the modern town near the site of ancient Pella

* Pella, Jordan, an ancient settlement in Jordan, one of the Decapolis cities