Orestis (region)

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

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JSTOR:Philip II and Upper Macedonia 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 by Elias Kapetanopoulos
Appian Syrian Wars 11.10.63