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Pydna

Pydna is also a rocket station of the American Army in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, see Pydna (rocket station)
Pydna (rocket station)

Pydna is a former United States of America rocket station in Kastellaun, Germany.Nuclear equipped MGM-1 Matador, MGM-13 Mace and Nike-Hercules Missile were stationed in this location....

Pydna (in Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: ??d?a, older transliteration: Púdna), also Pidna was a Greek city in ancient Macedon

Macedon

Macedon or Macedonia was the name of a monarchy centred in the northernmost part of ancient Greece. The homeland of the ancient Macedonians, it was bordered by the kingdom of Epirus to the west and the region of Thrace to the east....
, the most important in Pieria. Modern Pydna is a rural municipality and coastal town in the northeastern part of the Prefecture of Pieria

Pieria

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Pydna (in Greek

Greek language

Macedon

Pieria

Pieria is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the southern part of Macedonia , in the peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia....
. Pydna is situated in fertile land to the north of the Pierian plain. Hills and mountains dominate the west, while beaches and the Thermian Gulf dominate the east. Pydna is linked with GR-1/E75 through its interchange to its west and in Kitros. The old highway ran through Pydna. It is located N of Larissa

Larissa

Larissa is a city and the capital of the Thessaly Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and capital of the Larissa Prefecture. It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by rail with the port of Volos and with Thessaloniki and Athens....
, NE of Katerini

Katerini

Katerini is a town in Central Macedonia, the capital of Pieria Prefectures of Greece. It lies on the Pierian plain, between Mt. Olympus and the Thermian Gulf, at an altitude of 14 m....
, ESE of Veria

Veria

Veria is a city built at the foot of Vermion Mountains in Greece. It is a commercial center of Macedonia , the capital of the Prefectures of Greece of Imathia Prefecture, the province of Imathia and the seat of a bishop of the Church of Greece....
and WSW of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki , Thessalonica, or Salonica is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country in Greece and the capital of Macedonia , the nation's largest Regions of Greece....
.

Nearest places

Methone, north
Korinos
Korinos

Korinos is a village located in Pieria prefecture, Greece. Korinos has approximately 5000 citizens and it's located 5 km northeast of the city of Katerini , the capital of Pieria prefecture....
, southwest
Katerini
Katerini

Katerini is a town in Central Macedonia, the capital of Pieria Prefectures of Greece. It lies on the Pierian plain, between Mt. Olympus and the Thermian Gulf, at an altitude of 14 m....
, southwest (County Town)

Ancient Pydna

Pydna was founded by Euboeans

Euboea

For the Greek mythology figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest of the Greece Aegean Islands and the second largest List of islands of Greece overall in area and population, after Crete....
in early 7th century BC. Alexander I

Alexander I of Macedon

Alexander I was ruler of Macedon from 498 BC to 454 BC. He was the son of Amyntas I of Macedon king of Macedon and Eurydice.According to Herodotus he was unfriendly to Persian Empire, and had the envoys of Darius I of Persia killed when they arrived at the court of his father during the Ionian Revolt....
took the city (Thucydides

Thucydides

Thucydides was a Greeks history and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century B.C. war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 B.C....
I.131.1), but later Pydna regained its independence. It was besieged by the Athenians

Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
in 432 BC. Pydna was brought back under Macedonian rule in 410 BC by Archelaus

Archelaus I of Macedon

Archelaus I was king of Macedon from 413 to 399 BC, following the death of Perdiccas II of Macedon. The son of Perdiccas by a slave woman, Archelaus obtained the throne by murdering his uncle, his cousin, and his half-brother, the legitimate heir, but proved a capable and beneficent ruler, known for the sweeping changes he made in state adm...
, who reestablished the city twenty stadia further inland (Diodorus of Sicily 13.14). The Athenians seized Pydna in 364 BC, only to have it retaken eight years later by Philip II of Macedon

Philip II of Macedon

Philip II of Macedon,...
, in spite of a secret agreement that bound it to Athens. Pydna was raided by Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great , also known as Alexander III of Macedon was an ancient Greeks King of Macedon . He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle....
on his march on Persia. All 5 treasuries were looted and burned. Cassander

Cassander

Cassander , King of Macedon , was a son of Antipater, and founder of the short-lived Antipatrid dynasty....
besieged and captured Pydna in 317 BC and had the queen mother, Olympias

Olympias

Olympias , ca. 376–316 BC, was an Epirote princess, the fourth wife of King Philip II of Macedon of Macedon and mother of Alexander the Great....
, who had taken refuge there, put to death.

The Battle of Pydna

Battle of Pydna

The Battle of Pydna in 168 BC between Roman Republic and the Macedon Antigonid dynasty represents the ascendancy of Rome in the Ancient Greece/Hellenistic civilization world and the end of the Antigonid line of List of kings of Macedon, whose power traced back to Alexander the Great....
(June 22, 168 BC), in which the Roman general Aemilius Paulus defeated King Perseus

Perseus of Macedon

File:Perseus_of_Macedon BM.jpgPerseus was the last king of the Antigonid dynasty, who ruled the successor state in Macedon created upon the death of Alexander the Great....
, ended the reign of the Antigonid dynasty

Antigonid dynasty

The Antigonid dynasty was a dynasty of Hellenistic kings descended from Alexander the Great general Antigonus I Monophthalmus .History...
over Macedon.

The site of the city is disputed but may correspond, according to epigraphic evidence agreeing with Byzantine tradition, to the village of Kitros rather than to Alonia.

Pydna is the location of a Macedonian tomb discovered and explored by Léon Heuzey

Léon Heuzey

L?on Heuzey was a noted French archaeologist and historian.In 1855 Heuzey came to Greece as a member of the ?cole fran?aise d'Ath?nes, and for the next two years travelled extensively in Macedonia and Akarnania....
during his archaeological expedition in 1867.

Modern Pydna

Pydna today is a town that is located near the archaeological site.

Other

Pydna has Primary and Secondary schools, banks, a post office, sports facilities, beaches located to the east, and traditional Greek "Plateia" - town and village "squares". (plateies
Plateia

Plateia or platia is the Greek language word for town square. Most Greek and Cypriot cities have several town squares which are a point of reference in travelling and guiding....
).

Historical population

External links

, by Jona Lendering (ancient history of Pydna)
, street map not yet available
The Battle of Pydna
by John Foss

Pydna

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Ancient Pydna

Modern Pydna

Other

Historical population

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