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Macedonia (ancient kingdom)

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/May 7, 2020 by Ealdgyth (talk) 15:56, 29 April 2020 (UTC)



Macedonia, also called Macedon, was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled by the royal Argead dynasty, which was followed by the Antipatrid and Antigonid dynasties. Home to the ancient Macedonians, the earliest kingdom was centered on the northeastern part of the Greek peninsula, and bordered by Epirus to the west, Paeonia to the north, Thrace to the east and Thessaly to the south. Before the 4th century BC, Macedonia was a small kingdom outside of the area dominated by the great city-states of Athens, Sparta and Thebes and briefly subordinate to Achaemenid Persia. During the reign of the Argead king Philip II (359–336 BC), Macedonia subdued mainland Greece and the Thracian Odrysian kingdom through conquest and diplomacy. With a reformed army containing phalanxes wielding the sarissa pike, PhilipII defeated the old powers of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338BC. PhilipII's son Alexander the Great, leading a federation of Greek states, accomplished his father's objective of commanding the whole of Greece when he destroyed Thebes after the city revolted. During Alexander's subsequent campaign of conquest, he overthrew the Achaemenid Empire and conquered territory that stretched as far as the Indus River.
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 * Main editors: Various
 * Promoted: 22 July 2017
 * Reasons for nomination: Just decided to give this one a shot
 * Support as nominator. Great Mercian (talk) 13:31, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Support I see no reason not to run this. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 22:50, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Support A solid article, and more topical than most history articles. Gog the Mild (talk) 23:26, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Support nice article. L293D (☎ • ✎) 14:21, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Support I am reading this in short bits and saving getting to the end. This article is almost like a college-level course but!...it's interesting. Well-done. Shearonink (talk) 01:00, 11 April 2020 (UTC)