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AMFILOCHIA (Ancient area) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Amphilochia (Amphilochia: Amphilochos), a small district at the eastern
end of the Ambraciot gulf, bounded on the N. by Ambracia and on the S. by the
territory of the Agraei. It did not extend far inland. It is a mountainous district,
and the rocks along the coast rise in some parts to 450 or 500 feet high. The
Amphilochi were a non-Hellenic tribe, although they were supposed to have derived
their name from the Argive Amphilochus, the son of Amphiaraus. Strabo (p. 326)
describes them as an Epirot people, but their country is more usually described
as a part of Acarnania. (Steph. B. s.v.; Scyl. p 12.) Their lineage, as Grote
remarks, was probably something intermediate between the Acarnanians and Epirots.
At the time of the Peloponnesian war the Amphilochi were in close alliance with
the Acarnanians. After the death of Alexander the Great the Amphilochi were conquered
by the Aetolians; and they were at a later time included in the Roman province
of Epirus. The only town in their country was Argos, surnamed Amphilochicum, under
which the history of the people is more fully given. There were also a few villages
or fortresses, which owe their importance simply to their connection with the
history of Argos, and which are therefore described in that article.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
The country of the Amphilochi, an Epirot race, at the east end of the Ambracian Gulf, usually included in Acarnania. Their chief town was Argos Amphilochicum.
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