Epirus

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A traditional geographic region lying partly in northwestern Greece (where it includes Arta, Ioannina, Preveza and Thesprotia) and Albania (an area known as Northern Epirus).
• A larger historical kingdom in roughly the same region, widely extended by the Greek general and king Pyrrhus during the early Hellenistic period.
• region in northwest Greece (country); one of the thirteen peripheries (administrative regions) of modern Greece.

Origin

• From Latin Ēpīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος ("mainland").