Elimiotis
Elimiotis (Greek Ελιμιώτις ), also called Elimeia ( Ελιμεία ), called in ancient times those mountainous landscape of Greece, which rises in the curve of the river Aliakmona. This river and with it the lake Polyfytos also marks the eastern, southern and western boundary of this landscape. Today it belongs to the municipality of Kozani Kozani regional district in the region of Western Macedonia.
In ancient times, bordered on the west and southwest Elimiotis the Epirotic landscapes Paraueia and Tymphaia, in the south and east of the Thessalian landscapes Perrhaibia and Pieria. In the north, in the place Siatista Elimiotis bordered on Orestis, with whom she formed the obermakedonischen districts along with Eordaia, Lynkestis and Pelagonia. Major towns of Elimiotis were Aiani and Elimeia.
Thucydides Elimiotis was next to the Lynkestis the original homeland of the Macedonians, which expanded from there into the fertile, situated on Thermaic Golf Netherlands. According to Strabo, but the people of Elimiotai would, like that of the Orestai and Pelagonen, the ethnic group of Epirus belongs to and is only were subsequently assimilated into the tribal organization of the Macedonians. The Macedonian dominion over the Elimiotis is palpable in the 5th century BC, from the reign of Alexander I, as the existing from that period Princely House was related to the royal house, even if not descended from this. After the prince of Elimiotis examined initially to defend their independence against the Macedonians kings, they came at times Amyntas III at the latest. under their suzerainty.
Indicative of this is one of the first marriages of King Philip II of Phila, the sister of the last known prince Derdas III. Its capture in the second Olynthian war seems to have taken Philip II as a pretext to Elimiotis, like the other landscapes Orestis, Lynkestis, Tympheia and Eordaia, entirely to subdue the kingdom. Members of the princely families have now been sent for training and education at the royal court in Pella, where they had to bail as hostages for the loyalty of their families and to be tied to itself ideologically to the royal house.
Some well-known companions of Alexander the Great were members of the princely families of obermakedonischen highlands. In his army a taxi from the Pezhetairoi warriors of Elimiotis was composed.
Famous people
The Princely House:
- Arrhidaios ( son or son of King Alexander I ) Derdas I. ( 433/2 BC called ), son of Previous Sirras, probably son of Previous successively son of Arrhabaios I of Lynkestis and the king Archelaus I. Eurydice, wife of the king Amyntas III.
- (Referred to 382 BC) Derdas II, probably son of Previous Derdas III. (350 called BC), probably son of Previous
- Phila, sister of Derdas III. , Wife of King Philip II of Macedon
- Machatas, brother of Derdas III. and Phila, probably father of: Alexander's treasurer in Babylon, Harpalus († 323 BC)
- Alexander's governor in India, Philippos († 326/5 BC)
- Alexander officer in India, Tauron ( † after 326 BC)
Other people:
- Koinos († 326 BC), an officer of Alexander
- Cleander († 324 BC), an officer of Alexander and probably a brother of Koinos