Kingdoms of Greece


Epirus Situated in the northern centre of Ancient Greece, immediately west of Macedonia.
	Echetos
	Neoptolemos
	Elenos
	Molossos
	(Unknown)
	Sibilynthos
469 - 423 BC	Admitos
423 - 395 BC	Tharypas
c.395 BC	Alcetas I	First Aeacid king.
	Neoptelemus I
360 - 342 BC	Arybbas
342 - 331 BC	Alexander I
331 - 323 BC	Neoptelemus II
323 - 322 BC	Arybbas	Restored.
322 - 317 BC	Aeacides
319 - 315 BC	Polyperchon, Regent of Macedonia, allies himself to Eumenes during the Second War of the Diadochi, but is driven from Macedonia by Cassander, and flees to Epirus with the infant king Alexander IV and his mother Roxana. The new regent, Cassander, captures Alexander IV and Roxana, and Eumenes is defeated in Asia and murdered by his own troops.
317 - 313 BC	Neoptelemus II	Restored.
313 BC	Aeacides	Restored.
313 - 307 BC	Alcetas II
307 - 302 BC	Pyrrhus I
302 - 297 BC	Neoptelemus II	Restored.
297 - 272 BC	Pyrrhus I	Restored. King of Macedonia (288-285 & 274-272 BC).
272 - c.240 BC	Alexander II
c.240 - ? BC	Pyrrhus II
? - 235 BC	Ptolemy
235 - 165 BC	Epirus is ruled by the Epirote League.
165 - 159 BC	Harops	Tyrant.
159 BC	The kingdom is conquered by Rome.

AD c.600 - 1204	Epirus is taken from the Eastern Roman Empire by Slavic émigrés. It is retaken by Byzantium in 916 and lost again, to Bulgaria, in 988. Once again regained by Byzantium in 1014 it is held until the Fourth Crusade's invasion of the empire in 1204. Claimants to the Byzantine throne set up rival powerbases, including one centered on Epirus.

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