Cestria (Epirus)
Cestria or Kestria, also known as Ilium or Ilion, or Troja, was a town in ancient Epirus. Its district was called Cestrine or Kestrine and Kestrinia, and was in the south of Chaonia, separated from Thesprotia by the river Thyamis. It is said to have received its name from Cestrinus, son of Helenus and Andromache, having been previously called Cammania or Kammania. The principal town of the district was Cestria, but its more usual name appears to have been Ilium or Troja, in memory of the Trojan colony of Helenus. In the neighbourhood are those fertile pastures, which were celebrated in ancient times for the Cestrinic oxen. The inhabitants of the district were called Κεστρηνοί by the poet Rhianus.
Its site is tentatively located near the modern Çiflik, Albania.
