Epirus (disambiguation)
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Epirus is a historical and geographical region of the southwestern Balkans, straddling modern Greece and Albania.
The name Epirus, from the Greek "Ήπειρος" meaning "continent" may also refer to:
Geographical
[edit]- Epirus (region), one of the thirteen regions (administrative divisions) of Greece
- Northern Epirus, a Greek political term used to refer to parts of southern Albania
Historical
[edit]- Epirus (ancient state), an ancient Greek state (330–167 BC)
- Epirus Vetus ("Old Epirus", 146 BC–395 AD), province of the Roman Empire
- Epirus Nova ("New Epirus"), a province of the Roman Empire
- Despotate of Epirus (1205–1479), one of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire
- Principality of Epirus, another name for the Ottoman pashalik of Yanina (1430–1868)
- Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus, a short lived entity (1914) proclaimed by the pro-Greek party in the south of the Principality of Albania
People
[edit]- Epirus (mythology) from Greek mythology, daughter of Echion and Agave
See also
[edit]- Eprius, a genus of butterflies
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