With the fall of Byzantine Empire in 1204 to European armies in the Fourth Crusade, Epirus was the basis of one of the three successor states, the others being Nicaea and Trebizond. Epirus was defeated by armies of the the Nicean lineage, who later re-captured Constantinople in 1261 and re-formed the Byzantine empire.
The area passed next fell in hands of the Turks. It was eventually ceded to Greece by the Turks in 1881. Between 1912 and 1916 Epirus had a brief period of independence. The northern part of its territory is now in Albania.
Adapted in part from The Americana.
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