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Topic: Eordaea


  
  Origin of Iliad
EORDAEA Ancient region (and tribe) in western Macedonia near the lake Vegoritis.
Inhabited during the late Bronze Age, the Eordoi were a proto-Hellenic, Indo-European that came to Eordaea appr.
Eordaea was the birthplace Ptolemy Lagos, the Macedonian general who gained the throne of Egypt.
www.geocities.com /kadrizhulali   (3590 words)

  
 Origin of the Macedonians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He came there at a fortunate moment since the king of Orestis was making war on the king of Eordaea and Caranus agreed to aid him in return for half his enemy's kingdom, in order to found his own.
In fact, according to this tale, after Caranus and the king of Orestis defeated the king of Eordaea, the former received the lands on which he built the kingdom of the Temenids, making Aegae his capital (10).
In its general lines this story is repeated by the Roman historian Justin, whose work is mainly an epitome of the lost Macedonian history written by Pompeius Trogus on the basis of earlier versions and on facts diligently collected.
www.macedonia.info /royalorigins.htm   (3399 words)

  
 Alexander the Great's forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The original Macedonians who inhabited near the Pieria Mountains, their cradle, were ruled by the Temenid dynasty.
This particular tribe expanded gradually throughout the whole of Macedonia by subjugating the neighboring peoples of Tymphaea, Elymiotis, Orestis, Eordaea, Lynkestis and Pelagonia.
The nation of the royal house (that is the Argeades) spoke an Aeolian dialect of Greek and the rest of the conquered Macedonians spoke western Greek dialects close to the one the Molossians of Epirus spoke.
www.pothos.org /forum/showmessage.asp?messageID=17313   (143 words)

  
 Slitherine - The RIse of Macedon - An AAR - @ www.aimoo.com
It was early in August, the army having barely crossed into Eordaea, when news arrived that the Paeonians were massing near the northern border.
Eordaea had fallen after a battle on the outskirts of Arnisa.
He ordered the local leaders sent into exile but refused to enslave the population as they were of the same Macedonian stock.
www.aimoo.com /forum/postview.cfm?id=453260&CategoryID=198817&startcat=1&ThreadID=1312207   (2920 words)

  
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That, indeed, was why they had not become members of the Hellenic League.
Yet, while Macedonian subjects of the king, they nonetheless retained some sort of civic identity which put them on a level with (most obviously) the districts of Orestis or Eordaea within old Macedonia.
Whatever it was, it was political masterstroke, for which Philip should receive due credit.
www.b-info.com /places/Macedonia/republic/news/93-12/93-12-14.har   (3233 words)

  
 Hostile Views of Alexander Alexander in Carmania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In any case, there is the story; I do not believe it -- and that is all I propose to say.
Up to that time Alexander's Personal Guards were seven in number: Leonnatus son of Anteas, Hephaestion son of Amyntor, Lysimachus son of Agathocles, Aristonus son of Pisaeus (all four from Pella); Perdiccas sots of Orontes, from Orestis; Ptolemy son of Lagus and Peitho son of Crateuas from Eordaea.
Now there was an eighth, Peucestas, the man who held his shield over Alexander's prostrate body.
luna.cas.usf.edu /~murray/classes/aa/carmania.htm   (585 words)

  
 goGreece.com: City Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This territory has been inhabited since prehistoric years.
In ancient time we had the provinces of Bottiaea, Imathea, Almopea and Eordaea.
According to Aristotle’s and Ploutarchos, the young men and women sent by the Athenians to Crete as a sacrifice to the legendary Minotaur were not killed but lived in the kingdom of Minoas as slaves.
www.gogreece.com /travel/select.html?CityID=364   (1129 words)

  
 PTOLEMIES - Online Information article about PTOLEMIES
Egypt from 323 to 30 B.C. The founder, See also:
PTOLEMY (IIroXeµacor), son of Lagus, a Macedonian nobleman of Eordaea, was one of See also:
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encyclopedia.jrank.org /PRE_PYR/PTOLEMIES.html   (1137 words)

  
 Data Obii to Quadi - The Ethnohistory Project
47 24 -1700 -1500 A Paeones U Beyond Vardar R thru plain to E Ludias R, then into Eordaea, Lyncus & finally Pelagonia.
Dates are guesses to place this action with limits given by (47-23) and (901-97).
901 98 -1700 -1400 A Paeones U {EC Macedonia (Mid-Vardar R L plain)} + {Beyond Vardar R thru plain to Ludias R, then into Eordaea, Lyncus & finally Pelagonia.
life.bio.sunysb.edu /ee/msr/Ethno/gendate8.html   (7960 words)

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