Alexander was born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia in July 356 BC ... overlord of Asia Minor and pharaoh of Egypt became 'great king' of Persia at the age of 25. Over the next eight ...

You've heard of Alexander the Great and all he's accomplished ... Olympias was the fourth wife of Philip II of Macedonia. She was a fearsome, ambitious, and violent ruler in ancient Greece.

His father hired the great philosopher, Aristotle, and asked him to create a little school here in a remote part of Macedonia where he spent three years intensively teaching the young Alexander ...

Alexander the Great of Macedonia, who reigned from 356-323 BC, was known to have said, “I am not afraid of an army of lions ...

The latest news and updates from North Macedonia, a Balkan country bordering Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Kosovo. With Skopje as its capital city, North Macedonia is known for being the birthplace of ...

Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell) led his armies through twenty-two thousand miles of sieges and conquests in just eight years. Coming out of tiny Macedonia, Alexander led his armies against the ...

Set in Macedonia in 340 BC, the story of the teenage years of Alexander the Great as he struggles to prove himself as a man whilst simultaneoulsy making the most of his childhood.

He certainly inherited an efficient war machine from his father, Philip of Macedonia. Philip had unified the many city-states of Greece, but Alexander conquered the Persian Empire and Egypt ...