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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Epirus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		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 ruled from the 6th century by a dynasty, the Molossians, who claimed to be descended from Neoptolemus, son of Achilles.
		The main importance of Epirus to the Greek cities (polis) was that it was the location of the shrine and the oracle at Dodona, second in importance only to the oracle at Delphi.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Epirus (1673 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Albania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Shkumbin River, which virtually bisects the country, separates speakers of the northern dialect (Gheg) from those of the southern dialect (Tosk; the official dialect).
		The area then comprised parts of Illyria and Epirus and was known to the ancient Greeks for its mines.
		While nominally (until 1347) under Byzantine rule, N Albania was invaded (7th cent.) by the Serbs, and S Albania was annexed (9th cent.) by Bulgaria.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Albania_History.asp (2176 words)

	Top20Albania.com - Your Top20 Guide to Albania! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		One of the first written evidences of the use of the word "Albanoi" as the name of an Illyrian tribe in what is now north-central Albania goes back to the AD 130, in a work of Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy).
		This process was completed over the second millennium BC and did not really affect northern or central Albania, an area that at the time presented the image of a political vacuum (in essence a historical paradox).
		Only during the 6th century did the Illyrians venture significant raids against their immediate neighbours, the Greek kingdom of the Molossians in northern Epirus (present southern Albania), the kingdom of Macedonia and the semi-barbaric kingdom of Paionia.
	www.top20albania.com (2153 words)

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