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Chaonians
Αncient Greek tribe that inhabited the region of Epirus / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chaonians (Ancient Greek: Χάονες, romanized: Cháones) were an ancient Greek people that inhabited the historical region of Epirus which today is part of northwestern Greece and southern Albania.[1][2] Together with the Molossians and the Thesprotians, they formed the main tribes of the northwestern Greek group.[1] In historical times on their southern frontier lay the Epirote kingdom of the Molossians, to their southwest stood the kingdom of the Thesprotians, and to their north the Illyrians.[3][4][5][6][7] By the 5th century BC, they had conquered and combined to a large degree with the neighboring Thesprotians and Molossians. The Chaonians were part of the Epirote League until 170 BC when their territory was annexed by the Roman Republic.
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