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The Despotate of Epirus was one of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire when it disintegrated following the Fourth Crusade's capture of Constantinople in 1204 CE. It was originally the most successful of those successor states, coming...

Cleopatra of Macedon (355/4-308 BCE), daughter of Philip II of Macedon (reign 359-336 BCE) and his Molossian queen, Olympias of Epirus (c. 375-316 BCE), was the only full sister of Alexander the Great (reign 336-323 BCE). Born in Pella, the...

Silver tetradrachm from Epirus, reign of Pyrrhus, 295-272 BCE. O: Head of Zeus Dodonaios. R: Dione on a throne.

Silver-plated iron helmet found in Cist grave 1 in Prodromi, Thesprotia, Epirus, Greece. The grave is dated to between the end of the 4th century BCE and the beginning of the 3rd century BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Igoumenitsa, Epirus)

Iron anatomical thorax with golden buckles found in Cist grave 1 in Prodromi, Thesprotia, Epirus, Greece. The grave is dated to between the end of the 4th century BCE and the beginning of the 3rd century BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Igoumenitsa...

The city of Antigoneia in Epirus (Albania) was built on the Hippodamian grid system and covered an area of almost 45 hectares

Antigoneia of Epirus, Albania. The city was founded in 295 BCE by Pyrrhus, the king of the Molossians, who named it after his wife Antigone, daughter of Berenice I and step-daughter of Ptolemy I of Egypt.

This Roman marble bust from c. 50 - 25 BCE is a copy of a Hellenistic statue made in 290 BCE. It depicts Pyrrhus king of Epirus, best known today for the phrase "Pyrrhic victory." It is currently housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art...

An illustration of Pyrrhus of Epirus' (c. 319 - 272 BCE) horse being killed at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 BCE. Illustration by Seán Ó Brógáin.

Thessaly was an independent state in medieval Greece from 1267 or 1268 to 1394 CE, first as the Greek-ruled Thessaly and later as the Catalan and Latin-ruled Duchy of Neopatras. Under its sebastokrators, Thessaly was a thorn in the side of...