Chaonia
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For the community in the United States, see Chaonia, Missouri.
Chaonia or Chaon (Ancient Greek: Χαονία or Χάων) was the name of the northwestern part of Epirus, the homeland of the Epirote Greek tribe of the Chaonians.[1][2] It was one of the three main areas of ethnic division of Epirus, the other being Molossia and Thesprotia.[3]
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Chaonia (Χαονία) | |
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Region of Ancient Greece | |
Location | Northern/Northwestern Epirus |
Tribal state (later subdivision of Epirus) | 8th–2nd centuries BC |
Language | Northwestern Greek |
Capital | Phoenice |
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Chaonia traditionally stretched between the Thyamis river in the south and the Akrokeraunian range in the north,[4] between present-day Greece and Albania. Its main town was called Phoenice. In Virgil's Aeneid, Chaon was the eponymous ancestor of the Chaonians.[5]