Listed 16 sub titles with search on: Various locations for wider area of: "EPIRUS Region GREECE" .
AMVRAKIA (Ancient city) EPIRUS
The River Aratthus flows past Ambracia; it is navigable inland for only a few stadia, from the sea to Ambracia, although it rises in Mount Tymphe and the Paroraea.
ATHAMANIA (Ancient area) EPIRUS
A town of Athamania in Epeirus, where the royal treasures were kept. (Liv. xxxviii. 1.)
CHRYSSORACHI (Village) IOANNINA
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
EPIRUS (Ancient country) GREECE
Ceraunii Montes (Keraunia ore, Strab. pp. 21, 281, 285, 316, seq.,
324, et alibi: Khimara), a lofty range of mountains in the northern part of Epeirus,
said to have derived their name from the frequent thunder storms with which they
were visited. (Eustath. ad Dionys. 389; Serv. ad Virg. Aen.
iii. 508.) They are sometimes also called Acroceraunii or Acroceraunia though
this is properly the name of the promontory (ta akra Keraunia, Dion Cass. xli.
44) running out into the Ionian sea, now called Glossa, and by the Italians
Linguetta.
The Ceraunian mountains extended several miles along the coast from
the Acroceraunian promontory southwards, and rendered the navigation very dangerous.
Hence Horace (Carm. i. 3. 20) speaks of infames scopulos Acroceraunia
(comp. Lucan v. 652; Sil. Ital. viii. 632). Inland the Ceraunian mountains
were connected by an eastern branch with the mountains on the northern frontier
of Thessaly. The inhabitants of the mountains were called Ceraunii. (Caes. B.C.
iii. 6; Plin. iii. 22. s. 26; Ptol. ii. 16. § 8.) (Leake, Northern Greece,
vol. i. pp. 2, seq., 88.)
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
MOLOSSIA (Ancient area) IOANNINA
Tecmon (Tekmon: Eth. Tekmonios), a city of Molossis in Epeirus, incorrectly called
by Stephanus B. a city of Thesprotia, taken by L. Anicius, the Roman commander,
in B.C. 167. Leake supposes that Gurianista, near Kurendo, about 20 miles to the
W. of Joannina, may have been the site of Tecmon or Horreum, which Livy mentions
in connection with Tecmon. (Liv. xlv. 26; Steph. B. s. v.; Leake, Northern Greece,
vol. iv. p. 83.)
THESPROTIA (Ancient country) EPIRUS
Cheimerium (Cheimerion), a promontory and harbour of Thesprotia in
Epeirus, between the rivers Acheron and Thyamis, and opposite the southern point
of Corcyra. In the two naval engagements between the Corcyraeans and Corinthians
just before the Peloponnesian war, Cheimerium was the station of the Corinthian
fleet. Leake supposes the promontory of Cheimerium to be C. Varlam, and the harbour
that of Arpitza. (Thuc. i. 30, 46; Strab. vii. p. 324; Paus. viii. 7. § 2; Steph.
B. s. v.; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 5.)
GRAMMENO (Village) IOANNINA
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
VOULISTA (Settlement) PREVEZA
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
ATHAMANIA (Ancient area) EPIRUS
A fortress in Athamania, Liv. 38, 1; 39, 25.
A fortress of Athamania, Liv. 39, 25.
A town of Athamania, Liv. 38, 1.
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