I am sorry Miskin I have to correct your correction I reintroduced Macedonian for Alexanders empire and for the succeeding generals Diadochi The historians consider the kingdom of Alexander the Great or some of succession states Seleucid as empires see Bosworth A B Alexander the Great part  B Greece and the conquered territories pp  and further in The Cambridge Ancient History VI The fourth century B C  This has never been challenged Modern European historians are even more loose when defining empires listing over  empires in the past see Maurice Diverger Ed Le Concept dempire PUF  also chapter IV Pierre Leveque Empire dAlexandre et empires hellniques who includes Egypt also as an empire as literally all Ptolemys and Cleopatras were ethnic Macedonians The Macedonians were quite ethnocentric as it could be judged from our todays point of view Almost all high positions in the army were held by Macedonians see Borza EN Makedonika pp and Diadochi were all Macedonians Also the ethnic Macedonian army occupied the most important place in the empires I do not understand why you all Greeks insist on removing Macedonian from all designation of the Macedonian state kingdom or empire I do not know eminent historian who dismisses the Macedonian designation when talking of Alexanders or Diadochy kingdoms Do you I explained at other places that political and cultural designations should not be confounded and would involve historiography error These states are not politically but culturally designed as Hellenistic and this is important so stress because as we understand today cultural heritage had important impact on all sections of life including political aspects as well but they must be seen separately Not realising this may have far reaching unpleasant consequences Thank you for your understanding