Berenice or Berenike () was a Greek city in the region of ancient Epirus,An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005, page 342 near current Preveza. It was founded by Pyrrhus II of Epirus (r. 255–238 ВС). 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
See also List of cities in ancient Epirus
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