Paeonia (kingdom)

Paionia or Paeonia (Greek Παιονία, latin Paeonia ) was in ancient times a landscape on the Balkan Peninsula. Which bordered on the north to the Kingdom of Macedon. To the west and north lay Illyria and Thrace in the east was. Capital was initially Bylazora, later this was Stobi. Both cities lay on the river Axios.

The area of the ancient Pannonia share a the present-day states of Macedonia, Greece and Bulgaria.

History

Philip II of Macedon conquered the territory and made it his kingdom tributary. Little else is known about the history Paioniens and its inhabitants. Either the Paionians immigrated in prehistoric times from Asia Minor (some ancient authors tell them kinship with the Phrygians after ) or they belong to the Thracian peoples of the Balkan peninsula. At the time of the Persian Wars in the early 5th century BC gave her territory far to the southeast as far as the Strymon and the Chalkidiki peninsula. Pannonia was governed by kings, and this only exercised sovereignty over several autonomous tribes. Lykkeios ( 356-335 BC) and Patraos ( 335-315 BC) have shaped their own coins. At this time, the Hellenization of the region was already in full swing.

Others

Until the local government reform of 1997, there was a province in the modern state Greece (Greek Eparchía επαρχία ) named Peonía. Today the community Peonia bears the name, which, inter alia, the small town is Polykastro.