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Argos Orestiko (, before 1926: Χρούπιστα, Chroupista; ) is a town and a municipality in the Kastoria regional unit of Macedonia, Greece. The Kastoria National Airport (also known as Aristotelis Airport) is located in Argos Orestiko.
The exact location of classical Argos Orestikon has not been found. Based on Epigraphy 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.
Towards the end of the 18th century, Aromanians from Moscopole settled in the town; later more followed from the villages of Gramosta and Samarina. According to a statistical report by British people Colonel Henry Synge, dated 12 June 1878, the kaza of Chroupista (Argos Orestiko) had 4,565 Greeks and 4,220 Aromanian males who were Orthodox Christians and recognized the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (opposing the Bulgarian Exarchate); it also had 2,290 Muslim males. At the turn of the 20th century, the town of Argos Orestiko was inhabited by Greeks, Aromanians, Bulgarians, and Turkish people. In the late Ottoman period, the town was wealthy, had four mosques and many of its Muslim population were involved in agriculture and trade. During the end of the 19th century, it had a number of Greek schools, but also a Bulgarian and Romanian one; at that time, the Greek language prevailed in the town, even among Aromanians and Bulgarians, and particularly the former had a Greek national consciousness.
The 1920 Greek census recorded 3,603 people in the town and 1,500 inhabitants (200 families) were Muslim in 1923. Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugees families in the town were from East Thrace (10), Asia Minor (69), Pontus (132) and the Caucasus (1) in 1926. The 1928 Greek census recorded 3,605 town inhabitants. In 1928, the refugee families numbered 214 (852 people). After the population exchange, the main mosque of the town was replaced with a church built and dedicated to Saint Paraskevi; the other three mosques were destroyed.
In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria.. The town Argos Orestiko had a total of 4,100 inhabitants, including 1,370 Slavophones. "Άργος Ορεστικό, Πληθυσμός: 4100, Σλαυόφωνοι: 1370"
The municipal units are further subdivided into the following communities:
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