Berenike
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 39.103, 20.643
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Epirus
History
Berenice or Berenike was a Greek city in the region of ancient Epirus, near current Preveza. It was founded by Pyrrhus II of Epirus. According to some sources the city was founded by Pyrrhus I of Epirus sometime following his return from Ptolemaic Egypt in c.297 BC - Plutarch states that, in honour of his mother-in-law, Berenike I, Pyrrhus had "built a city in the peninsula of Epirus, called Berenicis/Berenike