Macedon. Outlying Greek kingdom north of Thessaly, inland irom the Thermaic Gulf, on the northwest Aegean coast. In modern reference, the name Macedon usually refers to the political entity, as opposed to the general territory called Macedonia. Macedon’s heartland was the wide Thermaic plain, west of the modern Greek city of Thessaloniki, where the rivers Haliacmon and Axius flowed close […]

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From the “Biblical and Theological Dictionary” by Richard Watson, New York 1832