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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".[2]
The site of Azorus is the palaiokastro (old fort) at the modern village of Azoros.[9][10]