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Macedonian phalanx

Makedonische Phalanx {f}mil.

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phalanx

geschlossene Schlachtreihe {f}mil.

Phalanx {f}

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Macedonian

Mazedonier {m}ethn.

Macedonian {adj}

mazedonisch

makedonischgeogr.hist.

distal phalanx

Endglied {n} [Finger, Zehen]anat.

proximal phalanx

Grundglied {n} [Finger, Zehen]anat.

middle phalanx

Mittelglied {n} [Finger, Zehen]anat.

phalanx bone

Phalanx {f} [knöchernes Finger- oder Zehenglied]anat.zool.

Macedonian [female]

Mazedonierin {f}ethn.

Greco-Macedonian {adj}

griechisch-makedonischhist.

griechisch-mazedonischhist.

ancient Macedonian {adj}

altmakedonischhist.

Macedonian cuisine

mazedonische Küche {f}gastr.

North Macedonian {adj}

nordmazedonisch

North Macedonian

Nordmazedonier {m}ethn.

Macedonian [language]

Mazedonisch {n}ling.

phalanx [also fig.]

geschlossene Front {f} [auch fig.]

Macedonian-Albanian border

mazedonisch-albanische Grenze {f}geogr.pol.

Bulgarian-Macedonian border

bulgarisch-mazedonische Grenze {f}geogr.pol.

• Though they mostly fielded Greek citizens or mercenaries, they also armed and drilled local natives as hoplites or rather Macedonian phalanx, like the Machimoi of the Ptolemaic army.
• The tradition also says, that from Nestorio, the core of the famous Macedonian phalanx began. Contrary to myth and tradition, the story continues after the Roman conquest of 146 BC.
• The later Macedonian phalanx used a smaller shield but replaced the spear with a sarissa, a long pike used in two hands.
• A similar weapon, the sarissa, had been used in antiquity by Alexander the Great's Macedonian phalanx infantry.
• The pezhetairoi were the battalions of the Macedonian phalanx.

• Philip II of Macedon greatly improved upon the limited combined arms tactics of the Greek city-states and combined the newly created Macedonian phalanx with heavy cavalry and other forces.
• The rise of Macedon—its conquest and political consolidation of most of Classical Greece during his reign—was achieved by his reformation of the army (the establishment of the Macedonian phalanx that proved critical in securing victories on the battlefield), his extensive use of siege engines, and his use of effective diplomacy and marriage alliances.
• In contrast, the main Macedonian Phalanx consisted of the pikemen known as phalangites.
• In battle, it would form part of a hammer and anvil tactic: the Companion cavalry would be used as a hammer, in conjunction with the Macedonian phalanx-based infantry, which acted as their anvil.
• The Macedonian phalanx (...) was an infantry formation developed by Philip II from the classical Greek phalanx, of which the main innovation was the use of the sarissa, a 6-metre pike.

• In this battle the Macedonian phalanx originally held the high ground but all of its units had not been properly positioned due to earlier skirmishing.
• The Macedonian phalanx of Aelian had many points of resemblance to the solid masses of pikemen and the squadrons of cavalry of the Spanish and Dutch systems, and the translations made in the 16th century formed the groundwork of numerous books on drill and tactics.
• "Bronze Shields") made up one of the two probable corps of the Antigonid-era Macedonian phalanx in the Hellenistic period, with the "Leukaspides" ("White Shields") forming the other.
• "White Shields") may have made up one of the two probable corps of the Antigonid Macedonian phalanx in the Hellenistic period, with the "Chalkaspides" ("Bronze Shields") forming the other.
• The Macedonian phalanx was considered invulnerable from the front, except against another such phalanx; the only way it was generally defeated was by breaking its formation or outflanking it, such as how Romans were able to defeat the Macedonians in the Battle of Cynoscephalae.