Azorus

{{Short description|Town and polis (city-state) in Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly}}

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Azorus or Azoros ({{langx|grc|Ἄζωρος}} or Ἀζώριον{{Cite Ptolemy|3.13.42}}) was a town and polis (city-state){{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|url= https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans |url-access= limited |year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|chapter= Thessaly and Adjacent Regions|pages= [https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans/page/n737 721]-722}} 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.{{Cite Livy|42.53, 44.2.}}

During the Roman–Seleucid War, the Tripolis was ravaged by an army of the Aetolian League in the year 191 BCE.{{Cite Livy|36.10}} During the Third Macedonian War the three towns surrendered to the army of Perseus of Macedon in the year 171 BCE,{{Cite Livy|42.53}} but that same year the Romans reconquered the three.{{Cite Livy|42.67}} In the year 169 BCE troops arrived from the Roman consul Quintus Marcius Philippus who camped between Azorus and Doliche.{{Cite Polybius|28.13.1}}{{Cite Livy|44.2}}

The three cities minted a common coin with the inscription "ΤΡΙΠΟΛΙΤΑΝ".

The site of Azorus is the palaiokastro (old fort) at the modern village of Azoros.{{Cite Barrington|55}}{{Cite DARE|25174}} According to the 5th-century grammarian Hesychius of Alexandria the town was named after the mythological Azorus, helmsman of the Argo.{{cite encyclopedia

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| encyclopedia =Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

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