Second Macedonian War

Second Macedonian War
Part of the Macedonian Wars
Map of Greece during the war
The campaigns and battles of the Second Macedonian War
Date200–197 BC
Location
Greece
Result Roman victory
Territorial
changes
Macedonia gives up all possessions and client states in southern Greece, Thrace and Anatolia
Belligerents
Macedonia
Boeotian League
Acarnanian League
Commanders and leaders
Publius Sulpicius Galba
Titus Quinctius Flamininus
Attalus I
Bato of Dardania
Pleuratus III
Philip V of Macedon

The Second Macedonian War (200–197 BC) was fought between Macedon, led by Philip V of Macedon, and Rome, allied with Pergamon and Rhodes. Philip was defeated and was forced to abandon all possessions in southern Greece, Thrace and Asia Minor. During their intervention, although the Romans declared the "freedom of the Greeks" against the rule from the Macedonian kingdom, the war marked a significant stage in increasing Roman intervention in the affairs of the eastern Mediterranean, which would eventually lead to Rome's conquest of the entire region.