Gauanes was the brother of Aeropus

Aeropus

Aeropus may refer to:*Aeropus, brother of Perdiccas I, who was the first king of Macedonia of the family of Temenus*Aeropus I of Macedon, King of Macedon, 602 BC–576 BC*Aeropus II of Macedon, King of Macedon, 399 BC–393 BC...

 and Perdiccas I of Macedon

Perdiccas I of Macedon

.Perdiccas I was king of Macedon from about 700 BC to about 678 BC. Herodotus stated:-References:...

, as Herodotus

Herodotus

Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria and lived in the 5th century BC . He has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a...

 (8.137-139) narrates. According to N. G. L. Hammond

N. G. L. Hammond

Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond CBE, DSO was a British scholar of ancient Greece of great accomplishment and an operative for the British Special Operations Executive in occupied Greece during World War II....

: Gauanes may be a dialectal version of Gaianes, because one finds Auos as a variant of Aias and Parauaians, the ones who live by the Aoos river. Gaianes seems related to Aianos, the founder of Aiane in Elimeia

Elimeia

Elimeia is a former municipality in Kozani peripheral unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kozani, of which it is a municipal unit. The population is 6,429 . The seat of the municipality was in Krokos...

 (Stephanus of Byzantium

Stephanus of Byzantium

Stephen of Byzantium, also known as Stephanus Byzantinus , was the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled Ethnica...

, s.v. Aiane). If this is true, Gauanes took the kingdom of Elimiotis

Elimiotis

Elimiotis or Elimeia or Elimaea was a region of Upper Macedonia that was located along the Haliacmon, north of Perrhaebia/Thessaly, west of Pieria, east of Parauaea, and south of Orestis. In earlier times, it was independent, but later was incorporated into the Argead kingdom of Macedon...

 and Aeropus

Aeropus

Aeropus may refer to:*Aeropus, brother of Perdiccas I, who was the first king of Macedonia of the family of Temenus*Aeropus I of Macedon, King of Macedon, 602 BC–576 BC*Aeropus II of Macedon, King of Macedon, 399 BC–393 BC...

, presumably, the kingdom of Lynkestis

Lynkestis

Lynkestis or Lynchestia was a region of Upper Macedonia on the southern borders of Illyria which was ruled by kings, lords and independent or semi-independent chieftains till the later Argead rulers of Macedon neutralized their independence with dynastic alliances and the practice of bringing up...

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