History
In antiquity, the area around the modern Pella regional unit was part of the Kingdom of Macedon. It later became part of the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine and the Ottoman Empires. Following approximately 500 years of Turkish rule, it joined Greece in 1913, following the Balkan Wars.
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