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Strabo 9.5: For in consequence of the renown and ascendency of the Thessalians and Macedonians, those Epeirote, who bordered nearest upon them, became, some voluntarily, others by force, incorporated among the Macedonians and Thessalians. In this manner the Athamanes, Aethices, and Talares were
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This article is about the geographical plain between North Macedonia and Greece. For the political unit in North Macedonia, see
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during the 4th century BC and became one of its administrative provinces. In medieval times, when the names of
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The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 3, Part 3: The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries BC
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named after the ancient kingdom. Ancient Pelagonia roughly corresponded to the present-day municipalities of
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The oldest rocks of Greece: first evidence for a Precambrian terrane within the Pelagonian Zone
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Map of the Kingdom of Macedon with Pelagonia located in the northwest districts of the kingdom.
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joined to the Thessalians, and the Orestae, Pelagones, and Elimiotae to the Macedonians.
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had become obsolete, Pelagonia acquired a broader meaning. This is why the
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The ancient city of Pelagonia in the historical and epigraphic monuments
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and names only one ancient city of the supposed three in the region;
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Bosworth, A.B. "Philip II and Upper Macedonia", CQ, 21 (1971).
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A 137,000 ha tract of the plain has been designated an
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to the west; and was inhabited by the Pelagones, an
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Index

Pelagones
Pelagonia Statistical Region
Palagonia


Baba Mountain
Bitola
Macedonian
romanized
Greek
romanized
Macedonia
Bitola
Prilep
Mogila
Novaci
Kruševo
Krivogaštani
North Macedonia
Florina
Amyntaio
Prespes
Greece

Paeonia
Lynkestis
Almopia
Illyria
ancient Greek
Upper Macedonia

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