In his bitter orations against Philip II, Demosthenes painted Macedonia as a barbarous country. But archaeologists are now discovering that Alexander the Great’s birthplace, Pella, the capital of ...

In ancient Macedonia, the boisterous city of Pella was a pulsing magnet for talent from all over Greece. Euripides went there to write and die; top artists and scholars abounded. King Philip II was a ...

Thousands of people protested on June 6 in main cities across Greece against moves to solve a decades-old name row with neighboring Macedonia. Some 2,000 people gathered in Pella, the historical ...

Thousands of people in Greece have taken to the streets to protest against a name change compromise with Macedonia and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. The demonstrations have revived nationalist ...

Paulinus of Pella, Christian poet of the fifth century; b. at Pella in Macedonia, but of a Bordelaise family. He was the son of an official, which explains his birth in Macedonia and his sojourn at ...

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