What is "lynkestis"

Lynkestis or Lynchestia ( meaning "land of the lynx") was a region, and in earlier times a kingdom of Upper Macedonia, located on the southern borders of Illyria and Paeonia. The inhabitants of Lynkestis were known as Lynkestai (Λυγκησταί), a northwestern Greek tribe that belonged to the Molossian tribal state, or koinon, of Epirus.