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Penestae logo #10101) Ancient tribe in Thessaly
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Penestae

Penestae logo #21000 ==Status== Tradition made the penestae descendants of the Achaeans subjected by invading tribes arriving from Thesprotia. Archemachus (cited by Athenaeus, VI, 264), a 3rd-century BC writer, believed instead that they were Boeotians: `The Aeolian Boeotians who did not emigrate when their country Thessaly was conquered by the Thessalians, surrender....
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