{{Short description|Town and polis (city-state) in Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly}} {{coord|39.98591|N|22.08256|E|format=dms|display=title|source:http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/34350.html}} [[File:Thessaly.jpg|thumb|350px|Map showing ancient Thessaly. Azorus is shown to the top centre in the Perrhaebian Tripolis.]] '''Azorus''' or '''Azoros''' ({{langx|grc|Ἄζωρος}} or Ἀζώριον<ref>{{Cite Ptolemy|3.13.42}}</ref>) was a town and polis (city-state)<ref name=Poleis>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite Livy|42.53, 44.2.}}</ref>
During the Roman–Seleucid War, the Tripolis was ravaged by an army of the Aetolian League in the year 191 BCE.<ref>{{Cite Livy|36.10}}</ref> During the Third Macedonian War the three towns surrendered to the army of Perseus of Macedon in the year 171 BCE,<ref>{{Cite Livy|42.53}}</ref> but that same year the Romans reconquered the three.<ref>{{Cite Livy|42.67}}</ref> In the year 169 BCE troops arrived from the Roman consul Quintus Marcius Philippus who camped between Azorus and Doliche.<ref>{{Cite Polybius|28.13.1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Livy|44.2}}</ref>
The three cities minted a common coin with the inscription "ΤΡΙΠΟΛΙΤΑΝ".<ref name="Poleis"/>
The site of Azorus is the ''palaiokastro'' (old fort) at the modern village of Azoros.<ref>{{Barrington Atlas|page=55}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|25174}}</ref> According to the 5th-century grammarian Hesychius of Alexandria the town was named after the mythological Azorus, helmsman of the Argo.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | last =Schmitz | first =Leonhard | authorlink = | title = Azorus | encyclopedia =Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume =1 | pages = | publisher = | language =English | date =1849 | url = | isbn = | accessdate = }}</ref>
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