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ARGOS ORESTIKON (Ancient city) KASTORIA
Argos Oresticum (Argos Orestikon), the chief town of the Orestae,
said to have been founded by Orestes, when he fled from Argos after the murder
of his mother. (Strab. vii. p. 326.) Strabo places these Orestae in Epirus; and
they must probably be distinguished from the Macedonian Orestae, who dwelt near
the sources of the Haliacmon, on the frontiers of Illyria. Stephanus B. (s. v.
Argos) mentions an Argos in Macedonia, as well as Argos Oresticum; and Hierocles
also speaks of a Macedonian Argos. Moreover, Ptolemy (iii. 13. § § 5, 22) distinguishes
clearly between an Epirot and a Macedonian Orestias, assigning to each a town
Amantia. Hence the Macedonian Argos appears to have been a different place from
Argos Oresticum. The former was probably situated in the plain of Anaselitza,
near the sources of the Haliacmon, which plain is called Argestaeus Campus by
Livy (xxvii. 33; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 121, who, however, confounds
the Macedonian Argos with Argos Oresticum). The site of Argos Oresticum is uncertain;
but a modern writer places it near Ambracia, since Stephanus calls the Orestae
a Molossian people. (Tafel, in Pauly's Realencycl. vol. i. p. 738.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
DIOKLITIANOUPOLI (Byzantine settlement) KASTORIA
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