Geography of ancient Macedonia

Chalkidiki (; , alternatively Halkidiki), also known as Chalcidice, is a peninsula and regional unit of Greece, part of the region of Central Macedonia, in the geographic region of Macedonia in Northern Greece. The autonomous Mount Athos region constitutes the easternmost part of the peninsula, but not of the regional unit.

Serres ( ) is a city in Macedonia, Greece. It is the capital of the Serres regional unit and the second largest city in the region of Central Macedonia, after Thessaloniki.

thumb|right|250px|Location of Pelagonia thumb|right|250px|Pelagonia seen from Baba (North Macedonia)|Baba Mountain, Bitola. Pelagonia (; ) is a geographical region of Macedonia named after the ancient kingdom. Ancient Pelagonia roughly corresponded to the present-day municipalities of Bitola, Prilep, Mogila, Novaci, Kruševo, and Krivogaštani in North Macedonia and perhaps to small parts of the municipalities of Florina and Prespes in Greece.

thumb|300px|Lynkestis had been originally an autonomous kingdom in Upper Macedonia outside the original territory of the Kingdom of Macedon (blue area). After Philip II's expansion in the second half of the 4th century BC Lynkestis was incorporated into his kingdom (light blue area). Lynkestis, Lyncestis, Lyngistis, Lynkos or Lyncus ( or Λύγκος or Lyncus) was a region and principality traditionally located in Upper Macedonia. It was the northernmost mountainous region of Upper Macedonia, located east of the Prespa Lakes.

thumb|right|350px|Map of the Kingdom of Macedon with Bisaltia located in the eastern districts of the kingdom.Bisaltia () or Bisaltica was an ancient country which was bordered by Sintice on the north, Crestonia on the west, Mygdonia on the south and was separated by Odomantis on the north-east and Edonis on the south-east by river Strymon.The eponymous inhabitants, known as the Bisaltae, were a Thracian people. Later, the region was annexed by the kingdom of Macedon and became one of its districts. The most important town in Bisaltia was the Greek city of Argilos. There was also a river named

village in Greece

thumb|upright=1.5|Mygdonia among the other districts of the kingdom of Macedon thumb|upright=1.5|Borders of Mygdonia with Chalcidice

Greek historical region of Macedonia

thumb|right|350px|Map of the Kingdom of Macedon with Elimiotis located in the south-western districts of the kingdom

thumb|right|304x304px|Map of the Kingdom of Macedon with Bottiaea (Bottia) located in the central districts of the kingdom. The Bottiaeans migrated to Bottike in Western [[Chalkidiki.]] Bottiaea (Greek: Bottiaia) was a geographical region of Lower Macedonia and an administrative district of the Macedonian Kingdom. It was previously inhabited by the Bottiaeans, a people of uncertain origin, later expelled by the Makedones into Bottike (Chalcidice). In Roman times it was replaced by Emathia as a geographical term.

upper/western part of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia

thumb|right|Map of the Kingdom of Macedon with Crestonia located in the central-eastern districts of the kingdom.|305x305px thumb|right|Approximate location of the Krestones|306x306px Crestonia (or Crestonice) () was an ancient region immediately north of Mygdonia. The Echeidorus river, which flowed through Mygdonia into the Thermaic Gulf, had its source in Crestonia. It was partly occupied by a remnant of the Pelasgi, who spoke a different language from their neighbors (Thracians and Paeonians); later the Greeks. The main towns of Crestonia were Creston (Crestone) and Gallicum (Romanized nam

thumb|right|350px|Map of the Kingdom of Macedon with Eordaea located in the western districts of the kingdom.

salt lake in Greece

ancient region of northern Greece

historical region

thumb|right|350px|Map of the Kingdom of Macedon with the district of Sintike located in the north-east.

home region of the ancient Edones people

Gordynia or Gortynia or Gortynion was a settlement reached in ancient Macedonia, in the southern valley of the Axios river, northeast of Bottiaea close to the Paionian border. Ptolemy places Gordenia (Γορδηνία), in his list of cities in Emathia, after Idomenae and before Edessa. Plinius (HN 4.34) gives the name in plural, Gordyniae. Stephanus of Byzantium calls it Gordynia and its ethnic noun Gordyniates. In Thucydides (2.100) Gortynia and Atalanta came to terms with the Thracian army of Sitalces, out of regard for Amyntas the son of Philip, the brother of Perdiccas II, who accompanied the exp