Epirus

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Geographical

• Epirus (region)
  Epirus (region)
  
  Epirus is a region in south-eastern Europe, currently divided between the Peripheries of Greece Epirus in Greece and the prefectures of Gjirokast?r, Vlor?, Kor??, and Berat in southern Albania....
   - a historical and geographical region of the southwestern Balkans, straddling modern Greece and Albania
• Northern Epirus
  Northern Epirus
  
  Northern Epirus is a term used to refer to those parts of the historical region of Epirus , in the western Balkans, that are part of the modern Albanian state....
   - a geographical region in southern Albania, the term is closely connected with the ethnic Greek minority in the country.

Political

• Epirus (periphery)
  Epirus (periphery)
  
  Epirus , is a Peripheries of Greece in northwestern Greece. It borders the peripheries of West Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, Stere? Ell?da to the south, the Ionian Sea and the Ionian Islands to the west and Albania to the north....
   - one of the thirteen peripheries (administrative divisions) of Greece.

Historical

• Despotate of Epirus
  Despotate of Epirus
  
  The Despotate or Principality of Epirus was one of the Byzantine Greeks successor states of the Byzantine Empire that emerged in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade in 1204....
   (1205-1479) one of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire
• Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus
  Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus
  
  The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus was a short-lived self-governing, entity founded in March 1914, in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars, by the Greeks living in southern Albania ....
  , a short lived state (1914) proclaimed by the pro-Greek party in modern Southern Albania (Northern Epirus).
• The Principality of Epirus may refer to the pashalik of Ali Pasha of Tepelen and Yannina
  Ali Pasha
  
  Ali Pasha of Tepelena or of Yannina, the "Lion of Yannina", was the Albanian people ruler of the western part of Rumelia, the Ottoman Empire's European territory which was also called European Turkey....
   (ca. 1787-1822).
• The Kingdom of Epirus ruled by Pyrrhus
  Pyrrhus of Epirus
  
  Pyrrhus or Pyrrhos was a Greeks general of the Hellenistic civilization. He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians, of the royal Aeacid house , and later he became King of Epirus and Macedon ....
  
• Epirus vetus
  Epirus vetus
  
  Epirus vetus was a province in the Roman Empire. Between 146 BC and 395 AD, it was incorporated into the Macedonia .References ...
   and Epirus nova
  Epirus nova
  
  Epirus nova was a province of the Roman Empire established by Diocletian during his restructuring of provincial boundaries. The province, overall, was formed from territories in southern Illyricum....
   'Old - and New Epirus' - provinces of the Roman Empire

People

• Epirus
  Epirus (mythology)
  
  Epirus, in Greek mythology, is the daughter of Agave and Echion. She accompanied Cadmus and Harmonia while they were carrying the body of Pentheus....
   from Greek mythology
  Greek mythology
  
  Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
  , daughter of Echion
  Echion
  
  In Greek mythology, the name Echion, "[son] of the viper", echis) referred to five different beings.*One of the Gigantes.*One of the surviving Spartoi, the "sown men" that sprang up from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus; "it was Echion who, for his great valor, was preferred by Cadmus to be his son-in-law:" Echion was father of Pe...
   and Agave
  Agave (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Agave was the daughter of Cadmus, the king and founder of the city of Thebes, Greece, and of the goddess Harmonia . Her sisters were Autono?, Ino and Semele....
  .