Linkestis

Linkestis (juga Lyncestis, bahasa Yunani: Λυγκηστίς artinya "daratan lynx") atau Linkus (Λύγκος) adalah sebuah wilayah, dan pada masa-masa sebelumnya, sebuah kerajaan Yunani dari Makedonia Hulu, terletak di perbatasan selatan Iliria dan Paeonia. Para penduduk Linkestis disebut sebagai Lyncestae atau Lynkestai (Λυγκῆσται), sebuah suku barat laut Yunani yang masuk negara suku, atau koinon Molossia dari Epirus.

Peta Kerajaan Makedonia dengan Linkestis (Linkos) terletak di distrik-distrik barat kerajaan tersebut.

Referensi

Kutipan

1. Henri Estienne, Thesaurus græcæ linguæ, A. F. Didot, 1846, p. 413.
2. Boardman & Hammond 1982, hlm. 266: "On crossing the Balkan chain, we find that Hecataeus called the Orestae 'a Molossian tribe' (F 107), and Strabo (434; cf. 326) probably derived from Hecataeus his belief that the Elimeotae, Lyncestae, and Pelagones, as well as the Orestae, were Epirotic or rather Molossian tribes before their incorporation by the Macedones into the Macedonian kingdom."
3. Hammond 2001, hlm. 158: "Pelagones in the region of Prilep, the Lyncestae in the region of Florina, the Orestae in the region of Kastoria, and the Elimeotae in the region of Kozani. These tribes were all Epirotic tribes and they talked the Greek language but with a different dialect, the Northwest Greek dialect, as we know now from the local questions which were put to the god of Dodona."

Sumber

• Boardman, John; Hammond, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière (1982). The Cambridge Ancient History - The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C., Part 3: Volume 3 (Second Edition). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23447-6. 
• Fox, Robin Lane (1973). Alexander the Great. London: Allen Lane. 
• Hammond, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière (2001). Collected Studies: Further Studies on Various Topics. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Hakkert. 
• Plant, Ian Michael (2004). Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-80-613622-6. 

Bacaan tambahan

• Errington, Robert Malcolm (1990). A History of Macedonia. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-06319-8. 

Pranala luar

• Searchable Greek Inscriptions – Regions: Northern Greece (IG X)