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| | Macedon -> Successors of Alexander the Great on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20) |
 | | The Macedonian generals carved the empire up after Alexander's death (323 BC); these were the successors (the Diadochi), founders of states and dynasties—notably Antipater, Perdiccas, Ptolemy I, Seleucus I, Antigonus I, and Lysimachus. |
 | | Macedon, with Greece as a dependency, was one of the states carved out of the Alexandrian empire. |
 | | After a period of short-lived attempts by Demetrius I, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Lysimachus, and others to hold Macedon, Antigonus II established himself as king. |
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