Country Greece Vehicle registration KT Municipality Orestida Regional unit Kastoria | Time zone EET (UTC+2) Local time Wednesday 7:05 AM Administrative region Western Macedonia | |
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Argos Orestiko (Greek: Άργος Ορεστικό, before 1926: Χρούπιστα - Chroupista) is a town and a former municipality in the 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. The municipal unit has an area of 206.396 km2.
Map of Argos Orestiko 522 00, Greece
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.
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". 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.
In Argos Orestiko is located the national airport of Kastoria 'Aristotelis'