Epirus
[e'paiərəs]
Definition
(noun.) an ancient area on the Ionian Sea that flourished as a kingdom in the 3rd century BC; located in northwestern Greece and southern Albania.
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Examples
- Olympias went home to Epirus; Alexander departed to Illyria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She was the daughter of the king of Epirus, a country to the west of Macedonia, and, like Macedonia, a semi-Greek land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was at the marriage of his daughter to her uncle, the king of Epirus and the brother of Olympias, that Philip was stabbed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the kaleidoscopic changes of the map that followed the death of Alexander, Epirus was sometimes swamped by Macedonia, sometimes independent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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