Bérénice
Cité antique · Grèce
- Abandonné
- inconnu
- Fondé
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordonnées
- 39.103, 20.643
Pourquoi abandonné
🏛️ Ruines antiques
Détecté automatiquement d’après le texte : ancient city of Epirus
Histoire
Berenice or Berenike was a Greek city in the region of ancient Epirus, near current Preveza. It was founded by Pyrrhus II of Epirus. According to some sources the city was founded by Pyrrhus I of Epirus sometime following his return from Ptolemaic Egypt in c.297 BC - Plutarch states that, in honour of his mother-in-law, Berenike I, Pyrrhus had "built a city in the peninsula of Epirus, called Berenicis/Berenike
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