'Orestean Argos', before 1926: Χρούπιστα – Chroupista;[2] Aromanian: Hrupishte) is a town and a municipality in the Kastoria regional unit of Macedonia, Greece.
[5] 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.
[8][9] In the late Ottoman period, the town was wealthy, had four mosques and many of its Muslim population were involved in agriculture and trade.
[12] Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in the town were from East Thrace (10), Asia Minor (69), Pontus (132) and the Caucasus (1) in 1926.
[13] In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria.