Amphaxitis (Ancient Greek: แผฮผฯฮฑฮพแฟฯฮนฯ) refers to the western maritime part of the Mygdonia district of Lower Macedonia, in Macedon, on Axius river.[1]
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called Amphaxitis, a distinction which first occurs in Polybius, who divides all the great plain at the head of the Thermaic gulf into Amphaxitis and Bottiaea
such as Emathia (Macedonia), Pieria, and Bottiaea, and later Almopia, Amphaxitis. The original capital of Macedon was Aigai and then moved to Pella in
kingdom of Macedon. Its districts were: Emathia, Pieria, Bottiaea, Almopia, Amphaxitis. Aigai (near modern Vergina), the original capital of Macedon, and Pella
northern valley of the Axios river to the southern valley, now called Amphaxitis. Paeonians also, founded the town Chaetae in Tsaousitsa, near Pontoiraklia
but Philip's control of the strategically important Axios Valley around Amphaxitis proved more difficult to overcome. In 433, Philip formed an alliance with
literary name, capital city. I, protes, none, Amphipolis; II, deuteras, Amphaxitis, Thessalonika; III, none, Bottia, Pella; IV, tetartis, Upper (ano) Makedonia
by crossing the Axios River and seizing their former territory around Amphaxitis. In keeping with Persian practice, Megabazus dispatched seven envoys around
as far south as Mygdonia where Strabo places them in an area known as Amphaxitis. The expansion of the Macedonian state during the 4th century BCE resulted
