what is Alexender the great Macedonian or Greek.?
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Macedonian.\nThank you Mike, but Hellenic people called ancient Macedonians with the name Barbarians (prepared to all who was not Hellenic).The north of today's Greece is called Macedonia 20-30 years ago, not before.Why?\nBy the way, have you ever been to "that" named FYROM.Everyone who lives there will say you it is Macedonia and people there have no another name but Macedonians.It was not putted just in occasion, but centuries ago.All towns and villages in North of today's Greece have also macedonian names. How is it possible? \nHowever, not to be angry to Greece, without macedonian part it'll only be Athens, (Sparta,Mikena,Crete...)etc.\nPlease, visit Macedonia, even you really think it's truth name is FYROM
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Try these:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology\n\nhttp://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/\n\nhttp://www.greekmythology.com/\n\nhttp://www.mythweb.com/\n\nhttp://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/
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Pella, Macedonia, in late July, 356 BCE (not that I was there, of course!) on the same day on which the famous Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was destroyed by fire. His father, Philip II of Macedon, was a brilliant ruler and strategist. His mother was Olympias, princess of Epirus, daughter of King Neoptolemus. Olympias was initiated into the cults of Dionysus and Orpheus. She was often jealous, vindictive and very protective of Alexander.\n\nhttp://www.1stmuse.com/frames/\n\nI'm not sure "where" his mother was when she gave birth, in Pellas, but I have also heard he was prematurely born (how far along she was, I don't know that either). Was she at the temple??
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Macedonia was a Hellenic state just as Sparta, Athens and Corinth.There wasn't a greek country as we know it today, just hellenic speaking monarchies.\nThe word Greek is an incorrect name of what it really is the Hellenic republic and Hellenic movement. Alexander the great was the first one to reunite all of the Hellenic speaking tribes together that started the Hellenic movement and resulted in today's modern Greece.\nThe name Greek originated from a nomad tribe that left the area that you now call Greece (Hellas) and moved south of Italy in the area known as Magna graecia.The tribes name was graecos.\nIt is a mistake to call Hellas (Hellenic republic), Greece, a name that the Hellenes never called themselves.\nSo Alexander the great was not Greek but he was the FIRST Hellene from the region of pella in Hellenic Macedonia. He is the one who united all the tribes and promoted Hellenism thus creating a united Hellas (Greece).\nNot to confuse with today's controversial country in the Balkans that calls it's self Macedonia and that their legal name is actually FYROM (former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia).Not to mention that the province located in the northern part of greece where Alexander was born is named Macedonia.\nOf course ancient Macedonia's land was larger than todays Greek state of Macedonia and included some of the land of todays FYROM and that is the reason that this country claims the name of Macedonia.\nHowever Alexander and his father Phillip were born in Pella and there is archeological proof of that, and Pella is still a region within Greek state of Macedonia today.\nNot to mention that the name Alexander is a greek name that means "protector of men" even in todays Greek language.\nGreece oposed the naming of FYROM as Macedonia and it is easy to understand.\nHow would the US feel if Mexico decided to call themselves California and claim the history of California as theirs.\nIt is complicated....
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No.  There are like 1000 years of difference.\n\nAlexander the Great\n\nAlexander was born on 356 B.C. He was born in Pella the ancient capital of Macedonia, was the son of Philip II, king of Macedonia, and of Olympias, a princess of Epirus. His tutor was Aristotle, who trained him in rhetoric and literature and stimulated his interest in science, medicine and philosophy. \n\n\nUnfortunately in the summer of 336 B.C. his father was assassinated and he ascended to the Macedainian throne. Also unfortunate was that by that time he found his empire in disorder. He had enemies all over, in home and people threatening rebellion abroad. He did quickly deal with this by killing all of the threats and restoring order to his small empire. Then he restored order to Thessaly which had attempted independence. Before the end of summer he had reestablished his position in Greece and was elected by a congress of states at Corinth. \n\nIn 335B.C. as general of the Greeks in a campaign against the Persians, originally planned by his father, he carried out a successful campaign against the defeating Thracains, penetrating to the Danube River. On his return he crushed in a single week the threatening Illyrians and then hastened to Thebes, which had revolted. He took the city by storm and razed it, sparing only the temples of the gods and the houses of the Greek lyric poet Pindar, and selling the surviving inhabitants, about 8000 in number, into slavery. Alexander's promptness in crushing the revolt of Thebes brought the other Greek states into instant and abject submission. \n\n\nAs you can see Alexander had started his way to being a great and powerful ruler. It is said that while visiting Athens to seal a pact, Alexander visited the Oracle at Delphi, despite it being a day when prophecy was forbidden . \n\nThe story continues but look it in the history books.\n\nAlejandro Magno on the other hand is better know in english as Charlemagne lived from 742?—814, and was emperor of the West (800—814), Carolingian king of the Franks (768—814). \n\nElder son of Pepin the Short and a grandson of Charles Martel, Charlemagne shared with his brother Carloman in the succession to his father's kingdom. At Carloman's death (771), young Charlemagne annexed his brother's lands, disinheriting Carloman's two young sons, who fled with their mother to the court of Desiderius, king of the Lombards. When Desiderius conquered part of the papal lands and attempted to force Pope Adrian I to recognize Carloman's sons, Charlemagne intervened (773) on the side of the pope and defeated the Lombards. At Rome, Charlemagne was received by Adrian as patrician of the Romans (a title he had received with his father in 754), and he confirmed his father's donation to the Holy See. Shortly afterward he took Pavia, the Lombard capital, and assumed the iron crown of the Lombard kings of Italy.\n\nIn 778 he invaded Spain, hoping to take advantage of civil war among the Muslim rulers of that kingdom, but was repulsed at Zaragoza. In later campaigns conducted by local counts, Barcelona was captured (801) and a frontier established beyond the Pyrenees. Charlemagne's struggle with the pagan Saxons, whose greatest leader was Widukind, lasted from 772 until 804. By dint of forced conversions, wholesale massacres, and the transportation of thousands of Saxons to the interior of the Frankish kingdom, Charlemagne made his domination over Saxony complete. In 788 he annexed the semi-independent duchy of Bavaria, after deposing its duke, Tassilo. He also warred successfully against the Avars and the Slavs, establishing a frontier south of the Danube.\n\nEmperor of the West\n\nIn 799 the new pope, Leo III, threatened with deposition by the Romans, appealed to Charlemagne. Charlemagne hastened to Rome to support Leo, and on Christmas Day, 800, was crowned emperor by the pope. His coronation legitimized Charlemagne's rule over the former Roman empire in W Euro
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If you mean Cleopatra the last Quinn (pharaoh) of Egypt then the answer is no. They were not even related. They were both Greeks (from real Macedonia in Greece) but Alexander was from the Argeiad family (which originated from city of Argos from Southern Greece, directly linked to Hercules). Cleopatra the last Quinn (pharaoh)  from Egypt was from the Ptolemaic family which originated from real Macedonia in Greece. Ptolaimeos the first Greek king (pharaoh) of Egypt was an “etairos” (companion) of Alexander and took control of Egypt after Alexander’s death!\nAlexander did have a sister who was also named Cleopatra (Greek name "Κλεοπάτρα" meaning "father’s glory") but she married Kassander and had nothing to do with Egypt.\n{Do not confuse the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia or Macedon with the modern state of Makedonija (or FYROM or Slav Macedonia as they are not related at all). The confusion has started a few years ago because that small state started to use the name “Republic of Macedonia” causing a great confusion with real Macedonia in Greece.}
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Origin: Greek \nMeaning : Stranger. \nGender: Female
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I would google the name Aristarchus.\nIf nothing comes up, try adding greek mathematician.
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ATTICUS  \nGender: Masculine \n\nUsage: Literature \n \nFrom a Roman name meaning "from Attica" in Latin. Attica is the region surrounding Athens in Greece. This name was used by Harper Lee in her novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
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Jeopardy! Greek History for 300, Alex.
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HERAKLES\n\nMeans "glory of Hera" from the name of the goddess HERA combined with Greek κλεος (kleos) "glory". He was a hero in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and the mortal woman Alcmene. He completed twelve labours in order to become a god.\n\nLegend has it that Herakles' first name really was Alkaios or Alkeides and only the Pythia in Delphi (a holy female seer) adressed him by the name Herakles for the first time, when he came before her.
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The question should be does anyone speaks Greek? Greece is the country.
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Washington DC but his origins are Greek {he has got the greek god built don't he}
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I would guess Alexander the Great, but perhaps it was Ghengis Khan.
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In 332 BC - 331 BC\n\nIn 332 BC Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, conquered Egypt, with little resistance from the Persians. He was welcomed by the Egyptians as a deliverer. He visited Memphis, and went on pilgrimage to the oracle of Amun at the Oasis of Siwa. The oracle declared him to be the son of Amun. He conciliated the Egyptians by the respect which he showed for their religion, but he appointed Greeks to virtually all the senior posts in the country, and founded a new Greek city, Alexandria, to be the new capital. The wealth of Egypt could now be harnessed for Alexander's conquest of the rest of the Persian Empire. Early in 331 BC he was ready to depart, and led his forces away to Phoenicia. He left Cleomenes as the ruling nomarch to control Egypt in his absence. Alexander never returned to Egypt.\n \nPtolemy I, King of EgyptFollowing Alexander's death in Babylon in 323 BC, a succession crisis erupted among his generals. Initially, Perdiccas ruled the empire as regent for Alexander's half-brother Arrhidaeus, who became Philip III of Macedon, and then as regent for both Philip III and Alexander's infant son Alexander IV of Macedon, who had not been born at the time of his father's death. Perdiccas appointed Ptolemy, one of Alexander's closest companions, to be satrap of Egypt. Ptolemy ruled Egypt from 323 BC, nominally in the name of the joint kings Philip III and Alexander IV. However, as Alexander the Great's empire disintegrated, Ptolemy soon established himself as ruler in his own right. Ptolemy successfully defended Egypt against an invasion by Perdiccas in 321 BC, and consolidated his position in Egypt and the surrounding areas during the Wars of the Diadochi (322 BC-301 BC). In 305 BC, Ptolemy took the title of King. As Ptolemy I Soter ("Saviour"), he founded the Ptolemaic dynasty that was to rule Egypt for nearly 300 years.\n\nAll the male rulers of the dynasty took the name "Ptolemy", while princesses and queens preferred the names Cleopatra and Berenice. Because the Ptolemaic kings adopted the Egyptian custom of marrying their sisters, many of the kings ruled jointly with their spouses, who were also of the royal house. This custom made Ptolemaic politics confusingly incestuous, and the later Ptolemies were increasingly feeble. The only Ptolemaic Queens to officially rule on their own were Berenice III and Berenice IV. Cleopatra V did co-rule, but it was with another female, Berenice IV. Cleopatra VII officially co-ruled with Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator, Ptolemy XIV, and Ptolemy XV, but effectively, she ruled Egypt alone.\n\nThe early Ptolemies did not disturb the religion or the customs of the Egyptians, and indeed built magnificent new temples for the Egyptian gods and soon adopted the outward display of the Pharaohs of old. During the reign of Ptolemies II and III thousands of Macedonian and Greek veterans were rewarded with grants of farm lands, and Greeks were planted in colonies and garrisons or settled themselves in the villages throughout the country. Upper Egypt, farthest from the centre of government, was less immediately affected, though Ptolemy I established the Greek colony of Ptolemais Hermiou to be its capital, but within a century Greek influence had spread through the country and intermarriage had produced a large Greco-Egyptian educated class. Nevertheless, the Greeks always remained a privileged minority in Ptolemaic Egypt. They lived under Greek law, received a Greek education, were tried in Greek courts, and were citizens of Greek cities, just as they had been in Greece. The Egyptians were rarely admitted to the higher levels of Greek culture, in which most Egyptians were not in any case interested.