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AOOS (River) EPIRUS
Paravaei (Parauaioi, Thuc. ii. 80; Rhianus, ap. Steph. B. s. v.),
an Epirot tribe, whose territories, conterminous with those of the Orestae, were
situated on the banks of the Aous ( Viosa), from which they took their name. In
the third year of the Peloponnesian War, a body of them, under their chief Oroedus,
joined Cnemus (Thuc. l. c.), the Lacedaemonian commander. Arrian (Anab. i. 7),
describing the route of Alexander from Elimiotis (Grevena and Tjersemba) to Pelinnaeum
in Thessaly, which stood a little to the E. of Trikkala, remarks that Alexander
passed by the highlands of Paravaea, - Lazari and Smolika, with the adjacent mountains.
The seat of this tribe must be confined to the valleys of the main
or E. branch of the Aous, and the mountains in which that river originates, extending
from the Aoi Stena or Klisura, as far S. as the borders of Tymphaea and the Molossi,
and including the central and fertile district of Konitza, with the N. part of
Zagori. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. pp. 115 - 120, 195.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
EPIRUS (Ancient country) GREECE
Now as for the Epeirotes, there are fourteen tribes of them, according to Theopompus, but of these the Chaones and the Molossi are the most famous, because of the fact that they once ruled over the whole of the Epeirote country the Chaones earlier and later the Molossi; and the Molossi grew to still greater power, partly because of the kinship of their kings, who belonged to the family of the Aeacidae, and partly because of the fact that the oracle at Dodona was in their country, an oracle both ancient and renowned. (Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 7.7.5)
KONITSA (Province) IOANNINA
Paravaei (Parauaioi, Thuc. ii. 80; Rhianus, ap. Steph. B. s. v.),
an Epirot tribe, whose territories, conterminous with those of the Orestae, were
situated on the banks of the Aous ( Viosa), from which they took their name. In
the third year of the Peloponnesian War, a body of them, under their chief Oroedus,
joined Cnemus (Thuc. l. c.), the Lacedaemonian commander. Arrian (Anab. i. 7),
describing the route of Alexander from Elimiotis (Grevena and Tjersemba) to Pelinnaeum
in Thessaly, which stood a little to the E. of Trikkala, remarks that Alexander
passed by the highlands of Paravaea,-Lazari and Smolika, with the adjacent mountains.
The seat of this tribe must be confined to the valleys of the main
or E. branch of the Aous, and the mountains in which that river originates, extending
from the Aoi Stena or Klisura, as far S. as the borders of Tymphaea and the Molossi,
and including the central and fertile district of Konitza, with the N. part of
Zagori. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. pp. 115-120, 195.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
MOLOSSIA (Ancient area) IOANNINA
The Talares, a Molossian tribe, a branch of those who lived in the neighborhood of Mount Tomarus, lived on Mount Pindus itself, as did also the Aethices, amongst whom, the poet says, the Centaurs were driven by Peirithous; but history now tells us that they are extinct. (Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 9.5.12)
EPIRUS (Ancient country) GREECE
Ignorant of the sea.
MOLOSSIA (Ancient area) IOANNINA
Molossi, (Molossoi). A people of Epirus, inhabiting a narrow
strip of country, called after them Molossia or Molossis, which extended along
the western bank of the Arachthus as far as the Ambracian Gulf. They were the
most powerful people in Epirus, and their kings gradually extended their dominion
over the whole of the country. The first of their kings, who took the title of
King of Epirus, was the Alexander who perished in Italy B.C. 326. Their capital
was Ambracia. The Molossian hounds were celebrated in antiquity.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
NIKOPOLIS (Archaeological site) EPIRUS
The Ambraciots and Anactorians, colonists of Corinth, were taken away by the Roman emperor to help to found Nicopolis near Actium.
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