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    Illyrian suffix -st-. Lynkestis was the northernmost mountainous region of Upper Macedonia, located east of the Prespa Lakes. Lynkestis bordered with Pelagonia...
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    Heraclea Lyncestis, also transliterated Herakleia Lynkestis (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλεια Λυγκηστίς; Latin: Heraclea Lyncestis; Macedonian: Хераклеја Линкестис)...
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    antiquity, Pelagonia was roughly bounded by Paeonia to the north and east, Lynkestis and Almopia to the south and Illyria to the west; and was inhabited by...
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    Macedonia. Philip II of Macedon absorbed the regions of Upper Macedonia (Lynkestis and Pelagonia) and the southern part of Paeonia (Deuriopus) into the kingdom...
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    Argead Macedonia inevitably also involved the Upper Macedonian regions of Lynkestis, Orestis, Eordaea, Elimea and Tymphaea, because they were located between...
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    The regions of ancient Greece were sub-divisions of the Hellenic world as conceived by the Ancient Greeks of antiquity, shown by their presence in the...
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  • (Greek: Ἀρραβαῖος) or Arrhibaeus may refer to: Arrhabaeus, the king of Lynkestis, who claimed Corinthian aristocratic (Bacchiadae) origin. He was the maternal...
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  • several times, expanding his dominion over Upper Macedonia, including Lynkestis, and ruling over Macedon through a puppet king. Before the Rise of Macedon...
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    382 BC, and was the youngest son of King Amyntas III and Eurydice of Lynkestis. He had two older brothers, Alexander II and Perdiccas III, as well as...
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    shortage of provisions in winter. In 424 BC, Arrhabaeus, a local ruler of Lynkestis in Upper Macedonia, rebelled against his overlord Perdiccas, and the Spartans...
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    Macedonia. They were directly in contact with the regions of Orestis and Lynkestis of Upper Macedonia. The Dassaretii were one of the most prominent peoples...
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    ancient Greek regions of Orestis, Elimiotis, Eordaea, Tymphaea, part of Lynkestis, of Upper Macedonia. Miltiades Hatzopoulos and other scholars suggest...
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  • (Ancient Greek: Σίρρας; d. 390 BC) was the son-in-law of the king of Lynkestis, Arrhabaeus (fl. 423–393 BC), having married his daughter Irra. He participated...
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  • Lyncestis Pelagonia, near modern Bitola,North Macedonia abandoned Herakleia Lynkestis Heraclea Minoa near Montallegro, south coast of Sicily abandoned Hêrakleia...
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  • Macedonian district called Lyncestis, whence he is usually called Alexander of Lynkestis or Alexander Lyncestes. Justin makes the singular mistake of calling him...
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    Molossians several times, expanding his dominion over Upper Macedonia and Lynkestis and subjugating Macedon for several decades until he was decisively defeated...
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  • of Macedon (d. 336 BC), son of Amyntas III of Macedon and Eurydike of Lynkestis Antigonus I Monophthalmus (d. 301 BC), Macedonian general under Alexander...
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    isthmus. In Classical times, the Prespa region formed part of ancient Lynkestis, and the lakes were called Little and Great Brygeis. In the 10th century...
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    theatre in the country as the other three in Scupi, Stobi and Heraklea Lynkestis are from Roman times. It is unclear how many people the original theater...
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    Porodin, first inhabited around 6000 BC. The region of Bitola was known as Lynkestis in antiquity, a region that became part of Upper Macedonia, and was ruled...
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    Elimiotis/Elimeia. Eordeans - They lived in Eordaia. Lyncestai - They lived in Lynkestis. Magnetes - They lived in Magnesia (most of Thessaly's coastal region)...
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    Crestonia, Bisaltia and the western annexations Elimiotis, Orestis and Lynkestis. Kingdom of Philip II: All the above provinces plus the appendages of...
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  • ruling dynasty of Lynkestis in the 5th century BC. The Bacchiad claim of her Lynkestian maternal grandfather Arrhabaeus, king of Lynkestis, is generally accepted...
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    reverse of the Macedonian 5 denars coin, issued in 1993. The name of Lynkestis, a Macedonian tribe, is translated as "Land of the Lynx". It has been...
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  • Molossians several times, expanding his dominion over Upper Macedonia and Lynkestis. Before the Rise of Macedon Illyrians were the dominant power in the region...
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    Bulgaria), Herakleia Sintike (Pirin Macedonia, Bulgaria), and Herakleia Lynkestis (modern Bitola, North Macedonia). Philip II eventually campaigned against...
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  • is succeeded by his son Alexander III. Suspecting the princes of the Lynkestis region of killing Phillip II, Alexander executes them all. The League...
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    administrative region of the kingdom of Macedon. Eordaea was located south of Lynkestis, west of Emathia, north of Elimiotis and east of Orestis. Eordaea stretched...
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  • took the kingdom of Elimiotis and Aeropus, presumably, the kingdom of Lynkestis. Argead dynasty A History of Macedonia: 550-336 B.C by N. G. L. Hammond...
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  • a son of Grabos, a prince, royal member and perhaps prince-regent of Lynkestis (Lyncestis) in Upper Macedonia for his father-in-law King Arrhabaeus (c...
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