Macedonia: ancient landscape and state, situated in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and northern Greece, best known because its king Alexander the Great (r.336-323) conquered the Persian Empire and inaugurated a new period in Greek history.Ethnogenesis
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Neo-Hittites or Syro-Hittites: modern name for the successor states of the Hittite Empire, which had desintegrated in the early twelfth century BCE.Demise of the Hittite Empire
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Phrygians: an ancient nation in western Turkey. Their capital was Gordium.Origin
Phrygian antefix
Compared to several other nations in Anatolia, the Phrygians…
Šapinuwa: Bronze Age Hittite city, one of the major Hittite military, religious, and administrative centres. It is situated near modern Ortaköy in Turkey.
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"Scythians" (Greek Σκύθαι) and "Sacae" (Old Persian Sakâ): two renderings of Skudat ("archers"?), the name of the nomads of the Central Asian plains.
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