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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, a text written in a distinct Doric Greek dialect, found in 1986 and dated to between mid to early 4th century BC, has been forwarded as an argument that the ancient Macedonian language was a dialect of North-Western Greek, part of the Doric dialects.
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:

Pella and tablet
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.

Pella and is
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 Dialogue attributed to Aristo of Pella is believed to have furnished Justin with scriptural proof-texts on the divinity of the Messiah by combining a Wisdom Christology-Christ as the incarnation of preexistent Wisdom-with a Second Adam Christology-the first Adam was conquered by Satan, but this Fall of Man is reversed by Christ as the Second Adam who conquers Satan.
* The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, is invited by Philip II to his capital at Pella to tutor his son, Alexander.
* An Athenian delegation, comprising Demosthenes, Aeschines and Philocrates, is officially sent to Pella to negotiate a peace treaty with Philip II.
Clement attributes his source to a " collection of marvels " by a certain " Monimos " of whom nothing is known, and claims, in pursuit of his thesis that daimon-worshipers become as cruel as their gods, that in " Pella of Thessaly human sacrifice is offered to Peleus and Cheiron, the victim being an Achaean ".
It is today preserved at the Archaeological museum in Pella.
Pella () is one of the regional units of Greece, in the geographic region of Macedonia.
It is named after the ancient city of Pella, the capital of ancient Macedonia and the birthplace of Alexander the Great.
The capital of Pella is Edessa.
The regional unit Pella is subdivided into 4 municipalities.
Pella is a town in Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States.
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 most-visited region of Greece is that of Central Macedonia in northern Greece, near some of the most popular attractions in the country such as Halkidiki, Mount Olympus, Pella, the birthplace of Alexander the Great, and Greece's second-largest city, Thessaloniki.
Traditionally it is believed the Jerusalem Christians waited out the Jewish – Roman wars in Pella in the Decapolis.
Traditionally it is believed the Jerusalem Christians waited out the Jewish – Roman wars ( 66-135 ) in Pella in the Decapolis.
The mountain range in the west, on the border with Pella regional unit, is Mount Paiko ( highest peak ).
The region is based at its capital city of Thessaloniki and is divided into seven regional units ( pre-Kallikratis prefectures ), Chalkidiki, Imathia, Kilkis, Pella, Pieria, Serres and Thessaloniki.
Traditionally it is believed the Jerusalem Christians waited out the Jewish – Roman wars in Pella in the Decapolis.
Central College is a private liberal arts college located in Pella, Iowa.
Traditionally it is believed the Jerusalem Christians waited out the Jewish – Roman wars in Pella in the Decapolis.

Pella and text
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.

Pella and Greek
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 ).

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

Pella and ancient
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

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