![]() ![]() By the first century BC, the province notionally extended to the Danube. In this period, campaigns against the Dardani and Scordisci to the north and the Thracians to the east were nearly constant. The Via Egnatia, which crossed the province from west to east was of great strategic importance, providing the main overland link between Rome and its domains in the Eastern Mediterranean. ĭuring the Republican period, the province was of great military significance, as the main bulwark protecting the Aegean region from attacks from the north. The province incorporated the former kingdom of Macedonia with the addition of Epirus, Thessaly, and parts of Illyria, Paeonia and Thrace. The province was created in 146 BC, after the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus defeated Andriscus of Macedon, the last self-styled king of Macedonia in the Fourth Macedonian War. Macedonia ( Greek: Μακεδονία) was a province of the Roman Empire, encompassing the territory of the former Antigonid Kingdom of Macedonia, which had been conquered by Rome in 168 BC at the conclusion of the Third Macedonian War. ![]()
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