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Epirot Islands information


Epirote Islands are those northern Ionian islands that are in proximity to the Epirus mainland.

These include:

  • Kerkyra (Κέρκυρα) usually known as Corfu in English
  • Paxi (Παξοί) (includes Antipaxos) also known as Paxos in English
  • Lefkada (Λευκάδα) also known as Lefkas in English
  • Ithaki (Ιθάκη) usually known as Ithaca (the island of Odysseus) in English

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Epirot Islands

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Epirote Islands are those northern Ionian islands that are in proximity to the Epirus mainland. These include: Kerkyra (Κέρκυρα) usually known as Corfu...

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Neoptolemus

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With Andromache, Helenus and Phoenix, Neoptolemus then sailed to the Epirot Islands and became the king of Epirus. By the enslaved Andromache, daughter...

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List of ancient Greek tribes

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Clarendon Press, 1897, p. 70. "Ptolemy, however, makes them neighbours of the Epirot tribe of the Kassopaioi, who lived on the coast of the Ionian sea." Source...

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Third Macedonian War

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Gaius Hortensius. Aulus Hostilius was on his way to Macedon via Epirus. An Epirot leader wrote to Perseus to tell him to hurry there. However, the king was...

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Diapontian Islands

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The Diapontian Islands or Diapontia Islands (Greek: Διαπόντια Νησιά, romanized: Diapontia Νisia, also known as Othonoi Islands (Greek: Νήσοι Οθωνοί, romanized: Νisoi...

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List of battles before 301

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Pyrrhus is defeated by Macedon and its allies and dies soon after, ending Epirot intervention in the Peloponnese Siege of Taras Romans take city as punishment...

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Pyrrhus of Epirus

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his best; Dionysius gives a bloodier view of 15,000 Roman dead and 13,000 Epirot. Several tribes, including the Lucanians, Bruttii, Messapians, and the Greek...

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Thanasis Vagias

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Woodhouse, Lidderdale & Makriyannis 1966: "VAYIAS, Thanasis, 1765-1834, Epirot Greek, a confidant of Ali Pasha, wrongly thought by Makriyannis to be a...

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Pyrrhic War

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called in the Carthaginians to help them against Milo, the commander of the Epirot garrison, when they heard that Pyrrhus had died. They were angry with Milo...

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Languages of the Roman Empire

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the north of this area, Paeonian would have been used, and to the south Epirot, both scantily attested. The Palaeo-Balkan languages included Illyrian,...

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Filiates

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abolished in 2006. In antiquity, the area of Filiates was inhabited by the Epirot Greek tribe of the Chaonians. In antiquity the area round the city was known...

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Greeks in Albania

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completed a study of Epirotic migration to Australia, which is titled "Epirots in Australia" (Greek: Οι Ηπειρώτες στην Αυστραλία), published by the National...

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Souliotes

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Albanian-speaking Suliots and Hydriots, Vlach-speaking Thessalians and Epirots, and Slav-speaking Macedonians had fought in insurgent Greece along with...

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Islam in Albania

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people of Orthodox religion living in Southern Albania are called Northern Epirots (Vorioepirotes) (see Triandafyllidou and Veikou 2002: 191). According to...

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Henry Vane the Younger

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held    The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repelled    The fierce Epirot and the African bold, Whether to settle peace, or to unfold    The drift...

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Metsovo

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Rosia tis arches tou 19ou aiona" [New evidence on the presence of some Epirots in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century], Ioannina-Epirus 19–20...

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Atintanians

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1969, p. 112: "The authentic Epirot rivers Acheron and Kokytos were translated to the Greek Hades; an authentic Epirot people, the Atintanes, gave the...

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Cham Albanians

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confidence Greek historians insist that the inscriptions prove that the Epirots of 360, given Greek names by their fathers and grandfathers at the turn...

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Samnites

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centuries, they would wage more war against the Campanians, Volscians, Epirot Greeks, and other Latin communities. The Samnites and Romans first came...

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Menduh Zavalani

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into the streets of the city, and joined by another underground 'Northern Epirot' band, attacked the Albanian gendarmerie. In a few hours they controlled...

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Marika Papagika

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she calls out on the song "Aïdinikos Horos"), George Theologou, and the Epirot master Alexis Zoumbas (1883-1946), or by a clarinettist, most frequently...

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Chameria

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confidence Greek historians insist that the inscriptions prove that the Epirots of 360, given Greek names by their fathers and grandfathers at the turn...

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Cham Albanian dialect

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confidence Greek historians insist that the inscriptions prove that the Epirots of 360, given Greek names by their fathers and grandfathers at the turn...

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Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus

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other outstanding problem: the recognition of Greek sovereignty over the islands of the North Eastern Aegean. This turn of events was highly unpopular among...

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Gregory IV of Athens

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had already been involved in the Revolution, because a good number of Epirots, and indeed many from Gjirokastër, had been fighting in Euboea. It is assumed...

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Athanasios Christopoulos

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Christopoulos proclaimed that the Aeolo-Doric dialect of the Macedonians, Epirots and Thessalians - not the Attic dialect of Pericles’ Athens - was the true...

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Albanian nationalism in Albania

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expressed that they have Greek origins and declared themselves as Northern-Epirots (Greek: Βορειοηπειρώτες Vorioipirotes, Albanian: Vorioepirot) which is...

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