Linkestis (juga Lyncestis, bahasa Yunani: Λυγκηστίς artinya "daratan lynx") atau Linkus (Λύγκος)[1] adalah sebuah wilayah, dan pada masa-masa sebelumnya, sebuah kerajaan Yunani dari Makedonia Hulu, terletak di perbatasan selatan Iliria dan Paeonia. Para penduduk Linkestis disebut sebagai Lyncestae atau Lynkestai (Λυγκῆσται), sebuah suku barat laut Yunani yang masuk negara suku, atau koinonMolossia dari Epirus.[2][3]
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^Henri Estienne, Thesaurus græcæ linguæ, A. F. Didot, 1846, p. 413.
^Boardman & Hammond 1982, hlm. 266: "On crossing the Balkan chain, we find that Hecataeus called the Orestae 'a Molossian tribe' (F 107), and Strabo (434; cf. 326) probably derived from Hecataeus his belief that the Elimeotae, Lyncestae, and Pelagones, as well as the Orestae, were Epirotic or rather Molossian tribes before their incorporation by the Macedones into the Macedonian kingdom."
^Hammond 2001, hlm. 158: "Pelagones in the region of Prilep, the Lyncestae in the region of Florina, the Orestae in the region of Kastoria, and the Elimeotae in the region of Kozani. These tribes were all Epirotic tribes and they talked the Greek language but with a different dialect, the Northwest Greek dialect, as we know now from the local questions which were put to the god of Dodona."