After the murder of his father, Philip of Macedon, Alexander led the armies of Macedonia ... are all the modern countries that were once all or in part included in Alexander’s empire.

He made it as far as the Indus River in modern-day Pakistan ... he emphasizes that the Macedonian wasn’t conquering brand-new territory, mile by mile, but a pre-existing empire.

To an outsider, this most Balkan of conflicts looks absurd: two countries fighting ... its land into an empire that extended to India — part of local identity. Macedonia's flag is emblazoned ...

or Severna Makedonija in Macedonian. The discord between the two countries has its roots in the vast empire of Alexander the Great. As NPR’s Joanna Kakissis reported in February, the ancient ...

Alexander's Macedonian Empire splinters apart upon his death. via GIPHY In large part due to the generalship of Julius Caesar, the Romans conquer modern France, helping to set up Rome as the ...

By Andrew Higgins Reporting from Skopje, North Macedonia The center of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, a Balkan country born just ... A conquering hero whose empire stretched from the ...