
	Where results make sense

Topic: Aeacides of Epirus

	Aeacides of Epirus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aeacides (in Greek Aιακιδης; died 313 BC) was son of Arymbas and grandson of Alcetas II.
		Aeacides married Phthia, the daughter of Menon of Pharsalus, by whom he had the celebrated Pyrrhus and two daughters, Deidamia and Troias.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aeacides_of_Epirus (277 words)

	Epirus - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Epirus (Greek Ήπειρος), is a province or periphery in northwestern Greece, bounded by West Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, by the Ambracian Gulf and the province of West Greece to the south, the Ionian Sea and the Ionian Islands to the west and Albania to the north.
		Epirus was settled by Greeks early in the first millennium BC but remained a frontier area contested with the Illyrian peoples of the Adriatic coast.
		Epirus was ruled from the 6th century by a dynasty, the Molossians, who claimed to be descended from Pyrrhus, son of Achilles.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Epirus (1406 words)

	Epirus
		Epirus (Greek Ήπειρος, Ípeiros; see also List of traditional Greek place names), is a province or periphery in northwestern Greece, bounded by West Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, by the province of Sterea Ellada (Central Greece) to the south, the Ionian Sea and the Ionian Islands to the west and Albania to the north.
		Epirus was settled by Illyrians early in the second millennium BC and parts of it were much later colonized by the ancient Greeks.
		Epirus was ruled from the 6th century by a dynasty, the Molossians, who claimed to be descended from Neoptolemus, son of Achilles.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/ep/Epirus.htm (1750 words)

	Epirus (region) Encyclopedia Article @ 216.92.11.26 () (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Epirus (Greek Ήπειρος, Ípiros) is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in south-eastern Europe.
		The Greek portion of the region is incorporated as the periphery of Epirus.
		Aeacides of Epirus, who succeeded Alexander, espoused the cause of Olympias against Cassander, but was dethroned in 313 BC.
	216.92.11.26 /encyclopedia/Epirus_(region) (1496 words)

	Epirus
		Epirus was settled by Greeks early in the first millennium BC (greater precision is not possible), but remained a frontier area, contested with the Illyrian peoples of the Adriatic coast.
		Epirus was ruled from some time in the 6th century by a dynasty, the Molossians, who claimed to be descended from Pyrrhus, son of Achilles.
		The main importance of Epirus to the Greek cities was that it was the location of the shrine and oracle at Dodona, second in importance only to Delphi.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/e/ep/epirus.html (1382 words)

	Pyrrhus of Epirus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		297 BC), Epirus (306-301, 297-272 BC) and Macedon (288-284, 273-272 BC), was one of the strongest opponents of early Rome.
		Pyrrhus was the son of Aeacides of Epirus and Phthia.
		After the inconclusive Battle of Beneventum in 275 BC Pyrrhus decided to end his campaign in Italy and return to Epirus which resulted in the loss of all his Italian holdings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pyrrhus_of_Epirus (1337 words)

	Pyrrhus - LoveToKnow Watches
		He fought by their side at the battle of Ipsus (301) in Phrygia, in which they were decisively defeated by the combined armies of Seleucus Nicator and Lysimachus.
		Soon afterwards he was sent to the court of Ptolemy of Egypt at Alexandria as a pledge for the faithful carrying out of a treaty of alliance between his brother-in-law Demetrius and Ptolemy.
		Through Ptolemy, whose step-daughter Antigone he married, Pyrrhus was enabled to establish himself firmly on the throne of Epirus, and became a formidable opponent to Demetrius, who was now king of Macedonia and the leading man in the Greek world.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PY/PYRRHUS.htm (1114 words)

	Epirus Did You Mean epirus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Despotate of Epirus is the independent Greek state that was established after the fall of Constantinople to the Crusaders (1204).
		But the Greeks resented the fact that northern Epirus had been given to the new state of Albania, despite the mostly Greek character of the area and in big towns like Korytsá (Korçë in Albanian) and Argyrókastro (Gjirokastër).
		Following the German withdrawal from Greece in 1944, the nationalist resistance movements tried to reclaim northern Epirus for Greece, but the Communist Party of Greece, which controlled the largest part of the Greek resistance movement, supported their fellow Communists in Albania in returning the area to Albanian control.
	www.did-you-mean.com /Epirus.html (1689 words)

	Epirus (region)
		The historical region of Epirus is generally regarded as extending from the Bay of Vlorë in Albania to the Gulf of Arta or Ambracian Gulf in Greece.
		On the death of Arybbas, Alexander of Epirus succeeded to the throne and the title King of Epirus.
		Epirus became the westernmost province of the Eastern Roman Empire (subsequently the Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire), ruled from Constantinople when the empire was divided in two in 395 AD.
	articles.gourt.com /?article=Epirus+(region) (1836 words)

	Aeacides of Epirus - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Aeacides (Аι̉ακίδες), the son of Arymbas, king of Epirus, succeeded to the throne on the death of his cousin Alexander, who was slain in Italy.
		(Liv., VIII 24.) Aeacides married Phthia, the daughter of Menon of Pharsalus, by whom he had the celebrated Pyrrhus and two daughters, Deïdameia and Troïas.
		But becoming tired of the Macedonian rule, the Epirots recalled Aeacides in BC 313; Cassander immediately sent an army against him under Philip, who conquered him the same year in two battles, in the last of which he was killed.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Aeacides_of_Epirus (218 words)

	EPIRUS, or EPEIRUS - Online Information article about EPIRUS, or EPEIRUS
		BONE (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, in many of which it is confined to the shank of the leg, as in the German Bein)
		Aeacides, the son of Arymbas II., succeeded Alexander.
		long after, Epirus was overrun by the Samians and Albanians, and the confusion which had been growing since the division of the empire was worse confounded still.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /EMS_EUD/EPIRUS_or_EPEIRUS.html (1678 words)

	BOPEIO HPEIROS EINAI ELLHNIKH NORTHERN EPIRUS IS GREEK - www.ezboard.com
		Epirus, whose civilizing center was the most ancient and venerable of the Hellenic oracles, the Dodonian Oracle, includes the northwest section of Hellenic area from the Gulf of Ambracia to the Genousos River.
		Epirus suffered many tribulations by the Turkish-Albanians of Ali Pasha, who directed a coercive conversion to Islam, conflagrations, pillages, and other tortures, the kind of which humanity had not known until then so that many cities and towns fled before the hordes of this savage sand trap.
		Upper Albania, from the Montenegrin frontier to the river Shkumbi; Lower Albania, or Epirus, from the Shkumbi to the Gulf of Arta; and Eastern Albania, to the east of the Schar-Dagh chain....
	p083.ezboard.com /fbalkansfrm37.showMessage?topicID=59.topic (9891 words)

	Banks/Dean Genealogy - Person Page 226
		Phthia (?) married King Aeacides of Epirus, son of Menon IV (?).
		Olympias (?) married King Alexander II of Epirus, son of King Pyrrus II of Epirus and Lanassa (?).
		King Alexander II of Epirus married Olympias (?), daughter of King Pyrrus II of Epirus and Antigone (?).
	www.gordonbanks.com /gordon/family/2nd_Site/geb-p/p226.htm (2456 words)

	Pyrrhus of Epirus (1)
		Pyrrhus (319/318-272): king of Epirus (306-302 and 297-272) and Macedonia (288-284 and 273-272), well-known for his war against the Romans.
		The tribe of the Molossians (in the interior) joined forces with the Thesprotians and the Chaones, and a more powerful state started to develop, with a king (Neoptolemus I), magistrates, coinage, a court, an assembly of tribal delegates, and a close alliance with king Philip of Macedonia.
		Pyrrhus was born in 319/318 as the son of Aeacides and a Greek lady from Thessaly named Phthia, the daughter of a hero in the War of Greek liberation against the Macedonians (the "Lamian war").
	www.livius.org /ps-pz/pyrrhus/pyrrhus01.html (1292 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Pyrrhus the Eagle, King of Epirus: 319 - 272 BC
		The territory of Epirus was the mountainous coastal region of modern north-western Greece and southern Albania.
		Epirus was a poor land, rich only in warriors.
		He was succeeded by Aeacides, father of Pyrrhus, but in 317BC Aeacides was driven from Epirus by a rebellion
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A3533726 (3018 words)

	Epirus in Greece, introduced by Almi Yachts
		Epirus is one of the most beautiful parts of Greece, when at the same time is reckoned as the poorest region of the European Union!!
		Beginning late of 1350s until 1416 parts of Epirus were ruled by Albanian aristocrat families Shpata and Zenebishi.
		Preveza: The Prefecture of Preveza is in the southern part of the District of Epirus.
	www.almiyachts.com /greek_islands/ionian_islands/epirus/epirus.html (1334 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Pyrrhus the Eagle, King of Epirus: The Fool of Hope, 319-272 BC
		The territory of Epirus was the mountainous coastal region of modern northwestern Greece and southern Albania.
		He was succeeded by Aeacides, father of Pyrrhus, but in 317 BC Aeacides was driven from Epirus by a rebellion
		Glaucias, King of Illyria, gave sanctuary to Pyrrhus as a child, and placed him on the throne of Epirus when he was 12.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A2583993 (3030 words)

	Hellenistic Queens Primary Sources
		Being informed that Aeacides king of the Epirotes was about to come to the aid of Olympias with an army, he sent out Atarrhias as general, giving him an army and ordering him to meet the Epirotes.
		This was something that had never happened in Epirus from the time when Neoptolemus the son of Achilles was king of the land; for sons had always succeeded to their fathers' authority and had died on the throne up to this time.
		Cassander received Epirus in his alliance and sent Lyciscus to it as regent and general, at which the people throughout Macedonia who had previously held apart from the alliance abandoned the fortunes of Olympias in despair and joined themselves to Cassander.
	lamar.colostate.edu /~jgaughan/courses/306/HellenisticQueens.htm (4144 words)

	PYRRHUS (c. 318–272 B.C.) - Online Information article about PYRRHUS (c. 318–272 B.C.)
		Epirus, son of Aeacides, and a member of the royal See also:
		Phrygia, in which they were decisively defeated by the combined armies of Seleucus Nicator and See also:
		throne of Epirus, and became a formidable opponent to Demetrius, who was now king of Macedonia and the leading See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PYR_RAY/PYRRHUS_c_318272_BC_.html (1538 words)

	Gopher, a Witness Tree column by Joe Smith
		His father Aeacides, king of Epirus, entered the chamber.
		He held out a finger and the newborn gripped it with his small, pink fist, as though it were the haft of a sword, and wouldn't let go.
		Aeacides laughed, pleased that his martial son couldn't wait to teach those Latin upstarts with their barbarous tongue a lesson.
	www.coastnews.com /WitnessTree2.htm (993 words)

	Ethics of the Hellenistic Era by Sanderson Beck
		Olympias, supported by prince Aeacides of Epirus, marched back to Macedonia, imprisoned and had killed Philip III and his wife Eurydice (who chose suicide by hanging) and a hundred prominent friends of Cassander.
		Alexander of Epirus had also died, and the Aetolians were demanding the northern half of Acarnania, which Epirus thought belonged to them.
		In Epirus after Macedonian support was withdrawn, a revolution overthrew the royal dynasty in 231 BC, establishing a federal republic and renouncing its claims in Acarnania.
	www.san.beck.org /EC23-Hellenistic.html (20398 words)

	Craterus oddd.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Macedonia (region) Macedon (or Macedonia from Greek ; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was the name of an ancient kingdom on the northern edge of ancient Greece, bordering the Greek kingdom of Epirus on the west and the non-Greek state of Thrace to the east.
		Polyperchon allied himself to Eumenes in Asia, but was driven from Macedonia by Cassander, and fled to Epirus with the infant king Alexander IV and his mother Roxane.
		In Epirus he joined forces with Olympias, Alexander's mother, and together they invaded Macedon again.
	craterus.en.oddd.org (10020 words)

	Philip_III_of_Macedon - Encyclopedia online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Another important designation was that of Eumenes as new commander of the Macedonian forces in Asia, dismissing in this way Polyperchon's strongest ally, Antigonus Monphthalmus.
		But all this was to prove exceedingly volatile: that same year (317) Polyperchon and Olympias, allied with the king of Epirus Aeacides, invaded Macedon, while the Macedonian troops refused to fight the son of Alexander, whom the invaders had brought with them.
		Philip and Eurydice had no choice but to escape, only to be captured at Amphipolis and thrown into prison.
	en.lorefans.com /article_Philip_III_of_Macedon (842 words)

	The Diadochi: The death of Philip Arridaeus
		The story is told by Diodorus of Sicily (World history 19.11).
		But Polyperchon, with [king] Aeacides of Epirus as his ally, collected an army and restored Olympias and the son of Alexander to the throne.
		So, as soon as he heard that Eurydice was at Euia in Macedonia with her army, he hastened against her with the intention of deciding the campaign in a single battle.
	www.livius.org /di-dn/diadochi/diadochi_t15.html (501 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)