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{{Short description|Town in Macedonia, Greece}}
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{{Infobox Greek Dimos
{{Infobox Greek Dimos
|name = Argos Orestiko
|name = Argos Orestiko
|name_local = {{lang|el|Άργος Ορεστικό}}
|name_local = {{lang|el|Άργος Ορεστικό}}
|type = municipality
|image_map = DE Orestidos.svg
|image_map = 2011 Dimos Orestidos.png
|map_caption = Location within the regional unit
|map_caption = Location within the region
|periph = [[Western Macedonia]]
|periph = [[Western Macedonia]]
|periphunit = [[Kastoria (regional unit)|Kastoria]]
|periphunit = [[Kastoria (regional unit)|Kastoria]]
|pop_municipality = 10685
|municipality = [[Orestida]]
|area_municipality = 340.7
|pop_municunit = 8903
|pop_municunit = 8328
|area_municunit = 206.4
|area_municunit = 206.4
|pop_community = 7482
|pop_community = 7240
|population_as_of = 2011
|population_as_of = 2021
|elevation =
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|area_code =
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|website = {{url|https://www.argosorestiko.gr/}}
|image_skyline = Argos Orestikon central square.jpg
|image_skyline = Argos Orestikon central square.jpg
|caption_skyline = Central square
|caption_skyline = Central square
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|georegion= [[Macedonia (Greece)|Macedonia]]}}


'''Argos Orestiko''' ({{lang-el|Άργος Ορεστικό}}, before 1926: Χρούπιστα - ''Chroupista'';<ref name="pandektisChAr">{{Cite web|title=Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Chroupista – Argos Orestiko|url=http://pandektis.ekt.gr/pandektis/handle/10442/170466|website=Pandektis|access-date=30 March 2022}}</ref> {{lang-rup|Hrupishte}}) is a town and a former municipality in the [[Kastoria (regional unit)|Kastoria]] regional unit, [[Greece]]. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality [[Orestida]], of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.<ref name=Kallikratis>{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL81-32jgAMSfbnMRVjyfnPUeJInJ48_97uHrMts-zFzeyCiBSQOpYnT00MHhcXFRTsb2fGphpq4MKX2ZkaHobySNnvZCNHXvYVvlf80XevW0Q.|title=ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities|language=el|publisher=[[Government Gazette (Greece)|Government Gazette]]}}</ref> The municipal unit has an area of 206.396&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name=stat01>{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece |title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) |language=el |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archivedate=2015-09-21 }}</ref> The [[Kastoria National Airport]] (also known as Aristotelis Airport) is located in Argos Orestiko.
'''Argos Orestiko''' ({{lang-el|Άργος Ορεστικό||Orestean Argos}}, before 1926: Χρούπιστα – ''Chroupista'';<ref name="pandektisChAr">{{Cite web|title=Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Chroupista – Argos Orestiko|url=http://pandektis.ekt.gr/pandektis/handle/10442/170466|website=Pandektis|access-date=30 March 2022}}</ref> {{lang-rup|Hrupishte}}) is a town and a municipality in the [[Kastoria (regional unit)|Kastoria]] regional unit, [[Greece]]. The [[Kastoria National Airport]] (also known as Aristotelis Airport) is located in Argos Orestiko.


==History==
==History==
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In antiquity, ''Argos Orestikon'' was the main town of the [[Orestis (region)|Orestae]]. It was said to have been founded by [[Orestes]], the son of [[Agamemnon]], who fled from [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]] in the [[Peloponnese]] after the murder of his mother.<ref name=DGRG>{{cite DGRG|title=Argos Oresticum|volume=1}}</ref><ref>[[Strabo]], "Geography", [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198%3Abook%3D7%3Achapter%3D7%3Asection%3D8 7.7.8]:"It is said that Orestes once took possession of Orestias—when is, exile on account of the murder of his mother—and left the country bearing his name; and that he also founded a city and called it Argos Oresticum."</ref>
In antiquity, ''Argos Orestikon'' was the main town of the [[Orestis (region)|Orestae]]. It was said to have been founded by [[Orestes]], the son of [[Agamemnon]], who fled from [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]] in the [[Peloponnese]] after the murder of his mother.<ref name=DGRG>{{cite DGRG|title=Argos Oresticum|volume=1}}</ref><ref>[[Strabo]], "Geography", [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198%3Abook%3D7%3Achapter%3D7%3Asection%3D8 7.7.8]:"It is said that Orestes once took possession of Orestias—when is, exile on account of the murder of his mother—and left the country bearing his name; and that he also founded a city and called it Argos Oresticum."</ref>


The exact location of classical ''Argos Orestikon'' has not been found. Based on [[Epigraphy|epigraphic]] evidence, the administrative centre of the Orestae lay near the centre of the present town Argos Orestiko, at a site named "Armenochori".<ref>[http://argosorestikonproject.org/en/ Argos Orestikon Project]</ref> During the campaign of [[Alexander the Great]] to the East, settlers from the town founded another Argos Orestikon to distant Scythian steppes during the 4th century BCE.
The exact location of classical ''Argos Orestikon'' has not been found. Based on [[Epigraphy|epigraphic]] evidence, the administrative centre of the Orestae lay near the centre of the present town Argos Orestiko, at a site named "Armenochori".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://argosorestikonproject.org/en/ |title=Argos Orestikon Project |access-date=2016-10-25 |archive-date=2018-02-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228223335/http://argosorestikonproject.org/en/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> During the campaign of [[Alexander the Great]] to the East, settlers from the town founded another Argos Orestikon to distant Scythian steppes during the 4th century BCE.


===Modern period===
===Modern period===
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Towards the end of the 18th century, [[Aromanians]] from [[Moscopole]] settled in the town; later more followed from the villages of [[Gramos, Greece|Gramosta]] and [[Samarina]].<ref name="Veremis-Koliopoulos" /> According to a statistical report by [[British people|British]] [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|Colonel]] Henry Synge, dated 12 June 1878, the [[kaza]] of Chroupista (Argos Orestiko) had 4,565 [[Greeks|Greek]] and 4,220 Aromanian males who were Orthodox Christians and recognized the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople]] (opposing the [[Bulgarian Exarchate]]); it also had 2,290 Muslim males.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Destani|first=Bejtullah D.|title=Ethnic Minorities in the Balkan States, 1860-1971|date=2003|publisher=Cambridge Archive Editions|isbn=978-1-78806-650-1|volume=1|publication-date=2019|pages=333–334|language=en}}</ref> At the turn of the 20th century, the town of Argos Orestiko was inhabited by Greeks, Aromanians, [[Bulgarians]], and [[Turkish people|Turks]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Dragoumis|first=Ion|title=Τα τετράδια του Ίλιντεν|publisher=Ekdoseis Petsiva|year=2000|isbn=978-960-90010-3-8|editor-last=Petsivas|editor-first=Giorgos|pages=221|language=el|author-link=Ion Dragoumis}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://repository.ukim.mk/bitstream/20.500.12188/6782/1/The_war_of_numbers_and_its_first_victim.pdf|title=The war of numbers and its first victim: the Aromanians in Macedonia (end of 19th – beginning of 20th century)|first=Nikola|last=Minov|journal=Macedonian Historical Review|publisher=[[Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje]]|volume=3|year=2012|pages=153–192}}</ref> In the late Ottoman period, the town was wealthy, had four mosques and many of its Muslim population were involved in agriculture and trade.<ref name="Stavridopoulos269">{{harvnb|Stavridopoulos|2015|p=269.}}</ref> During the end of the 19th century, it had a number of Greek schools, but also a Bulgarian and Romanian one; at that time, the Greek language prevailed in the town, even among Aromanians and Bulgarians,<ref name="Veremis-Koliopoulos" /> and particularly the former had a Greek national consciousness.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cholevas|first=Ioannis K.|title=Οι Έλληνες σλαβόφωνοι της Μακεδονίας|date=1999|publisher=Πελάσγος|isbn=978-960-522-020-4|pages=279|language=el}}</ref>
Towards the end of the 18th century, [[Aromanians]] from [[Moscopole]] settled in the town; later more followed from the villages of [[Gramos, Greece|Gramosta]] and [[Samarina]].<ref name="Veremis-Koliopoulos" /> According to a statistical report by [[British people|British]] [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|Colonel]] Henry Synge, dated 12 June 1878, the [[kaza]] of Chroupista (Argos Orestiko) had 4,565 [[Greeks|Greek]] and 4,220 Aromanian males who were Orthodox Christians and recognized the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople]] (opposing the [[Bulgarian Exarchate]]); it also had 2,290 Muslim males.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Destani|first=Bejtullah D.|title=Ethnic Minorities in the Balkan States, 1860-1971|date=2003|publisher=Cambridge Archive Editions|isbn=978-1-78806-650-1|volume=1|publication-date=2019|pages=333–334|language=en}}</ref> At the turn of the 20th century, the town of Argos Orestiko was inhabited by Greeks, Aromanians, [[Bulgarians]], and [[Turkish people|Turks]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Dragoumis|first=Ion|title=Τα τετράδια του Ίλιντεν|publisher=Ekdoseis Petsiva|year=2000|isbn=978-960-90010-3-8|editor-last=Petsivas|editor-first=Giorgos|pages=221|language=el|author-link=Ion Dragoumis}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://repository.ukim.mk/bitstream/20.500.12188/6782/1/The_war_of_numbers_and_its_first_victim.pdf|title=The war of numbers and its first victim: the Aromanians in Macedonia (end of 19th – beginning of 20th century)|first=Nikola|last=Minov|journal=Macedonian Historical Review|publisher=[[Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje]]|volume=3|year=2012|pages=153–192}}</ref> In the late Ottoman period, the town was wealthy, had four mosques and many of its Muslim population were involved in agriculture and trade.<ref name="Stavridopoulos269">{{harvnb|Stavridopoulos|2015|p=269.}}</ref> During the end of the 19th century, it had a number of Greek schools, but also a Bulgarian and Romanian one; at that time, the Greek language prevailed in the town, even among Aromanians and Bulgarians,<ref name="Veremis-Koliopoulos" /> and particularly the former had a Greek national consciousness.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cholevas|first=Ioannis K.|title=Οι Έλληνες σλαβόφωνοι της Μακεδονίας|date=1999|publisher=Πελάσγος|isbn=978-960-522-020-4|pages=279|language=el}}</ref>


In 1920, the town had 3603 inhabitants, and in 1923 there were 1500 inhabitants (or 200 families) who were Muslim.<ref name="Pelagidis76"/> Following the [[Population exchange between Greece and Turkey|Greek-Turkish population exchange]], in 1926 there were refugee families in the town from [[East Thrace]] (10), [[Asia Minor]] (69), [[Pontus (region)|Pontus]] (132) and the [[Caucasus]] (1).<ref name="Pelagidis76"/> The town numbered 3605 inhabitants, and included 214 refugee families (852 people) in 1928.<ref name="Pelagidis76">{{cite thesis|last=Pelagidis|first=Efstathios|date=1992|title=Η αποκατάσταση των προσφύγων στη Δυτική Μακεδονία (1923-1930)|trans-title=The rehabilitation of refugees in Western Macedonia: 1923-1930|type=Ph.D.|publisher=Aristotle University of Thessaloniki|url=https://www.didaktorika.gr/eadd/handle/10442/2403|access-date=30 March 2022|page=76}}</ref> After the population exchange, the main mosque of the town was replaced with a church built and dedicated to [[Paraskevi of Rome|Saint Paraskevi]]; the other three mosques were destroyed.<ref name="Stavridopoulos269270">{{cite thesis|last=Stavridopoulos|first=Ioannis|date=2015|title=Μνημεία του άλλου: η διαχείριση της οθωμανικής πολιτιστική κληρονομιάς της Μακεδονίας από το 1912 έως σήμερα|trans-title=Monuments of the other: The management of the Ottoman cultural heritage of Macedonia from 1912 until present|type=Ph.D.|publisher=University of Ioannina|url=https://www.didaktorika.gr/eadd/handle/10442/43568|access-date=28 March 2022|pages=269-270}}</ref>
The 1920 Greek census recorded 3,603 people in the town and 1,500 inhabitants (200 families) were Muslim in 1923.<ref name="Pelagidis76"/> Following the [[Population exchange between Greece and Turkey|Greek–Turkish population exchange]], [[Greek refugee]] families in the town were from [[East Thrace]] (10), [[Asia Minor]] (69), [[Pontus (region)|Pontus]] (132) and the [[Caucasus]] (1) in 1926.<ref name="Pelagidis76"/> The 1928 Greek census recorded 3,605 town inhabitants.<ref name="Pelagidis76"/> In 1928, the refugee families numbered 214 (852 people).<ref name="Pelagidis76">{{cite thesis|last=Pelagidis|first=Efstathios|date=1992|title=Η αποκατάσταση των προσφύγων στη Δυτική Μακεδονία (1923-1930)|trans-title=The rehabilitation of refugees in Western Macedonia: 1923-1930|type=Ph.D.|language=el|publisher=Aristotle University of Thessaloniki|url=https://www.didaktorika.gr/eadd/handle/10442/2403|access-date=30 March 2022|page=76}}</ref> After the population exchange, the main mosque of the town was replaced with a church built and dedicated to [[Paraskevi of Rome|Saint Paraskevi]]; the other three mosques were destroyed.<ref name="Stavridopoulos269270">{{cite thesis|last=Stavridopoulos|first=Ioannis|date=2015|title=Μνημεία του άλλου: η διαχείριση της οθωμανικής πολιτιστική κληρονομιάς της Μακεδονίας από το 1912 έως σήμερα|trans-title=Monuments of the other: The management of the Ottoman cultural heritage of Macedonia from 1912 until present|type=Ph.D.|language=el|publisher=University of Ioannina|url=https://www.didaktorika.gr/eadd/handle/10442/43568|access-date=28 March 2022|pages=269-270}}</ref>

In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria.<ref name="Alvanos518">{{harvnb|Alvanos|2005|p=518}}.</ref> The town Argos Orestiko had a total of 4,100 inhabitants, including 1,370 [[Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia|Slavophones]].<ref name="Alvanos515">{{cite thesis|last=Alvanos|first=Raymondos|date=2005|title=Κοινωνικές συγκρούσεις και πολιτικές συμπεριφορές στην περιοχή της Καστοριάς (1922–1949)|trans-title=Social conflicts and political behaviors in the area of Kastoria (1922–1949)|type=Ph.D.|language=el|publisher=Aristotle University of Thessaloniki|url=https://www.didaktorika.gr/eadd/handle/10442/18991|access-date=16 June 2024|page=515}} "Άργος Ορεστικό, Πληθυσμός: 4100, Σλαυόφωνοι: 1370"</ref>

==Municipality==
The municipality ''Orestida'' was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Argos Orestiko and [[Ion Dragoumis (municipal unit)|Ion Dragoumis]], that became municipal units.<ref name=Kallikratis>{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL81-32jgAMSfbnMRVjyfnPUeJInJ48_97uHrMts-zFzeyCiBSQOpYnT00MHhcXFRTsb2fGphpq4MKX2ZkaHobySNnvZCNHXvYVvlf80XevW0Q.|title=ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities|language=el|publisher=[[Government Gazette (Greece)|Government Gazette]]}}</ref> Orestida was renamed to ''Argos Orestiko'' in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eetaa.gr/eetaa/metaboles/fek/2013/fek_114a_2013.pdf|title=Μετονομασία του Δήμου Ορεστίδος σε Δήμο Άργους Ορεστικού|language=el|publisher=[[Government Gazette (Greece)|Government Gazette]]|date=22 May 2013}}</ref> The municipality of Argos Orestiko has an area of {{cvt|340.731|km2}}; the municipal unit of Argos Orestiko (the pre-2011 municipality) has an area of {{cvt|206.396|km2}}.<ref name=stat01>{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece |title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) |language=el |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archivedate=2015-09-21 }}</ref>

The municipal units are further subdivided into the following communities:<ref name=Kallikratis/>
*Argos Orestiko: Agios Ilias, Ammoudara, Argos Orestiko, Asprokklisia, Dialekto, Kastanofyto, Lagka, Lakkomata, [[Melanthio, Kastoria|Melanthio]], Nostimo, Spilaia, Spilios and Vrachos
*Ion Dragoumis: Ampelokipoi, Germas, Kostarazi, Militsa and [[Vogatsiko]]


==Notable people==
==Notable people==
* [[Toma Caragiu]] (1925–1977)
* [[Toma Caragiu]] (1925–1977)
* [[Matilda Caragiu Marioțeanu]] (1927–2009)
* [[Demetri Dollis]] (born 1956)
* [[Demetri Dollis]] (born 1956)
* [[Patrona Halil]] (1690–1730)
* [[Patrona Halil]] (1690–1730)
* [[Kiradjieff brothers|Tom and John Kiradjieff]]
* [[Kiradjieff brothers|Tom and John Kiradjieff]] (1892–1960, 1895–1953)
* [[Filip Mișea]] (1873–1944)


==See also==
==See also==
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==External links==
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[[Category:Former municipalities in Western Macedonia]]
[[Category:Former municipalities in Western Macedonia]]
[[Category:Populated places in Kastoria (regional unit)]]
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[[Category:Aromanian settlements in Greece]]
[[Category:Aromanian settlements in Greece]]


Revision as of 11:13, 12 September 2024

Argos Orestiko
Άργος Ορεστικό
Municipality
Central square
Central square
Argos Orestiko is located in Greece
Argos Orestiko
Argos Orestiko
Location within the region
Coordinates: 40°27′N 21°15′E / 40.450°N 21.250°E / 40.450; 21.250
CountryGreece
Geographic regionMacedonia
Administrative regionWestern Macedonia
Regional unitKastoria
Area
 • Municipality340.7 km2 (131.5 sq mi)
 • Municipal unit206.4 km2 (79.7 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[1]
 • Municipality10,685
 • Density31/km2 (81/sq mi)
 • Municipal unit
8,328
 • Municipal unit density40/km2 (100/sq mi)
 • Community
7,240
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Vehicle registrationKT
Websitewww.argosorestiko.gr

Argos Orestiko (Greek: Άργος Ορεστικό, lit. 'Orestean Argos', before 1926: Χρούπιστα – Chroupista;[2] Template:Lang-rup) is a town and a municipality in the Kastoria regional unit, Greece. The Kastoria National Airport (also known as Aristotelis Airport) is located in Argos Orestiko.

History

Antiquity

In antiquity, Argos Orestikon was the main town of the Orestae. It was said to have been founded by Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, who fled from Argos in the Peloponnese after the murder of his mother.[3][4]

The exact location of classical Argos Orestikon has not been found. Based on epigraphic evidence, the administrative centre of the Orestae lay near the centre of the present town Argos Orestiko, at a site named "Armenochori".[5] During the campaign of Alexander the Great to the East, settlers from the town founded another Argos Orestikon to distant Scythian steppes during the 4th century BCE.

Modern period

At least since the 16th century, Argos Orestiko has a notable annual trade fair.[6]

Towards the end of the 18th century, Aromanians from Moscopole settled in the town; later more followed from the villages of Gramosta and Samarina.[6] According to a statistical report by British Colonel Henry Synge, dated 12 June 1878, the kaza of Chroupista (Argos Orestiko) had 4,565 Greek and 4,220 Aromanian males who were Orthodox Christians and recognized the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (opposing the Bulgarian Exarchate); it also had 2,290 Muslim males.[7] At the turn of the 20th century, the town of Argos Orestiko was inhabited by Greeks, Aromanians, Bulgarians, and Turks.[8][9] In the late Ottoman period, the town was wealthy, had four mosques and many of its Muslim population were involved in agriculture and trade.[10] During the end of the 19th century, it had a number of Greek schools, but also a Bulgarian and Romanian one; at that time, the Greek language prevailed in the town, even among Aromanians and Bulgarians,[6] and particularly the former had a Greek national consciousness.[11]

The 1920 Greek census recorded 3,603 people in the town and 1,500 inhabitants (200 families) were Muslim in 1923.[12] Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in the town were from East Thrace (10), Asia Minor (69), Pontus (132) and the Caucasus (1) in 1926.[12] The 1928 Greek census recorded 3,605 town inhabitants.[12] In 1928, the refugee families numbered 214 (852 people).[12] After the population exchange, the main mosque of the town was replaced with a church built and dedicated to Saint Paraskevi; the other three mosques were destroyed.[13]

In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria.[14] The town Argos Orestiko had a total of 4,100 inhabitants, including 1,370 Slavophones.[15]

Municipality

The municipality Orestida was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Argos Orestiko and Ion Dragoumis, that became municipal units.[16] Orestida was renamed to Argos Orestiko in 2013.[17] The municipality of Argos Orestiko has an area of 340.731 km2 (131.557 sq mi); the municipal unit of Argos Orestiko (the pre-2011 municipality) has an area of 206.396 km2 (79.690 sq mi).[18]

The municipal units are further subdivided into the following communities:[16]

  • Argos Orestiko: Agios Ilias, Ammoudara, Argos Orestiko, Asprokklisia, Dialekto, Kastanofyto, Lagka, Lakkomata, Melanthio, Nostimo, Spilaia, Spilios and Vrachos
  • Ion Dragoumis: Ampelokipoi, Germas, Kostarazi, Militsa and Vogatsiko

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ^ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Chroupista – Argos Orestiko". Pandektis. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  3. ^ Public Domain Smith, William, ed. (1854). "Argos Oresticum". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. 1. London: John Murray.
  4. ^ Strabo, "Geography", 7.7.8:"It is said that Orestes once took possession of Orestias—when is, exile on account of the murder of his mother—and left the country bearing his name; and that he also founded a city and called it Argos Oresticum."
  5. ^ "Argos Orestikon Project". Archived from the original on 2018-02-28. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
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