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The name 'Epirus', from the Greek "Ήπειρος" meaning continent may refer to:

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Political

Historical

People

Geographical

★ Epirus (region) - a historical and geographical region of the southwestern Balkans, straddling modern Greece and Albania

Political

★ Epirus (periphery) - one of the thirteen peripheries (administrative divisions) of Greece.

Historical

★ Despotate of Epirus - one of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire

★ The 'Principality of Epirus' may refer to the Despotate of Epirus (1205-1479) or to the ''pashalik'' of Ali Pasha of Tepelen and Yannina (''ca.'' 1787-1822).

★ The Kingdom of Epirus ruled by Pyrrhus

★ Epirus vetus and Epirus nova 'Old - and New Epirus' - provinces of the Roman Empire

People

★ Epirus from Greek mythology, daughter of Echion and Agave.