Was Alexander the Great emperor of the Greek Empire of just a Macedonian king?

Answer 1

Both!!
Alexander was the Greek king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia and he build a gigantic Greek empire!
You are probably confusing the authentic Greek-Macedonia with the modern Slavic/Albanian republic of Macedonia. They are not related at all!
To explain further I mast tell you that Alexander was appointed by the league of the Greeks which his father has formed as Emperor General of the Greeks. So actually he had the title of Emperor of Greece. No one after him managed to get the same title!
He was also king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon (the Greek-Macedonia) and he managed to make his kingdom the most powerful state in the Greek world.
He is responsible for the peak of the Greek civilization! He spread Greek language in such a magnitude that even during the Roman Empire the Gospels were written to Greek in order to spread it to the Greek/Roman world.
But if you like any more proofs here are some quotes from ancient historians with the words of the ancient Macedonians!

“ Had I not greatly at heart the common welfare of Greece I should not have come to tell you; but I am myself Greek by descent, and I would not willingly see Greece exchange freedom for slavery.... If you prosper in this war, forget not to do something for my freedom; consider the risk I have run, out of zeal for the Greek cause, to acquaint you with what Mardonius intends, and to save you from being surprised by the barbarians. I am Alexander of Macedon."
(Herodotus, The Histories, 9.45)

“Arrian, "Anabasis of Alexander"
"He 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 Hellenes, except the Lacedaemonians, set up these spoils from the barbarians dwelling in Asia",
(Arrian I, 16, 7)

"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 of the Greeks... "
(Arrian, II, 14, 4)

"There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service -- but how different is theirs cause from ours ! They will be fighting for pay--- and not much of it at that; we on the contrary shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops ---Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes --- they are the best and stoutest soldiers of Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia."
(Arrian, 11.7)

"You ought to have remembered that you are not the attendant of and adviser of Cambyses or Xerxes, but of Philip's son, a man with the blood of Heracles and Aeacus in his veins, a man whose forefathers came from Argos to Macedonia, where they long ruled not by force, but by law."
(Arrian 4.11)

"Well, here we are in a foreign land; and if for that reason we must think foreign thoughts, yet I beg you, Alexander, to remember Greece; it was for her sake alone, that you might add Asia to her empire, that you undertook this campaign. Consider this too: when you are home again, do you really propose to force the Greeks, who love their liberty more than anyone else in the world, to prostrate themselves before you?"
(Arrian 4.11)

"In this latter place he (Alexander) found political troubles in progress, and settled them, remitting the tribute which the town paid to Darius on the ground that Mallus was a colony of Argos and he himself claimed to be descended from the Argive Heracleidae."
(Arrian 5)

"He set the Persian palace on fire, even though Parmenio urged him to save it, arguing that it was not right to destroy his own property, and that the Asians would not thus devote themselves to him, if he seemed determined not to rule Asia, but only to pass through as a conqueror. But Alexander replied that he intended to punish the Persians for their invasion of Greece, the destruction of Athens, the burning of the temples, and all manner of terrible things done to the Greeks: because of these things, he was exacting revenge. But Alexander does not seem to me to have acted prudently, nor can it be regarded as any kind of punishment upon Persians of long ago.
[Arrian, 3.18.11-12]
There are hundreds more but I will post some quotes from a Roman also
"...he (Alexander) inflicted punishment on the Persians for their outrages on all the Greeks, and how he delivered us all from the greatest evils by enslaving the barbarians and depriving them of the resources they used for the destruction of the Greeks, pitting now the Athenians and now the Thebans against the ancestors of these Spartans, how in a word he made Asia subject to Greece."
(Polybius, Book IX, 34, 3)

And from Flavious Josephus (11.8.5) a Roman/Jew :
"And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended"

The Slavic/Albanian-Macedonian government has clearly stated that they are not related to Greek-Macedonia and they strictly stated that they must not be confused with the Greek-Macedonians and Alexander the great.
The first President of FYROM (Slavic/Albanian-Macedonia), Kiro Gligorov said: “We are Slavs who came to this area in the sixth century ... we are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians" (Foreign Information Service Daily Report, Eastern Europe, February 26, 1992, p. 35). Also, Mr Gligorov declared: "We are Macedonians but we are Slav Macedonians. That's who we are! We have no connection to Alexander the Greek and his Macedonia… Our ancestors came here in the 5th and 6th century" (Toronto Star, March 15, 1992).
On 24 February 1999, in an interview at the Ottawa Citizen, Gyordan Veselinov, FYROM'S Ambassador to Canada, admitted, "We are not related to the northern Greeks who produced leaders like Philip and Alexander the Great. We are Slav people and our language is closely related to Bulgarian." He also commented, “There is some confusion about the identity of the people of my country".
I hope I’ve helped you to realize that Alexander was a Greek king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia!

Answer 2

Alexander The Great Emperor

Answer 3

Alexander the Great was not an emperator of the Greek empire because during the Hellenistic years Greece was not an empire but it consisted from kingdoms.

Alexander the Great was the king of an ancient Greek kingdom which was named Macedonia. This kingdom was located in the northern-most part of ancient Greece, bordering the kingdom of Epirus on the west (his mother's Olympias origin) and the region of Thrace to the East.
For a brief period this kingdom became the most powerful state in the ancient Near East after Alexander the Great conquered most of the known world, inaugurating the Hellenistic period of Greek history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedon

Answer 4

Alexander was from Greek Macedonia.
So Alexander was Greek Macedonian There is another Macedonia which is not Greek and it is Slavic.
Ancient Macedonia was Greek and ancient Macedonian language was Greek too.
Modern Macedonian is a Slavic language and it is spoken in modern Macedonia and not in the Greek Macedonia.

Answer 5

There was never really a Greek empire. At that time, the Greeks were divided in self-governed towns (see Athens and Sparta).

Alexander the Great was Greek and according to the historians he created his empire so that the "barbarians" could learn the greek language and the greek traditions.

Answer 6

Alexander was Greek and emperor of the Greeks. He was from a place of Greece called Macedonia. The famous Greek Macedonia.
He was not from FYROM: Former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.

Answer 7

Alexander the Great was from the MACEDON Empire where they spoke the MACEDONIAN language!!! He had conquer Greece with his MACEDONIAN army! Greece was only a few cities down by Athens!!! MACEDONIA has nothing to do with Greece until 1913 when MACEDONIA was divided and Greece occupied territory which is North Greece today!! That is why they confuse people and say that he is Greek but it is nothing but propaganda!!!

Answer 8

Sounds really interested

Answer 9

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