Velestino is a town in the Magnesia regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. It is the seat of the municipality Rigas Feraios.
Bronze figures from the Velestino Hoard, discovered in the village of Velestino in the 1920s and dating from as early as the 7th century AD. The findings are linked to the Slavic tribe of the Belegezites.
The Battle of Velestino comprised two separate engagements, which took place on 27 April 1897–30 April 1897 and 5 May 1897–6 May 1897, between the Greek and Ottoman armies at Velestino in Thessaly, as
Greek lithograph with an imagined depiction of the attacks of the Ottoman cavalry on the Greek infantry lines
Dispositions of the Greek and Ottoman armies on 25 April 1897
Sketch of the Ottoman and Greek positions prior to the Ottoman attack on 30 April
View of the battle from the Greek command post on the hills south of Velestino