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  222. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
In the FIRST MACEDONIAN WAR Philip V of Macedon attempted to help Hannibal and the Carthaginians against Rome, but a Roman fleet in the Adriatic prevented him from crossing to Italy and the Romans secured the support of the Aetolian League and Pergamum (212), as well as of Elis, Mantinea, and Sparta.
In the THIRD MACEDONIAN WAR Perseus was crushed by Aemilius Paullus at Pydna (168).
The FOURTH MACEDONIAN WAR was begun by Andriscus, who pretended to be a son of Perseus.
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 149-146. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
A pretended son of Perseus, Andriscus, provoked the war but was defeated by Q. Caecilius Metellus.
The First Servile War broke out when the ill-treated slaves of the large Sicilian estates revolted under the Syrian Eunus, who called himself King Antiochus.
Rome determined to administer provinces by maintaining an army in the conquered territory and placing it under the command of a magistrate with imperium (a consul or praetor), who also exercised a supervisory judicial function.
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 UNRV History - Roman Empire
The Fourth Macedonian War and Achaean War were fought at the end of a series of revolts and resistance activities to Roman rule in the east.
In the Second Punic War, the War in Spain was a stark contrast to that of Italy.
War in Spain 218 - 214 BC and War in Spain 214 - 211 BC.
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 Third Macedonian War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Third Macedonian War (171 BC - 168 BC) was a war fought between Rome and King Perseus of Macedon.
The Romans were afraid for the balance of power in Greece and declared a new war with Macedonia.
The Macedonian king tried to win Eumenes of Pergamon and king Antiochus III the Great of Asia over to his side but he failed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Third_Macedonian_War   (394 words)

  
 MACEDONIAN WARS
This war was unpopular with Rome since it followed soon after the exhausting conflict with Carthage, but the Romans were prepared for war.
They made an alliance with the enemies of Macedonia, and this whole anti-Macedonia coalition was united in war to defeat King Philip V. The war was launched by the Roman's against Philip, since he refused to guarantee to make no hostile moves against the states of Greece, and Philip V was defeated.
The Fourth Macedonian War occurred between 149 BC and 148 BC.
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 The Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
In all wars of the fifth century BC the balance of victory lay with Rome and her allies.
A fourth stage of the war opens in 247 BC with the appearance of a Carthaginian commander, Hamilcar Barca, well worthy of the honorary name (Barca, or Barak, means 'lightning') that he bore.
They had had little wars in Liguria and also in Istria, and in 221 BC their whole field force was in Illyria across the Adriatic destroying the league of pirates which had been harrying the east coast of Italy.
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 Fourth Macedonian War
In 149 BC, Andriscus, a pretender to the throne (which was abolished with Perseus) claimed to be a grandson of Philip V and son of Perseus.
Without serious resistance from Rome or Macedonian locals, he reunited the four previously separated Republics and raised an army to prepare for the Romans.
The Romans, as they had done so many times in the past and would continue to do for centuries, allowed their power of influence to keep opposing factions at war with each other until such time as they were all ripe for complete subjugation.
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 A Chronology of World Political History (500 - 1 B.C.E.)
Outbreak of the Fourth Sacred War between the Amphictyony of Anthela and Amphissa.
The war ended in 290 and the Samnites became an autonomous ally of Rome.
Outbreak of a civil war (Civil War of the Second Triumvirate) between Anthony, leader of the Roman plebeians, and the patrician Senators.
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 Third Macedonian War
By the spring of 171 BC war was declared and the Consul P. Licinius Crassus moved a force to Thessaly where he was defeated in a minor engagement.
The war turned into a political internal struggle for the next several years as accusations, reparations and convictions were laid down upon corrupt Roman officers for their conduct towards allies.
The Macedonians were caught on broken ground, disadvantageous to the immobile phalanx and had little chance of victory.
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 First Macedonian War -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
There were no decisive engagements, and the war ended in a stalemate.
Philip supported (A town in northeast Missouri on the Mississippi River; boyhood home of Mark Twain) Hannibal of (An ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis; founded by Phoenicians; destroyed and rebuilt by Romans; razed by Arabs in 697) Carthage, but previously had been seen by the Romans as an ally.
It is commonly thought that these skirmishes with Philip in the east prevented Macedon from aiding Hannibal in the Second Punic War with Rome.
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 Macedonian Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
The Macedonian Wars were a series of four wars between ancient Rome, its allies, and Macedon.
Third Macedonian War, (171 BC - 168 BC)
Fourth Macedonian War, (150 BC - 148 BC)
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 Greece -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
When Philip II of Macedon attacked the warring city-states and conquered Greece by defeating the Athenians and the Thebans in the battle of Chaeronea (338 BC), he paved the way for his son, Alexander the Great, who spread Greek civilization over the known Western world and across Asia to India.
The Fourth Crusade led in 1204 to the temporary disintegration of the Byzantine Empire and the creation of a feudal state (see Constantinople, Latin Empire of) under the rule of French, Flemish, and Italian nobles and of Venice.
In the Balkan Wars (1912-13) Greece obtained SE Macedonia and W Thrace; the frontier with newly independent Albania gave a larger part of Epirus to Greece, but neither country was satisfied, and the area remained in dispute until 1971, when Greece, at least temporarily, dropped its claims to N Epirus.
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 Roman Empire History
War with the Greek king Pyrrhus, who sought to defend the Greek colony of Tarentum (southern Italy) against the Romans; noted I Rome (empire) Battle of Asculum fought (279 BC); Pyrrhus finally: withdrew to Greece.
Civil war began; Sulla marched his troops into Rome after tribune Publius Sulpicius Rufus tried to impose reforms by force; Marius, a leader of the popular party, fled and Rufus was executed; Sulla, leader of the optimates (aristocrats) became consul (87 BC) and left Rome to lead armies in First Mithridatic War.
Third Mithridatic War; this war resulted in the complete conquest of Pontus and its annexation to the Roman province of Asia.
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 Balkan Express
Three Macedonian soldiers were killed during the operation — two hit landmines and bled to death, as Albanians shot at KFOR helicopters that tried to evacuate them, while one was killed by sniper fire.
Events of the 1990s could justifiably be called the Third Balkan War — as events from 1991 to 1995 represented a continuum that ended with the Dayton Agreement, once again a solution forced upon the combatants by the world powers.
As if that weren't enough, the US-funded War Crimes Tribunal continues to flmail and pressure Belgrade on the issue of its former leaders, indicted for alleged (and yet unproven) war crimes as a boost to NATO’s position during the 1999 war.
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 ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
This was the first crucial test of his war strategy: he proclaimed the liberty of the Gauls, those Germanic tribes who had settled in northern Italy and who had not been long under Roman rule.
The Third Punic War was a brief, tawdry affair, unworthy of the heroism of the previous conflicts.
Carthage paid off her war indemnity and by the middle of the second century, was flourishing.
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 Greece After the Second Punic War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
The Macedonian phalanx met the Roman legions in 197 BC at the battle of Cynocephalae, where the rough territory gave the advantage to the more flexible legions.
Macedonian garrisons were withdrawn, and Philip was restricted to Macedonia.
The Third Macedonian War is the culmination of a perceptible hardening of Roman attitude toward the Greeks that already begins at the end of the war with Antiochus.
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 Second Macedonian War
Rome was still occupied with Carthage, ending the war with the victory over Hannibal at Zama in 202 BC, and the continued hostile actions of Philip V of Macedon had to be temporarily overlooked.
In negotiating with the Macedonian King, Flaminius championed the freedom of the Greek cities and demanded Macedonian withdrawal from all of Greece.
The Macedonian phalanx is an infantry formation developed by Philip II and used by his son Alexander the Great to conquer the Persian empire.
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 The Punic Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Rome in 146 BC The first half of the second century also saw the wars with Macedonia, by which parts of Greece also became a Roman province.
The Fourth Macedonian War came to a conclusion in 146, the same year as the Third Punic War.
Rome by now was more than capable of carrying on wars on multiple fronts, at least if they were not too large.
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 Roman Military History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Lazenby, J.F., "The Conference at Luca and the Gallic War," Latomus 18 (1959) pp.
Herr, M.D., “The Participation of the Galilee in the War of Qitos(=Quietus) or in the “Ben Kosiba Revolt,” Cathedra 4 (1977), pp.
Gichon, M. "Aspects of a Roman Army in War According to the Bellum Judaicum of Josephus," in D. Kennedy and D. Riley, Rome's Desert Frontier from the Air, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990, pp.
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 Third Macedonian War
The Third Macedonian War (171 BC - 168 BC) was a war fought between Rome and King Perseus of Macedon.
The Romans were afraid of the fall of the balance of power and declared a new war with Macedonia.
The Macedonian king tried to win Eumenes of Pergamon and king Antiochus III the Great of Asia over to his side but he failed.
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 Sketches in the History of Western Philosophy
It is all inherited by the Romans, perhaps symbolically with the killing of Archimedes at Syracuse by a Roman soldier in 212 (during the Second Punic War, 218-201).
The absorption of the kingdom by the Ostrogoths, who dominated the Ukraine at the time in the fourth century, is a portent for the trouble that the Empire proper was going to have with the Goths in the fifth century.
Soon this was repudiated in the Fourth Ecumenical Council, of Chalcedon (across the Bosporus from Constantinople), called by the Emperor Marcian in 451.
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 The U.S. in Bible Prophecy
Julius Caesar was the founder of the fourth beast: Imperial Rome....Rome was a Republic like the United States and the very idea of a king was repugnant to the Roman Senate who finally got rid of him by assassination....Shakespeare wrote a famous play about his life.
World War II brought about the decline of Great Britain from the world stage and the rise of the fourth and last world empire: the United States.
The fourth wild beast made her dreadful debut upon the world stage in 1945 with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
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 Fourth Macedonian War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
In 149 BC there appeared a new Macedon pretender to the throne, Andriscus, calling himself Philip and claiming to be the grandson of Philip V and son of Perseus.
He was able to enter the Macedonian republics without serious resistance, defeating the local militias and re-uniting Macedon to a single state.
He was successful enough in raising an army to defeat the first Roman force sent against him in 149 under the command of the praetor Publius Iuventius Thalna (who was killed).
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 Timeline
Outbreak of the War of the Brothers, c.241-236 BC, civil war that saw the Seleucid Empire temporarily split in two.
240 B.C. Battle of Ancyra, (or 239 B.C.), decisive battle of the War of the Brothers and victory for the rebels under Antiochus Hierax.
Outbreak of Bohemian War (to 1434), Czech rebellion triggered by martyrdom of John Huss.
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 First Macedonian War
As Hannibal ravaged Italy in the Second Punic War, Philip the V of Macedonia sought to take advantage of Rome's problems and extend his domain within his region of influence.
Marching north, the Macedonians captured several cities, while all Laevinus could do was prevent any attempted reinforcement of Hannibal's Carthaginian army and harrass coastal bases supply routes.
With little cost or effort in the so-called war, the Romans gave up very little of their own properties or territories and achieved their goal of keeping Philip from helping Hannibal.
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 History of the Serbs
Civil war in the Turkish Empire saved Serbia in the early 15th century, but the Turks soon reunited their forces to conquer the last Serbian stronghold at Smederjevo in 1459 and subjugate the whole country.
Ethnic hatred, religious rivalry, language barriers and cultural conflicts plagued the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) from its inception.
After World War II and German Nazi occupation, a socialist federation of Yugoslavia, including Serbia, Montenegro and the other former Yugoslav territories, was formed.
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 Briscoe: on Warrior: The Initiation of the Second Macedonian War
Almost all her publications have dealt with chronological problems in the period covered by the fourth and fifth decades of Livy.
She told me that she was working on Livy's account of the outbreak of the Second Macedonian War, but we have never discussed these matters in detail.
The invasion of Attica is therefore dated to late March 200, against the implication of 14.4 and 11 that the invasion preceded Philip's return across the Aegean; though she does not exclude the possibility that the Acarnanians alone launched an invasion in November 201 and that Livy has conflated two raids (41).
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 Fourth Macedonian War
the pretender Andriscus's usurpation of the Macedonian throne
It came about as a result of the pretender Andriscus's usurpation of the Macedonian throne, pretending to be the son of Perseus, the last King of Macedon, deposed by the Romans after the Third Macedonian War War in 168 BC.
The Fourth Macedonian War was the total end of Roman tolerance toward Macedonia.
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