Chaonia
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The Chaonia / Chaonie landscape ( Greek : Χαονία ) comprised the settlement area of the Chaonians on the coast of the Ionian Sea on the Strait of Corfu in ancient times . Today belongs Chaonia mainly to Albania (such as circles Delvina and Saranda ), partly to Greece .
location
Chaonia belonged to Epirus and extended roughly from Amantia in the north to the Thyamis river in the south, including the Cestrine landscape . In the southeast, Chaonia bordered on the Molossis , in the south on Thesprotia , and in the northeast the border cannot be drawn so clearly.
The main places were Buthroton , Onchesmus , Phoinike (near Finiq near Delvina ) and Ilium .
Origin of name
The region was probably named after the Epirotic tribe of the Chaonians who lived there and had their heyday in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Chr. Had. According to Virgil , Aeneid 3,335, the area was named after Chaon , a brother of Helenos and thus son of Priam . When Helenus became king in Epirus, he named part of his land Chaonia in honor of his brother .
Today the area belongs partly to Greece and partly to Albania.
literature
- Appian: Historia Romana , Book IX: Macedonian and Illyrian Wars
- Julian Bogdani: Il Ruolo Di Phoinike Entro la Symmachìa ed Entro il Koinòn tòn Epeirotòn
- Sandro De Maria (Ed.): Phoinike. La città e il suo territorio. (= Percorsi di archeologia. 1). Bologna 2001. ISBN 88-7814-282-4
Coordinates: 39 ° 52 ′ 40 ″ N , 20 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E