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In the Middle Bronze Age, Epirus was inhabited by the same nomadic Hellenic tribes that went on to settle in the rest of Greece.

Aristotle considered the region around Dodona to have been part of Hellas and the region where the Hellenes originated.

According to linguist V. I. Georgiev, Epirus was part of the Proto-Greek linguistic area.

By the early 1st millennium BC, the population of Epirus consisted of three principal clusters of Greek-speaking tribes: the Chaonians in northwestern Epirus, the Molossians in the centre and the Thesprotians in the south.