Who was the ruler of Macedonia who conquered Greece?

Answer 1

The ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia was ruled by three Dynasties,

1. the Argead Dynasty founded by Karanos in the late 9th century BCE, whose most famous members were Philip II and his son Alexander the great.
2. the Antipatrid dynasty founded by Kassander in 301 BCE
3. the Antigonid Dynasty founded by Antigonos II Gonatos in 277 BCE.

Answer 2

Kings of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia wereArgead Dynasty

• Karanus Κάρανος 808-778 BC
• Koinos Κοινός 778-750 BC
• Tyrimmas Τυρίμμας 750-700 BC
• Perdiccas IΠερδίκκας Αʹ 700-678 BC
• Argaeus I Ἀργαῖος Αʹ 678-640 BC
• Philip I Φίλιππος Αʹ 640-602 BC
• Aeropus I Ἀέροπος Αʹ 602-576 BC
• Alcetas I Ἀλκέτας Αʹ 576-547 BC
• Amyntas I Ἀμύντας Αʹ 547-498 BC
• Alexander IἈλέξανδρος Αʹ 498-454 BC
• Alcetas II Ἀλκέτας Βʹ 454-448 BC
• Perdiccas IIΠερδίκκας Βʹ 448-413 BC
• Archelaus Ἀρχέλαος Αʹ 413-399 BC
• Craterus Κρατερός 399 BC
• Orestes Ὀρέστης and Aeropus II Ἀέροπος Βʹ 399-396 BC
• Archelaus IIἈρχέλαος Βʹ 396-393 BC
• Amyntas II Ἀμύντας Βʹ 393 BC
• PausaniasΠαυσανίας 393 BC
• Amyntas IIIἈμύντας Γʹ 393 BC
• Argaeus II Ἀργαῖος Βʹ 393-392 BC
• Amyntas IIIἈμύντας Γʹ 392-370 BC
• Alexander IIἈλέξανδρος Βʹ 370-368 BC
• Perdiccas IIIΠερδίκκας Γʹ 368-359 BC
  • Ptolemy of AlorosΠτολεμαῖος Αʹ, Regent of Macedon 368-365 BC
• Amyntas IV Ἀμύντας Δʹ 359-356 BC
• Philip II Φίλιππος Βʹ 359-336 BC
• Alexander III, the Great Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας 336-323 BC
  • Antipater Ἀντίπατρος, Regent of Macedon 334-323 BC
• Philip III Arrhidaeus Φίλιππος Γʹ 323-317 BC and Alexander IV Ἀλέξανδρος Δʹ 323-310 BC[1]
  • Perdiccas Περδίκκας, Regent of the Macedon Empire 323-321 BC[2]
  • Antipater Ἀντίπατρος, Regent of the Macedon Empire 321-319 BC
  • Polyperchon Πολυπέρχων, Regent of the Macedon Empire 319-317 BC
  • Cassander Κάσανδρος, Regent of Macedon 317-305 BC

Antipatrid Dynasty

• Cassander Κάσανδρος 305-297 BC
• Philip IV Φίλιππος Δʹ 297 BC
• Alexander VΑλέξανδρος Ε' and Antipater II Αντίπατρος Î’' 297-294 BC

Antigonid Dynasty

• Demetrius I PoliorcetesΔημήτριος ο Πολιορκητής 306-286 BC[3]

Non-Dynastic Kings

• Lysimachus Λυσίμαχος 286-281 BC and Pyrrhus of Epirus Πύρρος της Ηπείρου 286-285 BC
• Ptolemy KeraunosΠτολεμαίος Κεραυνός 281-279 BC
• Meleager Μελέαγρος 279 BC

Antipatrid Dynasty

• Antipater EtesiasἈντίπατρος Ετησίας 279 BC
• Sosthenes Σωσθένης 279-276 BC

Antigonid Dynasty

• Antigonus II Gonatas Αντίγονος Î’' Γονατάς 276-274 BC[4]

Answer 3

The ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia was founded by Caranus, a Greek man from Argos of today's Peloponnese. Historians define the time Caranus lived around 8th and 7th century BC.

You can read the very detailed description of Macedonian kingdom's founding in Marcus Junianus Justinus work, named as "epitome of philippic history of Pompieus Ttragus. An online English translation of this book can be found online, especially the seventh book.

For those who think this question relates to the "Former Yugoslav Republic":

There is no signed treaty or deal to define a country as" Macedonia" or "Republic of Macedonia". There is only a Slavic Balkan country in the area of ancient Paeonia/Dardania that was part of Yugoslavia with the designated name of former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

This modern Slavic state which you maybe falsely called as "Macedonia" is a very modern state and is unrelated to the historical Macedonia of Greece.

How the Greece/FYROM Dispute came about.

• In ancient times 8th century BC-168 BC Macedonia was an independent Greek kingdom.
• In 168 BC Perseus, king of Macedonia lost the ruling of his kingdom by the rising Romans.
• Romans expand by conquering whole Greece. The Roman Empire was founded. in ca. 395AD roman empire divides into 2 powerful empires, western and eastern.
• Eastern roman empire gets totally Hellenised since the Romans that decided to live in it, were amazed by the civilisation and the way of living of the fallen Greeks. In the end, all Romans speak Greek and the spirit of the fallen Greek states rose again under the citizenship of the Romans.
• The Eastern roman empire eventually became known as the byzantine empire, the old name of the region where its capital city was. More commonly it was known as "Imperium Graecorum" or "Empire of the Greeks".
• Macedonia lay inside the borders of this Greek empire.
• In the 6th century AD, Slavic races invade from Asia to the lower Balkans flooding the northern borders of the Byzantines and in particular the very evolved northern Byzantine cities.
• The weak nomads that now lived outside of the borders of the Byzantine Empire tried continuously to attack the Byzantine borders, with most of the times no results against the Byzantine guards.
• In around 8th century AD those Slavic people founded the kingdom named as "Great Moravia" in the very north of the Balkans and then also the "Bulgarian" kingdom.
• The Moravian Prince Ratislav sent an open invitation to Emperor Michael III and the Orthodox Patriarch Photius, to Christianise the Slavic people and so the Byzantine Greeks began the evangelisation of the Slavic people, the baptising of Slavs as Christians, and they also helped to create a Slavic alphabet, since the Slavs had no written language and could only speak their language.
• Saints Cyrillus and Methodius, two Greek brothers from Macedonia, start their mission to the Slavs, which ends by Christianising whole Slavic population and creating the Cyrillic alphabet that all Slavs use until today.
• In 1453 Ottomans Turks conquer the Byzantines, and with them, they conquer a big part of the weak Slavic kingdoms of the north.
• Under the new empire of the ottomans, the borders of Greece are opened. Many Slavs move to the more evolved cities of the south (to Macedonia) and also Ottomans invade flooding the lands of the former Roman Empire. in Macedonia mostly, because of its geographical position, live the Greek indigenous inhabitants, Ottomans and Slavs that settled after the invasion that moved to find a better place inside the new empire.
• Note that this is the first time in history that Slavs live in Macedonia as permanent inhabitants.
• The 3 kinds of populations now have an influence in the language of each other. Greeks speak Greek including some Slavic and Turkish words they picked up so that Ottomans and Slavs would find it easier to understand them, so too, the Ottomans with Greek and Slavic words, and so do the Slavs. Each language then had Greek, Slavic and Turkish influences in it.
• In 1821 Greeks declare their Independence from the Ottoman occupation, fighting in resistance and as a revolutionary army against the occupying Ottoman empire in Greek lands, to free those lands and gain the state of the fallen Greek empire back.
• Revolution starts from the south, in the Peloponnese, where the Turkish prefecture is weaker.
• With no guns and weapons at first, and no rich people to support them they attack with knives and hide in the woods.
• By late 19th century, not much of Greek lands were freed. The ottoman empire, however, was falling, and that was good news for the Greeks. The Slavs also started to dream of grabbing lands and taking advantage of the war that Greeks had started to free themselves.
• Till late 19th century, Macedonia remains under the Turkish rule.
• In 1893 Russia wanting to gain influence in the areas that Slavs lived. As Slavs the Russians support the Bulgarians to create a revolutionary Slavic army, named as VMRO or in English Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation, passing a Propaganda of a Slavic-Macedonian nation that should be united and igniting the Slavic people of the region to fight. (note also that this is the first Slavic-Macedonian army in the history of mankind) .
• Now Greeks, Slavs and Turks fight for the very strategic areas of Macedonia and that leads us to the Balkan wars.
• The second Balkan war (1914) finds Greece as the winner which included the liberation of Macedonian lands back to the Greek state again.
• The first world war ends and after the treaty of Versailles, a new state is created to rule those chaotic Slavic inhabitants that now lived in the lands north of Greece after the retreat of the Turks. This kingdom became known as the Kingdom of "Yugoslavia" or United Slavs.
• Yugoslavia contains 6 regions (banovinas, in the Slavic language).
• After the second world war, Yugoslavia falls to communism. Under the communist regime of Josep Broz Tito, the southernmost banovina named Vardar is renamed the "Socialist Republic of Macedonia" in order to lay claims to the historical region of Macedonia in Greece and thus forge for Yugoslavia a strategic path to the Aegean Sea.
• At the end of WWII, during Greece's civil war, Tito begins to meddle in Greece's domestic affairs by supporting the communist rebels against Greek government troops.
• After the Yugoslavian wars in late 80's and early 90's, Yugoslavia has ripped apart and those regions get divided forming different states.
• In 1991, the vardar banovina, or else vardarska, instead of discarding the expansionist agenda name of the communist regime makes attempts to name its newly formed state as the "Republic of Macedonia" and adopts a Pan-Hellenic symbol for its flag that clearly implies a continued expansionist agenda on Greece.
• The name and symbol now not only implies territorial aggression and provocation but also violates Greek copyright of a national symbol and Article 2 of the UNESCO Declaration on Cultural Diversity, that in the interest of peace between nations, one state by the act of self-identification cannot diminish the right of another state's equal right to self-identify simply by its historical name. In this case, "Macedonia".
• Under the auspices of the UN, the new Slavic country enters negotiations with Greece which holds the historical rights of the Macedonian history. They agreed to the temporary name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and sign the interim accord that they will duly find a name that suits their Slavic identity, history and/or their Paeonian/Dardanian geography, stop using the copyrighted national Pan-Hellenic Sun symbol on their flag and that they will stop any expansionist propaganda, provocations, and meddling in Greece's domestic affairs.
• However, instead of honouring the agreement, the propagandists of the Former Yugoslav Republic,

1. began a campaign to demonise Greece,
2. continuously meddling in Greece's domestic affairs to provoke Greece,
3. began an antiquisation program to turn Vardar Banovina into a Disneyland "Macedonia"
4. rebranded the Slavic population as the "Macedonians of history" and their south Slavic language as "Macedonian" and
5. Began a program of falsification of FYROM history books that talked of a 'greater Macedonia that was divided and occupied by Greece and Bulgaria"
6. Transferred the falsification of history to the internet and meddled with the perception of Greece and Macedonia online.
7. Worked to gain bilateral recognition as "Macedonians" to standardise the world and gain universal acceptance with their identities as "Macedonians".

You can see how this falsification of history continues till today.

All international organisations to this day use the adhere to the terms of the interim agreement and us the designated name of "FYROM" in all documentation and events. All countries including those that recognise it bilaterally for expediency by its preferred name of "Macedonia" use the official designation "Former Yugoslav Republic" in all documentation and that includes the USA.

The international community has been firm. The Former Yugoslav Republic must find for itself another name that suits its Slavic ethnic identity, language, culture and history and/or its ancient Paeonian/Dardania land and stop violating Greece's historical, name, identity and national symbols and must cease its expansionist claims, propaganda and meddling in Greece's domestic affairs.

Answer 4

Philip II, the father of Alexander the Great.

But have in mind that Macedonia never conquered Greece because at that time there was no united Greece as we know it today. There were only city-states like Athens, Sparta, Thebes that although they shared the same language and culture, they antagonised each other. One of those Greek states was Macedonia.

Answer 5

There were many rulers of Macedonia. Here is a link to a website who lists them.
http://virtualreligion.net/iho/macedon.html
Hope that helps.

Answer 6

Antipater ruled the Macedonia and the rest of Greece after Alexander the Great died.

Answer 7

It had many rulers. The best known were Philip II, Alexander III (the Great), Philip V, Perseus.

Answer 8

His father Philip.

Answer 9

Philip II of Macedon