Central Macedonia is one of the thirteen peripheries of Greece, being the central part of Greek Macedonia. It is divided into the prefectures of Chalcidice, Imathia, Kilkis, Pella, Pieria, Serres, and Thessaloniki. The building of Central Macedonia Periphery is located in Taki Ekonomidi Avenue, in the area of Depo, Eastern Thessaloniki. The population is 2.000.000 Image File history File links GreeceCentralMacedonia. ... The peripheries (πεÏιφÎÏειες) are the subnational divisions of Greece. ... Macedonias location in Greece Macedonia (IPA , Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonia) is the largest and the second most populous region of Greece. ... Greece consists of 13 administrative regions known as Peripheries of Greece, which are further subdivided into 51 prefectures (nomoi, singular - nomos, Greek: νομοί, νομός)): See also List of the prefectures of Greece by area List of the prefectures of Greece by population density List of the prefectures of Greece by population External... Chalkidikà or Chalcidice (in Greek: Χαλκιδική, alternative romanizations Khalkidhikà and Halkidiki) is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. ... Imathia (Greek: Ημαθία) is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. ... Kilkis (Greek: Κιλκίς, Bulgarian/Macedonian (Slavonic): Кукуш; transliterated KukuÅ¡ or Kukush) is a prefecture in Central Macedonia, Greece. ... For other places named Pella, see: Pella (disambiguation). ... Pieria (ΠιεÏία) is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. ... Serres prefecture Seres or Serrai (Greek: Îομός ΣεÏÏών Nomos Serron) is a prefecture located in east northeastern Macedonia and is the second northernmost not in point. ... Thessaloniki (Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη) is a nomos (prefecture) in Greece, containing Thessaloniki, Lagana and the northern portion of the Chalcidicean peninsula. ...
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Mount Athos One of the 20 monasteries on Mount Athos Mount Athos is a mountain and a peninsula in Macedonia, northern Greece, called Άγιο ÎŒÏος (Ayio Oros or Holy Mountain) in Modern Greek, or á¼Î³Î¹Î¿Î½ ὌÏος (Hagion Oros) in Classical Greek. ...
The Macedonia of antiquity was originally confined to the inland region west of the Axius, between that river and the Scardus range, and did not include the northern portion, known a s Paeonia, or the coast-land, which, with the eastern districts, was inhabited by Thracian tribes; the people of the country were not Hellenic.
The supremacy of the patriarchate was consummated by the suppression of the autocephalous Slavonic churches of Ipek in 1766 and Ochrida in 1767.
Macedonia and Thrace were soon desolated by Turkish raids; when it was too late the Slavonic states combined against the invaders, but their forces, under the Servian tsar Lazar, were routed at Kossovo in 1389 by the sultan Murad I.
The Bronze Age finds Macedonia with fewer settlements, a circumstance that may be interpreted either as the result of the contraction of the population or as the result of the development of central cores at the expense of small-scale satellite settlements.
Macedonia's strategic importance at the crossroads of the major arterial roads in the Bal kan peninsula meant that during the critical peri od marking the transition from the late Roman to the Byzantine period it was the object of bene factions from the royal house, despite the gener al upheavals of the times.
Macedonia was divided between two "themes" - the "theme of Thessaloniki" (from the Pindos range to the Strymon river) and the "theme of Strymon" (the modern counties of Ser rhai, Xanthe and Rhodope), the latter with its capital at Serrhai.
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