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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.
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.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A town in Macedonia on a peninsula of the Lacus Castoris. It is probably to be identified with the later Diocletianopolis.
KASTORIA (Town) MAKEDONIA WEST
A titular see of Macedonia.
Castoria seems to have replaced Celetrum.
The Byzantine chroniclers describe it as a strong fortress. In the
tenth century it must have been occupied by the Bulgarians. About 1350 it was
given up by the Emperor Joannes Cantacuzene to the King of Servia,
and in 1386 it was captured by the Turks.
As early at least as the reign of Basil II, Castoria was the first
suffragan see of Achrida. The see still exists for the Greeks and has been made
a metropolitan. Some ten Latin bishops are known from the thirteenth to the fifteenth
centuries.
Castoria is today [1908] the chief town of a mutessariflik in the
vilayet of Monastir, with about 10,000 inhabitants -- Turks, Greeks, and Bulgarians.
It is also the see of a Bulgarian bishopric with 2224 families, 32 priests, and
22 churches.
S. Petrides, ed.
Transcribed by: Gerald M. Knight
This extract is cited June 2003 from The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent online edition URL below.
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