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Macedonian Wars: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date 149 BCE - 148 • 171 BCE - 168 • 215 BCE - 205 • 200 BCE - 196
Location Aegean Sea • Greece • Illyria • Pergamum • Rhodes
Participants Aetolian League • Macedonia • ancient Rome
Context Second Punic War • Punic Wars

Key People

Flamininus, portrait on a Greek gold coin struck after 196 bc; in the British Museum.
Titus Quinctius Flamininus
Roman general and statesman
Philip V
Philip V
king of Macedonia
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Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus
Roman general and statesman
Attalus I Soter
Attalus I Soter
king of Pergamum
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Perseus
king of Macedonia
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Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus
Roman general

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