{{Short description|Confederationally-organized commonwealth institution}} [[File:Coin of the Macedonian League Numismatic Museum of Athens.jpg|thumb|300px|Coin of the first region of the Macedonian League in the Numismatic Museum of Athens with the Greek inscription "ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ ΠΡΩΤΗΣ" ("Of the Macedonians of the First")]] The '''League of the Macedonians''' and '''Koinon of Macedonia''' ({{langx|grc|Κοινὸν Μακεδόνων|Koinòn Makedónōn}}), was a confederationally-organized commonwealth institution regional state or {{Transliteration|grc|koinon}}<ref>{{harvnb|Mackil|2013|pp=304–305 including Map 11.1}}.</ref>) consisting of all Macedonian communities united around a monarch.<ref name=Walbank>{{harvnb|Walbank|1993|p=[https://archive.org/details/hellenisticworld00walb/page/84 84]}}.</ref> It can be paralleled from the Epirote League, but it seems that the Macedonian {{Transliteration|grc|koinon}} had far less power than that of the Epirote Molossians.<ref name=Walbank/> The capital, or headquarters, of the Macedonian {{Transliteration|grc|koinon}} was the city of Beroia.<ref>{{harvnb|Gill|1994|p=415}}.</ref>
==History== Both numismatic and inscriptional evidence attest to the existence of the Macedonian ''koinon'' before and after the Roman conquest of Macedon.<ref name=Kremydi-Sicilianou>{{harvnb|Kremydi-Sicilianou|2005|pp=101–102}}.</ref> Coinage in the name of the "Macedonians" (i.e., ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ) was in continuous production from the reigns of Philip V (r. 238–179 BC) and Perseus (r. 212–166 BC) well into the Roman period.<ref name=Kremydi-Sicilianou/> It was reorganized under the early Roman Empire and transformed into an institution related to the imperial cult as happened to all the ''koina'' of the period.<ref name=Kremydi-Sicilianou/>
The ''koinon'', administered by local elite members, organized and financed games and festivals and were awarded Roman citizenship. Using traditional ethnic symbols depicted on its coins, such as the Macedonian shield and the winged thunderbolt, the ''koinon'' preserved a sense of Macedonian civic identity within the province until the end of the 2nd century AD.<ref name=Kremydi-Sicilianou/> The last attestation of a person "ethnically" identified as Macedonian is dated to the beginning of the 4th century AD.<ref>{{harvnb|Hatzopoulos|2011|p=35}}.</ref>
==References==
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