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Chaonia
Chaonia or Chaon (Greek Χαονία or Χάων) was the name of the northwestern part of Epirus, the homeland of the Greek tribe of the Chaonians.〔Errington, Malcolm. ''A History of Macedonia''. University of California Press, 1990.〕〔The Cambridge Ancient History: Vol. 6, the Fourth Century BC.〕 Its main town was called Phoenice. According to Virgil, Chaon was the eponymous ancestor of the Chaonians.〔Virgil. ''Aeneid'', 3.295.〕
==Geography==
Strabo in his ''Geography'',〔Strabo. ''The Geography''. Book VII, Chapter 7.5 ((LacusCurtis )).〕 places Chaonia between the Ceraunian mountains in the north and the River Thyamis in the south. The Roman historian, Appian, mentions Chaonia as the southern border in his description and geography of Illyria.〔Appian. ''The Foreign Wars, III.1'' (ed. Horace White).〕
Important cities in Chaonia included Chimaera (modern Himarë), Buthrotum, Phoenice, Panormos, Onchesmus (today Saranda) and Antigonia.
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