Macedonian Navy
* The ancient Kingdom of Macedonia had a navy which was first assembled by Phillip II (who reigned from 359–336 BC) and which continued to expand under the Antigonid dynasty. * The modern era North Macedonia, although not operating a military navy, has the Macedonian Lake Patrol Police as a waterborne border police A border guard of a country is a national security agency that performs border security. Some of the national border guard agencies also perform coast guard (as in Germany, Italy or Ukraine) and rescue service duties. Name and uniform In diff ...

Macedonia (ancient Kingdom)
Macedonia (; grc-gre, Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic Greece, Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The History of Macedonia (ancient kingdom), kingdom was founded and initially ruled by the royal Argead dynasty, which was followed by the Antipatrid dynasty, Antipatrid and Antigonid dynasty, Antigonid dynasties. Home to the ancient Macedonians, the earliest kingdom was centered on the northeastern part of the Greek peninsula,. and bordered by Epirus (ancient state), Epirus to the west, Paeonia (kingdom), Paeonia to the north, Thrace to the east and Ancient Thessaly, Thessaly to the south. Before the 4th century BC, Macedonia was a small kingdom outside of the area dominated by the great city-states of Athens, Sparta and Thebes, Greece, Thebes, and Achaemenid Macedonia, briefly subordinate to Achaemenid Persia. During the reign of the Argead king Philip II of Macedon, ...
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Antigonid Macedonian Army
The Antigonid Macedonian army was the army that evolved from the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia in the period when it was ruled by the Antigonid dynasty from 276 BC to 168 BC. It was seen as one of the principal Hellenistic fighting forces until its ultimate defeat at Roman hands at the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC. However, there was a brief resurgence in 150-148 during the revolt of Andriscus, a supposed heir to Perseus. Starting as just a mere handful of mercenary troops under Antigonus Gonatas in the 270s BC, the Antigonid army eventually became the dominant force in Hellenistic Greece, fighting campaigns against Epirus, the Achaean League, Sparta, Athens, Rhodes and Pergamon, not to mention the numerous Thrace, Thracian and Celtic tribes that threatened Macedon from the north. The Antigonid army, as with the Ancient Macedonian army, army of Philip II of Macedon, Philip II and Alexander the Great that came before it, was based principally around the Macedonian phalanx, ...
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North Macedonia
North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia. It is a landlocked country bordering Kosovo to the northwest, Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south, and Albania to the west. It constitutes approximately the northern third of the larger geographical Macedonia (region), region of Macedonia. Skopje, the capital and largest city, is home to a quarter of the country's 1.83 million people. The majority of the residents are ethnic Macedonians (ethnic group), Macedonians, a South Slavs, South Slavic people. Albanians in North Macedonia, Albanians form a significant minority at around 25%, followed by Turks in North Macedonia, Turks, Romani people in North Macedonia, Romani, Serbs in North Macedonia, Serbs, Bosniaks in North Mac ...
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Macedonian Lake Patrol Police
The Macedonian Lake Police ( mk, Македонска езерска полиција) is a part of the border police of North Macedonia, operating in Ohrid and Prespa lake. The police has over 200 members and is mostly active in Ohrid. See also * Police of North Macedonia * Lions (police unit) The Lions was a special police unit for fast interventions formed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Macedonia in 2001. It was dissolved in 2004.http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/mk/features/setimes/features/2003/01/030129-SV ... References Ohrid Law enforcement in North Macedonia Military units and formations of North Macedonia Border guards {{Law-enforcement-agency-stub ...
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