Present-day Macedonia and northern Greece were part of a Roman province called Macedonia. And both claim the heritage of Alexander the Great two millennia earlier. Greece's objections forced the ...

Macedonia's vote on changing its name to North Macedonia looks to have fallen far short of the turnout required. Preliminary results show that just over a third of Macedonians voted in the ...

The discovery of a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu has forced the closing of North Macedonia’s main zoo in Skopje, the Food and Veterinary Agency said on October 19, raising concerns of ...

Wealth, culture, and power dwelled in the city of Palmyra in the third century A.D. This cosmopolitan capital of the Roman province of the same name lay close to the empire’s eastern borders ...

The city of Thessalonica was a prosperous Roman city and the capital of the province of Macedonia. It was situated on the Aegean Sea and the Via Egnatia-the same road that runs through Philippi.

The city of Corinth in about the year 50 would have been the burgeoning capital of a Roman province in the Greek ... that Paul is up in Northern Greece, Macedonia, in the cities of Phillipi ...

on the other hand you would be seeing the intrusions of Roman economic power and in some instances political power. For example, there would have been in all the provinces large landed estates ...

The Roman army also used highly effective tactics, such as the ‘tortoise’ formation, where soldiers overlapped their shields to protect themselves as they advanced. Imperial These provinces ...

Provincial coinage gives us a unique insight into the Roman world, reflecting the values and concerns of the elites of the many hundreds of cities in the Roman empire. Coins offer a very different ...

Alexander the Great introduced dwarf apples from Kazakhstan to Macedonia in the 4th century BCE, after which Roman horticulturists started grafting ... made of pickled fish brine from China’s Fujian ...