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KESTRINI (Village) THESPROTIA
Cestrine (Kestrine, Thuc. Paus.; Kestrinia, Steph. B. s. v. Kammania;
Kestria, Steph. B. s. v. Troia), a district of Epeirus in the south of Chaonia,
separated from Thesprotia by the river Thyamis. (Thuc. i. 46.) It is said to have
received its name from Cestrinus, son of Helenus and Andromache, having been previously
called Cammania. (Paus. i. 11. § 1, ii. 23. § 6; Steph. B. s. v. Kammania.) The
principal town of this district is called Cestria by Pliny (iv. 1), but its more
usual name appears to have been Ilium or Troja, in memory of the Trojan colony
of Helenus. (Steph. B. s. v. Troia.) The remains of this town are still visible
at the spot called Palea Venetia, near the town of Filiates. In the neighbourhood
are those fertile pastures, which were celebrated in ancient times for the Cestrinic
oxen. (Hesych. s. v. Kestrinikoi Boes; Schol. ad Aristoph. Pac. 924.) The inhabitants
of the district were called Kestrenoi by the poet Rhianus (Steph. B. s. v. Chaunoi).
(Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. pp. 73, 175.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A district of Epirus, separated from Thesprotia by the river Thyamis. It was said to have taken its name from Cestrinus, the son of Helenus, having previously borne the appellation of Cammania.
The village was named after the ancient people of the Cestrinians, who inhabited the area.
KERKYRAIKI PEREA (Ancient city) EPIRUS
The city was founded by Corcyreans colonists to the N of the gulf of Igoumenitsa during the classical period.
On the coast of Epeiros at the head of Plataria Bay, where there is a small fortified acropolis. Ptolemy mentions it (3.14).
N.G.L. Hammond, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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