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Alexander I of Epirus - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Alexander I of Epirus (362 BC ca.- 331 BC/330 BC), also known as Alexander Molossus, king of Epirus (343 BC/342 BC-331 BC/330 BC), of the Molossian dinasty. |
 | | In 333 BC, the same year in which Alexander the Great began his was against the Persian empire, Alexander Molossus was called by the Greek colony of Taras (Magna Graecia), to fight the Italic populations of Lucanians, Bruttii and Samnites. |
 | | In 330 BC (or earlier in 331 BC), he was defeated at Pandosia, near Cosenza, by the Lucanians and the Bruttii, and slain by a Lucanian emigrant. |
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