Achaemenid Macedon

ruler of Macedonia from c. 498 to 454 BC

Achaemenid military commander during Greco-Persian Wars (died 479 BC)

6th century BC king of Macedon

thumb|The ancient Persian fort at Eion (left) and the mouth of the Strymon (river)|Strymon (right), seen from Ennea Hodoi ([[Amphipolis).]]

Skudra () was a province (satrapy) of the Persian Achaemenid Empire in Europe between 510s BC and 479 BC. Its name is attested in Persian and Egyptian inscriptions (an Egyptian record of c. 498–497 BC, and a list on the tomb of Darius the Great at Naqsh-e Rustam, c. 486 BC. It is believed to have comprised the lands now known as Thrace and Macedon.

thumb|300px|Megabazus became satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia. Megabazus (Old Persian: Bagavazdā or Bagabāzu; ), son of Megabates, was a highly regarded Persian general under Darius, to whom he was a first-degree cousin. Most information about Megabazus comes from The Histories by Herodotus.

5th century BC Macedonian princess

thumb|Bubares was son of Megabazus. thumb|right|Bubares built the Xerxes Canal for the passage of the [[Second Persian invasion of Greece. Mount Athos peninsula from the stratosphere (at an altitude of 23 km), and simulation of the Xerxes Canal (seen from north).]] thumb|Northern end of the Xerxes Canal, now filled up. Bubares (, died after 480 BC) was a Persian nobleman and engineer in the service of the Achaemenid Empire of the 5th century BC. He was one of the sons of Megabazus, and a second-degree cousin of Xerxes I.

Ancient Macedonia under Achaemenid Persian rule

son of Bubares, 5th-century BC Persian official of Macedonian noble descent