Epirus (disambiguation)

Epirus is a historical and geographical region of the southwestern Balkans, straddling modern Greece and Albania.

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

Geographical

• Epirus (region), one of the thirteen regions (administrative divisions) of Greece
• Northern Epirus, a Greek political term used to refer to parts of southern Albania

Historical

• Epirus (ancient state), an ancient Greek state (330–167 BC)
• Epirus Vetus ("Old Epirus", 146 BC–395 AD), province of the Roman Empire
• Epirus Nova ("New Epirus"), a province of the Roman Empire
• Despotate of Epirus (1205–1479), one of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire
• Epirus, a synonym for Albania in the Late Middle Ages
• Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus, a short lived entity (1914) proclaimed by the pro-Greek party in the south of the Principality of Albania

People

• Epirus (mythology) from Greek mythology, daughter of Echion and Agave

See also

• Eprius, a genus of butterflies