A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Macedonian_army" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ancient Macedonian army">Macedonian army</a> led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Macedon" id="mwFA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Philip II of Macedon">Philip II</a> defeated the combined forces of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens" id="mwFQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Athens">Athens</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thebes,_Greece" id="mwFg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Thebes, Greece">Thebes</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chaeronea_(338_BC)" id="mwFw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)">Battle of Chaeronea</a>, securing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)" id="mwGA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Macedonia (ancient kingdom)">Macedonian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony" id="mwGQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hegemony">hegemony</a> in Greece and the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_civilizations" id="mwGg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Aegean civilizations">Aegean</a>.<sup about="#mwt18" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_2#cite_note-1" id="mwGw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwHA">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt15" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFGagarin2009">Gagarin, Michael (31 December 2009). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=lNV6-HsUppsC&amp;pg=RA1-PA81" id="mwBy4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBy8">The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome</i></a>. Oxford University Press. p.<span id="mwBzA" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>81. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBzE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBzI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-19-517072-6" id="mwBzM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-517072-6"><bdi id="mwBzQ">978-0-19-517072-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt15" class="Z3988" id="mwBzU" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Oxford+Encyclopedia+of+Ancient+Greece+and+Rome&amp;rft.pages=81&amp;rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2009-12-31&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-19-517072-6&amp;rft.aulast=Gagarin&amp;rft.aufirst=Michael&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DlNV6-HsUppsC%26pg%3DRA1-PA81&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+2"></span></span>