Από το Ιστολόγιο http://istorikakastorias.blogspot.com/ Μερικά από τα σημαντικότερα ευρήματα της αρχαίας Ορεστίδας, που βρισκόταν στην περιοχή της σημερινής Καστοριάς, από την Εποχή του Σιδήρου έως τη Ρωμαϊκή Εποχή. Τα περισσότερα από τα ευρήματα στεγάζονται στο νέο Αρχαιολογικό μουσείο του Άργους Ορεστικού. Η μουσική είναι αρχαίος ύμνος του Διονύσου. From http://istorikakastorias.blogspot.com/ Some of the most important findings of ancient Orestis, which was […]

In the years of Macedonian expansion under Philip II (359-336) BC the Athenian orator Demosthenes referred to Greece’s northern neighbors as “barbarians”, claiming that they had only recently ceased to be shepherds. Certainly the Thracians and Illyrians were non – Greek speakers, but in the northwest, the peoples of Molossis, Orestis and Lynkestis spoke west Greek and although they absorbed […]

This essay wants to bring in light the complicated if not at certain times adverse relations between the kingdom of ancient Macedon and the kingdoms of Upper Macedonia. Contrary to popular belief there was almost always a rivalry between Mountain kingdoms and the Macedonia state, resembling the one of the greek city-states, since as always happening in the greek world, […]