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{{Short description|Ancient city acropolis site in Epirus}}
[[Image:Map of ancient Epirus and environs (English).svg|right|thumb|200px|Epirus in antiquity]]
'''Passaron''' ({{langx|el|Πασσαρών}}) was an ancient Greek city of [[ancient Epirus]].<ref>Rome's Mediterranean Empire Book 41-45 and the Periochae (Oxford World's Classics) (Books 41-45) by Livy and Jane D. Chaplin, 2007, page 195,"... had been made public, Anicius returned to winter quarters at Passaron in Epirus. 27. ..."</ref> It was founded by the Molossian king [[Tharrhypas]] sometime between 420 and 400&nbsp;BCE as the capital of the [[Molossians|Molossian kingdom]].<ref>A. Vlachopoulou Economou, Ancient Passaron, Website of the Archeological Society in Athens</ref> As capital, the Molossian kings and the assembled people were accustomed to take mutual oaths, the one to govern according to the laws, the other to defend the kingdom.<ref>[[Plutarch]] ''Pyrrh.'' 5.</ref> Later, in 330&nbsp;BCE, it became the capital of the newfound united [[Epirus (ancient state)|kingdom of Epirus]] until 295&nbsp;BCE, when [[Pyrrhus of Epirus]] moved the capital to [[Amvrakia]]. The town was taken by the [[ancient Rome|Roman]] [[praetor]] [[Lucius Anicius Gallus]] in 167&nbsp;BCE.<ref>{{Cite Livy|45.26, 45.33-34.}}</ref>
Its site is located near the modern [[Rodotopi]].<ref>{{Cite Barrington|54}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|31621}}</ref>
==References==
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==See also==
*[[List of cities in ancient Epirus]]
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