Aegae or Aigai (Ancient Greek: Αἰγαί), also Aegeae or Aigeai (Αἰγέαι) was the original capital of the Macedonians, an ancient kingdom in Emathia in northern...

titular Aegae (Cilicia), ancient town of Cilicia, near modern Yumurtalık, Turkey Aegae (Macedonia), first capital of the Classical kingdom of Macedonia, now...

general Attalus of Macedonia. Philip renamed her Cleopatra Eurydice of Macedon. King Philip was assassinated in October 336 BC at Aegae, the ancient capital...

from there captured the Macedonian plain and occupied the fortress of Aegae (Vergina), setting himself up as king of the Macedonians. "Pausanias, Description...

observation that Macedonian personal names have a predominantly Greek character. Macedonian toponyms and hydronyms are mostly of Greek origin (e.g. Aegae, Dion,...

National Gallery. The Rape of Persephone, a painting in the Macedonian Tomb I in Vergina (Aegae), dating from the mid 4th century BC. This in situ mural...

Achaemenid Macedonia refers to the period in which the ancient Greek Kingdom of Macedonia was under the sway of the Achaemenid Persians. In 512/511 BC...

Macedonia (/ˌmæsɪˈdoʊniə/ MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə; Greek: Μακεδονία, romanized: Makedonía, pronounced [maceðoˈni.a] ) is a geographic and former administrative...

During his excavations at Vergina, the site of the ancient Macedonian capital of Aegae, the archaeologist Manolis Andronikos found the symbol on the...

Corinthians bring Thessalus to him in chains. In the summer of 336 BC, while at Aegae attending the wedding of his daughter Cleopatra to Olympias's brother, Alexander...

overseeing the burial of Phillip III and Eurydice in the royal cemetery at Aegae; he further cemented his authority by founding Thessalonica, Cassandreia...

Macedonia (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα της Μακεδονίας; c. 355/354 BC – 308 BC), or Cleopatra of Epirus (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα της Ηπείρου) was an ancient Macedonian princess...

on April 30, 2008. Retrieved 2017-12-04. Borza, E.N (1987). "The Royal Macedonian Tombs and the Paraphernalia of Alexander the Great". Phoenix. 41 (2):...

from there captured the Macedonian plain and occupied the fortress of Aegae (Vergina), setting himself up as king of the Macedonians. Thus the kings were...

Catholic titular see. The extensive archaeological site of Vergina (ancient Aegae, the first capital of Macedon), a UNESCO World Heritage Site containing...

Cultural Organization. Retrieved 25 November 2022. Angeliki Kottaridi, Aegae, the Macedonian metropolis, Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, Ashmolean...

had with him to found the kingdom. He gave the city of Edessa the name Aegae and its people the name Aegeads in memory of this service. According to...

ancestral domain of the Argead dynasty - the region of Pieria around Aegae (Macedonia). Aminta decided to turn for help to the strongest Greek power - Sparta...

territory and the lands of the Argeads, who were based at Aegae. Before the rise of Macedon Upper Macedonia had been under constant attacks and raids by Illyrians:...

were based at Aegae. The populations of Upper Macedonia shared a common language and a common way of life with that of Lower Macedonia which differed...

of Zeus Ammon, did not wish to be buried alongside his actual father at Aegae. Alexander's body was placed in a coffin of "hammered gold", according to...

authority in the kingdom; in 316 BC he buried Philip III and Euridice at Aegae and married Philip II's daughter, Thessalonica, thus becoming a member of...

There was a sanctuary dedicated to Eucleia at Aigai (Aegae), the ancient capital of Macedonia. The sanctuary consisted of a 4th-century Doric temple...

of upper Macedonia and Thessaly, while Antigonus held on to the coastal towns. But Pyrrhus now wasted his victory. Taking possession of Aegae, the ancient...

Under the reign of Philip II (359–336 BC), the ancient kingdom of Macedonia, initially at the periphery of classical Greek affairs, came to dominate Ancient...

met almost no opposition. Pyrrhus penetrated as far as the old Macedonian capital of Aegae before Demetrius was well enough to take the field. Since Demetrius...

by Olympias, Cleopatra and Olympias' brother, Alexander I of Epirus at Aegae, Philip II was assassinated by the captain of his bodyguard, Pausanias....

(brother of Olympias), Philip II is assassinated at Aegae by Pausanias of Orestis, a young Macedonian bodyguard with a bitter grievance against the young...

Macedonia, also called Macedon, was ruled continuously by kings from its inception around the middle of the seventh century BC until its conquest by the...

location of Demetrius' tomb remains unknown, but was likely in Beroea or Aegae. Demetrius married four times, though the chronology of these marriages...