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Orestis. Orestae (Orestai, Hecat. ap. Steph. B. s. v.; Thuc. ii. 80; Polyb.
xviii. 30; Strab. vii. p. 326, ix. p. 434; Plin. iv. 17), a people who are shown
by Thucydides (l. c.) to have bordered upon the Macedonian Paravaei, and who
partly, perhaps, as having been originally an Epirote tribe (Steph. B. s. v.
terms them a Molossian tribe), were united with the other Epirots, under their
prince Antiochus, in support of the expedition of Cnemus and the Ambraciots
against Acarnania. Afterwards they were incorporated in the Macedonian kingdom.
In the peace finally granted to Philip, B.C. 196, by the Romans, the Orestae
were declared free, because they had been the first to revolt. (Liv. xxxiii.
34.)
Orestis (Orestis, Ptol. iii. 13. § § 5, 22; Steph. B. s. v.; Liv.
xxvii. 33, xxxi. 40) or Orestias (Orestias, Strab. vii. p. 326), was the name
given to the district which they occupied, which, though it is not named by
Livy and Diodorus among the countries which entered into the composition of
the Fourth Macedonia, was probably included in it, because the greater part,
at least, of Orestis was situated to the E. of Pindus. This subdivision of Upper
Macedonia is represented by the modern districts of Gramista, Anaselitza, and
Kastoria. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 305, vol. iv. pp. 121--124.)
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
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