Buthrotum was a coastal city of northern Epeirus, opposite the island of Corcyra. After the death of Neoptolemus, king of Epeirus, the Trojan seer Helenus, son of Priam and Hecuba, founded Buthrotum.
Bouthroton, Βουθρωτόν (Greek).
Buthrotum (Latin).
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Ephyra (Ephyre) was the principal city of Thesprotia, a region in southern Epeirus. Neoptolemus became the king of Ephyra after the Trojan War. Neoptolemus probabaly ruled all of Epeirus. (See family tree of the Aeacides)
Also called Epirus. Epeirus was the coastal region of Greece, stretching from the Ambracian Gulf in the south to the north in southern Albania. Epeirus could be divided into Thesprotia in the south with Ephyra as its major city, while Ambracia was...
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