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Alexander II of Epirus

r. 272–c. 255 BCE · 3rd century BCE

Alexander II of Epirus was king of Epirus from 272 BCE, the son and successor of Pyrrhus. He fought Antigonus II Gonatas for Macedonia and was briefly driven from his own kingdom before regaining it. He is usually identified with the Alexander named in the thirteenth rock edict of the Indian emperor Ashoka among the Hellenistic kings reached by Ashoka's envoys of dhamma.

Alexander II of Epirus
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