Epirus has maintained a separate identity from the rest of Greece since 1204, when a breakaway kingdom started ruling out of the walled city of Arta — a dominion they maintained for 250 years.

Greek President Constantine Tassoulas earlier this week described Chalkias as a “legendary figure.” Epirus’ folk music, slowly unfolding and often centered around the clarinet, is steeped in ...

How Epirots, Euboeans, and Karpathians ended up in Iran – Their major contribution to the completion of the grand railway ...

It was a solemn prelude to his funeral which will take place in the rugged highlands of Epirus, in northwest Greece, where he first took up the clarinet as a boy of 11. Greek President Constantine ...

He began playing the clarinet at the age of 11 — He lived in America for 20 years, where he promoted Greece's traditional ...

Greece’s Metaxas Line—pillboxes, barbed wire, trenches—was ironically strongest opposite neutral Bulgaria; nevertheless it offered barriers. The first line ran from Fiorina to the sea.