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	Despotate of Epirus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Despotate of Epirus was one of the medieval Greek successor states of the Byzantine Empire, founded in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade in 1204.
		The Despotate was founded in by Michael I Ducas, cousin of the Byzantine emperors Isaac II Angelus and Alexius III.
		Epirus soon became the new home of many Greek refugees from Constantinople, Thessaly, and the Peloponnese, and Michael was described as a second Noah, rescuing men from the Latin flood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Despotate_of_Epirus (1262 words)

	Encyclopedia: Epirus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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 Greeks early in the first millennium BC but remained a frontier area contested with the Illyrian peoples of the Adriatic coast The Gulf of Corinth is the body of water separating Peloponnese from western mainland Greece.
		Epirus was ruled from the 6th century by a dynasty, the Molossians, who claimed to be descended from Neoptolemus, son of Achilles.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Epirus (3948 words)

	AllRefer.com - Epirus, despotate of (Ancient History, Late Roman And Byzantine) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1222 the despot of Epirus took Salonica from the Latins and claimed the title despot of Thessalonica.
		For a time the despotate of Epirus was a rival of the Greek empire of Nicaea (see Nicaea, empire of) in the struggle for the restoration of the Byzantine Empire.
		The despotate of Epirus played an important role in the preservation of Hellenism in W Greece.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/E/Epirus-d.html (295 words)

	Epirus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Epirus was a kingdom in northwestern Greece, also known as Molossia (from the name of its inhabitants), founded under the patronage of Macedonia ca355 BCE.
		The king of Epirus, Alexander, invaded southern Italy and was killed at Paestum (Magna Graecia) in 332.
		Epirus was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in the 14th century.
	www.worldhistoryplus.com /e/epirus.html (336 words)

	Epirus
		Epirus was separated from Illyria to the north by the Ceraunian Mountains, and by the famous Pindus River flowing from Thessaly.
		Ancient Epirus was a homeland of the Dorian people, whose invasion of Greece in the tenth century BC initiated the Dark Ages of Greece.
		The Despot was defeated by armies of the Nicaean lineage, who later re-captured Constantinople from the Latins in 1261 and re-formed the Byzantine Empire.
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	Epirus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Epirus (region) - a historical and geographical region of the southwestern Balkans
		Despotate of Epirus - one of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire
		Epirus vetus or Epirus nova - provinces of the Roman Empire
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epirus (126 words)

	Despotate of Epirus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Despotate of Epirus is the independent Greek state that was established after the fall of Constantinople to the Crusaders (1204).
		From the middle of the 14th until the beginning of the 15th century, a large part of the Despotate was seized by Serbs and Albanians.
		The period of the Despotate of Epirus was especially flourishing for the arts.
	www.epcon.gr /hypertour/epirus/html_refs/rf_90.html (306 words)

	ANISTORITON: Viewpoints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Despotate of Epiros or Epirus was one of the many by-products of the Fourth Crusade and the capture of Constantinople by the Latins in 1204.
		Eventually, the Despotate of Epiros was transformed from a mere resistance movement into a kingdom, whose ruler proudly adopted the title of Emperor of the Romans in defiance of the self-appointed Emperor at Nicaea; and the overthrow of the Latin Empire and the recovery of Constantinople became its aim.
		The Despotate of Epiros was strengthened and gained in prestige during the reign of the dynasty of Angeli-Komneni.
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/v981.htm (1837 words)

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		Epirus is largely made up of great limestone ridges oriented northwest-southeast and north-south; they reach up to 8,600 feet (2,600 m) in height and fall off more steeply to the west.
		In the Neolithic period Epirus was populated by seafarers along the coast and by shepherds and hunters from the southwestern Balkans who brought with them the Greek language.
		Epirus itself remained culturally backward during this time, but Mycenean remains have been found at two religious shrines of great antiquity in the region: the Oracle of the Dead on the Acheron River, familiar to the heroes of Homer's Odyssey, and the Oracle of Zeus at Dodona, to whom Achilles prayed in the Iliad.
	www.grecian.net /GREECE/epirus/epirus.htm (975 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Despotate of Epirus
		Epirus (Greek, “mainland”), kingdom in the northwestern part of ancient Greece.
		Pyrrhus (318?-272 bc), king of Epirus (307-272 bc), a district in ancient Greece.
		Acarnania, mountainous, wooded region in the northwestern section of ancient Greece, separated from Epirus on the north by the Ambracian Gulf, from...
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		Epirus wasseparated from Illyria to the north by the Ceraunian Mountains, and by the famous Pindus River flowing from Thessaly.
		Ancient Epirus was a homeland of the Dorian people, one of the Hellenic (Greek) races, whose invasion of Greece in the tenth century BC initiated the Dark Ages of Greece.
		Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, one of the monarchswho divided the empire of Alexander the Great, was known for his campaigns against the Romans in Italy (see also Pyrrhic victory) andfor his brief rule of Macedonia.
	www.therfcc.org /%C7am-69441.html (484 words)

	Despotate of Epirus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Epirus soon became the new home of many Greek refugees from Constantinople, Thessaly, and the Peloponnese,and Michael was described as a second Noah, rescuing men from the Latin flood.
		After Michael VIII restored the empire in Constantinople in 1261 he frequently harassedEpirus, and forced Michael's son Nicephorus to marry his niece Anna Cantacuzena in 1265.Michael considered Epirus a vassal state, although Michael II and Nicephorus continuedto ally with the Princes of Achaea and the Dukes of Athens.
		In 1267 Corcyra and much of Epirus were captured by Charles of Anjou, and in 1271 Michael II died, although Michael VIIIdid not attempt to annex Epirus directly.
	www.therfcc.org /despotate-of-epirus-54216.html (1133 words)

	Despotate: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Despotate is a State (State: The way something is with respect to its main attributes) ruled under a Despot/Despoina (in this context it should not be confused with Despotism (Despotism: Dominance through threat of punishment and violence)).
		The title of Despot was created by Manuel I Comnenus (Manuel I Comnenus: more facts about this subject) in the 12th century as the highest title after the Byzantine Emperor.
		Historical Despotates include The Despotate of Epirus (Epirus: An ancient area on the Ionian Sea that flourished as a kingdom in the 3rd century BC; located in northwest Greece and southern Albania) and The Despotate of Morea (Morea: the name morea () for peloponnesos first appears...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/despotate (114 words)

	Empire of Trebizond - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		When Constantinople fell to the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Empire of Trebizond was one of the three smaller Greek states that emerged from the wreckage, along with the Empire of Nicaea and the Despotate of Epirus.
		Alexius, a grandson of Byzantine emperor Andronicus I Comnenus and a descendant of King David the Builder of Georgia through his great grandmother Katay (daughter of David the Builder), made Trebizond his capital and asserted a claim to be the legitimate successor of the Byzantine Empire.
		While the Despotate of Epirus came to an end sixty years after its birth, and the Nicaean Empire managed to retake Constantinople and extinguish the feeble Latin Empire, only to be conquered in 1453 by the Ottoman Empire, Trebizond managed to outlive is competitors in Epirus and Nicaea.
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	Epirus
		It extends from the peaks of the Pindus mountains to the shores of the Ionian Sea and is separated into four administrative districts: loannina, Thesprotia, Preveza and Arta.
		At the end of the 4th century B.C., Arybbas came to the throne and gave his niece Olympias in marriage to Philip II of Macedonia.
		Later, most of the region 's inhabitants were forced to settle at Nikopolis, built by Octavian (Augustus) to celebrate his victory at Actium (31 B.C.) over the fleets of Antony and Cleopatra.
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	History: Despotate of Epirus / Angevins
		It was one of the three independent Greek states which have taken the place of the Byzantine Empire after its dissolution by the crusaders, under a prince of the Byzantine House of Angeloi Comneni who assumed the title of 'Despot'.
		The founder of the Despotate Michael I, was murdered shortly after he took over Corfu in 1214.
		Eschinard was shortly afterwards assassinated on the order of the Despot Michael II who tried to recover the island but failed, as the leader of Eschinard's troops surrender the island to the Angevins of Naples in 1267.
	www.corfuxenos.gr /History/despotate.htm (477 words)

	despotate of Epirus -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Epirus also spelled Epiros (1204–1337), Byzantine principality in the Balkans that was a centre of resistance for Byzantine Greeks during the western European occupation of Constantinople (1204–61).
		The despotate was founded in what is now southern Albania and northwestern Greece by Michael Comnenus Ducas, a member of the dethroned Byzantine imperial house.
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	Epirus
		Epirus, ancient country of Greece, on the Ionian Sea and W of Macedon and Thessaly, a region now occupied by NW Greece and S Albania.
		At the time of Homer, Epirus was known as the home of the oracle of Dodona.
		After the Crusaders had conquered Constantinople, the despotate of Epirus, larger than ancient Epirus, was set up.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0817501.html (337 words)

	ioannina
		Ever since then, Ioannina will follow the historical fate of the Despotate of Epirus which, encompassing an area going from Durrks to Lepanto (Nafpaktos in Greek) will be the outpost of Byzantine feudalism against the various raids of Franks,Venetians, Albanians and Serbs.
		During this period, the seat of the religious head priest of the Despotate is transferred to Ioannina, the bishopric of witch becomes a metropolis, to counterbalance the establishment of the Catholic archbishopric at Nafpacto, when the city was ceded to Filippo Tarantino.
		In 1386, against the threat of Albanian tribal chiefs, Buondelmonti is proclaimed despot of the city, bringing back the metropolis to its seat and implementing a wise administration of the population.
	ioannina.uoi.gr /_en/history/byzantine_period.html (665 words)

	Western Greece : Introduction \| Frommers.com
		Epirus and its capital city, Ioannina, seem immune to the throngs who crowd the beaches and restaurants, the ferries and ancient sites, of so many parts of Greece these days.
		Epirus itself was reduced to a Roman province after 168 B.C. During the Middle Ages, Greece's whole western region was constantly prey to invaders, and with the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204, some Greeks decided to set up a new state with Ioannina as the capital, the so-called Despotate of Epirus.
		Epirus became a battleground twice more, against the invading Italians and Germans in World War II, and then in the Greek civil war.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/westerngreece/1671010001.html (800 words)

	IV/33 Epirot Byzantine (1204-1340 AD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although isolated somewhat by geography from the Romanian Franks to the south and bolstered by Greek refugees fleeing the Latin conquest, Mikhail was faced with the rising tide of Venice to the northwest and the hostile Lombard kingdom of Henry of Thessaloniki (Salonika) in the east.
		Thereafter, the Despotes of Epiros and Thessaly ruled largely independently until the death of Despot Ioannis II Doukas of Thessaly in 1318 AD without heir resulted in a division of Thessaly between the Palaiologan Byzantines restored at Constantinople and the (Catalan) Duchy of Athens.
		That same year, the assassination of Thomas Doukas, Despot of Epiros saw the installation of the Orsinis (powerful Italian magnates in service of the Pope) as rulers of Epiros until the region was reclaimed by Andronikos III Palaiologos in 1340 AD, thus ending the Epirot Byzantine DBA list.
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	Despotate of Epirus (from history of Greece) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Despotate of Epirus (from history of Greece) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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	DESPOTATE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The title of Despot was created by Manuel I Comnenus in the 12th century as the highest title after the Byzantine Emperor.
		Historical Despotates include The Despotate of Epirus and The Despotate of Morea.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/de/Despotate.htm (61 words)

	Epirus on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		EPIRUS [Epirus], ancient country of Greece, on the Ionian Sea and W of Macedon and Thessaly, a region now occupied by NW Greece and S Albania.
		Economopoulos Magnum Photos 01-01-1997 Epirus region.Town of Preveza.Keywords:man 18effect darkness half light western europe epirus europe greece preveza continent greekgeographical european greece.
		Greece, Epirus, Thesprotia, Giromeri village.It is an old tradition that on Easter Monday, a band of folk musicians visits the cemetery to play each dead person, his/her favorite song in l (PAR241312)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/Epirus.asp (707 words)

	Macedonia during the Byzantine Period (1204-1430)
		The Byzantine empire was temporarily succeeded by the non-Frankish states of the Empire of Nikaia, and the Despotate of Epirus.
		he hegemon of the Despotate of Epirus, Theodoros Doukas acquired the lands of Macedonia, from the Franks.
		Palaiologos defeated (summer 1259) the allied forces of the Despotate of Epirus and the Franks in the Pelagonia valley, and extended the empire of Nikaia to the Adriadic Sea.
	www.cc.ece.ntua.gr /~conster/English/PageData/mac_byzant_1204_1430.htm (511 words)

	Despotate of Epirus (from history of Greece) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Despotate of Epirus (from history of Greece) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The so-called despotate of Epirus (ruled by a despotes, or lord), which usually included Cephalonia, was established by Michael I Komnenos Doukas, who established effective control after 1204 over northwestern Greece and a considerable part of Thessaly.
		His brother and successor Theodore was able to retake Thessaloníki from the Latins in 1224, where he was crowned as emperor, …
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