Was Alexander the Great Russian?

Answer 1

Alaxander the Great lead the Greeks. He was from Macedonia.

Russians did have Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. Although Catherine was German.

Answer 2

Macedonia was a Greek city state like many others and Alexander was King of Macedonia just like Leonidas was King of Sparta. Alexander the Great spread Hellenism (Greek Ideals) and philosophy because he was Greek, otherwise he would have spread Russian or Slavism. There are many quotes of Alexander that confirm his Greekness, here is just one: ''I thank the Gods that I was Born a Hellene'' There are so many more I can go on and on. Read your History people, it is the only thing we have from those times.

Answer 3

Alexander the Great was not Russian. He was born in Pella, in Macedonia, one of the old states in the Greek peninsula.

Here is a quote from the article on Alexander the Great in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th edition (1875):

"ALEXANDER III, commonly called 'Alexander The Great,' son of Philip II, of Macedonia, and Olympias, daughter of the Molossian chied Neoptolemus, was born at Pella, 356 B.C."

Answer 4

Alexander the Great (356 - 323 BC)

Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great.

Alexander was born in the northern Greek kingdom of Macedonia in July 356 BC. His parents were Philip II, King of Macedon, and his wife Olympias.

Answer 5

Alexander the great is Greek

Answer 6

Alexander the Great is a Macedonian. In Russia, there was a Czar Alexander but he wasn't entitled "the Great".

Answer 7

Well technically speaking, he's Macedonian, he was the King of Macedon, and as son of Philip II; he expanded the Macedon Empire from solely Macedon and the Greek City States but to that of Persia, Egypt, and into a small portion of India.

Answer 8

He was Greek. He was only 21 when he conquered most of the civilized countries around the Mediteranean. After his death the Empire he had conquered, was divided between his 4 Generals, and was never reunited again.

Answer 9

He was a Macedonian Greek

Answer 10

He was Macedonian.

Macedonia is a region in the north of Greece.