Orestis (region)

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Orestis (Greek: Ὀρεστίς, mountainous orestias) was a region of Upper Macedonia, corresponding roughly to the modern Kastoria Prefecture, West Macedonia, Greece. Its inhabitants were the tribe Orestae. As most of Upper Macedonia, it became part of Macedon only after the early 4th century BC; before that it had close relations with the Molossians of Epirus. Hecataeus and Strabo identified these mountain Macedonia kingdoms as of Epirotic stock. Natives of the region were: Pausanias of Orestis, the murderer of Philip II, Perdiccas (son of Orontes) and Seleucus I Nicator (son of Antiochus). Orestis became again independent in 196 BC when the Romans, after defeating Philip V, declared the people of Orestis free because they had adhered to the Roman cause in the recent war against. According to Appian, Argos Orestikon (in modern Orestida) was the homeland of the Argead dynasty.

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• JSTOR:Philip II and Upper Macedonia[1] A. B. Bosworth
• Relations between Upper and Lower Macedonia http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/
• Polybius 18.47.6
• Livius 39.23.6
• The inscriptions coming out of Makedonia[2] by Elias Kapetanopoulos
• Appian Syrian Wars 11.10.63