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AGII ANARGYRI (Municipality) KASTORIA
AERODROMIO (Settlement) KOZANI
It was named Aerodromio (= Airport) because it is located at the region of the Kozani airport.
MEGALI PRESPA (Lake) FLORINA
MIKRI PRESPA (Lake) FLORINA
The surface of the lake in the Greek territory is 43,5 square kilometres. The lake is iced over during winter time.
KASTORIA (Prefecture) GREECE
The prefecture of Kastoria is situated in the western end of West
Macedonia. It is adjacent on the north with the prefecture
of Florina, on the south, east and south-east with the prefectures of Grevena
and Kozani, on the south-west
with the prefecture of Ioannina
and on the west with Albania.
The soil of the region is mountainous and the climate is continental
with cold winters and hot summers. The temperature presents great variations between
winter and summer, and during winter it is often below zero so the lake waters
are frozen. According to the latest census the population of Kastoria comes up
to 51.935 inhabitants.
This text (extract) is cited June 2003 from the Prefecture
of Kastoria tourist pamphlet.
KASTORIA (Town) MAKEDONIA WEST
The ancient 'Orestiada'
is located between two mountains, Vitsi
and Grammos, in Western
Macedonia.
In the middle of a circular plain, which is shaped from the above
mentioned mountains, is located the famous lake
'Orestias' and above this peninsula which just into it, is the city of Kastoria.
It is a city of 30.000 inhabitants, closely connected to its legendary
past and its great History, which is full of life and progress. One can reach
Kastoria by bus from Athens
- Larissa - Kozani
- Kastoria, Athens - Meteora
- Grevena - Kastoria, Thessaloniki
- Florina - Prespes
- Kastoria, Thessaloniki -
Edessa - Kastoria, Thessaloniki
- Veria - Kastoria -Yugoslavian
borders (Niki) - Florina
- Kastoria (and by way of Vitsi), Igoumenitsa
- Ioannina - Kastoria.
All these routes offer the traveler unforgettable sights with alternative
views of scenery, lakes, mountainous passes, forests and picturesque villages.
One can also reach Kastoria from Athens
by air.
This text (extract) is cited June 2003 from the Municipality
of Kastoria tourist pamphlet.
APIDIA (Settlement) KOZANI
Lebaie. An ancient city in Upper Macedonia, and the residence of the early Macedonian
kings, mentioned only by Herodotus (viii. 137).
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.)
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ELIMIA (Ancient area) KOZANI
Elimeia (Strab. vii. p. 326; Steph. B.) or Elimiotis (Arrian, Anab.
i. 7. § 5). A district to the SW. of Macedonia, bordering upon Eordaea and Pieria,
while it extended to the W. as far as the range of Pindus. It was watered by the
Haliacmon, and may be defined as comprehending the modern districts of Grevena,
Venja, and Tjersemba. It was occupied in early times by the Elimaei or Elimiots
(Elimiotai, Ptol. iii. 13. § 21; Strab. ix.; Steph. B.), but afterwards fell into
the hands of the Macedonian princes. (Thuc. ii. 99.) Though a mountainous and
barren tract, Elimeia must have been an important acquisition to the kings of
Macedonia, from its situation with regard to Thessaly and Epirus, as there were
several passages leading directly into those provinces from this division of the
kingdom. In the war which the Lacedaemonians waged against Olynthus, Derdas was
prince of this country. (Xen. Hell. v. 2. 38) It was finally included by the Romans
in the fourth division of Macedonia. (Liv. xlv. 30.)
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ELIMIES (Ancient city) KOZANI
There was a town called Elimeia (Elimeia, Steph. B.; Eluma, Ptol. iii. 13. § 21),
where Perseus, in the second year of the war, B.C. 170, reviewed his forces. (Liv.
xliii. 21.) The site of this town is probably near Greveno, on the river Grevenitiko.
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EORDEA (Ancient area) GREECE
Eordaia, Eordia: Eth. Eordos, Eordaios,Eordaeus, Eordensis. A subdivision
of Upper Macedonia, the inhabitants of which were dispossessed, by the Temenid
princes, of their original seats, which, however, still continued to bear the
name of Eordia. (Thuc. ii. 99.) From the remark of Polybius (ap. Strab. vii. p.
323), that the Candavian way passed through the country of the Eordaei in proceeding
from that of the Lyncestae to Edessa, and from the description of the march of
Perseus from Citium in Lower Macedonia through Eordaea into Elimeia, and to the
Haliacmon (Liv. xlii. 53), we obtain a knowledge of the exact situation of this
district.
It appears to have extended along the W. side of Mount Bermius, comprehending
O'strovo and Katranitza to the N., Sarighioli in the middle, and to the S. the
plains of Djuma Budja and Karaianni, as far as the ridges near Kozani and the
Klisura of Siatista, which seem to be the natural boundaries of the province.
The only Eordaean town noticed in history is Physca (Phuska, Phuskas, Ptol. iii.
13. § 36) or Physcus (Phuskos, Steph. B.), of which Thucydides (ii. 99) remarks
that near it there still remained some of the descendants of the Eordaei, who
had been expelled from all other parts of their original settlements by the Teminidae.
But there is some reason to add to this name those of Begorra and Galadrae as
Eordaean towns. The central and otherwise advantageous position of the former
of these places, leads to the conjecture that it may have been the city Eordaea
(Hierocl.) of later times. As Lycophron (1342, 1444) couples Galadrae with the
land of the Eordaei, and as Stephanus attributes that town to Pieria, it might
best. be sought for at the S. extremity of Eordaea towards the-Haliacmon. and
the frontiers of Pieria, its territory having consisted chiefly, perhaps, of the
plains of Budja and Djuma. If Galadrae was in the S. part of the province, Begorra
in the middle, Physca was probably to the N. about Katranitza, towards the mountains
of the Bermian range, a position which was most likely to have preserved the ancient
race. Ptolemy (iii. 13. § 36) classes three towns under the Eordaei of Macedonia;
but, as Scampa is one of them, he has evidently confounded the Eordaei with the
Eordeti of Illyria.
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HERAKLIA LYGISTIKI (Ancient city) FLORINA
The chief town of the province of Upper Macedonia, called Lyncestis,
at a distance of 46 M. P. from Lychnidus and 64 M. P. from Edessa. According to
the proportional distances, Heracleia stood not far from the modern town of Filurina,
at about 10 geog. miles direct to the S. of Bitolia, nearly in the centre of the
Egnatian Way. Calvinus narrowly escaped being intercepted by, the Pompeians on
his rear, after having fallen back upon Heracleia, which Caesar (B.C. iii. 79)
rightly places at the foot of the Candavian mountains, though his transcribers
have interpolated the passage, and confounded it with the Heracleia Sintica of
Thracian Macedonia. The writer of a geographical fragment has identified this
city with Pelagonia, but incorrectly.
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KAMVOUNIA (Mountain) GREVENA
Cambunii Montes, a range of mountains forming the boundary between
Macedonia and Thessaly, is a continuation of the Ceraunian mountains and terminates
at Mt. Olympus on the east. The name of these mountains contains the root Bounos.
The principal pass through these mountains is called Volustana by Livy, the modern
pass of Servia. Leake remarks, that in the word Volustana the V represents probably
the B, which was so common an initial in Macedonian names of places; the two last
syllables, stana, are perhaps the Macedonian form of stena, and have reference
to the pass, the entire name in Greek being Bolou stena. (Liv. xlii. 53, xliv.
2; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 338.)
KELETRON (Ancient city) GREECE
A town of Orestis in Macedonia, situated on a peninsula which is surrounded
by the waters of a lake, and has only a single entrance over a narrow isthmus
which connects it with the continent. In the first Macedonian campaign of the
Romans, in B.C. 200, the consul Sulpicius, after having invested this place, which
submitted to him, returned to Dassaretia, and from thence regained Apollonia,
the place from which he had departed on this expedition. (Liv. xxxi. 40.) The
position is so remarkable that there is no difficulty in identifying it with the
modern fortress of Kastoria. The lake, which bears the same name, is about six
miles long and four broad. The peninsula is nearly four miles in circumference,
and the outer point is not far from the centre of the lake. The present fortification
of Kastoria consists only of a wall across the W. extremity of the isthmus, which
was built in the time of the Byzantine empire, and has a wet ditch, making the
peninsula an island. In the middle of the wall stands a square tower, through
which is the only entrance to the town. The ruins of a parallel wall flanked with
round towers, which in Byzantine times crossed the peninsula from shore to shore,
excluding all the E. part of it, still divide the Turkish and Greek quarters of
the town. In A.D. 1084 Alexis I. took Castoria (Kastoria), which was defended
by the brave and faithful Bryennius. (Anna Comn. Alexius, vi. p. 152.) The accurate
description of Castoria, as Colonel Leake remarks, by Anna Comnena shows that
no great change has occurred since that time. Forbiger supposes that one of the
numerous towns which derived their name from Diocletian [Diocletianopolis] afterwards
stood upon the site of Celetrum, but the positions given by Procopius (Aed. iv.
3), and the Itineraries, to Diocletianopolis are at variance with this statement.
On the other hand, Celetrum has been identified with the KelaiWidioW of Hierocles.
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LYGISTIS (Ancient area) GREECE
Lyncestis (Lunkestis, Strab. vii. p. 326; Ptol, iii. 13. § 33), the
country of the Lyncestae (Lunkestia Thuc. ii. 99, iv. 83, 124; Strab. vii. pp.
323, 326), once a small independent kingdom, and afterwards a province of the
Macedonian monarchy. This district was situated to the S of the Pelagones, and
between that people, and the Eordaei. It was watered by the Erigon, and lay in
the centre of the Egnatian Way, which connected Rome, Constantinople, and Jerusalem.
The pass which separated Lyncestis from Eordaea, where Philip made his unsuccessful
stand against the Romans, is described by Polybius (xviii. 6) as hai heis ten
Eordaian huperbolai,-and Thucydides (iv. 83) calls a defile in the same mountains
he esbole tes Lunkou, in relating the attempt of Perdiccas against Lyncestis,
which ended in a separate negotiation between his ally Brasidas and Arrhibaeus
king of the Lyncestae. (Thuc. iv. 83.) It was by the same pass in the following
year that Brasidas effected his skilful and daring retreat from the united forces
of the Lyncestae and Illyrians. (Thuc. iv. 124.)
According to Strabo (vii. p. 326), Irrha, the daughter of Arrhabaeus
(as he writes the name), was mother of Eurydice, who married Amyntas, father of
Philip. Through this connection Lyncestis may have become annexed to Macedonia.
The geography of this district is well illustrated by the operations of the consul
Sulpicius against Philip, in the campaign of B.C. 200. (Liv. xxxi. 33.) From the
narrative of Livy, which was undoubtedly extracted from Polybius, as well as from
the Itineraries, it would appear that Lyncestis comprehended that part of Upper
Macedonia now called Filurina, and all the S. part of the basin of the Erigon
with its branches, the Bevus and Osphagus. As it is stated that the first encampment
of the Romans was at Lyncus on the river Bevus, and as Lyncus is described as
a town by Stephanus B. (though his description is evidently incorrect), it might
be supposed that Heracleia the chief town of this district, was sometimes called
Lyncus, and that the camp of Sulpicius, was at Heracleia itself. But though the
words ad Lyncum stativa posuit prope flumen Bevum (Liv. l. c.) seem to point to
this identification, yet it is more likely that Lyncus is here used as synonymous
with Lyncestis, as in two other passages of Livy (xxvi. 25, xxxii. 9), and in
Thucydides (iv. 83, 124) and Plutarch. (Flamin. 4.)
At or near Banitza are the mineral acidulous waters of Lyncestis,
which were supposed by the ancients to possess intoxicating qualities. (Ov. Met.
xv. 329; comp. Arist. Meteor. ii. 3; Theopomp. ap. Plin. ii. 103, xxxi. 2, ap.
Antig. Caryst. 180, ap. Sotion. de Flum. p. 125; Vitruv. viii. 3; Sen. Quaest.
Nat. iii. 20.) They were found by Dr. Brown (Travels in Hungaria, Macedonia, Thessaly,
&c. &c., Lond. 1673, p. 45) on the road from Filurina to Egri Budja. He calls
the place Eccisso Verbeni; this, which sounds Wallachian, may possibly be a corruption
of the name of the Derveni or pass. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 305-318.)
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ORESTIS (Ancient area) KASTORIA
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.)
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ELIMIA (Ancient area) KOZANI
Elimeia or Elimiotis (Elimiotis). A district of Macedonia, on the frontiers of Epirus and Thessaly, originally belonging to Illyria. Its inhabitants, the Elimaei, were Epirots.
EORDEA (Ancient area) GREECE
Eordaia and Eordia. A district and town in Northwestern Macedonia, peopled by the Eordaei.
HERAKLIA LYGISTIKI (Ancient city) FLORINA
Lyncestis, a town of Macedonia, at the foot of the Candavian Mountains, on the confines of Illyria. Its ruins still retain the name of Erekli. Mention is made of this town in Caesar.
KELETRON (Ancient city) GREECE
A town in Macedonia on a peninsula of the Lacus Castoris. It is probably to be identified with the later Diocletianopolis.
LYGISTIS (Ancient area) GREECE
A district in the southwest of Macedonia, upon the frontiers
of Illyria, inhabited by the Lyncestae, an Illyrian people. The ancient capital
of the country was Lyncus, though Heraclea at a later time became the chief town
in the district. Near Lyncus was a river, whose waters are said to have been as
intoxicating as wine.
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AVDELA
AVDELA (Village) GREVENA
MIKRI PRESPA (Lake) FLORINA
MAKEDONIA WEST (Region) GREECE
MESSOLOURI (Community) GREVENA
ORESTIDA (Municipality) KASTORIA
AGII THEODORI (Village) GREVENA
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AGIOS GEORGIOS (Village) GREVENA
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AGIOS KOSMAS (Village) GREVENA
ALATOPETRA (Village) GREVENA
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AMYGDALIES (Village) GREVENA
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AVDELA
AVDELA (Village) GREVENA
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DIOKLITIANOUPOLI (Byzantine settlement) KASTORIA
KASTORIA (Town) MAKEDONIA WEST
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