Alexander was born in Pella in
Greek Macedonia.
There is also a country called Macedonia but it is a modern Slavic country .
2006-10-10 04:35:02
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answered by farak f 2
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Alexander the Great was born in MACEDONIA!!! MACEDONIA was ONE!! Northern Greece today belong to the country called MACEDONIA today!! In 1913 way after Alexander's time MACEDONIA was divided Greece,Bulgaria and Albania occupies territories, that is why Greeks claim that he is Greek but he is not!! Macedonia was together in his time and Greece was only a few cities down by Athens!!
2006-10-09 13:22:53
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answered by SOLUN macedonia 3
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Alexander was born in the ancient Greek city of Pella, the capital of the ancient Greek state of Macedon or Macedonia!
(The word Pella is a form of the Doric Greek word Apella, originally meaning a ceremonial location were decisions were made.)
The ancient state of Macedon or Greek- Macedonia is entirely in the Greek borders, and the city of Pella is one of the most important archeological sites of Greece.
{Don’t confuse the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia (Greek-Macedonia or Macedon) with the modern state of Slavic/Albanian-Macedonia as they are not related at all}
Since some tend to confuse it lets give some information about the ancient macedonia
The ancient Macedonians claimed their origin from the ancient Greek city of Argos (in Peloponnesus in south Greece). According to their mythology a Greek clan, (the “Timenides”) descendants of Hercules, moved in North Greece and formed the first Kingdom of Macedon which later became known as Macedonia. We have the statements of the Macedonians themselves recorded by the ancients!
Thoukididis verifies that the Macedonian royal family originated from the Greek town of Argos (Book 2, 99.3):
"The country on the sea coast, now called Macedonia, was first acquired by Alexander, the father of Perdiccas, and his ancestors, originally Temenids from Argos."
and from Herodotus, Book I, 56
"...but the Dorians on the contrary have been constantly on the move; their home in Deucalion's reign was Phthiotis and in the reign of Dorus son of Hellen the country known as Histiaeotis in the neighbourhood of Ossa and Olympus; driven from there by the Cadmeians they settled in Pindus and were known as Macedons; thence they migrated to Dryopis, and finally to the Peloponnese, where they got their present name of Dorians."
In Herodotus (Book 9, paragraph 45.2) Alexander I, king of Macedonia says:
"... I myself am by ancient descent a Greek, and I would not willingly see Hellas change her freedom for slavery ..."
Tell your king who sent you how a Greek, ruler under him of the Macedonians entertained you well at board and bed."
(Herodotus V, 20, 4)
Alexander III (the Great) talking to the king of the Persians says: (Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander II,14,4)
"Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury [...] I have been appointed hegemon (leader) of the Greeks [...] "
Arrian ("Alexander the Great" 1,16,7) describes the following incident: After winning the battle of Granicus ...
"He [Alexander the Great] sent to Athens three hundred Persian panoplies to be set up to Athena in the acropolis; he ordered this inscription to be attached: Alexander son of Philip and the Greeks, except the Lacedaemonians, set up these spoils from the barbarians dwelling in Asia"
Herodotus also states clearly the Greek origin of the Macedonians!
"And that these descendants of Perdiccas are Greeks, as themselves say, I happen to know myself,”
(Herodotus V, 22, 1)
Although there are numerous references from the ancients (and unfortunately there isn’t enough room to mention them all) the most important evidence are the Archaeological discoveries!
Everything that has been found in Ancient Macedonia is only Greek!
All the inscriptions on monuments, coins and other artifacts are written in Greek. Hundred of inscriptions both state and private are all in Greek. The names of the Macedonians written by themselves on their tombs are only Greek! There are no ancient monuments with a different language. Furthermore there are a large number of discoveries in Asia in the route of Alexander the Great. All these monuments, discovered in Persia Egypt Pakistan, Syria, India and many more countries, prove that Alexander’s quest was Greek and that his goal was to spread the Greek civilization all over the world. Don’t forget that Alexander created a gigantic Greek empire and make Greek an international language!
His successors continued his worked and they formed the Hellenistic Greek world!
2006-10-09 22:24:29
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answered by ragzeus 6
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He was born in the region of Macedon Greece, in 356 BC/BCE.
2006-10-09 04:24:34
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answered by notaxpert 6
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