Talk:Macedonians/@comment-67.149.236.172-20110716190342/@comment-46.198.117.121-20150111141409

Macedonia in ancient times was actually a greek city state such as Thebes, Athens, Sparta, Corinth etc, although it took the Macedonians quite a while to unite all the other greek city states for Alexander's campaign against the Persian Empire. Of course, they needed to fight against other Greeks at first. Let us not forget that the Greeks beated the invading persian army twice, in 490BC and again in 480-479BC, making them the first european army to defeat a non-european army such as the mighty persian army.