| Chaonia (Χαονία) | |
|---|---|
| Region of Ancient Greece | |
 Theatre of Buthrotum | |
| Location | Northern/Northwestern Epirus |
| Tribal state (later subdivision of Epirus) | 8th–2nd centuries BC |
| Language | Northwestern Greek |
| Capital | Phoenice |
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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]
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]
- ^ Errington, Malcolm. A History of Macedonia. University of California Press, 1990.
- ^ The Cambridge Ancient History: Vol. 6, the Fourth Century BC.
- ^ Chapinal-Heras 2021, p. 20.
- ^ Chapinal-Heras 2021, p. 21.
- ^ Virgil. Aeneid, 3.