Dion, Pella, Vergina, Thessaloniki, Amphipolis - names that date since Alexander the Great's era, even further back ... Names that have remained unaltered for thousands of years, that have been passed on from generation to generation, while this land saw one invasion follow another. Romans, Saracenes, Normands, Turks ... Yet in spite of so many conquests everything remained, as before, Greek. For what a Macedonian treasures most is his Greek memory: Language and civilization of millennia.
Macedonia pertains to the Greek history and culture for 4000 years. Around the middle of the 4th century B.C. Macedonia became the leading power of the Greek World thanks to King Philip II, who declared himself the Leader of a Greek Confederacy. His dream of a panhellenic expedition against the Persians was destined to come true by his son, Alexander the Great, who took his army to the banks of Indos river. Greek art is thus expanded to the depths of East and is assimilated by local populations along with the memory of Alexander. The Great King shall survive through legends until the Middle Ages and the European Renaissance.
