Dassaretes
The Dassaretes ( Greek Δασσαρήτιοι Dassaretioi ) were an ancient tribe of the Hellenes . Their settlement area Dassaretia ( Δασσαρήτια ) geographically encompassed the mountainous area around the "Dassaretian lakes" ( Ohridsee , Prespa , Kleiner Prespa ) and extended in the southwest to the river Eordaikos (Devoll) in the country triangle of Albania , North Macedonia and Greece . The main town was Lychnidos (now Ohrid ).
According to legend, the Dassaretes descended from Dassaro , a daughter of Illyrios . In the south their landscape bordered on the other tribes of Epiros and in the southeast on the Upper Macedonian landscapes Lynkestis and Orestis , which they often attacked in union with their Illyrian brother tribes . In the north it was bordered by the Dardan people . In the 4th century BC Dassaretia was subjugated by Philip II and since then has been counted as part of Upper Macedonia . With the border fortress Pelion, located at today's Korça , this landscape formed the extreme west of the Macedonian kingdom from then on . In 335 BC During his Balkan campaign , Alexander the Great defeated an Illyrian army here. It was probably Kassander who founded the city of Antipatreia in this region , today's Berat .
After the second Macedonian-Roman war , Philip V had to go to 196 BC. BC Dassaretia cede to Rome , from which it was granted an autonomous status within the Illyricum .
literature
- HGL Hammond: The Kingdoms in Illyria circa 400-167 B. C. In: The Annual of the British School at Athens. 61: 239-253 (1966).
- NGL Hammond: Alexander's Campaign in Illyria. In: The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Vol. 94 (1974), pp. 66-87.