Cheimerion
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Cheimerion was an ancient Greek
pre Hellenistic fortified settlement and port of Epirus
. Its acropolis was fortified since the archaic period. It is located in modern Stikgia , 5 km from Ephyra
. It is mentioned by Thucydides (1, Kerkyraica, 30 and 46) and Pausanias.
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...
pre Hellenistic fortified settlement and port of Epirus
Epirus
The name Epirus, from the Greek "Ήπειρος" meaning continent may refer to:-Geographical:* Epirus - a historical and geographical region of the southwestern Balkans, straddling modern Greece and Albania...
. Its acropolis was fortified since the archaic period. It is located in modern Stikgia , 5 km from Ephyra
Kichyro
Kichyros , later called Ephyra , was the capital of ancient Thesprotia, according to the myth built by the Pelasgian leader Thesprotos. Thucydides describes it as situated in the district Elaeatis in Thesprotia, away from the sea. At its site is the famous Necromanteion...
. It is mentioned by Thucydides (1, Kerkyraica, 30 and 46) and Pausanias.