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The Thracians, having arrived first, occupied the eastern part of the peninsula and Macedonia. The Greeks came after the Thracians, about 2500 B. C., making their way through the valleys of Axios. They stopped at the Western part of the Balkan peninsula and Macedonia, which was seized from the Thracians. The latter in turn pushed out the Macedonian tribe of the Dorians (whom Kretchmer identifies with the Douriopes of Macedonia) and forced them to leave the country around the mountains of Olympus and Pindus (Herodotus, Pindar, Strabo) and settled in the land to the south of the Kambounian mountains
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Thracian and Macedonian Kingship
William S. Greenwalt
Book Editor(s): Julia Valeva
Emil Nankov
Denver Graninger
First published: 16 March 2015
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conclusion....Macedonians are a Thracian-Dorian mix.......with later Greek
Okay, this is a theory and it might have been true, but anyway my post wasn't about the bronze age but it was about the iron age. Macedonians that we know and their kingdom were formed during the iron age. It's an whole total historical context. In my opinion proto Illyrians weren't present there during the bronze age . They were still in the north Balkans according to archeology.