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Definition: Epirus

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. An ancient area on the Ionian Sea that flourished as a kingdom in the 3rd century BC; located in northwestern Greece and southern Albania.[Wordnet].

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Date "Epirus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Common Expressions: Epirus

Expressions Definition
Aeacides of Epirus Aeacides (in Greek Aιακιδης; died 313 BC), the son of Arybbas, king of Epirus, succeeded to the throne on the death of his cousin Alexander, who was slain in Italy. Aeacides married Phthia, the daughter of Menon of Pharsalus, by whom he had the celebrated Pyrrhus and two daughters, Deidamia and Troias. In 317 BC he assisted Polyperchon in restoring Olympias and the young king Alexander IV, who was then only five years old, to Macedonia. In the following year he marched to the assistance of Olympias, who was hard pressed by Cassander; but the Epirots disliked the service, rose against Aeacides, and drove him from the kingdom. Pyrrhus, who was then only two years old, was with difficulty saved from destruction by some faithful servants. But becoming tired of the Macedonian rule, the Epirots recalled Aeacides in 313 BC; Cassander immediately sent an army against him under his brother, Philip, who conquered him the same year in two battles, in the last of which he was killed. (references)
Deidamia of Epirus Deidamia (in Greek Δηιδαμεια; died c. 233 BC), daughter of Pyrrhus II, king of Epirus, after the death of her father and that of his uncle Ptolemy, was the last surviving representative of the royal Aeacid dynasty. She threw herself into Ambracia, but was induced by the offer of an honorable capitulation to surrender. The Epirots, however, determining to secure their liberty by extirpating the whole royal family, resolved to put her to death; she fled for refuge to the temple of Artemis, but was murdered in the sanctuary itself by Milo, a man already responsible of matricide, who shortly after this crime committed suicide. The date of this event cannot be accurately fixed, but it occurred during the reign of Demetrius II in Macedonia (239–229 BC), and probably in the early part of it. (references)
Despotate of Epirus The Despotate of Epirus was one of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire, founded in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade in 1204. It claimed to be the legitimate successor of the Byzantine Empire, along with the Empire of Nicaea and the Empire of Trebizond. (references)
Olympias of Epirus Olympias (in Greek Oλυμπιας; lived 3rd century BC) was daughter of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, and wife of her own brother Alexander II. After his death about 260 BC she assumed the regency of the kingdom on behalf of her two sons, Pyrrhus and Ptolemy; and in order to strengthen herself against the Aetolian League she gave before 239 BC her daughter Phthia in marriage to Demetrius II, king of Macedonia. By this alliance she secured herself in the possession of the sovereignty, which she continued to administer till her sons were grown up to manhood, when she resigned it into the hands of Pyrrhus II. But the deaths of that prince and his brother Ptolemy followed in quick succession, and Olympias herself died of grief for her double loss. Such is Justin's statement: according to another account Olympias had poisoned a Leucadian damsel named Tigris, to whom her son Pyrrhus was attached, and was herself poisoned by him in revenge. (references)
Phthia of Epirus Phthia (in Greek Φθια; lived 4th century BC) was a daughter of Menon of Pharsalus, the Thessalian hipparch, and wife of Aeacides, king of Epirus, by whom she became the mother of the celebrated Pyrrhus, as well as of two daughters: Deidamia, the wife of Demetrius Poliorcetes, and Troias, of whom nothing more is known. Her portrait is found on some of the coins of her son Pyrrhus. (references)
Postage stamps and postal history of Epirus From 1912 to 1916, the northern part of the Greek section of Epirus was run by a provisional government, which ran its own postal service and issued postage stamps for a period during 1914. (references)
Ptolemy of Epirus Ptolemy (in Greek Πτoλεμαιoς; died c. 235 BC), king of Epirus, was the second son of Alexander II, king of Epirus, and Olympias, and grandson of the great Pyrrhus. He succeeded to the throne on the death of his elder brother, Pyrrhus II, but reigned only a very short time, having set out on a military expedition, during the course of which he fell sick and died. Polyaenus, instead, tells us a different story and states that he was treasonably assassinated. The date of his reign cannot be fixed with certainty, but as he was contemporary with Demetrius II, king of Macedonia, it may be placed between 239 and 229 BC. He was succeeded by his niece Deidamia. (references)
Pyrrhus of Epirus Pyrrhus (318 BC - 272 BC) (Greek: Πυρρος - "the color of fire", "red-blonde", Latin Pyrrhus) - the Molossian king from ca. 297, the king of Epirus from 306 - 301 BC and in 297 BC - 272 BC and of Macedon in 288 - 284 and in 273 - 272 BC, one of the strongest opponents of Rome. (references)

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Extended Definition: Epirus

Epirus

The name Epirus, from the Greek "Ήπειρος" meaning continent may refer to:

Geographical

  • Epirus (region) - a historical and geographical region of the southwestern Balkans, straddling modern Greece and Albania

Political

  • Epirus (periphery) - one of the thirteen peripheries (administrative divisions) of Greece.

Historical

  • Despotate of Epirus - one of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire
  • The Principality of Epirus may refer to the Despotate of Epirus (1205-1479) or to the pashalik of Ali Pasha of Tepelen and Yannina (ca. 1787-1822).
  • The Kingdom of Epirus ruled by Pyrrhus
  • Epirus vetus and Epirus nova 'Old - and New Epirus' - provinces of the Roman Empire

People

  • Epirus from Greek mythology, daughter of Echion and Agave.

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Topics by Level of Interest: Epirus

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Epirus 82     Aeacides of Epirus 5
Northern Epirus 43     Alcetas I of Epirus 3
Epirus (region) 37     Alcetas II of Epirus 3
Pyrrhus of Epirus 27     Alexander I of Epirus 5
Postage stamps and postal history of Epirus 23     Alexander II of Epirus 5
Epirus (periphery) 14     Deidamia I of Epirus 6
Tribes of Epirus 13     Deidamia II of Epirus 4
Polyphonic song of Epirus 12     Epirus 82
Epirus vetus 11     Epirus (mythology) 3
Music of Epirus 10     Epirus (periphery) 14
Epirus nova 10     Epirus (region) 37
Deidamia I of Epirus 6     Epirus nova 10
Aeacides of Epirus 5     Epirus vetus 11
Alexander II of Epirus 5     Epirus Water Frog 5
Epirus Water Frog 5     List of kings of Epirus 4
Alexander I of Epirus 5     Music of Epirus 10
Northern Epirus Liberation Front 5     Neoptolemus I of Epirus 3
Deidamia II of Epirus 4     Neoptolemus II of Epirus 2
Olympias II of Epirus 4     Northern Epirus 43
Ptolemy of Epirus 4     Northern Epirus Liberation Front 5
Philagrius of Epirus 4     Olympias II of Epirus 4
Provisional Government of Northern Epirus 4     Philagrius of Epirus 4
List of kings of Epirus 4     Phthia of Epirus 3
Phthia of Epirus 3     Polyphonic song of Epirus 12
Alcetas II of Epirus 3     Postage stamps and postal history of Epirus 23
Neoptolemus I of Epirus 3     Provisional Government of Northern Epirus 4
Alcetas I of Epirus 3     Ptolemy of Epirus 4
Epirus (mythology) 3     Pyrrhus II of Epirus 2
Pyrrhus II of Epirus 2     Pyrrhus of Epirus 27
Neoptolemus II of Epirus 2     Tribes of Epirus 13

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).


Computed Synonyms: Epirus

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 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.0092   Epirus     mainland     continent, land, main, earth, terra firma   
 2   1.0091   Epirus     continent     mainland, chaste, land, virtuous, temperate   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: Epirus

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.9993   Alexander I of Epirus     Alexander I of Russia     Alexander I of Macedon   
 2   1.9992   Alexander I of Epirus     Alexander I of Macedon     Alexander I of Russia   
 3   1.7789   Pyrrhus of Epirus     Pyrrhus     russet   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: Epirus

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Balgarski Епир (Epirus). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Balgarski (transliteration) epir (Epirus). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Bohemian Epir (Epirus). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian Епир (Epirus). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian (transliteration) epir (Epirus). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Catalan Despotat de l'Epir (Despotate of Epirus). Additional references: Catalan, Spain, Andorra, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina Epir (Epirus). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Croatian Epir (Epirus), Pir (Pyrrhus of Epirus). Additional references: Croatian, Croatia, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech Epir (Epirus). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch Epirus (Epirus), Pyrrhus (Pyrrhus of Epirus), Despotat Epirus (Despotate of Epirus). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Dutch Epirus (Epirus), Despotaat Epirus (Despotate of Epirus). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Finnish Pyrrhos (Pyrrhus of Epirus), Epeiroksen despotaatti (Despotate of Epirus), Aleksanteri I (Alexander I of Epirus, Alexander I of Macedon, Alexander I of Russia). Additional references: Finnish, Finland, Russia (Europe), Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Français Epire (Epirus), Épire (Epirus), Pyrrhus II (Pyrrhus of Epirus), Despotat d'Épire (Despotate of Epirus), Alexandre Ier d'Épire (Alexander I of Epirus). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
French Epire (Epirus), Épire (Epirus), Pyrrhus II (Pyrrhus of Epirus), Despotat d'Épire (Despotate of Epirus), Alexandre Ier d'Épire (Alexander I of Epirus). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
German Epirus (Epirus), Pyrrhus (Pyrrhus of Epirus), Despotat Epirus (Despotate of Epirus). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek ήπειροσ (Epirus, mainland), Δεσποτάτο της Ηπείρου (Despotate of Epirus). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek (transliteration) ipeiros (Epirus, mainland), dhespotato tis ipeiroi (Despotate of Epirus). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguk Mal 에피루스 (Epirus), 에페어로스 (Epirus). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua 에피루스 (Epirus), 에페어로스 (Epirus). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Hebrew אפירוס (Epirus), פירוס (Pyrrhus of Epirus). Additional references: Hebrew, Israel, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
High German Epirus (Epirus), Pyrrhus (Pyrrhus of Epirus), Despotat Epirus (Despotate of Epirus). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch Epirus (Epirus), Pyrrhus (Pyrrhus of Epirus), Despotat Epirus (Despotate of Epirus). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Italian Epiro (Epirus), Pirro (Pyrrhus, Pyrrhus of Epirus), Despotato d'Epiro (Despotate of Epirus). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Ivrit אפירוס (Epirus), פירוס (Pyrrhus of Epirus). Additional references: Ivrit, Israel, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese エペイロス (Epirus), イピロス (Epirus), エピロス専制侯国 (Despotate of Epirus). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean 에피루스 (Epirus), 에페어로스 (Epirus). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese Epiro (Epirus), Épiro (Epirus), Pirro (Pyrrhus of Epirus). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Ruotsi Pyrrhus (Pyrrhus of Epirus), Despotatet Epirus (Despotate of Epirus). Additional references: Ruotsi, Sweden, Finland, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian Пирр (Pyrrhus of Epirus). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian (transliteration) pirr (Pyrrhus of Epirus). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki Пирр (Pyrrhus of Epirus). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki (transliteration) pirr (Pyrrhus of Epirus). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Slovak Epirský despotát (Despotate of Epirus). Additional references: Slovak, Slovakia, Hungary, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Slovakian Epirský despotát (Despotate of Epirus). Additional references: Slovakian, Slovakia, Hungary, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish El Epiro (Epirus). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomea Pyrrhos (Pyrrhus of Epirus), Epeiroksen despotaatti (Despotate of Epirus), Aleksanteri I (Alexander I of Epirus, Alexander I of Macedon, Alexander I of Russia). Additional references: Suomea, Finland, Russia (Europe), Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomi Pyrrhos (Pyrrhus of Epirus), Epeiroksen despotaatti (Despotate of Epirus), Aleksanteri I (Alexander I of Epirus, Alexander I of Macedon, Alexander I of Russia). Additional references: Suomi, Finland, Russia (Europe), Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Svenska Pyrrhus (Pyrrhus of Epirus), Despotatet Epirus (Despotate of Epirus). Additional references: Svenska, Sweden, Finland, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Swedish Pyrrhus (Pyrrhus of Epirus), Despotatet Epirus (Despotate of Epirus). Additional references: Swedish, Sweden, Finland, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
Turkish epir (Epirus). Additional references: Turkish, Turkey, Bulgaria, Epirus. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: Epirus

Language Translations for “Epirus” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag Athagepathagirathagus (Epirus). Additional references: Athag, Epirus. (volunteer)
Double Dutch Agepagiragus (Epirus). Additional references: Double Dutch, Epirus. (volunteer)
Leet £|?1|z|_|$ (Epirus). Additional references: Leet, Epirus. (volunteer)
Oppish Opepopiropus (Epirus). Additional references: Oppish, Epirus. (volunteer)
Pig Latin Epirusway (Epirus). Additional references: Pig Latin, Epirus. (volunteer)
Terran B Epiro (Epirus). Additional references: Terran B, Epirus. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi Ubepubirubus (Epirus). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, Epirus. (volunteer)
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