Macedon
Britishnoun
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Production at its Macedon and Pluto facilities were unaffected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
After crushing the remnants of the optimates, the three men divided the Roman Empire between them: Octavian took Italy, Hispania, and Gaul; Lepidus Africa; and Antony Macedon, Greece, and Asia Minor.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In 332 BCE, Alexander the Great, king of Macedon in Greece, conquered Egypt, and before leaving to continue his advance into western Asia, he founded the great city of Alexandria on the Nile River.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
He hired mercenaries to supplement his Macedonian troops, ending up with the largest army Macedon had ever seen.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
When Alexander died in 323 BCE, his close circle of advisers divided the empire into three regions— Macedon, Syria, and Egypt.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
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