Azorus

Map showing ancient Thessaly. Azorus is shown to the top centre in the Perrhaebian Tripolis.

Azorus or Azoros (Ancient Greek: Ἄζωρος or Ἀζώριον^[1]) was a town and polis (city-state)^[2] in Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly situated at the foot of Mount Olympus. Azorus, with the two neighbouring towns of Pythium and Doliche, formed a Tripolis.^[3]

During the Roman–Seleucid War, the Tripolis was ravaged by an army of the Aetolian League in the year 191 BCE.^[4] During the Third Macedonian War the three towns surrendered to the army of Perseus of Macedon in the year 171 BCE,^[5] but that same year the Romans reconquered the three.^[6] In the year 169 BCE troops arrived from the Roman consul Quintus Marcius Philippus who camped between Azorus and Doliche.^[7]^[8]

The three cities minted a common coin with the inscription "ΤΡΙΠΟΛΙΤΑΝ".^[9]

The site of Azorus is the palaiokastro (old fort) at the modern village of Azoros.^[10]^[11]

References[]

^ Ptolemy. The Geography. 3.13.42.
^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 721-722. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
^ Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 42.53, 44.2.
^ Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 36.10.
^ Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 42.53.
^ Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 42.67.
^ Polybius. The Histories. 28.13.1.
^ Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 44.2.
^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 721-722. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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