To witch country does epirus belong?

Question

i've read in my books that Epirhus belongs to albania and it was an illyrian tribe in the south, and the greeks called them barbarians (this way they called every non greek populance), but know i read that greeks claim that epirus is greek. What's the truth?? Epirus is albanian or greek

i'm albanian, and i learnd my history, but its different from greeks, different from serbs.

Answer 1

to which country not witch-casting spells
but now not know-knowledge
i've learned

just some help with your english.

Answer 2

It's more complicated than that :

"Epirus (Greek Ήπειρος Ēpeiros (Doric Greek: Ἅπειρος Apeiros), Albanian: Epir or Epiri) is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in south-eastern Europe. It is divided between Greece, which possesses around 80% of the region, and southern Albania whose area is equivalent to the northern part of classical Epirus (see Northern Epirus). The Greek portion is called the periphery of Epirus in Greece."
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"The Greek name Epirus signifies "mainland" or "continent", to distinguish it from the Ionian islands off the Epirote coast. It was originally applied to the whole coast south to the Gulf of Patras."

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"The Dorians invaded Greece via Epirus and Macedonia at the end of the 2nd millennium BC (circa 1100 BC-1000 BC), though the reasons for their migration are obscure. The region's original inhabitants were driven southward into the Greek mainland by the invasion and by the early 1st millennium BC three principal clusters of Greek-speaking tribes had emerged in Epirus. These were the Chaones of northwestern Epirus, the Molossians in the centre and the Thesprotians in the middle."

"Unlike most other Greeks of the time, who lived in or around city-states such as Athens or Sparta, the Epirotes lived in small villages. Their region lay on the edge of the Greek world and was far from peaceful; for many centuries, it remained a frontier area contested with the Illyrian peoples of the Adriatic coast and interior. However, Epirus had a far greater religious significance than might have been expected given its geographical remoteness, due to the presence of the shrine and oracle at Dodona - regarded as second only to the more famous oracle at Delphi."

"The Epirotes seem to have initially been regarded with some disdain by the Greeks of the south. The 5th century BC historian Thucydides describes them as "barbarians" and the only Epirotes regarded as truly Greek were the Aeacidae, who claimed to be descended from Neoptolemus, son of Achilles. In opposite, other ancient Greek and Roman writers such as Apollodorus, Strabo, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Frontinus, Pausanias, Ptolemy, Cassius Dio and Eutropius, describe them as Greeks."

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"Following the German withdrawal from Greece in 1944 , the mountains of Epirus became the scene of some of the fiercest fighting of the Greek Civil War."

"It was during this time that Cham Albanians were forced out of Greek Epirus; members of the Cham community had collaborated with the Axis forces during the occupation of Greece, and when the Cham bands declined EDES' request to help them against ELAS, the former, with British support, attacked Cham villages killing 5,000 civilians and forcing about 35,000 to flee."

"The current President of the Hellenic Republic, Karolos Papoulias, is a native of Ioannina, Epirus."

"Epirus" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epirus_%28region%29