Macedonia

(freq. abbrev. into MACEDON,) (mas-e-do'ne-ah.) (Anc. Geog.) A famous country of anc. Greece, which, in the time of Philip, father of Alexander the Great, embraced the entire region b. N.by the Scardian Mts.,W. byEpirus and Illyria, E. by the river Nestos, and S. by The aly-occupying the greater portion of the present Turkish pro vs. of Salonika and Roumelia. Its cap. was Pella. The Persians reduced M. 490 B. c., and hel dit till 479, when it reverted to its anc. line of kings. Under Philip its boundaries were greatly enlarged, and Alexander the Great made it the nucleus of a vast and powerful empire. Along with Greece, it ultimately pa ed under the Roman sway, B. c. 148. [s. 565]