Historical regions in Greece

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Attica ( ; ; ), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and the core city of the metropolitan area, as well as its surrounding suburban cities and towns. It is a peninsula projecting into the Aegean Sea, bordering on Boeotia to the north and Megaris to the west. The mines of Laurion were an important mining region located at Lavrio, on the southern tip of the peninsula.

geographical and historical region in southeastern Europe, today forming parts of the Republics of Greece, North Macedonia and Bulgaria

Epirus () is a geographical and historical region in southeastern Europe, now shared between Greece and Albania. Classical Epirus roughly lay between the Pindus Mountains in the east and the Ionian Sea in the west, and between the Acroceraunian Mountains in the north and the Ambracian Gulf in the south. It is currently divided between the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece and the counties of Gjirokastër and Vlorë in southern Albania. The largest city and seat of the Greek administrative region of Epirus is Ioannina.

Aetolia () is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, corresponding to the eastern part of the modern regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania. Ancient Aetolia was the core of the Aetolian League and also included parts of modern Evrytania.

peninsula in south Peloponnese, Greece

Acarnania () is a region of west-central Greece that lies along the Ionian Sea, west of Aetolia, with the Achelous River for a boundary, and north of the gulf of Calydon, which is the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth. Today it forms the western part of the regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania. The capital and principal city in ancient times was Stratos.

Chameria (also spelled Çameria; ; ) is a historical region along the coast of the Ionian Sea in southwestern Albania and northwestern Greece, traditionally associated with the Albanian ethnic subgroup of the Chams. For a brief period (1909-1912), three kazas (Filat, Aydonat and Margiliç) were combined by the Ottomans into an administrative district called Çamlik sancak. During the interwar period, the toponym was in common use and the official name of the area above the Acheron river in all Greek state documents. The term is used today mostly by Albanians and it is obsolete in Greek, surviving

thumb|300px|Lynkestis had been originally an autonomous kingdom in Upper Macedonia outside the original territory of the Kingdom of Macedon (blue area). After Philip II's expansion in the second half of the 4th century BC Lynkestis was incorporated into his kingdom (light blue area). Lynkestis, Lyncestis, Lyngistis, Lynkos or Lyncus ( or Λύγκος or Lyncus) was a region and principality traditionally located in Upper Macedonia. It was the northernmost mountainous region of Upper Macedonia, located east of the Prespa Lakes.

thumb|right|250px|2009 topographic map of the Prespa region

thumb|right|350px|Map of the Kingdom of Macedon with Bisaltia located in the eastern districts of the kingdom.Bisaltia () or Bisaltica was an ancient country which was bordered by Sintice on the north, Crestonia on the west, Mygdonia on the south and was separated by Odomantis on the north-east and Edonis on the south-east by river Strymon.The eponymous inhabitants, known as the Bisaltae, were a Thracian people. Later, the region was annexed by the kingdom of Macedon and became one of its districts. The most important town in Bisaltia was the Greek city of Argilos. There was also a river named

Greek historical region of Macedonia

Megaris () was a small but populous state of ancient Greece, west of Attica and north of Corinthia, whose inhabitants were adventurous seafarers, credited with deceitful propensities. The capital, Megara, was famous for white marble and fine clay. Mount Geraneia dominated the center of the region. The island of Salamis was originally under the control of Megara, before it was lost to Athens in the late 7th century BCE.

ancient region in Peloponnese, Greece

thumb|upright=1.5|Mygdonia among the other districts of the kingdom of Macedon thumb|upright=1.5|Borders of Mygdonia with Chalcidice

thumb|right|350px|Map of the Kingdom of Macedon with Elimiotis located in the south-western districts of the kingdom

Former province in Thessaly, Greece

thumb|200px|right|Map showing the ancient regions of central, western and northern Greece thumb|upright=1.3|Map of Ancient Greek region of Epirus

upper/western part of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia

geographical sub-division of the Hellenic world

thumb|right|350px|Map of the Kingdom of Macedon with Eordaea located in the western districts of the kingdom.

Almopia (), or Enotia (Greek: Ενωτία), also known in the Middle Ages as Moglena (Greek: Μογλενά, Macedonian and Bulgarian: Меглен or Мъглен), is a municipality and a former province (επαρχία) of the Pella regional unit in Macedonia, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Aridaia. The municipality has an area of 985.817 km2.

thumb|right|Map of the Kingdom of Macedon with Crestonia located in the central-eastern districts of the kingdom.|305x305px thumb|right|Approximate location of the Krestones|306x306px Crestonia (or Crestonice) () was an ancient region immediately north of Mygdonia. The Echeidorus river, which flowed through Mygdonia into the Thermaic Gulf, had its source in Crestonia. It was partly occupied by a remnant of the Pelasgi, who spoke a different language from their neighbors (Thracians and Paeonians); later the Greeks. The main towns of Crestonia were Creston (Crestone) and Gallicum (Romanized nam

Ainis (, , Modern Greek , ) or Aeniania (), was a region of ancient Greece located near Lamia in modern Central Greece, roughly corresponding to the upper valley of the Spercheios river.

ancient region of northern Greece

thumb|400px|right|The Chech region in Bulgaria and [[Greece.]] Chech () or Chechko () is a Bulgarian term describing a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe in modern-day Bulgaria and Greece. It consists of about 60 settlements and was traditionally mostly Pomak with Orthodox Greek and Bulgarian minorities.

Dolopia () is a mountainous region of Greece, located north of Aetolia.

right|thumb|200px|Kynouria province Cynuria (, Kynouria or , Kynouriake) is an ancient district on the eastern coast of the Peloponnese, between the Argolis and Laconia, so called from the Cynurians, one of the most ancient tribes in the peninsula. It was believed to have taken its name from the mythical Cynurus.

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thumb|Seal of Andronikos, protospatharios and [[krites of Boleron, Strymon, and Thessalonica]] Boleron () was the name of a region and a Byzantine province in southwestern Thrace during the Middle Ages.

Perrhaebia () was the northernmost district of ancient Thessaly, where the tribe of the Perrhaebi lived. Major cities were: Pythion, Doliche, Azorus, Oloosson and Phalanna the capital. Perrhaebia was part of Macedonia between the 4th and 1st centuries BC.

thumb|Histiaeotis in NW Thessaly Histiaeotis () or Hestiaeotis (Ἑστιαιῶτις - Hestiaiotis) was a northwest district of ancient Thessaly, part of the Thessalian tetrarchy, roughly corresponding to the modern Trikala regional unit. Anciently, it was inhabited by the Hestiaeotae (Ἑστιαιῶται), and the Peneius may be described in general as its southern boundary. It occupied the passes of Mount Olympus, and extended westward as far as Pindus. The demonym of the district's inhabitants is Histiaeotes (Ἱστιαιῶται, Histiaiotai). In epigraphy, the regional name occurs as Hestiotai, ambassadors in Athens

Karli-Eli (, ), also Karli-Ili or Karlo-Ili, was an Ottoman province () in the region of Aetolia-Acarnania in Western Greece from the late 15th century until the Greek War of Independence.

Vagenetia or Vagenitia () was a medieval region on the coast of Epirus, roughly corresponding to modern Thesprotia. The region likely derived its name from the Slavic tribe of the Baiounitai. It is first attested as a sclavinia under some sort of Byzantine control in the 8th/9th centuries. It passed under Bulgarian rule in the late 9th century, and returned to Byzantine rule in the 11th. It passed to the Despotate of Epirus after 1204, where it formed a separate province. Vagenetia came under Albanian rule in the 1360s, until conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1430.

thumb|200px|right|Map showing the ancient regions of central, western and northern Greece. Parauaea () was an ancient Greek territory in the region of Epirus. The inhabitants of the area, a Thesprotian Greek tribe, were known as Parauaioi (; also Parauaei or Parauaeans), which meant "those dwelling beside" the Aous river.

thumb|right|350px|Map of the Kingdom of Macedon with the district of Sintike located in the north-east.

ancient Greek region

Region of Ancient Greece

home region of the ancient Edones people

thumb|The area of Roumlouki Roumlouki (, from the Ottoman Turkish Rûmlık, "place of the Rûm") or Kampania (Καμπανία), is the traditional name of the northeastern part of Imathia located in Macedonia, Greece, specifically the plain of the lower Aliakmon River.

thumb|250px|Map of the Peloponnese with its principal locations during the late Middle Ages Skorta (, ) was a name used in the 13th and 14th centuries, during the period of Frankish rule in the Peloponnese, to designate the mountainous western half of the region of Arcadia, which separated the coastal plains of the western (Elisian) and southwestern (Messinian) Peloponnese from the Arcadian plateau in the interior. The name is found chiefly in the various-language editions of the Chronicle of the Morea. It also appears as Skodra and Skorda (Σκορδὰ, Σκοδρὰ), in the chronicle of Pseudo-Dorotheos