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Pella, is an ancient city located in Central Macedonia, Greece, best known as the historical capital of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon in the time of Alexander the Great. On the site of the ancient city is the Archaeological Museum of Pella.EtymologyA common folk etymology is traditionally given for the name Pella, deriving it from the Ancient Macedonian word pélla, "stone", and it appears in some toponyms in Greece like Pallini ((7060180819).jpg|thumb|left|House of Dionysus (325–300 BC).Ancient Macedonian]]In antiquity, Pella was a strategic port connected to the Thermaic Gulf by a navigable inlet, but the harbour and gulf have since silted up, leaving the site landlocked.Pella is first mentioned by Herodotus of Halicarnassus (VII, 123) in relation to Xerxes' campaign and by Thucydides (II, 99,4 and 100,4) in relation to Macedonian expansion and the war against Sitalces, the king of the Thracians.