Definition of "Epirus"

A traditional geographic region lying partly in northwestern Greece (where it includes Arta, Ioannina, Preveza and Thesprotia) and Albania (an area known as Northern Epirus).  examples

(historical) A larger historical kingdom in roughly the same region, widely extended by the Greek general and king Pyrrhus during the early Hellenistic period.

A region in northwest Greece; one of the thirteen peripheries (administrative regions) of modern Greece.  examples