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    Filiates (redirect from Ilion, Epirus)
    ancient town of Cestria, in ancient Epirus, other ancient names for which were Cammania, Ilion, Epirus, Troy, Epirus and Troia and Epirusis; the site of...
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    was spoken in a vast area, including northern Greece (Acarnania, Aetolia, Epirus, western and eastern Locris, Phocis, Doris, and possibly ancient Macedonia)...
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    Alexander the Great, who was Epirote by descent from his mother Olympias. The famed King of Epirus, Pyrrhus, also wore a helmet that had, according to Plutarch...
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    in Epirus Nova" (Bowden 2003, p. 14) Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 842 Vlora, Eqrem bej; Von Godin...
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    Metsovo (category Municipalities of Epirus (region))
    Metsovo (Greek: Μέτσοβο; Aromanian: Aminciu) is a town in Epirus, in the mountains of Pindus in northern Greece, between Ioannina to the west and Meteora...
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    Chaonians (category Ancient tribes in Epirus)
    Greek: Χαονία) was in the northwestern part of Epirus. It was one of the three main ethnic divisions of Epirus; the other two were Thesprotia and Molossia...
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    Phthiotis, Aetolia and Phocis. In the north, it bordered on the provinces of Epirus vetus and Macedonia. The region was annexed by the Roman Republic in 146...
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    almost one century. The city probably came under the control of Pyrrhus of Epirus at the beginning of the 3rd century BC. From about 280 BC the Illyrian king...
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    due to a sudden uprising in Boeotia and an attack from King Pyrrhus of Epirus. In 287 BC, Lysimachus and Pyrrhus in turn invaded Macedonia and drove Demetrius...
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    "Latins" in 1204, mainland Greece was split between the Greek Despotate of Epirus and French rule (the Frankokratia). The re-establishment of the imperial...
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    Antiochus I Soter. Epirus was a northwestern Greek kingdom in the western Balkans ruled by the Molossian Aeacidae dynasty. Epirus was an ally of Macedon...
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    of Epirus. At the end of the 13th century they fell under the Duchy of Neopatria. In 1334, they were taken over once more by the Despot of Epirus, John...
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    culture spread widely throughout coastal and inland Epirus; in this period Mycenaean engagement in Epirus was strongest, both quantitatively and qualitatively...
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    1843, and the Frankish Tower in 1875. German Neoclassicist architect Leo von Klenze was responsible for the restoration of the Acropolis in the 19th century...
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    toad, the European green toad, the European tree frog, the agile frog, the Epirus water frog and the Greek marsh frog are the representatives of the Amphibia...
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    from Athens (4th century BC). Ancient Greek coin of Pyrrhus of Epirus, Kingdom of Epirus (r. 297–272 BC). An eight-pointed sun symbol before Athena's face...
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    associated with Zeus in Greek or Jupiter in Latin. The cult of Zeus at Dodona in Epirus, where there is evidence of religious activity from the second millennium...
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    Classical Quarterly. 53 (1): 184–205. doi:10.1093/cq/53.1.184. Albrecht, Michael von (1997). A History of Roman Literature: From Livius Andronicus to Boethius :...
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    (1985). Die Inschriften von Prusias ad Hypium (in Greek). Habelt. ISBN 978-3-7749-2114-6. Corsten, Thomas (1987). Die Inschriften von Apameia (Bithynien)...
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  • Atintanians (category Ancient tribes in Epirus)
    in several ethnonyms in Epirus (Arktanes, Athamanes, Talaianes etc.) but is also found in other Greek regions apart from Epirus. A. J. Toynbee argues that...
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  • Irmgard Poppen (1963), first wife of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Antigone of Epirus (295 BC) Nysa (wife of Pharnaces I of Pontus) (160 BC) Athenais (daughter...
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  • Northern Epirus John Cannis Jim Karygiannis Marietta Karamanli, (MP) Socialist Party Iannis Pharmakis (died 1821), revolutionary fighter Michael von Melas...
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    Dimitrios Power Plant Amyntaio Power Plant Drama coal mine Gerakini mine Olympias mine Piavitsa mine Port of Kavala Port of Thessaloniki Prinos oil field...
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    kings of Epirus claimed to be descended from Achilles through his son, Neoptolemus. Alexander the Great, son of the Epirote princess Olympias, could therefore...
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    über die Ansätze, die wir in den Kanopen von Chiusi (...), der kapitolinischen Wölfin (...), dem Krieger von Capestrano (...) erhalten haben, hinausgekommen...
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    appointed Chancellor of Germany by the President of the Weimar Republic Paul von Hindenburg on 30 January 1933, the Nazi Party began to eliminate political...
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    69-36 Ancient Greece portal Myths portal Religion portal Darrhon Dryad Epirus Family tree of the Greek gods Phoebus (disambiguation) Sibylline oracles...
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    female beauty. The painting was later brought to Ambracia by Pyrrhus of Epirus (318-272 BC) after the Pyrrhic War. When the Romans captured Ambracia in...
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    the forerunner of the German excavations at Olympia. with Ludwig Ross and Christian Hansen: Die Akropolis von Athen nach den neuesten Ausgrabungen. Abt...
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    between the main powers in the region, the Byzantine Empire, the Despotate of Epirus, the rulers of Thessaly, the Serbian Empire, and the Bulgarian Empire. After...
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