Orestida

Orestida (Ορεστίδα) is a municipality in the Kastoria Prefecture, Greece, SW of the city Kastoria. Population 9918 (2001). The seat of the municipality is in Argos Orestiko(n).

The city of Argos Orestikon hosts the celebration of the ascension of the Holy Cross, in September. This is one of the biggest festivals of the prefecture of Kastoria.

The municipality was named after a Mollosian tribe of the Orestians mentioned by historians such as Thucydides or Hecataeus.

With the Chaonians came also some Thesprotians, like them without a king, some Molossians and Atintanians led by Sabylinthus, the guardian of King Tharyps who was still a minor, and some Paravaeans, under their king Oroedus, accompanied by a thousand Orestians, subjects of King Antichus and placed by him under the command of Oroedus. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War


Orestida, Satellite image

Division of the municipality

  • Argos Orestikon / το Άργος Ορεστικόν [ 7558 ]
    • Kremaston / το Κρεμαστόν [ 2 ]
  • Agios Ilias / Δ.δ. Αγίου Ηλία -- ο Άγιος Ηλίας [ 42 ]
  • Ammoudara / Δ.δ. Αμμουδάρας [ 359 ]
    • Ammoudara / η Αμμουδάρα [ 112 ]
    • Ampelochorion / το Αμπελοχώριον [ 179 ]
    • Votanion / το Βοτάνιον [ 68 ]
  • Asprokklisia / Δ.δ. Ασπροκκλησιάς [ 442 ]
    • Asprokklisia / η Ασπροκκλησιά [ 419 ]
    • Aspronerion / το Ασπρονέριον [ 23 ]
  • Vrachos / Δ.δ. Βράχου -- ο Βράχος [ 67 ]
  • Dialekton / Δ.δ. Διαλεκτού [ 302 ]
    • Dialekton / το Διαλεκτόν [ 204 ]
    • Velos / το Βέλος [ 98 ]
  • Kastanofyton / Δ.δ. Καστανοφύτου [ 75 ]
    • Kastanofyton / το Καστανόφυτον [ 51 ]
    • Ano Perivolion / το Άνω Περιβόλιον [ 24 ]
  • Lagka / Δ.δ. Λάγκας -- η Λάγκα [ 110 ]
  • Lakkomata / Δ.δ. Λακκωμάτων [ 375 ]
    • Lakkomata / τα Λακκώματα [ 194 ]
    • Krya Nera / τα Κρύα Νερά [ 32 ]
    • Lachanokipoi / οι Λαχανόκηποι [ 149 ]
  • Melanthion / Δ.δ. Μελανθίου [ 308 ]
    • Melanthion / το Μελάνθιον [ 218 ]
    • Niki / η Νίκη [ 55 ]
    • Petropoulakion / το Πετροπουλάκιον [ 35 ]
  • Nostimon / Δ.δ. Νοστίμου -- το Νόστιμον [ 115 ]
  • Spilaia / Δ.δ. Σπηλαίων [ 83 ]
    • Spilaia / τα Σπήλαια [ 57 ]
    • Zevgostasion / το Ζευγοστάσιον [ 26 ]
  • Spilios / Δ.δ. Σπήλιου [ 80 ]
    • Spilios / ο Σπήλιος [ 29 ]
    • Anthiron / το Ανθηρόν [ 45 ]
    • Kerasona / η Κερασώνα [ 6 ]

Argos Orestikon, Logo of the Koinon of the Orestians

Website

http://www.dimos-orestidos.gr/


Municipalities and communities of the Kastoria Prefecture

Agia Triada | Agioi Anargyroi | Akrites | Ion Dragoumis | Kastoria | Kleisoura | Korestia | Makednos | Mesopotamia /Aliakmonas | Nestorio | Orestida | Vitsi

Arrenes | Gramos | Kastraki

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